AHLCON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

MAYUR VIHAR -1, DELHI – 91

1. A woman has only daughters, analyse the situation genetically and provide a suitable explanation.
2. Define mutation.
3. Why is variation beneficial to the species but not necessary for the individuals?
4. What is the contribution of Mendel to genetics?
5. List two differences between acquired and inherited traits.
6. In a cross between plants with pink flowers and plants with white flowers the offsprings of F1 generation
all had pink flowers. When the F1 generation was self-crossed, it was observed in the F2 generation that
out of 100, 75 flowers were pink. Make a cross and answer the following:
(a) What are the genotypes of the F1 progeny?
(b) What is the fraction of Pink: White flowers in the F2 generation?
7. How do Mendel’s experiments show that traits may be dominant or recessive?
8. Define the term gene. The gene for red hair is recessive to the gene for black hair. What will be the hair
colour of a child if he inherits a gene for red colour from his mother and a gene for black hair from his
father? Express with the help of flow chart.
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12. a) In humans if gene B gives brown eyes and gene b gives Blue Eyes. What will be the colour of the
persons having the following combination of genes
i. Bb ii. Bb iii. BB
b). Explain which characteristic trait is inherited in the above question ?
13. Assertion: A geneticist crossed a pea plant having violet flowers with a pea plant with white flowers, he
got all violet flowers in first generation.
Reason: White colour gene is not passed on to next generation.
a) Both A and R are true, and R is correct explanation of the assertion.
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 b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
c) A is true, but R is false.
d) A is false, but R is true.
14. Assertion: In human beings, the sex of the child depends on whether the paternal chromosome is X (for
girls) or Y (for boys).
Reason: In mammals primary sex determination is strictly chromosomal and is also influenced by the
environment.
a) Both A and R are true, and R is correct explanation of the assertion.
b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
c) A is true, but R is false.
d) A is false, but R is true.
15. After self-pollination in pea plants with round, yellow seeds, following types of seeds were obtained by
Mendel. Analyse the result and describe the mechanism of inheritance which explains these results.

16. In humans, there is a 50% probability of the birth of a boy and 50 % probability that a girl will be born.
Justify the statement on the basis of the mechanism of sex-determination in human beings.
17. When F1 plants were cross - pollinated with plants having tt genes, a total of 800 plants were produced.
How many of these would be tall, medium height or short plants? Give the genotype of F 2 generation.

Ans. In the cross between Tt X tt, 400 Tall (Tt) and 400 short (tt) plants will be produced. 1Tt:1tt

18. Sahil performed an experiment to study the inheritance pattern of genes. He crossed tall pea plants (TT)
with short pea plants (tt) and obtained all tall plants in F1 generation. a. What will be set of genes
present in the F1 generation? (1 Mark) b. Give reason why only tall plants are observed in F1 progeny.
(1 Mark) c. When F1 plants were self - pollinated, a total of 800 plants were produced. How many of
these would be tall, medium height or short plants? Give the genotype of F 2 generation.

Ans. a. Tt b. Traits like ‘T’ are called dominant traits, while those that behave like ‘t’ are called recessive traits c.
Out of 800 plants 600 plants will be tall and 200 plants will be small (1 mark), 1 TT: 2Tt: 1tt.

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

Ans. Mendel conducted a monohybrid cross with pea plants, and he observed that one of the contrasting
characters disappears in F1 generation. This character reappears in F2 generation (obtained by selfing F1) in
just 25% of the progeny. Mendel concludes that the character which expresses itself in F1 is the dominant
character while the other one when is not able to express though present in F1 individuals is recessive. This
recessive character is able to express only in its pure form i.e. in 25% of F2 individuals.

20. In a pea plant, the trait of flowers bearing purple colour (PP) is dominant over white colour (pp). Explain
the inheritance pattern of F1 and F2 generations with the help of a cross following the rules of
inheritance of traits. State the visible characters of F1and F2 progenies.

Ans.

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 21. A blue colour flower plant denoted by BB is crossbred with that of white colour flower plant denoted by
bb. (a) State the colour of flowers you would expect in their F1 generation plants. (b) What must be the
percentage of white flower plants in F2 generation if flowers of F1 plants are self-pollinated? (c) State the
expected ratio of the genotypes BB and Bb in the F2 progeny.
22. State the meaning of inherited traits and acquired traits. Which of the two is not passed on to the next
generation? Explain with the help of an example.

PREPARED BY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

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