Biology: Important Facts for SSC Exams

Biology: Important Facts for SSC Exams

• Largest and Heaviest Mammal : Blue Whale
• Largest Land Mammal : African Elephant
• Largest Living reptile : Sea Turtle (Tortoise)
• Largest Living Bird : Ostrich
• Largest Snake : Python
• Largest Monkey : Gorilla
• Smallest Bird : Humming Bird
• Smallest Mammal : Shrew
• Largest Egg : Ostrich's Egg
• Fastest Animal : Cheetah (Panther)
• Fastest Flying Bird : Spine Tailed Swift
• Egg lying mammal : Echidna and Duckbiled Platypus
• Tallest Mammal : Giraffe( Africa )
• Busiest human organ : Heart
• The study of dreams is called Oneirology
• The study of the beauty of human is called Kalology
• The strongest part of the human body is the enamel of teeth.
• The sex determination of human depends on male chromosomes not on female chromosomes.
• The fastest nervous speed is 532 kmph
• The internal area of the lungs of human is 93 Sq.m which is forty times of the external area of the body.
• Inside the body approximately 150 lakh cells are destroyed every second.
• The weight of the uterus of the woman who has not given birth to a child is 50 grams and after giving birth to a child the weight becomes 100 grams.
• The weight of the kidney is approximately 150 grams.
• In a single inhaling, a normal adult takes 500 ml air inside the body.
• The capacity of the heart to pump the blood is 4.5 litres per minute.
• The length of the small intestine is approximately 7 meter and its diameter is 2.5 centimeter.
• The blood circulation inside the body takes approximately 23 seconds.
• The heart beat of the child is more than that of an adult.
• There are approcimately 50 lakhs hair in the body of human.
• A single respiration completes in 5 seconds i.e 2 seconds of inspiration and 3 seconds of expiration.

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