Winter Break Holidays Homework (2019-20) Class XII
Winter Break Holidays Homework (2019-20) Class XII
Class XII
हिंदी
ENGLISH
HISTORY
1. Revision of all chapters (Chapter 1-12)
2. Map skill: In a file/Note book based on chapters
GEOGRAPHY
INFORMATICS PRACTICES
1. Write a NumPy program to create a 3x3 matrix with values ranging from 2 to 10.
2. Write a NumPy program to create a one dimensional array with 8 equal spaced values
between 4 and 5.
3. Write a program to create a 3X4 matrix having all values as zeros.
4. Write a program to create a 3X4 matrix having all values as one.
5. Write a Pandas program to compare the elements of the two Pandas Series??
11. Write a NumPy program to create a 8x8 matrix and fill it with checkerboard
pattern.
Checkerboard pattern:
[[0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1]
[1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0]
[0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1]
[1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0]
[0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1]
[1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0]
[0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1]
[1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0]]
12. Write a NumPy program to append values to the end of an array. Expected Output:
Original array: [10, 20, 30]
After append values to the end of the array: [10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90]
13. Write a menu deriven program to add, subtract, multiple and divide two 3X3 numpy arrays.
14. Write a panda program to read marks detail of Manasvi and Calculate sum of all marks.
data = {'Manasvi': ['Physics', 'Chemistry', 'English', 'Maths', 'Computer Sc'],
'marks': [ 89,99,97,99,98],}
15. Write a Pandas program to sort the data frame first by 'Designation' in Ascending order,
then by 'Name' in Descending order.
data1 = {'Name':['Akshat', 'Sameer', 'Pihu', 'Neha'] , 'Age':[28,34,29,42], 'Designation':
['Accountant' , 'Clerk', 'Clerk', 'Manager']}
16. The table shows passenger car fuel rates in miles per gallon for several years. Make a LINE
GRAPH of the data. During which 2-year period did the fuel rate decrease?
YEAR: 2000 2002 2004 2006
RATE: 21.0 20.7 21.2 21.6
17. The number of bed-sheets manufactured by a factory during five consecutive weeks
is given below.
Week First Second Third Fourth Fifth
Number of Bed-sheets 600 850 700 300 900
Draw the bar graph representing the above data
18.
The number of students in 7 different classes is given below. Represent this data on the
bar graph.
Class 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th
19.
The number of students in 7 different classes is given below. Represent this data on
the bar graph.
Class 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th
20. The Production(in Tone) by Factory in Years is shown below Represent this data on the
scatter graph.
Year 2000 2005 2010 2015
Production in Tons 50 40 30 60
Create the above dataframe and write the statement for the following:
Find total sales per state
(ii) find total sales per employee
(iii)find total sales both employee wise and state wise
(iv)find mean, median and min sale state wise
(v)find maximum sale by individual
(vi) Write a command to sort data according to ‘Name’ and then by ‘Sales’ and store it in
another dataframe.
(vii ) Write command to group the data frame according to their ‘Name’ and store it in ‘gdf’
(viii) Write command to show groups created in gdf.
22. Given two arrays namely arr1 and arr2 each having 5 values. Create a scatter chart so
that each data points gets a different color, different size. Keep the marker style as
square.
23. Consider the table given below and write the query for the following
Table: CLUB
Table : FLIGHTS
FNO SOURCE DEST NO_OF_FL NO_OF_STOP
IC301 MUMBAI BANGALORE 3 2
IC799 BANGALORE KOLKATA 8 3
MC101 DELHI VARANASI 6 0
IC302 MUMBAI KOCHI 1 4
AM812 LUCKNOW DELHI 4 0
MU499 DELHI CHENNAI 3 3
Table : FARES
FNO AIRLINES FARE TAX_percentage
IC301 Indian Airlines 9425 5
IC799 Spice Jet 8846 10
MC101 Deccan Airlines 4210 7
IC302 Jet Airways 13894 5
AM812 Indian Airlines 4500 6
MU499 Sahara 12000 4
i) Display flight number & number of flights from Mumbai from the table flights.
