G10-BIOLOGY WORKSHEET ON HEREDITY

1. Select the group which shares maximum number of common characters.

(a)two genera of two families; (b)two species of a genus; (c) two genera of a family;
(d) two individual of a species
2. Two pea plants one with round green seeds (RRyy) and another with wrinkled yellow (rrYY) seeds
produce F1 progeny having round yellow (RrYy) seeds. When F 1 plants are selfed, the F2 progeny will have
the following combination of characters.
(a) 15:1; (b) 9:3:3:1; (c) 9:3:4; (d) 12:3:1
3. What is monohybrid cross?
4. What are autosomes and sex chromosomes?
5. Name the scientist who gave the Principles of Inheritance
6. Which of the following is not correct- (a) for every hormone there is a gene (b) for every protein there is
a gene (c) for production of every enzyme there is a gene (d) for every molecule of fat there is a gene
7. Who coined the term ‘gene’?
8. What are dominant genes?
9. If a round green seeded pea plant (RRYY) is crossed with wrinkled yellow seeded pea plant (rryy) the
seeds to be produced in F1 generation will be: (a) Wrinkled yellow; (b) round green; (c) wrinkled green (d)
round yellow
10. The genetic constitution of an organism is called
11. Write the scientific name of the plant on which Mendel carried out his experiment
12. How many autosome are present in human sperm?
13. Two pink coloured flowers on crossing results in 1red, 2pink, and 1white flower progeny. The nature of
the cross is
(a) Cross pollination; (b) self pollination; (c) double fertilization; (d) no fertilization
14. Mendel proposed that every character is controlled by-
(a) 1 factor; (b) 2 factors; (c) 1 chromosome; (d) 2chromosomes
15. Who is called father of genetics?
16. Genetics is the study of
17. What is heredity?
18. What are Mendelian factors?
19. A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers with short pea plant
bearing white flowers. The progeny obtained all bore violet flowers but almost half of them were short. This
suggest that the genetic makeup of the tall parental can be depicted as:
(a) TTWW; (b) TTww; (c) TtWW; (d) TtWw
20. What happened when Mendel crossed two traits of a character in a pea plants?
21. A normal pea plant bearing coloured flowers suddenly start producing white flowers. What could be the
possible cause
22. Mention any two recessive traits of garden pea.
23. Mendel crossed a pure white recessive pea plant with a dominant pure red flowered plant. What will be
the F1 generation?
24. Why males are called heterogametic?
25. What is the percentage possibility a couple of having daughters?
26. Why acquired traits are not inherited?
27. How do the two factors for a character, present in diploid cells, behave at the time gamete formation?
28. Give the pair of contrasting traits of the following characters in plant and mention which one is
recessive and dominant? (a)Yellow seed; (b) round seed
29. Mention the compliment of a sperm and the egg which will determine the birth of female child.
30. What is emasculation? Why is it done?
31. What is gene? Where are genes located?
32. How many contrasting characters did Mendel see in garden pea? Give any two of them.
33. What is phenotypic ratio obtained by Mendel by monohybrid cross? Answer with the help of diagram.
34. How is the chromosome number restored in zygote?
35. What are variations? Give their types
36. Differentiate between autosome and allosome
37. What will be the sex of the embryo if an egg is fertilized by the sperm having (a)22+X (b)22+Y
38. Mention two sources of variation.
39. What is monohybrid and dihybrid cross? Give one example of each
40. Why did Mendel Choose pea plant for his experiment?
41. If a 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?
42. Why are traits acquired during the life-time of an individual not inherited?
43. When Mendel crossed a Tall plant with a dwarf plant, no medium height plants were obtained in F
generation. Why?
44. What will be the blood group of offspring’s produced by the parents having following genotype-
I o I A x I A IB
45. A woman with blonde curly hair married a man with black soft hair. All of their children in first
generation had black soft hair but in next generation children had different combinations in the ratio of
9:3:3:1.State the law that governs this expression.
