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Heredity - Evolution

Telangana Board · Class 10 · Biology

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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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