World of Living

In this chapter, we are going to learn the various life processes of living organisms. It discusses the basic processes such as nutrition, respiration, transportation and excretion in plants and animals with neatly labelled diagrams.

This chapter explains the control and coordination in plants and animals. It explains the physiological functions of various plant hormones, the tropic movement in plants, nervous system and hormonal secretions in human beings.

This chapter discusses the importance of reproduction in animals and plants. In this chapter, we are going to study asexual reproduction in single organisms, sexual reproduction in flowering plants and human beings and reproductive health.

This chapter discusses accumulation of variation during reproduction, inherited traits, Mendel’s contribution to inheritance of traits, sex determination. It also gives a brief introduction of evolution, speciation and tracing evolutionary relationship.