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HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
CLASS XII
BIOLOGY
Theory: Practice Assignment sheet based on Unit VI (Reproduction) and Ch-5 of Unit VII.
Completion of NCERT questions of all chapters of Unit VI
Practical: Completion of Investigatory Project and practical file as discussed in class.
1. Name one unicellular organism and one multicellular organism, both of which reproduce asexually by
budding.
2. Name any two man-made or artificial methods of vegetative propagation.
3. What happens to the zygote of algae and fungi, as soon as they are formed?
4. Define parthenogenesis.
5. Name two plants where the sepals are persistent on the fruits.
6. What type of nuclear division does the nucleus of a functional megaspore undergo?
7. Define pollination.
8. Give the technical term of the type of a pollination which ensures genetic recombination.
9. Define anemophily.
10. Why the Eichhornia or lotus is not pollinated by water?
11. What is the function of synergids?
12. Write the scientific name of the insect that pollinates Yucca spp.
13. Write the scientific name of the seed that remained viable about 10000 years and then germinated.
(Two Mark Question)
1. Give three reasons as to why reproduction has great significance in the life of organism.
2. Show only by diagrams the binary fission that occurs in Amoeba.
3. Describe the endogenous budding that occur in sponge.
4. What are vegetative propagules? Name any four of them.
5. Draw a well labeled diagram of a young anther as seen in transverse section.
6. What technical term is given to pollination by birds? Name any four bird-pollinated flowers.
HOT Questions:
1. Internodal segments of sugar cane fail to propagate vegetatively, even if they are contact in wet soil. Give
reason.
2. Both frog and reptile are oviparous animals; yet they show certain differences in their reproduction. Bring
out the differences.
Assignment Class XII