Reaching the age of adolescence

 Reaching the age of adolescence

Q.1. Which are the four stages of growth?

Q.2. What is puberty?

Q.3. What is adolescence?

Q.4. What is the age of puberty in boys and girls?

Q.5. Which kind of changes are seen at puberty in females?

Q.6. Which kind of changes are seen at puberty in males?

Q.7. What is Adam’s apple?

Q.8. Which glands are called ductless glands?

Q.9. What are the male gonads called? What does it secrete at puberty?

Q.10. What are the female gonads called? What does it secrete at puberty?

Q.11. What are secondary sexual characters?

Q.12. Which are the secondary sexual characters in human male?

Q.13. Which are the secondary sexual characters in females?

Q.14. What are hormones?

Q.15. Which are the male hormones and what changes does it produce?

Q.16. Which are the female hormones and which changes does it produce?

Q.17. How do we calculate the full height of any child or man?

Q.18. Which gland is responsible for maturing of ova into ovaries and formation of sperms in the testes?

Q.19. Which kind of mental, intellectual and emotional maturity is seen at puberty?

Q.20. Name various endocrine glands and what is their location in the body?

Q.21. Which gland is responsible for growth hormone?

Q.22. Which gland is responsible for maintaining a steady level of glucose or sugar in the blood?

Q.23. Which disease is caused by the lack of insulin?

Q.24. Which gland is responsible for maintaining blood pressure and heart rate when the body experiences stress? Which hormone is secreted by it?

Q.25. Which gland is responsible for controlling the rate at which food is oxidized by the cells to produce energy?

Q.26. Which disease is caused by lack of thyroxine?

Q.27. Which hormone controls the secondary sexual characteristics of male?

Q.28. Which hormone controls the secondary sexual characteristics of female?

Q.29. Which hormone maintains pregnancy?

Q.30. When does adolescence become capable of reproduction?

Q.31. Why does menstruation occur?

Q.32. Describe the cycle of menstruation?

Q.33. How many chromosomes are present in a human cell?

Q.34. What are autosomes?

Q.35. Describe sex chromosome.

Q.36. How many chromosomes are present in the egg and the sperm?

Q.37. How chromosomes decide the sex of a child?

Q.38. Which element is needed to make hemoglobin?

Q.39. Name some iron rich foods.

Q.40. Which diet is called a balanced diet?

Q.41. Which virus causes AIDS?

Q.42. How is HIV transmitted from person to person?