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CH 9 Assignment 2

This document is an assignment for Class X Science at Delhi Public School, Bopal, Ahmedabad, focusing on the topic of heredity. It includes a series of questions related to genetic concepts such as heterozygosity, test crosses, sex-linked traits, and Mendelian genetics. The assignment requires students to apply their understanding of genetics to answer questions and solve problems related to inheritance patterns and variations.

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CH 9 Assignment 2

This document is an assignment for Class X Science at Delhi Public School, Bopal, Ahmedabad, focusing on the topic of heredity. It includes a series of questions related to genetic concepts such as heterozygosity, test crosses, sex-linked traits, and Mendelian genetics. The assignment requires students to apply their understanding of genetics to answer questions and solve problems related to inheritance patterns and variations.

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DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL- BOPAL, AHMEDABAD

CLASS – X SCIENCE
CHAPTER 9: HEREDITY
ASSIGNMENT (Level-2)

Answer The Following Questions:


1. Which of the following is Heterozygous?
a) TTRR b) ttrr c) TT d) Tt
2. A heterozygous red-eyed female Drosophila mated with a white-eyed male would produce
a) red-eyed females and white-eyed males in the F1
b) white-eyed females and red-eyed males in the F1
c) half red and half white-eyed females and all white eyed males in the F1
d) half red and half white-eyed females as well as males in the F1
3. Which of the following is a Test Cross?
a) TT # tt b) Tt # tt c) Tt # TT d) tt # tt
4. If two parents have the genotypes AA # aa, the probability of having an aa genotype in the F, generation is-
a) 25 percent b) 50 percent c) 75 percent d) None of the above
5. Eye color in the fruit fly is said to be sex-linked. This simply means that the gene for eye colour is:
a) on the Y chromosome b) on an auto some
c) on the X and Y chromosomes d) on the X chromosome
6. Which statement is true for a dominant allele?
a) It cannot undergo mutation
b) It gives a greater chance of survival than a recessive allele
c) It gives the same phenotype in heterozygotes and homozygotes
d) It is only responsible for male characteristics
7. Why do all the gametes formed in human females have an X chromosome?
8. Study the following cross and showing self-pollination in F1, fill in the blank. What are the combinations of
character in the F2 progeny? What are their ratios?
Parents RRYY x rryy
Round, yellow wrinkled, green
F1 Rr Yy x ?
Round, yellow ? ______________
9. Give reasons for the appearance of new combinations of characters in the F2 progeny.
10. Define Variations. Mention an event during asexual reproduction that gives rise to variations in
daughter organisms.
11. Assuming that both parent plants in the diagram below are homozygous, answer the following
questions:

a). Why would all of the F1 generation have yellow phenotypes?


b). Write the Genetic expression of F1 individuals.
c). Explain the 3:1 ratio of F2 generation.
d). Mention a well labeled Genotypic ratio of F2 generation.
12. What will be the result in F1 generation when a homozygous white male rabbit is crossed with a
homozygous black female rabbit? (Black is dominant trait). Show the cross also.
13. What will be the appearance of (a) F1 and (b) F2 progenies when a pure (homozygous) violet flower
pea plant is crossed with a pure (homozygous) white flower pea plant?
14. A long neck yellow giraffe (T t Y y), mates with a short neck orange giraffe (t t y y)
_________________ x _______________
Gametogenesis: ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ _____ ______
Fill in the Punnett Square

Possible phenotypes
Long/Yellow______: Long Orange ______: Short/Yellow ______: Short/Orange______
15. Imagine that you are a rabbit breeder with two purebred rabbits, a male with black fur and a female
with tan fur. When you cross your rabbits, all of the F1 kits (baby rabbits) have tan fur. Which trait is
dominant and which is recessive?
16. When a plant homozygous for tall is crossed with a plant homozygous for dwarf, what will be the
appearance of the off springs of a cross of F1 with its tall parent?
17. Answer questions a to d on the basis of your understanding of the following paragraph and related
studied concepts.
In diploid organisms having separate sexes, a specific pair of chromosomes in each diploid cell
determines the sex of the individual. All other chromosomes have genes which control the body
(somatic) characters. The two members of each pair of homologous autosomes are similar in size
and shape, but this may not be true of pair of chromosomes that determine the sex. Different
organisms have definite pair of chromosomes bearing genes in each diploid cell. The sex of the new
born is determined at the time of fertilization when male and female gametes fuse to form the
zygote.
a) What terms do we commonly used for pair of chromosomes that determine the sex and other that
bear genes which control somatic characters?
b) Why do we call male in humans as heterogametic?
c) Give one example where sex determination is regulated by environmental factors.
d) Which combinations of sex chromosomes produces a male and female child?
Q. 18 to 22 are Assertion Reason Type Questions. Two statements are given – one labelled
Assertion (A) and the other labelled Reason (R). Select the correct answer to the following
questions from the codes a), b), c) and d) as given below:
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of the assertion.
b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
c) A is true, but R is false.
d) A is false, but R is true.
18. Assertion: Acquired characters are non-inheritable.
Reason: Acquired characters generally affect the somatic cells and it is the germ cells that are passed
on to the next generation.
19. Assertion: A gamete contains a single allele for each trait.
Reason: During gametogenesis, the two alleles of each trait segregate, one passing into each gamete
at random.
20. Assertion: A geneticist crossed a pea plant having violet flowers with a pea plant with white flowers;
he got all violet flowers in first generation.
Reason: White colour gene is not passed on to the next generation.
21. Assertion: The sex of the children will be determined by chromosome received from the father.
Reason: A human male has one X and one Y-chromosome.
22. Assertion: Mendel chose a number of varieties of garden pea as plant material for his experiments.
Reason: Garden pea has well defined characters and was bisexual.
23. 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 F2 generation if flowers of F1 plants are
self-pollinated?
c) State the expected ratio of the genotypes BB and Bb in the F2 progeny.
24. Mendel crossed pea plants that produced round seeds with those that produced wrinkled seeds and
self-fertilized the progeny. In the F2, he observed 5474 round seeds and 1850 wrinkled seeds. Using
the letters W and w for the seed texture alleles, diagram Mendel’s crosses, showing the genotypes of
the plants in each generation. Are the results consistent with the Principle of Segregation?
25. Explain the different strategies used by living beings to determine the sex of the organism.

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