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ITL PUBLIC SCHOOL

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.

Ch-4 Reproductive Health


1. Why is the period between the 10 day and 17 day of menstrual cycle known as ‘fertile period’?
2. Removal of gonads cannot be considered as a contraceptive method. Justify.
3. After a successful in vitro fertilization, the fertilized egg begins to divide. Where is this egg transferred
before it reaches the 8 cell stage and what is the technique named?
4. Explain briefly amniocentesis. Mention one positive and one negative application of amniocentesis.
5. A mother of one year old daughter wants to space her second child. Her doctor suggested Cu T. Explain
its contraceptive action.
6. a. What does gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) represent?
b. Explain IVF and ET.
7. The procedure of GIFT involves the transfer of female gamete to the fallopian tube. Can gametes be
transferred to the uterus to achieve the same result? Explain.
8. Why is the term test tube baby a misnomer?
9. Name the hormonal composition of the oral contraceptive used by females. Explain how it acts as a
contraceptive.
10. a. Explain IUD.
b. Why is hormone releasing IUD considered a good contraceptive to space?

Assignment Class XII


(One Mark Question)

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. How are the following vegetatively propagated?


a) Chrysanthemum b) Cynodon c) Bryophyllum d) Sugar cane
2. Name the asexual reproductive structure formed in each of the following:
a) Penicillium b) Hydra c) Sponge d) Spirogyra
3 Name two groups of organism for each of the following condition:
a) Both male and female gametes are motile
b) Male gametes are motile and female gametes are stationary
4) What do the following part of a flower form, after fertilization?
a) Zygote b) Ovary wall c) Ovules d) Sepals
5 Differentiate between morula and blastula.
6. Draw a well labelled diagram of the sectional view of a pollen grain.
7. What is hesterostyly?
8. Bring out the differences between flowers pollinated by abiotic agents and those pollinated by biotic
agent.
9. Differentiate between ‘syngamy’ and ‘triple fussion’.

(Three Marks 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.

(Five Marks Questions)

1. Describe the structure of a young anther as seen in the tranverse section.


2. Trace the development of a microsporocyte into a mature pollen grain.

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

(One Mark Question)

1. What is the function of secretion of Cowper’s gland?


2. Name the fluid fill cavity in a Graafian follicle.
3. What collective term is given two the chemicals (of enzyme nature) in the acrosome of a human sperms?
4. Name the hormone known as
a) Pregnancy hormone b) Childbirth hormone respectively.
5. Define incomplete dominance.
6. What name is given to female determining genes in Drosophila? Where are they located?
7. Define linkage.
8. How is the trait under study indicated in a pedigree chart?
(Two Mark Question)

1. Where are Leyding cell located? What is their function?


2. What are fimbriae in human female reproductive system? What is their function?
3. Differentiate between primary follicle and secondary follicle.
4. What is the influence of LH on the Ovary?
5. Mention the function of amniotic fluid.
6. What is foetal ejection reflex? Where do the signals for it come from?
7. What is colostrum? What is the significance to the infant?
8. Differentiate between euploidy and aneuploidy.
9. Answer the following with regards to karyotyping in human.
a) Which cells are normally cultured?
b) At the stage is the cell division arrested?
c) Which chemical is used to arrest the cell division?

(Three Marks Question)

1. Draw the well labeled diagram of a mature/Graafian follicle.


2. Describe the events that take place in the ovaries and uterus during proliferative phase of the menstrual
cycle.
3. Trace the hormonal control of parturition.
4. Describe in detail the structure of a human spermatozoon.
5. Describe the observation Mendal made in his experiments on garden pea.
6. Represent only by diagrams how crossing over results in two parental and recombinant type of
chromatids.
(Five Marks Questions)

1. a) State Mendal’s principle of independent assortment of character.


b) Explain in detail the meaning of phenotypic ratio 9:3:3:1 in the F2 generation of a dihybrid cross taking
the example of tall and dwarf plant bearing colored and white flowers respectively, in garden pea.

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