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The functional group is an atom, or a group of atoms which can replace one or more hydrogen/s in a hydrocarbon. This group when present in organic compounds defines the characteristic physical and chemical properties of that particular family of organic compounds. Thus a functional group is the si..

The maximum number of individuals of a population, which can be provided with necessary resources for healthy living, is called carrying capacity of the habitat. Size of a population increases till it reaches the carrying capacity of the habitat. When the resources become short of requirement, the..

Presence of dangerous unnatural ingredients causing imbalance in the ecosystem and health hazards to human beings and animals can be called as pollution. That is, pollution is a phenomena where natural ingredients are replaced or damaged by presence of dangerous unnatural ingredients - which have p..

Accretionary growth: Post embryonic growth in some special cells to reinforce and replace the worn out differentiated cell..

Production of offsprings by a single parent without the formation of gametes is called asexual reproduction. It is also called as somatogenic reproducti..

Two or more substances having the same molecular formula but different structural or spatial arrangement are called isomers. These are of two types: a) Structural isomerism b) Stereo isomeri..

An equation involving independent variables dependent variable and their derivatives is called a differential equatio..

Let R i denotes the i t h row of the matrix A = [a i j ] then the elementary row operations on the matrix A are defined as: 3. R i g R i + kR j means multiply each element of j t h row by k and add it to the corresponding elements of i t h row. The corresponding column transformatio..

"The point of concurrency of the bisectors of the sides of a triangle is called the circumcentre". It is abbreviated as 'S'. To determine the circumcentre of a triangle, it is just sufficient to find the point of intersection of any two perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle. The third ..