Question

(i) What is genetics? 

(ii) Give the common name of the plant on which Mendel performed its experiments. 

(iii) What for did Mendel use the term factors and what are these factors called now? 

(iv) Green and red coloured seeds are recessive and dominant trait respectively. Out of F₁ and F₂, in which generation will the green seed appear, if both parents are not hybrid.Green and red? 

(v) What is monohybrid cross?

Answer 1

(i) Science which deals with the study of heredity and variations is called genetic. 

(ii) Pea plant. 

(iii) Mendel used the term factors for ‘genes’. 

(iv) F₂ generation 

(v) When inheritance of only one character is studied during hybridisation is a called monohybrid cross.