46. Only variation that confer an advantage to an individual organism will survive in a population. Do you
agree with this statement? Why or Why not?
47. State three laws of Mendel
48. Describe how the sex of the offspring is determined in the zygote in human beings?
49. Give difference between diploid and haploid
50. Write similarities between Mendelian’s factors and gene.
51. How does the creation of variations in a species promote survival?
52. How do Mendel’s experiments show that traits may be dominant or recessive?
53. How do Mendel’s experiment shows that traits are inherited independently?
54. A man with blood group A marries a woman with blood group O and their daughter has blood group O.
Is this information enough to tell which of the traits-blood group A or O is dominant? Why or Why not?
55. A study found that children with light-coloured eyes are likely to have parents with light coloured eyes,
can we say anything about whether the light eye colour trait is dominant or recessive? Why or Why not?
56. Explain how sexual reproduction gives rise to more viable variations than asexual reproduction. How
does this affect the evolution of those organisms that reproduce sexually?
57. The gene type of green stemmed tomato plant is denoted as GG and that of purple stemmed tomato
plant as gg when these two are crossed (i) what color of stem would appear in F1 generation (ii) Give the
percentage of purple stemmed plant if F1 are self pollinated (iii) In what ratio would you find the gene
types GG and Gg in the F2 generation.
58. Study the given data and answer the questions following the data:
Parental plant cross fertilized F1 first generation F2 offsprings of self pollination of F1
and seeds collected offsprings
Male parents always bare red 330 seeds sown and Out of 44 seeds 33 seeds gave plants
flowers. Female parent always had observed. All 330 gave red with red flowers and 11 seeds gave
white flowers flowers plants with white flowers
(i) What is the term for this type of cross?
(ii) What does the data of the column marked F1 indicate?
(iii) Express the gene type of the (a) parents (b) F1 progeny (c) F2 progeny
59. (i) Who provided the evidence of DNA as genetic material?
(ii) Why DNA is called polynucleotide?
(iii) List three important features of double helical model of DNA
59. Give the basic features of the mechanism of inheritance
60. Outline a project which aims to find the dominant coat colour in dogs
61. which of the following is heterozygous? TTRR, ttrr, TT, Tt
62. The genotype of offspring formed from Ttxtt will be: TT&tt, Tt&tt, only tt, only TT
63. A recessive homozygous is crossed with a heterozygous of the same gene. What will be the phenotype of
the F1?
64. If a tall pea plant is crossed with a pure dwarf pea plant then, what percentage of F1 & F2 will be tall?
65. A homozygous dominant guinea pig with black fur is crossed with homozygous guinea pig with white
fur. The F1 generation is crossed with itself. What % of F2 generation is expected to show a white fur coat?
66. Two pea plants one with round green seeds (RRyy) & another with wrinkled yellow (rrYY) seeds
produce F1 progeny that have round, yellow (RrYy) seeds. When F1 plants are selfed, the F2progeny will
have a new combination mention it.
67. A heterozygous red-eyed female drosophila mated with white eyed male would produce
68. 9:3:3:1 ratio is due to _______
69. Mustard was growing in two fields A &B. While field A produced brown coloured seeds, while field B
produced yellow-coloured seeds. It was observed that in A the offspring showed only the parental trait for
consecutive generations, whereas in B, the majority of the offsprings showed a variation in the progeny.
What are the probable reasons for these?
70. pooja has green eyes while her parents & brother have black eyes. Pooja’s husband ravi has black eyes
while his mother has green eyes & father has black eyes: (a) based on the given information, green eye
colour dominant or recessive. Justify. (b) wt is the possible genetic makeup of pooja’s brother’s eye colour?
(c)wt is the probability that the offspring of pooja & ravi will have green eyes? Also, show the inheritance of
eye colour in the offspring with cross. (d) 50% of the offspring of pooja’s brother are green-eyed. With the
help of cross show how this is possible.