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Important Questions on Life Processes
Attempt the following:
Glucose is broken down into a three-carbon compound during Respiration. Name:
(a) The three-carbon compound.
(b) The type of respiration in which CO2 and Ethanol are the end products.

A. Platelets are produced in the bone marrow.
B. When haemoglobin combines with oxygen it forms carboxy haemoglobin.
C. Calcium ions play an important role in clotting of blood.
D. Fibrins are formed by the conversion of fibrinogen by the enzyme thrombin.

Answer the following:
How are alveoli designed to maximise the exchange of gases?

What are the different ways in which glucose is oxidised to provide energy in various organism?

Choose the correct answer from the four options given below:
Agranulocytes are:

Write any five difference between aerobic respiration and anaerobic respiration.

The middle step between the gaseous exchange at lung’s level and tissue level is _____.


Give appropriate biological or technical terms for the following:
Squeezing out of white blood cells from the capillaries into the surrounding tissues.


Write the name of respiration that takes place in absence of air (oxygen).