ii) Arrange the contents of the table flights in the descending order of destination.
iii) Increase the tax by 2% for the flights starting from Delhi.
iv) Display the flight number and fare to be paid for the flights from Mumbai to Kochi using the
tables, Flights & Fares, where the fare to be paid =fare+fare*tax/100.
v) Display total no of source stations(eliminate duplicate) present in the table.
vi) Display the fare for the flight for MUMBAI to BANGLORE
vii)Display the records of source stations started with letter ‘B’.
viii) Display the flight no. for which fare to be paid is less than 3000.
ix) Display total no. of flights available for each Airlines
x) Add a new column Dep_Time in the table Flight.
xi)Delete the record of flight no. IC301 from the table FARE.xii) increase the size of the column
‘source’ to 30 in the Table FLIGHT
25. Write a command to create the below given table:
Table: Department
Table: Department
26 Prepare a Project(topic of your choice) based on the connectivity of Python and MYSQL.
27. Do the ideal solution of Preboard 1st Question paper and model papers(02) given below:
SECTION- A
1.
(a) Find the output of following program. 1
import numpy as np
d=np.array([10,20,30,40,50,60,70])
print(d[-5:])
(b State at least two differences between a numpy array and a list. 1
)
(c) Fill in the blank with appropriate statement using numpy method to calculate the covariance 2
and correlation coefficient of the two given 1D arrays(A,B)
import numpy as np
A=np.array([1,2,3,4,5])
B=np.array([3,4,0,-1,-4])
result_covar=______________ # COVARIANCE
result_coeff=______________ #CORRELATION COEFFICIENT
(d What will be the output of the following python code: 2
) import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
d = {'Student':['Ali','Ali','Tom','Tom'],\
'House':['Red',Red,'Blue',Blue’],\
'Points':[50,70,60,80]}
df =pd.DataFrame(d)
df1 = df.pivot_table(index='Student',columns='House',values=’Points’,aggfunc=np.sum)
print(df1)
(e) Given following ndarray A: 2
( [[2, 4, 6],
[7, 8, 9],
[1, 2, 3]] )
Write the python statements to perform the array slices in the way so as to extract
(i) First row (ii) Second Column
(f) Write a python statement to fill in the blanks so that the given output may be achieved: 2
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
d = {'Rollno':[101,102,103,104],\
'ECO':[70,80,50,80],'BST':[60,50,60,90]}
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
df1 = ___________________________
print(df1)
Rollno 410
ECO 280
BST 260
dtype: int64
g) Write python statement to create a two- dimensional array of 4 rows and 3 columns . The 1
array should be filled with ones.
h) Differentiate between apply() and applymap() functions 2
OR
Find the output for the following:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
d = {'Marks1':[10,20,30,40],\
'Marks2':[50,70,60,80]}
df=pd.DataFrame(d)
print(df)
print(df.apply(np.cumsum))
2.
a) For the given code fill in the blanks so that we get the desired output with sorting the 2
dataframe first on Quantity and second on Cost.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
d = {'Product':['Apple','Pear','Banana','Grapes'],\
'Quantity':[100,100,200,250],\
'Cost':[1000,1500,1200,900]}
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
df1 = ______________________________________
print(df1)
Product Quantity Cost
0 Apple 100 1000
1 Pear 100 1500
2 Banana 200 1200
3 Grapes 250 900
OR
For the given code fill in the blanks so that we get the desired output with maximum value for
Quantity and Average Value for Cost:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
d = {'Product':['Apple','Pear','Banana','Grapes'],\
'Quantity':[100,150,200,250],\
'Cost':[1000,1500,1200,900]}
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
df1 =_________________________________
print(df1)
Quantity 250.0
Cost 1150.0
dtype: float64
b) What is the use of pipe() function? 1
c) Consider the ndarrays Arr1 and Arr2 . 2
Arr1= array([[0,1,2],
[3,4,5],
[6,7,8]])
Arr2= array([[10,20,30],
[40,50,60],
[70,80,90]])
What will be the resultant array, if the following statement is executed?
