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.