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

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Fossils are the preserved traces of organisms that lived in the past. Fossils
  •  give us the idea about the structure of organs/organisms
• the period of their existence
• the geographic location of the organisms
• the evolutionary relationship between the existing and the extinct species of the organism.
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  2. a] How many pairs of chromosomes are present in human beings? Out of t...

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  3. Define evolution. How does it occur? Describe how fossils provide us e...

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  4. Does geographical isolation of individuals of a species lead to format...

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  9. Give reasons why acquired characters are not inherited. NCERT Exemplar

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  10. Evolution has exhibited a greater stability of molecular structure whe...

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  11. In the following crosses write the characteristics of the progeny

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  13. Give the basic features of the mechanism of inheritance.

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  16. i] How does relative method help to determine the age of fossils? ii...

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  17. The plant bearing round yellow coloured (RrYy) seed are self pollinate...

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  18. What is evolution? Explain the three evidences for evolution.

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  19. a] How many pairs of chromosomes are present in human beings? Out of t...

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  20. Define evolution. How does it occur? Describe how fossils provide us e...

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  21. Does geographical isolation of individuals of a species lead to format...

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