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Class 5 EVS Chapter 21 Like Father Like Daughter
Question: What was the common trait between Ashima and her father?
Answer: Ashima’s way of sneezing was similar to her father’s – they both sneezed in the same way.
Question: Why did Neelima initially mistake Kiran for her aunt?
Answer: Neelima mistook Kiran for her aunt because she did not know that Kiran was actually her cousin (the daughter of her eldest maternal grandmother’s eldest son).
Question: What kind of hair did Neelima and her maternal grandmother have?
Answer: They both had thick, curly and black hair.
Question: What was the difference between Neelima’s mother’s hair and Neelima’s hair?
Answer: Neelima’s mother’s hair was straight, hanging and brown, while Neelima’s hair was thick and curly black.
Question: What special skill did Suvasini learn from her environment?
Answer: Suvasini learned karate because her father was a karate instructor and she began practicing it at the age of three.
Question: How did Saroja learn two languages?
Answer: Saroja learned Tamil at home and Marathi at school in Pune, where she lived with her aunt.
Question: How did Saroja and Suvasini’s mother recognize them?
Answer: He would ask them to sing songs in Marathi – only Saroja could do this because she grew up in Pune.
Question: What was Gregor Mendel’s background before he became a scientist?
Answer: He was born in Austria to a poor farming family and became a monk in a monastery because he could not afford a university education.
Question: How many plants did Mendel experiment with and for how long?
Answer: Mendel experimented with 28,000 plants over seven years in the monastery garden.
Question: What were the two possible colors of the pea seeds in Mendel’s experiments?
Answer: The pea seeds were either yellow or green.
Question: What did Mendel discover about the characteristics of pea seeds?
Answer: He found that traits came in pairs (rough/smooth, yellow/green, long/short) and there were no intermediate forms.
Question: Can polio be inherited from parents to children?
Answer: No, polio cannot be inherited from parents to children because it is caused by a virus.
Question: What qualities did Vibha’s maternal grandfather have?
Answer: Vibha’s maternal grandfather laughed loudly and talked loudly, and he was hard of hearing.
Question: What are the main differences between twins Saroja and Suvasini despite looking alike?
Answer: Saroja knows two languages (Tamil and Marathi) and is fluent in music, while Suvasini practices karate.
Question: Why did Saroja and Suvasini grow up in different places?
Answer: Saroja was adopted by her aunt (father’s brother’s wife) at the age of two weeks and taken to Pune, while Suvasini stayed with her father in Chennai.
Question: What are three ways we become who we are?
Answer: We inherit some traits from our family, learn some things from our environment, and some abilities change due to illness or aging.
Question: What did Mendel discover about the structure of seeds in pea plants?
Answer: He found that seeds were either rough or smooth, with no intermediate texture in between.
Question: What was Mendel’s problem with exams?
Answer: He was very nervous about exams, which caused him to run away from them and fail repeatedly.
Question: When did scientists understand the importance of Mendel’s discoveries?
Answer: Scientists realized the importance of Mendel’s discoveries many years after his death, when other scientists performed similar experiments.
Question: How we learn languages?
Answer: Learning languages depends on our environment and opportunities, not is inherited, as in the case of twins learning different languages depending on where they grew up.
