Question

Class 10BiologyHeredity and Evolution
  • 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?

Verified Answer

  • 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.