Question

(i) What is ‘genetics’?
(ii) Give the common name of the plant on which Mendel performed his experiments.
(iii) What for did Mendel use the term factors and what are these factors called now?
(iv) What are genes? Where are the genes located?
OR
(i) Who provided the evidence of DNA as a genetic material?
(ii) Why is DNA called as polynucleotide?
(iii) List the three important features of double helical model of DNA.

Answer 1

1. Genetics is the study of of heredity
2.pea
3.mendel use the term factors for genes.these are called alleles
4. Genes are segments of DNA or RNA which are responsible for characteristics features of a organisms
They are located on chromosomes inside the nucleus
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