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Heredity - Evolution — Syllabus

Telangana Board · Class 10 · Biology

Heredity - Evolution topics: Variations and Heredity, Mendel and Pea Plant Experiments, Mendel’s Seven Contrasting Characters, plus 1 more.

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4 Topics · Telangana Board Class 10 Biology · 2026-27

Topics in Heredity - Evolution

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1. Variations and Heredity

  • Variations are differences in characters within very closely related groups of organisms.
  • Variations may arise during sexual reproduction and also due to errors in DNA copying.
  • Some variations are inherited and passed to the next generation.
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2. Mendel and Pea Plant Experiments

  • Gregor Johann Mendel is known as the Father of Genetics.
  • Mendel started working on inheritance of variations in 1857.
  • He was an Austrian monk and carried out experiments in a monastery garden.
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3. Mendel’s Seven Contrasting Characters

  • Flower colour: purple is dominant and white is recessive.
  • Flower position: axial is dominant and terminal is recessive.
  • Seed colour: yellow is dominant and green is recessive.
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4. Sex Determination in Human Beings

  • Each human cell contains 23 pairs or 46 chromosomes.
  • Out of these, 22 pairs are autosomes and 1 pair is sex chromosomes or allosomes.
  • Autosomes do not differ in number or morphology between males and females.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Heredity and Evolution

VariationMendel and inheritanceGenes and DNASex determinationChromosome theory of heredityEvolutionLamarckism and Weismann's experimentDarwinism

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Key topics in Heredity - Evolution include Variations and Heredity, Mendel and Pea Plant Experiments, Mendel’s Seven Contrasting Characters, Sex Determination in Human Beings. Study these first, then practise questions on each for the Telangana Board Class 10 board exam.
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