physical features ( social science)

' (Save the Narmada Movement) by social workers. Similarly, the Tehri Dam on the river Ganga in Uttranchal faces similar opposition. Such large dams have been criticized primarily because of the following aspec..

Nomenclature - Carl Linnaeus, father of modern botany, was a Swedish naturalist who laid the foundation of modern classification and nomenclature in 1758. He devised a binomial system of nomenclature (naming system) in which an organism is given two names: A generic name (name of genus) which it sh..

Question: What is the physical basis of heredity? What are alleles? Answer: Genes are the physical basis of heredity. The different expressions of the same genes are called allele..

The branch of Physics dealing with the nature and properties of light and vision is called optic..

Processes Involved in Transport - There are some physical principles and biological processes that explain the transport of materials across the plant body. They are as follow..

Human evolution concerns itself with the emergence of humans as a distinct species. Undoubtedly, there are special features possessed by 'Homo sapiens' considered to be at the top of the evolutionary ladder but science has become fully committed to finding purely biological ex..

Features of Hemichordata..

Haeckel (1834-1919) formulated that 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny'. This means that the developmental stages that an organism goes through repeat the evolutionary history of the group to which the organism belongs. Though it does not explain the mechanism of evolution, the study of the emb..

All living organisms, whether plants or animals, are made up of microscopic units called cells. The cell occupies the same central position in biology as the atom in the physical sciences..

The branch of Physics, which deals with the behaviour of moving objects, is known as mechanics. Mechanics is further divided into two sections namely Kinematics and Dynamic..