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Question 511 Mark
State one advantage of variation to a species.
Answer
The advantage of variation to a species is that it increases the chances of its survival in a changing environment.
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Question 521 Mark
Name the scientific terms used to represent the following:
The transmission of traits from parents to offspring.
Answer
Heredity.
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Question 551 Mark
One of the examples of two analogous organs can be wings of parrot and:
  1. Filler of whale.
  2. Foreleg of horse.
  3. Front leg of frog.
  4. Wings of housefly.
Answer
Wing of parrot and wing of housefly are analogous organs. Analogous organs perform the same function, but their origins are different. Wings of parrot and wings of a housefly perform the function of flying. But the parrot’s wings are originated from the mesoderm and are supported by bones while the housefly’s wings are ectodermal in origin are supported by the chitinous structures.
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Question 561 Mark
Name the information source for making proteins in the cells.
Answer
Cellular DNA is the information source for making proteins in cells.
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Question 571 Mark
Name two human traits which show variation.
Answer
Human height and free ear lobe are the traits which show variation in humans.
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Question 591 Mark
Out of the wing of a bird, wing of an insect and the wing of a bat:
  1. Which two are homologous organs?
  2. Which two are analogous organs?
Answer
  1. Wings of bird and wings of bat.
  2. Wings of birds and wings of insects.
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Question 601 Mark
What is a gene?
Answer
A gene is a unit of DNA on a chromosome which governs the synthesis of one protein that controls a specific character of an organism. Thus genes are actually units of heredity which transfer characteristics from parents to their offsprings during reproduction.
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Question 611 Mark
State whether the following statement is true or false: The sex of an infant is not a case of inheritance of characteristics.
Answer
False.
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Question 621 Mark
What is heredity?
Answer
Heredity is the process by which features and characteristics are passed on from parents to their children before the children are born.
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Question 631 Mark
State whether the following statement is true or false:
Human beings have evolved from chimpanzees.
Answer
False.
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Question 641 Mark
Which of the processes, sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction, brings about maximum variations in the offsprings?
Answer
Sexual Reproduction.
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Question 651 Mark
Name five varieties of vegetables which have been produced from ‘wild cabbage’ by the process of artificial.
Answer
Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kohlrabi and Kale.
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Question 661 Mark
Name the plant Mendel selected for his experiments on genetics.
Answer
Organisms used by Mendel for his experiments was Pisum sativum. The common name for this plant is sweet pea.
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Question 681 Mark
State the unit of hereditary material found in all living organisms.
Answer
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person's body has the same DNA.
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Question 721 Mark
What do you understand by the term ‘variation’?
Answer
The differences in the characters among the individual of a species is called variation.
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Question 731 Mark
What will you get in the F and F generations in the following cross? Pure tall pea plant x Pure dwarf pea plant.
Answer
In the F generation, all plants produced will be tall and in F generation three tall plantsand one dwarf plant will be produced.
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Question 741 Mark
What type of plants were used by Mendel for conducting his experiments on inheritance?
Answer
Pea plants.
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Question 751 Mark
Identify male and female in the figures given below. Also fill in the blank 3 to 8 and then clarify about the misconception that mother and not father is responsible for bearing daughters and not sons.
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Question 761 Mark
What name is given to the sequence of gradual changes over millions of years in which new species are produced?
Answer
Evolution.
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Question 771 Mark
What is meant by ‘heredity’? What are the units of heredity.
Answer
The transmission of characters from parents to the offspring’s is called heredity. The units of heredity are genes.
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Question 781 Mark
What sizes of plants are produced if both parents have genes Tt?
Answer
Three tall plants and one dwarf plant.
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