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September 19, 2024

What is an Ecological Niche? How is it related to habitat?

Ecological Niche Dictionary defines the term Niche as a comfortable or suitable position in the life of a living being or a role taken by a type of organism within its community. In other words, an ecological niche is the role and position a species has in its environment, for example, how it meets its food and shelter needs, survives, and reproduces. A species’ niche includes all of its interactions with its environment’s biotic and abiotic factors.

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January 11, 2021 Recommended

Bioinvasion of Foreign and Genetically Engineered Species

An incident of invasion by a living species into entirely new habitat thereby threatening the existence of native species is called as bioinvasion or Biological Invasion.

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September 15, 2021 Recommended

Questions and Answers on Reproduction Biology Class X

What is the importance of DNA copying in reproduction?

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December 5, 2020 Recommended

Cyclones and – Ways Of Their Mitigation

Cyclones are extremely disastrous hazards that originate in seawater. These are usually followed by rains and wind of very high speed.In fact, these are atmospheric disasters that occur mainly in coastal areas like coastal regions of Bangla Desh and India.

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June 2, 2021 Recommended

Photosynthesis: Experimental Studies

Experimental Studies on Photosynthesis

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February 24, 2021 Recommended

What do we consider as – Child Labour?

Children as they grow, start getting involved in the day to day activities of the family to support their parents. These children go to schools and work in the family in leisure periods. Their household activities are neither harmful nor exploitative.

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August 8, 2021 Recommended

Pituitary and Thyroid Gland of Human Body

This is a pea sized major endocrine gland. It is protected by a boney cavity called Sella turcica of the sphenoid bone. It is a protrusion of bottom of Hypothalamus at the base of the brain. This gland is also called as Hypothesis.

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March 10, 2025 Recommended

Monoculture and its impact on the Environment

Growing a single crop species over a large area or farm is called intensive farming or monoculture. Earlier practices of mixed cropping caused problems in crop management, like harvesting, etc. Uniformity in plant height adds beauty to our fields and makes the application of agrochemicals easy. It also saves time and energy in segregating grains in threshing.

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September 3, 2022 Recommended

Need for Living Together and Neighbourhood

Human beings needed to live together to have a family and to rear and develop children. They lived together for social security and social strength. Thus, human settlements were formed.
Neighbourhood is a geographically localized community within an area, may it be a rural area, a town or a city, or sub-urban.

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June 7, 2022 Recommended

Natural Ponds Drying up in Ranchi

Sometimes back Ranchi was known as the city of ponds. Every area by then had a pond and people of…

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March 4, 2023 Recommended

Energy for us

Anything from which we can derive energy is called as a source of energy. Since all the life processes need energy, energy is most important for our survival.

Our body derives energy from the food we eat. Thus, the food we eat is the source of energy for our body. But this is not the whole story. We need energy for our growth and economic development as well.

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May 21, 2022 Recommended

Plants and their Different Parts

Living organisms capable of synthesizing food on their own are called as plants. They contain chlorophyll, the green magnesium compound which helps in trapping the energy from sun. This energy runs the process of photosynthesis through which glucose is basically synthesized in leaves and green stems on combining together the atmospheric carbon dioxide and water.

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