Biology assignment number 3 for class 8

Date – 7th April 2020

Chapter - Reproduction in plants
• Good morning students.
• Read the chapter carefully till page number 20 (limitations of tissue culture).
• Please watch the videos given after this assignment before you begin the work
of this chapter.
• Activity 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are very important activities. Read and understand them
carefully.
• Activity 1, 2 and 3 can be easily performed at home to develop better concepts.
• A small piece of Ginger, two potatoes and onions can be kept separately in moist
soil for a few days to observe the growth of buds into shoots.
• You can show your specimens once the school reopen.
• Work to be done in the notebook.

Q1. Define the following terms:

a) Reproduction.
b) Vegetative reproduction
Q2. Briefly explain why a gardener prefers to grow certain plants vegetatively?
Q3. Why is it disadvantageous to grow plants vegetatively?
Q4. Write short notes on the following:
a) Micropropagation
b) Bryophyllum
c) Grafting
d) Binary fission
e) Fragmentation
f) Spore formation
g) Cutting
h) Layering
Q5. With the help of suitable diagrams describe each of the following:

a) Binary fission in plants

b) Budding in yeast cell

All doubts to be clarified on teno. Thank you.