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Question 11 Mark
In the F generation of a cross, progeny having different traits are produced in the ratio 3 : 1. State whether it is a monohybrid cross or a dihybrid cross? Give one example of such a cross.
Answer
It is a monohybrid cross.
Example: when two hybrids tall Pea plants cross bred with eachother, they will produce three tall plants and one dwarf plant in F generation.
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Question 21 Mark
State one characteristic which shows that the birds are very closely related to dinosaurs.
Answer
The presence of feathers on birds and dinosaurs shows that they are closely related to each other.
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Question 41 Mark
Name two organisms which are now extinct and studied from their fossils.
Answer
Dinosaurs and Archaeopteryx.
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Question 51 Mark
How does the creation of variation in a species ensure its survival?
Answer
Due to the creation of variations, a species can adjust to the changing environment around it. And this promotes the survival of the species in the changing environment.
Example: The accumulation of ‘heat resistant’ variation (or trait) in some bacteria will ensure its survival even when the temperature in its environment rises too much due to a heat wave or some other reasons. On the other hand, the bacteria which did not have this variation to withstand heat would not survive under these circumstances and die.
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Question 61 Mark
Write the names of at least three inorganic molecules which helped in the origin of life on the earth.
Answer
Methane, Ammonia and Hydrogen Sulphide.
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Question 71 Mark
If a normal human cell has 46 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will be there in a human
  1. Sperm cell.
  2. Zygote?
Answer
  1. 23.
  2. 46.
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Question 81 Mark
In a human, how many chromosmes are present in:an egg which has just been produced by the ovary?
Answer
23.
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Question 101 Mark
Some plants occur in one of the two sizes: tall or dwarf. This characteristic is controlled by Heredity and Evolutionone pair of genes. Tallness is dominant to dwarfness. Choose suitable letters for this gene
pair.
Answer
Tt.
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Question 121 Mark
Name one reptile in each case where higher incubation temperature leads to the development of:
  1. Male progeny.
  2. Female progeny.
Answer
  1. Lizard (Agama agama).
  2. Turtle (Chrysema Picta).
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Question 141 Mark
Name the first scientist who studied the inheritance of traits from one generation to the next.
Answer
Gregor Mendel.
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Question 151 Mark
Mendel said that the characteristics or traits of organisms are carried from one generation to the next by internal factors which occur in pairs. What is the modern name for these factors?
Answer
Genes.
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Question 161 Mark
In which animals, the feathers do not fulfill the purpose of flying?
Answer
Penguin: In penguin, the feathers present are mainly for the purpose of keeping the body of the animal warm. They can jump with the help of their feathers but cannot fly.
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Question 171 Mark
Choose the one term from the following which includes the other three:
broccoli, wild cabbage, cauliflower, cabbage
Answer
Wild cabbage.
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Question 181 Mark
Write the contribution of Charles Darwin in the field of 'evolution.'
Answer
  • Charles Robert Darwin gave the theory of evolution in his famous book ''The Origin of Species''.
  • The theory of evolution proposed by Darwin is known as ''The Theory of Natural Selection''.
  • This theory suggests that the best adapted organisms are selected by nature to pass on their characteristics to the next generation.
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Question 191 Mark
What is speciation?
Answer
Speciation may be defined as an evolutionary process, which involves the formation of one or more species from an existing species.
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Question 201 Mark
Give the scientific name of the plant used by Mendel in his genetical experiments.
Answer
Pisum sativum (garden pea) is the scientific name of the plant on which mendel performed his experiment.
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Question 221 Mark
Name the scientific terms used to represent the following:
The branch of biology which studies heredity and variation.
Answer
Genetics.
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Question 231 Mark
What is the genotype of.
  1. Dwarf plants, and
  2. Tall plants, whose parental cross always produces tall offspring?
Answer
  1. tt.
  2. TT.
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Question 241 Mark
The gene for red hair is recessive to the gene for black hair. What will be the hair colour of a person if he inherits a gene for red hair from his mother and a gene for black hair from his father?
Answer
Black hair.
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Question 261 Mark
A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding pea plants bearing violet flowers with pea plants bearing white flowers. What will be the result in $F _1$ progeny?
