How do you prepare your own herbarium sheets? What are the different tools you carry with you while collecting plants for the preparation of a herbarium? What information should a preserved plant material on the herbarium sheet provide for taxonomical studies?

What information is mentioned in a label of a plant specimen preserved in herbarium?

Paragraph based Questions : Read the paragraph and answer the, questions given below: Sulphuric acid is present in the acid rain and materials coming out of mines . You know that erosion of metals present in statues, bridges and buildings occurs due to it. Sulphuric acid is a source of energy for some species of bacteria like Acidophilum spp. and Acidobacillus ferrooxidans Hence. these bacteria can control the soil pollution occurring due to acid rain water soluble salts of uranium are present in the wastes produced during electroplating and in effluent released in the environment from the atomic energy Plant. Geobacter convert these salts of uranium into insoluble salts and thereby prevent those salts from mixing with groundwater sources. What kind of pollution do these bacteria control?

Establish your own plant nursery near your school or home. Prepare the seedlings of flowering plants, fruit plants, and ornamental plants being grown in your area. Can you start a business in the future with the help of this activity? Think it over.

A gardener forgot to water a potted plant for a day during summer, what will happen to the plant? Do you think it is reversible? If yes, how?

In what kind of plants do you come across 'Kranz' anatomy? To which conditions are those plants better adapted? How are these plants better adapted than other plants, which lack this anatomy?

Read the paragraph and answer the questions given below : Reproduction is the process by which the living Species continues its existence. Lower organisms carry out asexual reproduction while higher plants and animals always show sexual reproduction. Plants reproduce asexually by methods such as fragmentation, vegetative propagation, budding, Spore formation. For sexual reproduction they form gametes. In animal kingdom, budding, fission of different types and parthenogenesis are some of the methods that do not require both the sexes. Though regeneration also forms new individual, it is not considered to be a reproductive process because. basically it is a repair process. The ability to regenerate is lost in higher phyla. In human beings it is restricted only to wound healing. Sexual reproduction is also undergoing lots of experimentation such as cloning which may make females capable of producing their own baby without intervention of any male. Answer the follolwing question. What are methods of reproduction in plants?

Read the paragraph and answer the questions given below : Reproduction is the process by which the living Species continues its existence. Lower organisms carry out asexual reproduction while higher plants and animals always show sexual reproduction. Plants reproduce asexually by methods such as fragmentation, vegetative propagation, budding, Spore formation. For sexual reproduction they form gametes. In animal kingdom, budding, fission of different types and parthenogenesis are some of the methods that do not require both the sexes. Though regeneration also forms new individual, it is not considered to be a reproductive process because. basically it is a repair process. The ability to regenerate is lost in higher phyla. In human beings it is restricted only to wound healing. Sexual reproduction is also undergoing lots of experimentation such as cloning which may make females capable of producing their own baby without intervention of any male. Answer the follolwing question. What is the modern method of reproduction aimed at in higher organisms?

Lichen is usually cited as an example of symbiosis in plants where an algal and a fungal species live together for their mutual benefit. Which of the following will happen if algal and fungal partners are separated from each other? Both will survive and grow normally and independent from each other. both will die. Algal component will survive while the fungal component will die. Fungal component will survive while the algal partner will die. Based on your answer how do you justify this association as symbiosis.

Question based on paragraph Students were taken to observe the crop cultivation in a potato farm in Maharashtra. The students observed that the yield of crops in Mr. Shyam's potato farm was more than that in his neighbour Bharat’s potato farm. Mr. Shyam was using a different variety of the crop, which he suggests has been disease-free ever since he planted the seeds. Based on the above passage, answer the given question What type of crop do you think Mr. Shyam must be using?