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प्रश्न
How are general growth and sexual maturation different from each other?
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उत्तर
General growth refers to the developmental changes by which the body becomes larger. Examples of general growth are increase in height, increase in weight, change in shape and size of the body. On the contrast, sexual maturation refers to specific changes that occur at puberty like cracking of voice, new hair patterns, development of breast in females, development of beard and moustaches in males, etc.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Reproductive and Child Healthcare (RCH) programmes are currently in operation. One of the major tasks of these programmes is to create awareness amongst people about the wide range of reproduction related aspects. As this is important and essential for building a reproductively healthy society.
- “Providing sex education in schools in one of the ways to meet this goal.” Give four points in support of your opinion regarding this statement.
- List any two ‘indicators’ that indicate a reproductively healthy society.
What does IUCD indicate?
What is the causative organism for the following disease?
Syphilis
What are the three types of methods used for birth control (or regulating child birth)? Give one example of each type.
Name the contraceptive device used by the human males which acts as a sheath over the male organ and traps the sperms in it.
What is meant by contraception?
What substances are contained in oral pills, used as contraceptives? How do they work?
Give the role of amniocentesis.
A national level approach to build up a reproductively healthy society was taken up in our country in ______.
A dark stained body present in the somatic cells of human female but absent from those of male is ______.
Colonies of yeast fail to multiply in water, but multiply in sugar solution. Give one reason for this.
In tobacco plant, the male gametes have twenty four chromosomes.
What is the number of chromosomes in the female gamete?
What is the number of chromosomes in the zygote?
What would be the ratio of chromosome number between an egg and its zygote? How is the sperm genetically different from the egg?
When was family planning programs initiated in India?
Where was "Saheli" developed?
Under which category of contraceptive methods, is the use of condom kept? In what way, its use is better as compared to other methods of contraception?
Which of the following is NOT an indicator of improved reproductive health in a society?
Which initiative was introduced into the National Programme in 1995 to provide safe, side-effect-free contraception to women?
