People’s Uprisings Against British Before 1857 Before 1857 in resistance to Colonial rule, many people uprisings were found in different regions of India. To understand better, we divide these uprisings into three broad forms- Civil rebellions, Tribal uprisings, and peasant Read more…
Mountain Passes in India Mostly Mountain Passes are found above the sources of rivers, these passes may be very short, or maybe many kilometers long. We are listing here the Passes which are found in India with their State (source Read more…
Important Indian National Congress Sessions Indian National Congress: Retired English civil servant, A.O. Hume formed the Indian National Union which later became the Indian National Congress in 1885. The other founding members were Dadabhai Naoroji and Dinshaw Wacha. There were Read more…
Phylum Chordata – Characteristics and Classification All chordates possess these 5 primary characteristics including a notochord, dorsal and hollow nerve cord, endostyle or thyroid, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. The name is Chordates because of their characteristic feature “notochord”, which plays a significant Read more…
Phylum Aschelminthes or Nemathelminthes (Greek; nema = thread; helmins = worm) The Roundworms In phylum Aschelminthes, the organisms are also called roundworms because the body is circular in cross-section. These organisms are endoparasites. They are cylindrical, unsegmented, and triploblastic animals. Read more…
Phylum – Porifera – (Pore-bearing) Introduction: The porifers are commonly known as sponges. Porifers consisting the most primitive multicellular animals. These are pore-bearing animals, the body does not consist of organs and they can regenerate their lost parts. The phylum Read more…
Animal kingdom – Classification The kingdom is the second-highest taxonomic rank below the domain. Under the kingdom Animalia, the multicellular, eukaryotic organisms with few exceptions are placed. Basis of Classification of Animal Kingdom Some common features are used as the Read more…
Angiosperms (Angios- vessel, sperma- seeds) Features of Angiosperms Angiosperms are flowering plants, in which the flower is developed by ovule and pollen grain. Seeds are found always enclosed in fruits in angiosperms. These are the most familiar plant-like mango, peas, Read more…
Gymnosperms Gymnosperms: The gymnosperms are spermatophytes i.e. seed-producing plants. The Gymnosperms (Gymno: naked, Sperma-seed) are the form of a plant in which the ovules are not enclosed by the ovary wall. In these plants, the ovule remains uncovered i.e. naked Read more…
Pteridophytes (Greek word- Pteron– feather, phyton– plant) Pteridophytes are the first terrestrial plants (the most primitive cryptogamic land plants) that possess vascular tissue the Xylem and Phloem. The most common pteridophytes are horsetails and ferns and lower vascular plants. They are Read more…
