Write a note on diseases and syndromes due to changes in chromosome numbers.

Describe sex determination and its types. Add a note on sex determination in C. elegans.

What are transcription factors? Explain the role of different “general” and “specific” transcription factors present in eukaryotes.

What is mutation? Describe the two general classes of gene mutations.

Explain the phenomena of linkage and crossing over. Add a note on recombination frequency as a measure to distance between genes.

What is gene? Explain “One gene-one enzyme hypothesis” with the help of a suitable diagram

Describe the different types of sex-linked inheritance patterns

Explain the Mendel’s classical experiments and laws of heredity

Write polite forms for the following. 
i. How much did these socks cost you.
ii. A has to put some additional chairs in his classroom. He wants some from B’s room
iii. A is visiting B. B offers him some tea (makes an offer): Have some tea.
iv. A has a headache and B makes an offer of help (makes an offer): I will give you an aspirin.
v. A’s bicycle tyres have very little air. He wants to use B’s Bicycle pump (asks for permission).

Explain Repetition as a Rhetorical Device. Discuss various patterns of repetition.

Give the negative and question forms of the following sentences. 
 a. You called me.
 b. I can borrow his scooter.
 c. He will agree.
 d. You had a good breakfast.
 e. You used to be frightened of him.

Write short notes on. 
a. Simile
b. Metapphor
c. syneodoche
d. metonymy
e. personification. 

Point out the alliteration the following passages. 

When the white feet of the baby beat across the
grass. The little white feet nod like white flowers
in a wind, They poise and run like puffs of wind
that pass, over water where the weeds are thinned.
(D.H. Lawrence: Baby Running Barefoot)

What is ‘alliteration’? Explain

a. What is ‘rhythm’? Explain. 
b. Describe the metrical pattern in the following lines from Thomas Hardy’s poem The
Darkling Thrush. 
I leaned upon a coppice gate
When frost was spectre-gray, And
Winter’s dregs made desolate The
weakening eye of day. 

Make sentences bringing out the difference in meaning in these pairs of words. 
i. fare and fair
ii. tyre and tire
iii. grease and Greece
iv. gait and gate
v. hew and hue 

Make two phrasal verbs from each of these verbs by adding adverb or/and a preposition, and use them in meaningful sentences: 
i. get
ii. bring
iii.show
iv. put
v. round

What meaning do the italicized words convey. Each word has a generally used meaning
and in what shade of meaning it is used here. Explain 10
i. You are acquitted of laziness.
ii. He was an assassin of all good virtues.
iii. It would be a crime to send the child out in the cold.
iv. The food was condemned as unfit for humans.
v. She was a victim of the mother-in-law’s tyranny

Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with words from the list below: 10
lame, nestled, Tell,beast, experiments,wreathed, hot,icy, hand, shadow,buried,  swallowed
i. I ……………………………………………….. close to her.
ii. The ……………………………………….. in a man may wake up, if he too much
money.
iii. His face was ……………………...... in smiles.
iv. ‘My autobiography is really a story of my
……………………………………………. (M.K. Gandhi: an Autobiography)
v. Youth is nimble, Age is …………………………………………………….Youth
is ……………………………………….. and blood. (Shirley: ‘Death the
Leveller’)
vi. Death lays his ………………………………..on kings. (Shirley: ‘Death and
Leveller’ )
vii. Napoleon, the pig, was ……………………………..by the other animals in the
farmyard.
viii. Life is but a walking ………………………………….(Shakespeare: Macbeth)
ix. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the
world, and not a stone ………………………………… where I lie. (A. pope: Ode
on Solitude’)
x. The hungry river………………………………… down everything. (Tagore:
Living or Dead’)

Write a well - developed composition on the topic given below: 

 “Social Media Usage: Advantages and Disadvantages.”
 Your composition should have a clear introduction, body and  conclusion.