List any two characters of Pea plants used by Mendel in his experiments other than height of the plant and the colour of the seed.
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A cross between a tall plant (TT) and short pea plant (tt) resulted in progeny that were all tall plants because
(a) tallness is the dominant trait
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If a round, green seeded pea plant (RR yy) is crossed with wrinkled, yellow seeded pea plant, (rr YY) the seeds produced in F1 generation are
(a) round and yellow
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Give the pair of contrasting traits of the following characters in pea plant and mention which is dominant and recessive
(a) yellow — dominant green — recessive (b) round — dominant wrinkled — recessive
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Why did Mendel choose pea plant for his experiments?
(a) Easy to grow (b) Short life span (c) Easily distinguishable characters (d) Larger size of flower (e) Self pollinated
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A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers with short pea plants bearing white flowers.
(c) The genetic make-up of the tall parent can be depicted as TtWW Since all the progeny bore violet flowers, it means that the tall plant having violet flowers has...
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In one of his experiments with pea plants Mendel observed that when a pure tall pea plant is crossed with a pure dwarf pea plant,
(a) The dwarf traits of the plants is not expressed in the presence of the dominant tall trait. (b) In the F2 generation, both the tall and dwarf traits are present in...
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List any two characters of Pea plants used by Mendel in his experiments other than height of the plant and the colour of the seed
Flower colour / Flower position / Pod shape / Pod colour / Seed shape
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If we cross-bred tall (dominant) pea plant with pure bred dwarf (recessive) pea plant,
(i) Tall (ii) 3:1 (iii) Dwarf Reason: Being a recessive trait, dwarfness can only be expressed in the absence of dominant trait/ in its pure form.
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Why did Nlendel choose garden pea for his experiments ? Write two reasons. (ii) List two contrasting visitrle characters of garden pea
(i) Mendel choose garden pea for his experiments because : (a) Pea plant is small and easy to grow (b) A large number of true breeding varieties of pea plant are available. (c)...
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Among the following characters, which one was not considered by Mendel in his experiments on pea ?
The correct answer is (1) During his experiments Mendel have taken seven characters in a pea plant. In which nature of trichromes i.e., gladular or nonglandular was not considered by Mendel.
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