np.hstack((Arr2,Arr1))
d) Write python statement to create a one –dimensional array using arrange() function 2
.Elements will be in the range 10 to 30 with a step of 4 (including both 10 and 30). Reshape
this one-dimensional array to two dimensional array of shape(2,3). Then display only those
elements of this two –dimensional array which are divisible by 5.
e) Find O/P for the following program code: 2
import pandas as pd
df1=pd.DataFrame({'Icecream':['Vanila','ButterScotch','Caramel'] , 'Cookies':
['Goodday','Britannia', 'Oreo']})
df2=pd.DataFrame({'Chocolate':['Dairy Milk','Kitkat'],'Icecream':
['Vanila','ButterScotch'],'Cookies':['Hide and Seek','Britannia' ]})
df2.reindex_like(df1)
f) Consider the following dataframes : 2
df1 df2
mark1 mark2 mark1 mark2
0 10 15 0 30 20
1 40 45 1 20 25
2 15 30 2 20 30
3 40 70 3 50 30
Write the commands to do the following operations on the dataframes given above :
(i) To rename column mark1 as Score1 in both the dataframes df1 and df2.
(ii) To change index label of df1 from 0 to zero and from 1 to one.
g) What will be the output of the following code: 2
import matplotlib.pyplot as p
x=[6,7,8,9,10]
y=[60,40,55,30,70]
p.title('Secondary Class Strength')
p.xlabel('Class')
p.ylabel('No. of students')
p.bar(x,y)
p.show()
OR
Fill in the blank with appropriate pyplot methods:
import matplotlib.pyplot as p
Year=[2000,2002,2004,2006]
Rate=[21.0,20.7,21.2,21.6]
____________________________ # To draw a line graph
p.xlabel('Year')
p.ylabel('Rate')
p.title('Fuel Rates in every Two Year')
___________________(“Graph1.pdf”) # To save the graph
p.show()
What will be the output of the following code:
h) Write a python program to draw a bar chart with the following information: 4
City pollution
Kolkata 78
Delhi 91
Kanpur 88
Patna 90
Banglore 82
The barchart should have the following features:
a) X-axis label should be City and Y-axis label should be Pollution
b) The title of the chart should be Pollution Index
c) The colour of the bars should be Red
Use proper import statements in the program.
OR
SECTION- B
3.
a) What is meant by Software Engineering? 1
b) What is Software process? 3
Mention two advantages and two disadvantages of Waterfall model.
OR
Draw labelled diagram of Evolutionary Software process model
c) Mention two advantages of Incremental Software Delivery model. 2
OR
Mention two advantages of Spiral delivery model.
4.
a) “Working in a pair in Pair Programming increases efficiency and reduces time”. Justify. 1
b) Who is responsible for making sure that the Scrum has been understood and enacted and 1
also presides over the Scrum meeting?
c) What are Commit – Update in version control system 2
Or
What are Push-Pull requests in version control system
d) Draw a business use case diagram of the following scenario for a grocery shop 3
i) Customers can purchase goods
ii) Shop owner performs billing
iii) Inventory is updated after each transaction
e) Mention any two features of GIT. 2
OR
Who are actors in a Use-case diagram? Name the CRUD operations required in creating Use-
case diagrams.
SECTION- C
5.
a) Write Django command to create a project with name ‘ IP’ 2
OR
Write command to run the Django server.
b) Mention two differences between GET and POST methods 2
OR
Write the method used to read a CSV file.
Which command is used to activate virtual environment.
c) Mention one difference between fetchone() and fetchall() method. 1
d) The ‘STUDENT’ table is stored in the database ‘SCHOOL’ in MySQL. The database credentials 4
includes host as ‘localhost’, user as ‘root’ and password as ‘cloud’. Write python script to do
the following:
i. Import necessary modules to establish MySQL connectivity with Python
ii. Write a statement to establish connection to the database using given credentials
iii. Check the connectivity, whether connection OK or NOT OK.
iv. Write python statement to create a cursor object
v. Write python statement to close the connection
6.
a) i) State one difference between having and where clause. 1
ii) “Pay” is a column name for the Pay of staff in a table “Schools”. The SQL queries 1
SELECT count(*) FROM Schools;
and
SELECT count(Pay) FROM Schools;
The outputs obtained are 40 and 39 in both the queries respectively.
