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Class 5 EVS Chapter 21 Like Father Like Daughter

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.

 

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