Topic - 2

QUESTIONS ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

1. What problems do young mothers face?

2. What could be the causes of infant mortality rate being high?

3. What would sex education in school involve?

4. Discuss the principles of family planning?

5. State any one reason of population explosion.

6. Which is the safest method of contraception?

7. Which is the most unsafe method of contraception?

8. How does lactational amenorrhea work as a contraceptive method?

9. Name any 2 kinds of IUDs

10. What are the problems associated with using the same.

11. How do oral contraceptive pills work?

12. What are the side effects of using OCP

13. Till which time period is MTP legally permissible?

14. How is ZIFT different from GIFT?

15. What are the dangers of having syphillis?

Scope:

DURATION- 20.04.2020 – 26.04.2020 – Week 6

Chapter- Human Health and Diseases

SCOPE:

o Communicable and non-communicable diseases; modes of transmission, causative agents, symptoms and prevention; viral diseases (common cold, chikungunya and dengue), bacterial diseases (typhoid and pneumonia), protozoal diseases (amoebiasis, and malaria, graphic outline of life cycle of Plasmodium), helmintic diseases (ascariasis, and filariasis); fungal (ringworm)

o Cancer - types of tumour (benign, malignant), causes, diagnosis and treatment, characteristics of cancer cells (loss of contact inhibition and metastasis).

o Immunity (definition and types – innate and acquired, active and passive, humoral and cell-mediated), structure of a typical antibody molecule, types of antibodies - IgG, IgA, IgM, IgD and IgE, vaccination and immunisation, allergies and allergens – definitions and general symptoms of allergies; autoimmunity, primary and secondary lymphoid organs and tissues.

o Brief idea of AIDS – causative agent (HIV), modes of transmission, diagnosis (ELISA), symptoms, replication of retrovirus in the infected human cell (including diagram) and prevention.

o Alcoholism and smoking - effects on health.

o Drugs: effects and sources of opioids, cannabinoids, cocaine and barbiturates.

Reasons for addiction; prevention and control of alcohol and drug abuse.

STUDY THE CHAPTER AS PER THE SCOPE

Reference materials:

Textbook

A. ISC Biology by V.B. Rastogi

B. Balaji’s ISC Biology by Dr. S.C. Tripathi.

C. PPT- on the entire chapter- Human health and Diseases.

D. Multimedia links:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMIjCKKWask [IMMNUTY]

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vh24StylNo [humoral and cell-mediated immune systems]

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyiobIq4fnk [Cancer treatment-Chemotherapy]

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng22Ucr33aw [AIDS]

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v55yg0RfoY [Malarial Parasite- Life Cycle-part 1]

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxiWp8vkRFI[Malarial Parasite- Life Cycle-part 2]