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Highlight any two excesses made by the Government during the emergency of 1975.
Concept: Controversies Regarding Emergency
Assess any three effects of Emergency imposed in 1975 in strengthening the democracy in India.
Concept: Controversies Regarding Emergency
Mention any two main demands of the Bharatiya Kisan Union in 1980s.
Concept: Farmer's Movements
What was Chipko movement?
Concept: Environment and Development - Affected People'S Movements
In the mid–1970s, there was a renewal of the women’s movement in India which was called the second phase of the Indian women’s movement. There was the growth of what is termed as the autonomous women’s movements.
How can these movements be called autonomous?
Concept: Womens’ Movement in India
Briefly describe the story of Sikkim from the time of India's independence to its merger with India.
Concept: Challenges and Responses in the North East
'Bodo' community belongs to which state?
Concept: Challenges and Responses in the North East
Analyze three major developments towards the end of the 1980s that made a long-lasting impact on the politics of India.
Concept: Context of the 1990s
What is cognitive dissonance?
Concept: Nature and Components of Attitudes
One of the most significant yet paradoxical changes in the caste system in the contemporary period is that it has tended to become ‘invisible’ for the upper caste, urban middle, and upper classes. Elaborate.
Concept: Caste and the Caste System
| “Every human being needs a sense of stable identity to operate in this world. Questions like — Who am I? How am I different from others? How do others understand and comprehend me? What goals and aspirations should I have? – constantly crop up in our life right from childhood. We are able to answer many of these questions because of the way in which we are socialised, or taught how to live in society by our immediate families and our community in various senses.” |
During a communal conflict, communities construct matching but opposite mirror images of each other. Explain this statement.
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
As a senior biology student you have been asked to demonstrate to the students of secondary level in your school, the procedure(s) that shall ensure cross-pollination in a hermaphrodite flower. List the different steps that you would suggest and provide reasons for each one of them.
Concept: Pollination
Why do moss plants produce very large number of male gametes? Provide one reason. What are these gametes called?
Concept: Pollination
Geitonogamous flowering plants are genetically autogamous but functionally cross-pollinated. Justify.
Concept: Pollination
Describe the characteristic features of wind pollinated flowers.
Concept: Pollination
Some organisms suspend their metabolic activities to survive in unfavourable conditions. Explain with the help of any four examples.
Concept: Endosperm
Why are some seeds referred to as apomictic seeds?
Concept: Polyembryony
Angiosperms bearing unisexual flowers are said to be either monoecious or dioecious. Explain with the help of one example each.
Concept: Endosperm
A flower of tomato plant following the process of sexual reproduction produces 240 viable seeds.
Answer the following questions giving reasons :
(a) What is the minimum number of pollen grains that must have been involved in the pollination of its pistil?
(b) What would have been the minimum number of ovules present in the ovary?
(c) How many megaspore mother cells were involved?
(d) What is the minimum number of microspore mother cells involved in the above case?
(e) How many male gametes were involved in this case?
Concept: Pollination
A non biology person is quite shocked to know that apple is a false fruit, mango is a true fruit and banana is a seedless fruit. As a biology student how would you satisfy this person?
Concept: Endosperm