What is the reason behind different output?
b) Consider the table TEACHER given below. Write commands in SQL for (i) to (iii) and output for
(iv) to (v) . Note: Hiredate is in mm/dd/yyyy format
TEACHER
ID Name Department Hiredate Category Gender Salary
1 Taniya Social Studies 03/17/1994 TGT F 25000
2 Abhishek Art 02/12/1990 PRT M 20000
3 Sanjana English 05/16/1980 PGT F 30000
4 Vishwajeet English 10/16/1989 TGT M 25000
5 Aman Hindi 08/1/1990 PRT F 22000
6 Pritam Math 03/17/1980 PRT F 21000
7 RajKumar Science 09/2/1994 TGT M 27000
8 Sital Math 11/17/1980 TGT F 24500
i. To display all information about teachers of Female PGT Teachers.
ii. To list names, departments and date of hiring of all the teachers in descending order of 1
date of joining. 1
iii. To count the number of teachers and sum of their salary department wise.
iv. SELECT MAX(Hiredate) ,Gender FROM Teacher group by Gender; 1
v. SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(Department)) FROM Teacher; ½
½
SECTION- D
7.
a) Which of the following is NOT an intellectual property? 1
(i) A poem written by a poet
(ii) An original painting made by a painter
(iii) Trademark of a Company
(iv) A remixed song
b) Fill in the blanks: 1
An act of stealing others Intellectual Property without their consent of without citing the
source is called ____________
OR
Name the cyber law enforced in India to provide legal recognition to electronic commerce
and to facilitate filing of electronic records with the Government.____________
c) Give the full form of: i) GPL ii) OSS 1
d) Mention two benefits of e-waste recycling. 1
e) Suggest two measures to avoid Credit Card Fraud. 2
f) Differentiate between Public Domain Software and Proprietary Software. 2
g) Bit-coin is a kind of ____________________ 1
h) List any one disability issue faced in the using computers with respect to specially abled 1
students.
1st Pre-Board Examination 2019-20
Class : 12th Subject : Informatics Practices
(IP)
Time : 03 hrs Max. Mark :
70
General Instructions:
All questions are compulsory
Question Paper is divided into 4 sections A,B,C and D.
Section A comprises of questions(1 and 2)
(i) Question 1 comprises Data Handling-2(DH-2)(Series, Numpy)
(ii) Question 2 comprises of question from Data Handling -2(DH-2)(Data Frames and
its operations)
Section B comprises of questions from Basic Software Engineering.
Section C comprises of questions from Data Management-2(DM-2)
Section C comprises of questions from Society, Law and Ethics-2(SLE-2)
SECTION -A
1 (a) Find the output of following program : 1
import numpy as np
d=np.array([10,20,30,40,50,60,70])
print(d[-1:-4:-1])
(b) Fill in the blank with appropriate numpy method to calculate and print the variance of
an array. 1
import numpy as np
data=np.array([1,2,3,4,5,6])
print(np.___(data,ddof=0))
(c) Mr. Kamlesh wants to plot a Bar Graph for the given set of values of months on x-axis
and number of participants who attended workshop in particular month on y-axis.
Complete the code to perform the following :
(i) To plot the bar graph in statement 1 ½
(ii) To add label for x-axis as “No. of Students attended” in graph in statement 2 ½
OR
Ms. Shalu wants to plot a Line Chart for the given set of values of months on x-axis
and number of participants who attended workshop in particular month on y-axis.
Complete the code to perform the following :
(i) To plot the Line Chart in statement 1
(ii) To add Title as “Status of Workshop” in graph in statement 2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x=['JAN', 'FEB', 'MAR’, 'APR',’MAY’,’JUN’]
y=[30,20,30,50,10,60]
_____________________ Statement 1
_____________________ Statement 2
(e) Write a code to plot the Monthly Attendance of students in class as shown in the figure
given below: 2
(g) Write a NumPy program to create a 3x3 identity matrix, i.e. diagonal elements are 0,
the rest are 1. 3
OR
Write a NumPy program to create a 3x3 identity matrix, where all elements are 2.
