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Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolution Extra Questions

In this article, you will find Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity and evolution Extra Questions of  Biology. Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolutions Class 10 describes Heredity, laws of Inheritance, Mendel and Mentalism, the process of evolution and evidence, etc. you can solve these extra questions of chapter 9 after studying solutions of chapter 9 NCERT for class 10

Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolution Extra Questions
Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolution Extra Questions


In Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolution Extra Questions, you will find extra questions of the chapter and you will certainly practice them.

 

Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolution Extra Questions

 

 

Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolutions Extra Questions,  will be very helpful and useful in the context of your upcoming board examinations.


 Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolution Extra Questions


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CHAPTER- 9 - HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION

   

1.    What is heredity?


2.    What do you mean by genetics?


3.    What are acquired traits and inherited traits?


4.    If a trait A exists in 10% of a population of an asexually reproducing species and trait B exists in 60% of the same population, which trait is likely to have arisen earlier?


5.    How does the creation of variations in a species promote survival?


6.    What is the earlobe?


7.    What do you mean by dominant and recessive traits?


8.    On which plant did Mendel perform his experiment?


9.    Why did Mendel select pea plants for his experiments?


10. What is hybridization?


11. What do you mean by monohybrid cross?


12.  What do you mean by dihybrid cross?


13.  Name the laws based on monohybrid cross.


14. Name of the laws based on dihybrid cross.


15.  What is the phenotype and genotype ratio in a monohybrid cross?


16.  What is the phenotype and genotype ratio in dihybrid cross?


17.  Explain the experiment of the monohybrid cross done by Mendel.

 Give a suitable diagram.


18. Explain the experiment of the dihybrid cross done by Mendel.


19. How do Mendel’s experiments show that traits may be dominant or recessive?


20.  How is the sex of the child determined in human beings?


21. What are the different ways in which individuals with a particular trait may increase in a population?


22. Why are traits acquired during the lifetime of an individual not inherited?


23.  What factors could lead to the rise of a new species?


24.  Will geographical isolation be a major factor in the speciation of an organism that reproduces asexually? Why or why not?


25.  What are homologous and analogous organs? Give examples.


26. What are vestigial organs?


27.  State the pieces of evidence in support of organic evolution?


28. How the age of fossils is estimated?


29.  What is a fossil? How are they formed?


30.  Can a wing of a butterfly and the wing of a bat be considered homologous organs? Why or why not?


31. Why are human beings who look so different from each other in terms of size, colour and looks, said to be the same species?


32. Explain the importance of fossils in deciding evolutionary relationships?


33. How is the equal genetic contribution of male and female parents ensured in the progeny?


34. Describe the ‘laws of inheritance’ given by Mendel?


35. What is the botanical name of a garden pea?


36.   Describe the dihybrid cross experiment performed by Mendel?


37. How does the mechanism of heredity work?

                       Or

 How do the traits get expressed?


38. Name the organism that can change its sex.


39. Mention three features of fossils that help in the study of evolution.


40. How can you say that the sex of the child is determined by the father only?


41. What is evolution?


42. Describe the experiment done by Miller and Harold.


43. Who gave the theory of ‘Natural selection?


44.  Who suggested that life on the earth must have developed from simple inorganic molecules?


45.  Mention the information source of making proteins in the cell.


46. What do you mean by speciation?


47. What factors could lead to the rise of a new species?


48. Will geographical isolation be a major factor in the speciation of self-pollinating plant species? Why or why not?


49.  What is the basic event in reproduction?


50.  Will geographical isolation be a major factor in the speciation of an organism that reproduces asexually? Why or why not?


51. Why do all the gametes formed in human females have an X-chromosome?


52. What are homologous organs? Give an example.[annual exam -2011]


53. Explain sex determination in human beings with the help of a line diagram.[ Annual exam-2012]


54. A woman has only daughters. Is she responsible for this situation?


55. Explain the importance of fossils in organic evolution.[Annual exam -2013]


56.  Draw the diagram to obtain the ratio of F2 progeny, as a result, f crossing between tall pea plant (dominant) with short pea plant(recessive).[Annual exam-2013]

    

57. What is the observation in F2 generation if parental plants are pure tall and pure dwarf?


58.  What do you understand by biological hierarchy?


59. What do you mean by’ characteristics’?


60. State the pieces of evidence in support of organic evolution.


61. Name the fossil that is a link between birds and reptiles.


62. How evolution is related to hierarchy and classification?


63. Name the missing links which support the principle of organic evolution.


64. Describe different human races.


65. What tools are used to study the evolution of human beings?


66.  How homologous and analogous organs are helpful in the concept of organic evolution?


67.  State the importance of vestigial organs also.


68.  Trace out the evolution of Homo sapiens.


69.  Explain the abiogenesis theory of the origin of life.


70. Why are acquired traits not passed on to the next generation?


71.  Does a genetic combination of the mother play a significant role in determining the sex of the born child?


72. Why variations are beneficial to the species?


73.  Name the author of the book ‘The Origin of species’.


74. How can we know how old a fossil is?


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2.    Acids.Bases and Salts Extra Questions

3.    Metals and Non-Metals Extra Questions

4. Carbon and its Compounds

5. Periodic Classification of Elements

6. Life Processes

7. Control and Coordination

8. How Do Organisms Reproduce 

9. Heredity and Evolution

10.Light- Reflection and Refraction

11. The Human Eye and The Colourful World

12. Electricity

13. Magnetic Effects of Electric Current

14. Sources of Energy 

15. Our Environment

16. Management of Natural Resources


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