Practicing Success
Read the passage carefully and give the answer to the next five questions: India was amongst the first countries in the world to initiate action plans and programmes at a national level to attain total reproductive health as a social goal. These programmes called 'family planning' were initiated in 1951 and were periodically assessed over the past decades. Improved programmes covering wider reproduction-related areas are currently in operation. Creating awareness among the people about various reproduction-related aspects and providing facilities and support for building up a reproductively healthy society are the major tasks under these programmes. |
Match List-I with List-II :
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: |
(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D) - (IV) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C) - (IV), (D) -(II) (A)-(II), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D)-(I) (A)-(IV), (B) - (III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II) |
(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C) - (IV), (D) -(II) |
The correct answer is Option (2) – (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C) - (IV), (D) -(II)
In vitro fertilisation (IVF–fertilisation outside the body in almost similar conditions as that in the body) followed by embryo transfer (ET). In this method, popularly known as test tube baby programme, ova from the wife/donor (female) and sperms from the husband/donor (male) are collected and are induced to form zygote under simulated conditions in the laboratory. The zygote or early embryos (with upto 8 blastomeres) could then be transferred into the fallopian tube (ZIFT–zygote intra fallopian transfer) and embryos with more than 8 blastomeres, into the uterus (IUT – intra uterine transfer), to complete its further development. Intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is another specialised procedure to form an embryo in the laboratory in which a sperm is directly injected into the ovum placed in a nutrient broth .The zygote or early embryo is later transferred by ZIFT in woman . Infertility cases either due to inability of the male partner to inseminate the female or due to very low sperm counts in the ejaculates, could be corrected by artificial insemination (AI) technique. In this technique, the semen collected either from the husband or a healthy donor is artificially introduced either into the vagina or into the uterus (IUI – intra-uterine insemination) of the female. |