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Given below is an apparatus which has setup to investigate a physiological process in plants. The setup was placed in bright sunlight. Answer the questions that follow:

Why was the pot enclosed in a rubber sheet?
Concept: Significance of Transpiration
Given below is an apparatus which has setup to investigate a physiological process in plants. The setup was placed in bright sunlight. Answer the questions that follow:
Name the process being studies. Define the process.
Concept: Factors Affecting the Rate of Transpiration
Given below is an apparatus which has setup to investigate a physiological process in plants. The setup was placed in bright sunlight. Answer the questions that follow:
List two adaptations in plants to reduce the above process.
Concept: Significance of Transpiration
Given below is an apparatus which has setup to investigate a physiological process in plants. The setup was placed in bright sunlight. Answer the questions that follow:
Draw a neat, labelled diagram of a stomatal apparatus.
Concept: Significance of Transpiration
Concept: Plant Adaptations to Reduce Transpiration
Name the following:
The structures through which guttation occurs.
Concept: Guttation and Bleeding
The process in which water is lost from the margins of strawberry leaves is ______.
Concept: Guttation and Bleeding
Write any two limitations of using a Ganong's potometer to demonstrate the uptake of water.
Concept: Measurement of Transpiration > Weighing Method
How does the rate of Transpiration differ when there is High temperature?
Concept: Factors Affecting the Rate of Transpiration
How does the rate of Transpiration differ when there is High humidity?
Concept: Factors Affecting the Rate of Transpiration
The solvent used to dissolve the chlorophyll pigments while testing a leaf for starch is Soda lime.
Concept: Process of Photosynthesis
Cochlea, Malleus, Pinna, Stapes, Incus.
Concept: Concept of Photosynthesis
Formalin, Iodine, DDT, Lime
Concept: Concept of Photosynthesis
Phosphate, RNA, Sugar, Nitrogenous base
Concept: Process of Photosynthesis
Cytoplasm : Cytokinesis : : Nucleus : __________
Concept: Concept of Photosynthesis
The diagrams given below represent the relationship between a mouse and a physiological process that occurs in green plants. Study the diagrams and answer the questions that follow

(i) Name the physiological process occurring in the green plant that has kept the mouse alive.
(ii) Explain the physiological process mentioned above.
(iii) Why did the mouse die in bell jar B?
(iv) What is the significance of the process as stated in (i) for life on earth?
(v) Represent the above mentioned physiological process in the form of a chemical equation.
Concept: Concept of Photosynthesis
Give biological reasons for the following statements : In some xerophytes leaves are modified into spines
Concept: Concept of Photosynthesis
Give appropriate biological/technical terms for the following:
An apparatus that measures the rate of water uptake in a cut shoot due to transpiration.
Concept: Concept of Photosynthesis
The individual flattened stacks of membranous structures inside the chloroplasts are known as :
A. Grana
B. Stroma
C. Thylakoids
D. Cristae
Concept: Concept of Photosynthesis
The following diagram demonstrates a physiological process taking place in green plants. The whole set up was placed in bright sunlight for several hours. Study the diagram and answer the questions that follow

(i) What aspect of the physiological process is being examined?
(ii) Explain the physiological process mentioned in (i) above.
(iii) Label the parts numbered 1 and 2 in the diagram.
(iv) Write a well-balanced chemical equation for the physiological process explained in (ii) above.
(v) What would happen to the rate of bubbling of the gas if a pinch of sodium bicarbonate is added to the water in the beaker? Explain your answer.
Concept: Concept of Photosynthesis
