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Did You Know - Stephen Hales - Father of plant physiology Lipmann - Father of ATP cycle Winogradsky - Father of nitrogen fixation Destruction of chlorophyll due to high light intensity is called solarisation. DCMU (Dichlorophenyl dimethyl urea) - a herbicide - inhibits oxygen release in l..

The cells that make up our body are so small that you would fit over 200 of them on the full stop at the end of this sentence. The word cell is derived from the Latin word cellula which means a little room. It was the British botanist Robert Hooke who, in 1664, while examining a slice of..

About AD1600, William Gilbert, who was a court physician of Queen Elizabeth of England, performed certain experiments using spherical lodestones. When he placed small, pivoted magnetic needles at different positions on this sphere, he found that their behavior was quite similar to that of magnetize..

To avoid the risk of electric shocks, the metal of an electrical appliance is 'earthed'. Earthed means to connect the metal case of the appliance to the earth (at zero potential) by means of a metal wire (copper) called the earth wire. One end of t..

But we know that M e =100 M m and R e = 4 R m . Earth..

Universe consists of all matter and all light and other forms of radiation and energy. It consists of everything that exists anywhere in space and time. The universe includes the earth, everything on the earth and within it and everything in the solar system. All stars, includin..

All bodies when projected vertically upwards fall back to earth due to the earth's gravitational pull. The maximum height attained by a body depends upon the initial velocity of the body. This does not mean that no object can escape earth's gravitational pull. We ..

We know that whenever an object is dropped from a height, it falls towards the Earth. Similarly, when an object is projected vertically upwards, it goes up but after attaining a certain height, it starts falling down. It is the force of gravitation which pulls the object t..

Before green house effect is studied one needs to know what kind of radiation / sunshine we receive on earth..

The creation of a life form, by a similar life is called reproduction. Reproduction is the extension of life of a species at a given time. It is a means of perpetuation of the species and also multiplies their number. By this process, the individuals transmit life to the next generation and t..