English
Maharashtra State BoardSSC (English Medium) 10th Standard

What is Heredity?

Advertisements
Advertisements

Question

What is heredity?
One Line Answer
Advertisements

Solution

The term heredity may be defined as the transmission of genetically based characteristics from parents to offspring.
shaalaa.com
  Is there an error in this question or solution?
Chapter 1: Heredity and Evolution - Answer the following questions

APPEARS IN

SCERT Maharashtra Science and Technology Part 2 [English] Standard 10 Maharashtra State Board
Chapter 1 Heredity and Evolution
Answer the following questions | Q 1.1
Frank Biology Part 2 [English] Class 10 ICSE
Chapter 3 Principles of Genetics
Exercise 1 | Q 3 | Page 35

RELATED QUESTIONS

Who was the ‘Father of Genetics’?

Note down the allele pairs studied by Mendel. Mention which allele is dominant.

How did Mendel's work come to light?

What is a gene? How is it related to heredity?


What is crossing-over? What are the factors affecting it?


Differentiate between genotype and phenotype.


State Mendel’s Law of Dominance.


Explain the Term Genotype.


Give Technical Term:

A virus with DNA as heredity material.


Give Technical Term:

A single egg was fertilized by a single sperm. But twins derived from that egg were born. What is the name of such type of twins?


Complete the following sentence with appropriate word:

The physical expression of genes is called _________.


Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:

Mutation can be brought about artificially.


Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:

Mendel experimented upon plants of Oryza sativa.


Choose the Odd One Out


The word chromosome was coined by


Each gamete has only one allele of a gene.


Using ______, the production of gametes by the parents, the formation of zygotes, the F1 and F2 plants can be understood.


The percentage of each gamete out of four different types of gametes produced by the F1 dihybrid will be ________.


A pea plant with the genotype YyRr is crossed with another pea plant with the genotype yyrr. The expected phenotypic ratio of individuals formed will be ______


Mendel was successful in his experiments because:


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×