Answer
According to law of inheritance, the dominant character appears in the $F_1$ project. Among violet flowers and white flowers, the character of violet character is dominant. So, all the flowers in $F_1$ progeny will be violet.
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Question 271 Mark
Give a paleontological evidence of evolution.
Answer
Paleontology is the study of fossils. Fossils ( palaeontological evidences ) are the remains of dead organisms preserved in sedimentary rocks or other substances that lived in the remote past.
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Question 281 Mark
How are those species which are now ‘extinct’ studied?
Answer
Those species which are now extinct are studied by studying their fossils which are found during the digging of earth.
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Question 291 Mark
Where is DNA found in a cell?
Answer
Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus where it is called nuclear DNA, but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria where it is called mitochondrial DNA.
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Question 331 Mark
To where can the earliest members of the human species be traced to?
Answer
Homo erectus was considered as the first human type species which has an origination in Africa.
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Question 341 Mark
Which type of spherical mirror has a larger field of view?
Answer
Convex mirror is a spherical mirror has larger field of view in general (also depends upon the orientation). Otherwise cylindrical mirror which can give a view of its surrounding in 360 degrees.
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Question 351 Mark
Which type of nucleus is found in bacteria cell?
Answer
All living things can be divided into two types of cells: prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Eukaryotic cells have a nucleus and other cell structures that are bound by a distinct membrane.
Bacteria are like eukaryotic cells in that they have cytoplasm, ribosomes, and a plasma membrane. Features that distinguish a bacterial cell from a eukaryotic cell include the circular DNA of the nucleoid, the lack of membrane-bound organelles, the cell wall of peptidoglycan, and flagella.
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Question 361 Mark
Name the scientific terms used to represent the following:
Differences in a trait in human beings.
Answer
Variation.
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Question 371 Mark
If the 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?
Answer
B.
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Question 381 Mark
Name the scientific terms used to represent the following:
A recognisable feature of an organism.
Answer
Trait.
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Question 391 Mark
Write the scientific name imparted to the human species.
Answer
The scientific name given to human species is Homo sapiens.
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Question 401 Mark
A man having blood group O marries a woman having blood group B and they have a daughter. What will be the blood group of the daughter?
Answer
Equal chance of having blood group O or blood group B.
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Question 411 Mark
Give the respective scientific terms used for studying:
  1. The mechanism by which variations are created and inherited and
  2. The development of new type of organisms from the existing ones.
Answer
  1. Genetics is the mechanism by which variations are created and inherited.
  2. Evolution is used for studying the development of new types of organisms from the existing ones.
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Question 441 Mark
List any two properties of the elements belonging to the first group of the modern periodic table.
Answer
Elements of first group have one valence election each in their atoms.
All the elements of group 1 have the same valency of 1.
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Question 451 Mark
According to the evolutionary theory, what leads to the formation of a new species?
Answer
According to the evolutionary theory, formation of new species is generally due accumulation of variations over several generations. Variations help the organisms to adapt to the changes in environment and on accumulation of sufficient variations, new species are formed.
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Question 461 Mark
Who is considered as the father of genetics?
Answer
Gregor Mendel is considered a as the Father of Genetics. Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent.
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Question 471 Mark
Name an animal in which individuals can change sex. What does this indicate?
Answer
Snails: This indicates that sex is not determined genetically in some animals.
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Question 481 Mark
Write the scientific term for ‘Science of heredity and variation.’
Answer
Evolution is scientific term for variations and Genetics is the science that studies heredity.
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Question 491 Mark
The forelimbs of a frog, a bird and a man show the same basic design (or basic structure) of bones. What name is given to such organs?
Answer
Homologous Organs.
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Question 501 Mark
What is the human being with XY pair of chromosomes called?
Answer
In humans, each cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46. Twenty-two of these pairs, called autosomes, look the same in both males and females. The 23rd pair, the sex chromosomes, differ between males and females. Females have two copies of the X chromosome, while males have one X and one Y chromosome. Individuals having two X chromosomes (XX) are female; individuals having one X chromosome and one Y chromosome (XY) are male.
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