General Science Questions

The term ageism refers to judging people on the basis of chronological age. It is a discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their age.

The head mirror used by ENT doctors is concave.

Medical Sociology is the systematic study of how humans manage their health problems, wellness and disorders and how they overcome sick to be healthy.

The air around us is a mixture of gases, mainly nitrogen and oxygen, but containing much smaller amounts of water and other gases.

Earth's atmosphere is composed of many gases. Their percentages by volume is given by::

 
78% Nitrogen,

21% Oxygen,

0.9% Argon, and

0.03% Carbon dioxide 

And very small percentages of other elements.

Mortar is a mixture of cement or lime as a binder, sand and water.

Pulse crops are one of the most sustainable crops a farmer can grow. Pulses are a type of leguminous crop that are harvested solely for the dry seed. Dried beans, lentils and peas are the most commonly known pulses.

Pulses are good source of proteins we all need for living.

The purpose of defibrillation is to stop the chaotic, disorganized contraction of the cardiac cells. Defibrillation is a technique used in emergency medicine to terminate ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia. It uses an electrical shock to reset the electrical state of the heart so that it may beat to a rhythm controlled by its own natural pacemaker cells.

In humans all reproduction is sexual. It involves joining together haploid gamete cells from each parent with half the normal number of chromosomes to make a new cell containing both parents' genetic material. This is a diploid zygote. The cells from each parent that combine to form the zygote are called gametes.

Meiosis produces haploid gametes from a diploid parental cell.