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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.
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उत्तर
- Providing sex education is one of the best ways to create a reproductively healthy society. Sex education helps in achieving this goal by
- Providing proper knowledge to curious adolescents and preventing them from being misguided.
- Creating awareness about sexually transmitted diseases and ways to prevent them.
- Teaching methods of family planning and taking care of a female during pregnancy.
- Teaching about topics such as infertility and different methods of curing the same.
- Two indicators of a reproductively healthy society are as follows:
- In a reproductively healthy society, there is no emphasis on the selection of a particular sex. Hence, the ratio of male and female individuals is maintained.
- The individuals in the pre-reproductive and reproductive stages should outnumber the individuals in the post-reproductive stage.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Do you think that reproductive health in our country has improved in the past 50 years? If yes, mention some such areas of improvement.
What is amniocentesis and why there is a statutory ban on it?
Answer the following question.
What is meant by contraception?
The sexually transmitted disease which is caused by bacteria is :
(a) malaria
(b) diarrhoea
(c) gonorrhoea
(d) AIDS
Name the kind of diseases/disorders that are likely to occur in humans if
(i) mutation in the gene that codes for an enzyme phenyl alanine hydrolase occurs,
(ii) there is an extra copy of chromosome 21,
(iii) the karyotype is XXY.
List four ways of preventing pregnancy. State two advantages of using such preventive methods.
What is contraception? List four different methods. State four reasons for adopting contraceptive methods.
Name the kind of diseases/disorders and any two symptoms that are likely to occur in humans if The karyotype is XXY
What can you suggest to your classmates to keep himself/herself clean and healthy?
A national level approach to build up a reproductively healthy society was taken up in our country in ______.
From the internet, gather information about the chromosome numbers of five animals and five plants. Correlate the number with the size of organism and answer the following questions.
- Do larger organisms have more number of chromosomes/cells?
- Can organism with fewer chromosomes reproduce more easily than organisms with more number of chromosomes?
- More the number of chromosomes/cells greater is the DNA content. Justify.
Trace the path of sperm during ejaculation and mention the gland and their functions associated with the male reproductive system.
Give a suitable word for the following statement.
Name of a gland which transports secretions through ducts.
In the following figure, mark the positions of the endocrine glands which release the hormones that:
- control the release of sex hormone
- are responsible for the secondary sexual characters in boys.
- prevent diabetes.
- maintain the correct salt balance in the blood.
Observe the chart and graph given in the figure carefully and answer the following questions.
| Age in Years |
% of full height | |
| Boys | Girls | |
| 8 | 72% | 77% |
| 9 | 75% | 81% |
| 10 | 78% | 84% |
| 11 | 81% | 88% |
| 12 | 84% | 91% |
| 13 | 88% | 95% |
| 14 | 92% | 98% |
| 15 | 95% | 99% |
| 16 | 98% | 99.5% |
| 17 | 99% | 100% |
| 18 | 100% | 100% |
- Which of the line represents the height of boys?
- Which line represents the height of girls?
- What is the difference between the pattern of increase in the height of boys and girls?
- Is this pattern true for each individual?
Sex education should involve all of the following except:
Reproductive health refers only to healthy reproductive functions. Comment.
State one drawback of the following:
Oral contraceptive pills
Which is the most commonly prescribed non-steroidal oral contraceptive pill in India?
