Botany and zoology doubts, mnemonics and NCERT-line questions.
Second attempt, so I'm going back through the chapters I skipped the first time because they felt like "just theory". Biotechnology Principles and Processes is one of them, and yes, I lost marks on it. NCERT gives two de
I'm making my third checklist for Cell: The Unit of Life and the opening pages are all names and numbers, which is just the kind of thing I fear forgetting. Cell theory: Schleiden botanist and Schwann zoologist said all
Dramatic confession: I had the 10% law memorised, I could draw all three pyramids, and still one MCQ made me feel like I'd never seen biology before. 🎭 The question said: "Which of the following ecological pyramids is al
Football match tomorrow so I'm revising in the break and trying to keep it simple. Body Fluids and Circulation, the middle topics: 1. NCERT says that as blood passes through capillaries, some water and small water-solubl
I'm in class 11 and day 2 of The Living World already has me frowning. Football practice taught me that a thing that is alive grows and plays, so I'm not buying some of this. NCERT lists the features of living organisms
ahh okay I'm in chapter Animal Kingdom and I love it, but the "basis of classification" part is making me go in circles. 🐛 NCERT lists levels of organisation, symmetry, diploblastic/triploblastic, coelom, segmentation, a
I colour coded the secondary growth section blue for xylem, pink for phloem, green for cambium and now I realised the colour code is useless because I'm not sure what some of the terms even mean. 1. Periderm = cork cambi
In a chapter test I wrote "50,000 strains of rice in India" under species diversity and lost the mark. Since then I don't trust my classification. NCERT's three levels are genetic, species and ecological diversity. The e
I made a colour-coded table for enzyme inhibition green for competitive, orange for the other one and I still get the Km/Vmax part wrong every single time. What I understood from NCERT: the enzyme has an active site, the
The Evolution chapter starts with such big words Big Bang, chemical evolution, panspermia and I find my mind wandering. Let me try to write what I think I got and someone please bust the myths. Big Bang: universe began a
Chapter: Plant Growth and Development. I came back from football practice and sat down with NCERT, brain still half on the field, so please forgive any silly questions ⚽ 1. NCERT says plant growth is "indeterminate" or "
Amma says I should solve at least one numerical every morning with chai, so here's the one that broke me today. A population of 50 individuals in a pond. During a month: 10 births, 5 deaths, 3 immigrants, 2 emigrants. Fi
