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Give scientific terms for each of the following :(i) The development of more than one embryo in a seed. (ii) The process of growing old. (iii) Method of inducing early flowering in plants by pre-treatment of their seeds at lower temperatures. (iv) Determination of the age of a tree by counting the number of annual rings. (v) The type of growth in which the volume of the body increases without the increase in the number of body cells. (vi) A condition when the muscles deteriorate and the person becomes invalid.

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(i) Polyembryony 

(ii) Ageing (Senescence) 

(iii) Vernalisation 

(iv) Dendrochronology 

(v) Auxetic growth 

(vi) Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy (t)MD)



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