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Solutions for Chapter 8: Heredity

Below listed, you can find solutions for Chapter 8 of CBSE, Karnataka Board NCERT for Science [English] Class 10.


EXERCISEIntext Question
EXERCISE [Page 133]

NCERT solutions for Science [English] Class 10 8 Heredity EXERCISE [Page 133]

EXERCISE | Q 1. | Page 133

A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers with short pea plants bearing white flowers. The progeny all bore violet flowers, but almost half of them were short. This suggests that the genetic make-up of the tall parent can be depicted as:

  • TTWW

  • TTww

  • TtWW

  • TtWw

EXERCISE | Q 2. | Page 133

A study found that children with light-coloured eyes are likely to have parents with light-coloured eyes. On this basis, can we say anything about whether the light eye colour trait is dominant or recessive? Why or why not?

EXERCISE | Q 3. | Page 133

Outline a project which aims to find the dominant coat colour in dogs.

EXERCISE | Q 4. | Page 133

How is the equal genetic contribution of male and female parents ensured in the progeny?

Intext Question [Pages 129 - 133]

NCERT solutions for Science [English] Class 10 8 Heredity Intext Question [Pages 129 - 133]

Intext Question | Q 1. | Page 129

If a trait A exists in 10% of a population of an asexually reproducing species and a trait B exists in 60% of the same population, which trait is likely to have arisen earlier?

Intext Question | Q 2. | Page 129

How does the creation of variations in a species promote survival?

Intext Question | Q 3. | Page 133

How do Mendel’s experiments show that the traits may be dominant or recessive? 

Intext Question | Q 4. | Page 133

How do Mendel's experiment show that traits are inherited independently?

Intext Question | Q 5. | Page 133

A man with blood group A marries a woman with blood group O and their daughter has blood group O. Is this information enough to tell you which of the traits – blood group A or O – is dominant? Why or why not?

Intext Question | Q 6. | Page 133

How is the sex of the child determined in human beings?

Solutions for 8: Heredity

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NCERT solutions for Science [English] Class 10 chapter 8 - Heredity - Shaalaa.com

NCERT solutions for Science [English] Class 10 chapter 8 - Heredity

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Concepts covered in Science [English] Class 10 chapter 8 Heredity are Accumulation of Variation During Reproduction, Evolution and Classiffication, Sex Determination, Heredity or Inheritance, Organic Evolution, Speciation, Paleobotany, Evolution by Stages, Human Evolution, Gregor Johann Mendel – Father of Genetics, Monohybrid Cross, Evidences for Biological Evolution, Lamarck’s Theory of Evolution, Darwinism, Theories of Origin of Life, Gregor Johann Mendel – Father of Genetics, Mendelian Inheritance - Mendel’s Law of Heredity.

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