2.(a) ______method is used to rename any index, column or row of a Series or Dataframe :
1
(i) rename()
(ii) reindex()
(iii) reframe()
(iv) none of the above
(b) Suman wants to display the first 5 rows of the dataframe df. Which function she has to
use ?
1
OR
Write the command to read data from data.csv file to create dataframe.
(c) Consider the following python code and write the output : 1
import pandas as pd
K=pd.Series([2,4,6,8,10])
s = pd.Series(K)
print (s)
(d) Write a small python code to insert a row in following dataframe df at location 2. 1
Rl Name Age
0 1 Seema 33
1 2 Sunil 44
(e) What is Pivoting? Name any two functions of Pandas which support pivoting. 2
(f) Write python code to create following dataframe : 2
Subject Teacher School
0 Phy 10 KV
1 Chem 5 JNV
2 Math 8 JNV
3 CS 12 KV
OR
Write a small python code to create a dataframe with headings(‘Rollno’ and ‘Name’) using
the list
given below :
[[1,’Shayam’],[2,’Mohan’],[3,’Kamla’],[4,’Kamalesh’]]
(g) Consider the following dataframe, and answer the questions given below:
3
df = pd.DataFrame({'Phy':[20, 40, 50, 44, 30],
'Chem':[58, 25, 54, 30, 29],
'Math':[20, 16, 70, 36, 82],
'IP':[80, 37, 55, 80, 60]})
Write the code to find :
(i) ‘mean’ value from above dataframe df over the index axis. (Skip NaN value)
(ii) ‘sum’ function to find the sum of all the values over the index axis.
(iii) ‘ median’ of the dataframe df.
OR
SECTION –B
SECTION –C
4. (a) Differentiate between Django GET and POST method . 1
(b) What is use of COMMIT in SQL ? 1
OR
What is use of ROLLBACK in SQL
(c) Write Django command to create a new Project. 1
(d) Find which is not a correct start of SQL Command. 1
i) SELECT
ii) MODIFY
iii) DELETE
iv) ALTER
(e) “execute()” in python-mysql connectivity : 1
i) Checks correct link of Database
ii) Execute Database to close()
iii) Execute SQL Query after connection to get result
iv) Execute command to display output on screen
(f) Pinkiy has recently started learning Database. Help her in understanding : 3
i) Primary key and Candidate key
ii) Degree and Cardinality
(g) On the basis of ‘Student” table below answer the questions : 3
(h) Write SQL (i) to (iv) and output for (v) and (vi) based on following table : 4
i) To list the Employee Name who are not getting any commission(COMM).
ii) Display Name of Employee whose name start with character ‘A’.
iii) To count number of Jobs available in company i.e. in EMP table.
iv) To display Employee no. and name of employees in decreasing order of
Salary.
v) SELECT ENAME, SAL*10 FROM EMP WHERE DEPTNO=10;
vi) SELECT YEAR(HIREDATE) FROM EMP WHERE DEPTNO=20 AND
JOB=’ANALYST’
OR
(i) Write Python-MySQL connectivity code for following situation :
In a school, a database named “school” is created in mysql whose password is
“kvs”. Suman is trying to delete a record of student whose rollno is 10.
(ii) Write the code in python to write the following row contents in “student.csv”
file.
row = ['4', ' Danny', ' New York']
SECTION –D
5. (a) Which one of the following comes under Cyber Crime : 1
i) Murder
ii) Chain Snatching
iii) Fighting
iv) Online Scams
(b) Expand the term GNU. 1
(c) Define the term Plagiarism. 1
(d) Shyam has received an unknown call stating that he won prize money of Rs. 5 lacs, and
the caller saying to pay Rs. 5000/- as a processing fee to get this prize money.
You are requested to help him to deal with this situation. 2
(f) Name any three types of Cyber Crimes and give one point for each to protected. 3
OR
Sheela is not understanding difference between following :
i) Freeware software
ii) Open Source Software
iii) Proprietary Software
You are requested to help Sheela to get differences between these three.
