Question 3.

Assertion (A) : The sex of a child in human beings will be determined by the type of
chromosome he/she inherits from the father.
Reason (R) : A child who inherits ‘X’ chromosome from his father would be a girl
(XX), while a child who inherits a ‘Y’ chromosome from the father would be a boy
(XY).
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of the assertion (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of the assertion
(A).
(c) (A) is true, but (R) is, false.
(d) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (2020)
Question 4

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? (2018)
Question 5.
Name the information source for making proteins in the cells. (Delhi 2014)
Question 6.
What is a gene? (AI 2014)
Question 7.
What is heredity? (AI 2014)
Question 8.
Why is the progeny always tall when a tall pea plant is crossed with a short pea
plant? (Foreign 2014)
Question 10.
(a) Why did Mendel carry out an experiment to study inheritance of two traits in
garden pea?
(b) What were his findings with respect to inheritance of traits in F 1 and F2
generation?
(c) State the ratio obtained in the F2 generation in the above mentioned experiment.
(2020)
Question 11.
A green stemmed rose plant denoted by GG and a brown stemmed rose plant
denoted by gg are allowed to undergo a cross with each other.
(a) List your observations regarding :
(i) Colour of stem in their F1 progeny
(ii) Percentage of brown stemmed plants in F2 progeny if plants are self pollinated.
(iii) Ratio of GG and Gg in the F2 progeny.
(b) Based on the findings of this cross, what conclusion can be drawn? (2020)
Question 12.
(a) Why is the F1 progeny always of tall plants when a tall plant is crossed with a
short pea plant?
(b) How is F2 progeny obtained by self-pollination of F1 progeny different from F1
progeny? Give reason for this observation.
(c) State a conclusion that can be drawn on the basis of this observation. (2020)
Question 13.
Name the plant Mendel used for his experiment. What type of progeny was obtained
by Mendel in F1 and F2 generations when he crossed the tall and short plants? Write
the ratio he obtained in F2 generation plants. (Delhi 2019)
Question 14.
How did Mendels experiments show that different traits are inherited independently?
Explain. (Delhi 2017)
Question 15.
How did Mendel explain that it is possible that a trait is inherited but not expressed in
an organism? (AI 2017)
Question 16.
In one of his experiments with pea plants Mendel observed that when a pure tall pea
plant is crossed with a pure dwarf pea plant, in the first generation, F 1 only tall plants
appear.
(a) What happens to the traits of the dwarf plants in this case?
(b) When the F, generation plants were self- fertilised, he observed that in the plants
of second generation, F2 both tall plants and dwarf plants were present. Why it
happened? Explain briefly. (Delhi 2016)
Question 17.
How did Mendel interpret his result to show that traits may be dominant or
recessive? Describe briefly. (Delhi 2016)
Question 18.
In a monohybrid cross between tall pea plants (TT) and short pea plants (tt) a
scientist obtained only tall pea plants (Tt) in the F1 generation. However, on selfing
the F1 generation pea plants, he obtained both tall and short plants in F 2 generation.
On the basis of above observations with other angiosperms also, can the scientist
arrive at a law? If yes, explain the law. If not, give justification for your answer. (Delhi
2016)
Question 20.
With the help of an example justify the following statement: “A trait may be inherited,
but may not be expressed.” (AI 2016)
Question 21.
List two differences in tabular form between dominant trait and recessive traits.
What percentage/proportion of the plants in the F2 generation/progeny were round,
in Mendel’s cross between round and wrinkled pea plants? (Foreign 2016)
Question 22.
Explain Mendel’s experiment with peas on inheritance of characters considering only
one visible contrasting character. (Foreign 2016, 2014)
Question 23.
“It is a matter of chance whether a couple will have a male or a female child.” Justify
this statement by drawing a flow chart. (Foreign 2015)
Question 25.
A cross was made between pure breeding pea plants, one with round and green
seeds and the other with wrinkled and yellow seeds.
(a) Write the phenotype of F1 progeny. Give reason for your answer.
(b) Write the different types of F2 progeny obtained along with their ratio when F1
progeny was selfed. (Delhi 2014, Delhi 2013C)
Question 26.
(a) Mendel crossed tall pea plants with dwarf pea plants in his experiment. Write his
observations giving reasons on the F1 and F2 generations.
(b) List any two contrasting characters other than height that Mendel used in his
experiments in pea plants. (Delhi 2014)
Question 29.
A blue colour flower plant denoted by BB is cross-bred with that of white colour
flower plant denoted by bb.
(a) State the colour of flower you would expect in their F1 generation plants.
(b) What must be the percentage of white flower plants in F 2 generation if flowers of
F1 plants are self-pollinated?
(c) State the expected ratio of the genotypes BB and Bb in the F 2 progeny. (Delhi
2012)
Question 30.
If we cross pure-breed tall (dominant) pea plant with pure-breed dwarf (recessive)
pea plant we will get pea plants of F1 generation.
If we now self-cross the pea plant of F1 generation, then we obtain pea plants of F2
generation.
(a) What do the plants of F1 generation look like?
(b) State the ratio of tall plants to dwarf plants in F2 generation.
(c) State the type of plants not found in F1 generation but appeared in F2 generation,
mentioning the reason for the same. (AI 2012)
Answer:
Question 32.
How is the sex of the child fixed during the fertilisation, step in human beings?
Explain. (Foreign 2011)
Question 33.
How do Mendels experiments show that
(a) traits may be dominant or recessive?
(b) inheritance of two traits is independent of each other? (Delhi 2017)
Question 34.
(a) Why did Mendel choose garden pea for his experiments ? Write two reasons.
(b) List two contrasting visible characters of garden pea Mendel used for his
experiment.
(c) Explain in brief how Mendel interpreted his results to show that the traits may be
dominant or recessive. (Foreign 2016)
Question 35.
Give the respective scientific terms used for studying:
(a) the mechanism by which variations are created and inherited and
Question 50.
(a) What is the law of dominance of traits? Explain with an example.