Home
Class 10
BIOLOGY
How do Mendel’s experiments show that tr...

How do Mendel’s experiments show that traits are inherited independently?

Text Solution

AI Generated Solution

To answer the question of how Mendel's experiments show that traits are inherited independently, we can break down the explanation into a series of steps: ### Step-by-Step Solution: 1. **Introduction to Mendel's Work**: - Gregor Mendel, known as the father of genetics, conducted experiments using pea plants to study inheritance patterns of traits. 2. **Understanding Traits**: ...
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • CONTROL AND COORDINATION

    NCERT ENGLISH|Exercise Exercise|26 Videos
  • HOW DO ORGANISMS REPRODUCE ?

    NCERT ENGLISH|Exercise Exercise|23 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

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

List two visible traits of garden pea that Mendel considered in his experiments. How do Mendel's experiments show that traits may be dominant of recessive?

Mendel experiments had a large sampling size.

Read the all statements carefully : (i) Mendel conducted artificial pollination/cross pollination experiments using several true breeding pea line (ii) True breeding having underogone continuous self pollination, show stable trait inheritance (iii) Mendel selected 14 true breeding pea plant varieties.

Mendel chose contrasting traits in Pea

Read the following statements regarding Mendelian inheritance and choose the correct option 1. Mendel's experiments had samll sample size which gave greater credibility to the data 2. A true breeding line shows a stable trait inheritance and expression for several generations 3. In a dissimilar pair of factors, one member of the pair dominates over the other 4. A recessive parental trait is expressed only in its heterozygous condition 5. Two alleles of a gene are located on homologous sites on homologus chromosomes

A true breeding line is one that, having undergone continuous self pollination, shows the stable trait inheritance and expression for several generations,

In Mendel's experiments, tall pea plants (T) are dominant over dwarf pea plants (t). State Mendel's Law of Dominance.

List in tabular form two differences between acquired traits and inherited traits

NCERT ENGLISH-HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION-Exercise
  1. How does the creation of variations in a species promote survival?

    Text Solution

    |

  2. How do Mendel’s experiments show that traits may be dominant or recess...

    Text Solution

    |

  3. How do Mendel’s experiments show that traits are inherited independent...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. A man with blood group A marries a woman with blood group O and their ...

    Text Solution

    |

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

    Text Solution

    |

  6. What are the different ways in which individuals with a particular tra...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. Why are traits acquired during the life-time of an individual not inhe...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. Why are the small numbers of surviving tigers a cause of worry from th...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. What factors could lead to the rise of a new species?

    Text Solution

    |

  10. Will geographical isolation be a major factor in the speciation of a s...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. Will geographical isolation be a major factor in the speciation of an ...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. Give an example of characteristics being used to determine how close t...

    Text Solution

    |

  13. Can the wing of a butterfly and the wing of a bat be considered homolo...

    Text Solution

    |

  14. What are fossils? What do they tell us about the process of evolution

    Text Solution

    |

  15. Why are human beings who look so different from each other in terms of...

    Text Solution

    |

  16. In evolutionary terms, can we say which among bacteria, spiders, fish ...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. An example of homologous organs is

    Text Solution

    |

  18. In evolutionary terms, we have more in common with

    Text Solution

    |

  19. A study found that children with light-coloured eyes are likely to hav...

    Text Solution

    |

  20. How are the areas of study – evolution and classification – interlinke...

    Text Solution

    |