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2. PREPARE PRACTICAL FILE ON SUGGESTED TOPICS/ ANY OTHER TOPIC FOR PROJECT WORK
MATHEMATICS
VECTOR
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 2
LINEAR PROGRAMMING
LEVEL 1
1 What do you understand by the term linear function ?
2 What is the mathematical meaning of programming ?
LEVEL 2
1 What can you say about linear constraints ?
2 What sign (≤ or ≥ ) do you use in conditions like atmost and atleast in the problem ?
4 An aeroplane can carry a max of 200 passengers.A profit ofRs1000 is made on each
executive classticket and a profit of Rs.600 is made on economy class ticket .The airline
reserves atleast 20 seats for exec. Class.However atleast 4 times as many passengers
prefer to travel by economy class than by exec class.Formulate LPP to determine how
many tickets of each type must be sold in order to max profit for the airline?
5. A dietician wishes to mix two types of foods in such a way that vitamin contents of the
mixture contain atleast 8 units of vitamin A and 10 units of vitamin C. Food ‘I’ contains 2
units/kg of vitamin A and 1 unit/kg of vitamin C. Food ‘II’ contains 1 unit/kg of vitamin A
and 2 units/kg of vitamin C. It costs Rs 50 per kg to purchase Food ‘I’ and Rs 70 per kg to
purchase Food ‘II’. Formulate this problem as a linear programming problem to minimise
the cost of such a mixture
6. A manufacturing company makes two models A and B of a product. Each piece of Model
A requires 9 labour hours for fabricating and 1 labour hour for finishing. Each piece of
Model B requires 12 labour hours for fabricating and 3 labour hours for finishing. For
fabricating and finishing, the maximum labour hours available are 180 and 30 respectively.
The company makes a profit of Rs 8000 on each piece of model A and Rs 12000 on each
piece of Model B. How many pieces of Model A and Model B should be manufactured per
week to realise a maximum profit? What is the maximum profit per week?
7. A factory makes tennis rackets and cricket bats. A tennis racket takes 1.5 hours of
machine time and 3 hours of craftman’s time in its making while a cricket bat takes 3 hour
of machine time and 1 hour of craftman’s time. In a day, the factory has the availability of
not more than 42 hours of machine time and 24 hours of craftsman’s time. What number
of rackets and bats must be made if the factory is to work at full capacity?
LEVEL 2:
2 −1 −2
1. if a line has d.c’s , , , then find the d.r’s.
3 3 3
2. find the d.r’s of vector 2i+ ^ 3 ^j−2 k^
3. Find the d.c’s of a line which is equally inclined to all the coordinate axes.
4. If α , β , γ be the direction angles of a line, then find the value of sin2α+sin2 β+sin2γ .
5. find the d.r’s of a line parallel to the line joining the points (1,2,3) and (-2,4,0).
6. Find the shortest distance between the lines l1 and l2 given by r⃗ = (i^ +2 ^j -4k^ )+𝜆(2i^ +3 ^j +6
k^ ) And r⃗ =¿+3 ^j -5k^ )+μ ¿+3 ^j +6k^ ).
x−1 y +1 x−2 y −4 z
7. for what value of k will the lines = =z and = = cut at right
2 k 3 −2 4
angles?
x y z
8. find whether the lines parallel or perpendicular to each other = = and
2 2 −3
x+1 y z +3
= = .
3 2 2
9. find the vector equation of a line passing through the points (2,-1,4) and (1,2,-1).
10. find the equation of a plane passing through (a,b,c) and parallel to the plane r⃗ .(i^ + ^j +k^¿ ¿=2.
11. If the points (1,1,p) and (-3,0,1) be equidistant from the plane r⃗ .(3 i^ +4 ^j -12k^ )+13=0, then find
the values of p.
12. find the equation of a plane passing through the intersection of the planes r⃗ .(i^ + ^j +k^ )=1 and
r .(2i^ +3 ^j -k^¿ ¿+4=0 and parallel to X axis.
a. ⃗
13. The vector equation of the plane is r⃗ .(2i^ - ^j +2k^ )=9.reduce it to the normal form and hence find
the length of perpendicular from the origin to the plane.
