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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
State True/False with explanation.
Creating awareness about sex-related aspects is an effective method to improve reproductive health of the people.
What is the causative organism for Gonorrhoea?
Name one method of contraception which also protects against sexually transmitted diseases.
Name one sexually transmitted disease for which no definite cure has been found so far. What is the causative organism of this disease?
Name the contraceptive device used by human females which is put over the cervix.
Give two examples of sexually transmitted diseases.
What is the name of surgical method of birth control (or preventing pregnancy) which is carried out in men?
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.
Mention any one symptom of the diseases/disorders named above.
What is contraception ? List three reasons for adopting contraceptive methods.
Expand the following abbreviation:
IUCD
What can you suggest to your classmates to keep himself/herself clean and healthy?
What is the need for contraception?
Which one amongst the following is the first country in the world to initiate action plans and programmes at a national level to attain total reproductive health as social goal?
‘Saheli’ a new oral contraceptive developed by ______.
There is a greater possibility for the evolution of a new species in organisms which reproduce by ______
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.
Give a suitable word for the following statement.
Name of a gland which transports secretions through ducts.
Reproductive health refers only to healthy reproductive functions. Comment.
Comment on the Reproductive and Child Health Care programme of the government to improve the reproductive health of the people.
