The Wise Owl: Let’s Protect Owl
Most of us have seen owls in our surroundings. Owls are hard to be seen in natural settings because they usually remain active during nights only.
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Sexual Reproduction in Animals
Great diversities are found in terms of sexual reproduction among animals.
Inheritance of Genetic Characters
Parental traits are transferred from one generation to other generation by means of chromosomes, DNA, or Genes.
Biotic Components of Ecosystem
Living beings in environment like animals and plants constitute more than half of the environment in the biosphere. All of these need to be conserved.
Pollution- disruption of nutrient cycles and habitats
Our natural resources are known to have some specific qualities of their own. These qualities are known as natural qualities. It is due to specific natural qualities that different natural resources have been useful to us and to the whole biosphere. But now, the condition has changed considerably. Most of our natural resources like air, water and soil have gone bad due to pollution of different types. What is pollution?
Coordination in plants
Auxins move to darker side of the part of a plant and cause cells of that side to grow larger. These may induce cell division as well. In both of these cases the part of the plant bends.
Take care of Body Joints
The comfortable life style has reduced mobility of men, women, and children. The lock down during COVID-19 period has restricted human movement up to greater extent. Under these conditions arthritis may become a reason behind problems of joints.
Landfilling and Incineration
Land-filling is the process of disposing solid waste in low lands or into trenches through proper sanitary methods. It involves- collection, transport, compaction, etc. processes along with proper management for gas-outlet etc. For land filling, the important thing to be taken into account is the distance of waste collection site to the waste dumping site, because it involves cost of transportation.
Madua, a very nutritive coarse grain crop
Madua or ragi or finger millet which falls under coarse grain is a very nutritive diet. The Indian Government has declared an integrated policy to encourage the use of coarse grain. Through it is clear that importance of coarse grain is about to rise in near future.
Domestic and Wild – animals
Animals could be mainly divided into wild and domestic. However, the domestic animals that live under wild conditions are called Feral Animals. It is not very difficult to understand a domestic animal from a wild animal, by looking at them, as there are many differences exhibited between them.
Components and sources of food
The food eaten by any one comprises many different components like – Carbohydrates, Proteins, fats, Minerals, and Vitamins and water. For humans and big animals water too has been accepted as a necessary component of food.
Pesticides, their Types and Side Effects
A Pesticide is a chemical substance of natural or synthetic origin. It is applied in different forms to kill pests. Pests are living organisms that tend to harm humans, their crops and animals or have a tendency to disturb general household and living conditions. Some organisms can also be applied to kill pests. These organisms are called as biopesticides. On the other hand, pesticides that are synthesized in factories are called as synthetic pesticides.