14. find the length and the coordinates of the foot of perpendicular from the point (7,14,5) to the
plane 2x+4y-z=2.
15. find the image of the point (1,2,3) in the plane x+2y+4z=38.
BIOLOGY
WINTER BREAK HOLIDAYS HOME WORK(2018-19)
CLASS : XII SUB: BIOLOGY
DATE HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
23.12.2019 Unit: REPRODUCTION IN ORGANISMS
1.Your younger sister has seen a banana tree in the backyard of a house. She
could see the fruit but no seed. She wants to know how a new plant of banana
will be produced without seed. What will you explain to your sister?
5.Suggest two advantages to a farmer for using apomictic seeds of hybrid varieties.
12 How do the male gametes that are present in the pollen grains reach the site mentioned by you
in part (a) to cause double fertilization?
13 What feature of flowers facilitates pollination by birds?
14 What is lactional amenorrhea?
26.12.2019 16 The flower of brinjal is referred to as chasmogamous while that of beans is cleistogamous, why?
17 Incompatibility is a natural barrier in fusion of gametes. Justify.
18 What is menstrual cycle? Which hormones regulate menstrual cycle?
19.What is placenta? Why placenta is called endocrine gland? What hormones are released by it during
pregnancy?
20 STD’S are a threat to reproductive health. Describe any two such diseases and suggest preventive
measures
2. BOD of two sample of water-A and B were 80 mg/ litre and 200 mg/ litre
respectively. Which sample is more polluted?
3. Name the interaction in each of the following-
(a) Cuckoo lays her eggs in the crow’s nest.
(b) Orchid grows on a mango tree.
(c) Ticks live on the skin of dog
(d) Mycorrhizae living on the roots of higher plants..
4.Study the population growth curve in the graph given below and answer the
questions which follow;-
(a) Identify the growth curves ‘a’ and ‘b’
(b) Which one of them is considered more realistic one and why?
(c) If dN/dt= rN (k-N/K) is the equation of the logistic growth curve, what
does k stands for?
4. Ornithologist observed decline in the bird population in an area near a lake
after the setting of an industrial unit in the same area? Explain the cause
responsible for the decline observe.
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6.a) If you had ever been to any high altitude place (>3500 m Rohtang Pass near
Manali and Mansarovar, in China occupied Tibet) you must have experienced
what is called altitude sickness.
(i) What are the symptoms of altitude sickness?
(ii) Why does altitude sickness occur?
(iii) How does your body solve this problem?
(b) Very small animals are rarely found in Polar Regions. Give reason.
a) Name the molecule “X” synthesised by “i” gene. How does this molecule get
inactivated?
b) Which one of the structural genes codes for β-galactosidases?
c) When will the transcription of this gene will stop?
4.A woman with blood group O married a man with AB group. Show the possible
blood groups of the progeny. List the alleles involved in the inheritance.
9. If a double stranded DNA have 20% of Cytosine calculate the %age of Adenine in the DNA.
State the underlying rule?
7. Name a genus of baculovirus used as biocontrol agent. Why are they considered good
Bio agents ?
8. Mention one application of each of the following :
1) histamines 2) interferons 3) B- lymphocytes
9 Differentiate between benign and malignant tumours. (any 3 points)
14 What is inbreeding depression and how is it caused in organisms? Write any one advantage of
inbreeding.
15 Name an opioid drug and its source plant. How does the drug effect the human body ?
06.2.2020 16 What are interferons ? Explain their role in providing immunity.? Also name the kind of immunity
provided by them ?
17 What are somaclones? How are they produced?
18 Define Biofortification and MOET .Write their importance .
19 a)Differentiated between out breeding and outcrossing
b)Mention the property of plant cells that help in growing crops by tissue culture .Also give two
advantages of micro propagation
20. In which part of the human body of the hosts do the following events in the life cycle of
plasmodium take place?
BUSINESS STUDIES
1. Practice latest three CBSE sample papers
2. Do follow up of first pre-board.
3. Complete your CBSE project file.