(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions for Biology

Explain the term Fetus

Name the Following

A hollow pear-shaped muscular organ that holds, nourishes and protects the fetus.

Name the Following

How the embryo inside the uterus is protected from jerks or mechanical shocks.

Name the Following

The expulsion of the fetus from the body of the mother.

Give Technical Term:

The part in the uterus which is concerned with the supply of nutrition from the mother to the fetus.

Give Technical Term:

Name a membrane that surrounds the fetus and secretes a protective fluid.

Give Technical Term:

The period of intrauterine development of the embryo.

Give Technical Term:

A structure which connects the placenta with the fetus.

Complete the following sentences with appropriate word:

The period of complete development of the fetus until birth is termed ______.

Complete the following sentences with appropriate word:

The umbilical cord connects _______

Complete the following sentences with appropriate word:

The placenta is ________permeable

Complete the following sentences with appropriate word:

The expulsion of the fetus from the body to the mother in a human female is called __________.

Complete the following sentences with appropriate word:

The embryo inside the uterus is protected from jerks or mechanical shocks by ________

Write the functional activity of the following structure:

Uterus

Write the functional activity of the following structure:

Amnion

Write the functional activity of the following structure:

Placenta

Mention any two functions of the human foetal placenta.

Assertion (A): The foetus respires but does not breathe.

Reason (R): The maternal blood supplies oxygen to the foetus through placenta.

Name the following:

Two hormones secreted from placenta.

List the substances which the foetus receives from the mother through placenta.