If the image formed in a mirror is always erect (upright) and equal in size to the object, the mirror is a flat mirror (plane mirror). Flat mirrors reflect light without distorting the image, producing an erect image that is the same size as the object and reversed from left to right.

1. The average life of red blood cells in the human body is 120 days. This is the time it takes from the formation of red blood cells until they flow in the blood. Red blood cells are made in the bone marrow and then they are shed into the blood. While flowing in the blood, red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body and carry carbon dioxide from the rest of the body to the lungs.

n 1855, at the age of 34, he published his now famous aphorism “omnis cellula e cellula” (“every cell stems from another cell”). With this approach Virchow launched the field of cellular pathology. He stated that all diseases involve changes in normal cells, that is, all pathology ultimately is cellular pathology.

Fermentation is a metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substrates through the action of enzymes. In biochemistry, it is narrowly defined as the extraction of energy from carbohydrates in the absence of oxygen.

1. Kala-azar disease is caused by the protozoa Leishmania donovani.

2. It is a parasitic protozoa that belongs to the class Mastigophora or Flagellata. It is caused by sand fly (Phlebotomus) which causes kala azar or dumdum fever.

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) is one of India’s leading shipyards, located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It builds and repairs commercial and navals vessels. Founded in 1884 as a small privately owned company on the Eastern Bank of the Hughly river, it was renamed as Garden Reach Workshop in 1916. The company was nationalised by the Government of India in 1960.