Q&A/Class 10/Biology

• What is genetics? • Give the common name of the plant on which Mendel performed his experiments. • What for did Mendel use the term factors and what are these factors called now? • What are genes? Where are the genes located?

Class 10CBSEBiologyChapter: Heredity and Evolution
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  • Genetics: It is the branch of biology that deals with the study of heredity and variations.
  • Garden or Edible Pea.
  • Factors: They are particulate inheritable entities which control the expression of traits of a character, e.g, T for tallness, t for dwarfness. The factors are now called genes.
  • Genes: They are units of inheritance that take part in expression of particular characters. Genes are located over the chromosomes as linear segments.

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