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Short Note On “SEX DETERMINATION”

A sex-determination system is a way that an organism's body decides if it will be a boy or a girl. Most animals and plants have only two sexes: male or female. But in some animals, like snails, they can be both at the same time. Sometimes, a female can have babies without a male, and in some animals, the temperature around them can decide if they will be a boy or a girl. The way an animal becomes a boy or a girl can be because of its genes, which are like instructions in its body. There is usually one main gene that decides if an animal will be a boy or a girl, and then other genes help make the animal's body look like a boy or a girl. Some animals, like fish, can change from being a boy to a girl or a girl to a boy during their life. This can happen because of the seasons or the temperature around them. People used to think that there was only one way for animals to become a boy or a girl, but now we know that there are many different ways. Some animals are born with both boy ...

IDENTIFICATION OF SNAKE BITE AND VENOM

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  Snake venom is seen in poison glands found in the head of poisonous snakes. The poison is injected in to the body of the pray through the fangs of the poisonous snake. Snake venom is highly toxic and acidic in nature and has a specific density ranging from 1.03 to 1.07. On being bitten by a poisonous snake the following symptoms may help to indentify the nature of the snake bite.                 There are mainly four type of snake venom found in the world. They are-        I.             Haemotoxic venom ( Poisoning of blood )      II.             Cytotoxic venom ( Cell destroying )   III.             Myotoxic venom ( Muscle destroying )   IV.      ...

POISONOUS SNAKES IN INDIA

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                             About 2000 species of snakes found in the world and out of this, 272 species are found in India. The range of these snakes is from the 10cm long worm snake to more than 6 meter long pythons and king cobras. About 10% of world’s snake species are found in India and 80% of them are non-poisonous. India has only about 58 species of venomous snakes and 4 species of snakes that are dangerous to man. They are Cobras, Krait, Russell’s viper and Saw-scaled viper.     1.      King Cobra Scientific name:     Ophiophagus hannah                   King cobra is the third largest snake in India. King cobra is one of the most courageous, poisonous and aggressive snake. The body is blackish brown with lighter bands running throughout its e...

Adaptive features of Reptiles that helped them to be the first true terrestrial animals

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Reptiles are a group a cold blooded, creeping animals, successfully adapted for land life. Though amphibious are considered as first land animals, reptiles are first successful animals independent of water. They do not fear of dehydration. Their success is mainly because, they lay eggs on land. They are the first member of the amniotes originated on the earth.                 Reptiles originated about 255 million years ago in the carboniferous period of paleozoic era. Reptiles evolved from Anthracosaurs of Labyrinthodonts amphibious.                 During the origin of reptiles from amphibious the following evolutionary changes has occurred that helped them to be the first true terrestrial animals on this earth. 1.        Land life : Reptiles become com...