NCERT Solutions for Chapter: Principle of Inheritance and Variation, Exercise 3: SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

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Why is the frequency of red-green colour blindness is many times higher in males than that in the females?

HARD
12th CBSE
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If a father and son are both defective in red-green colour vision, is it likely that the son inherited the trait from his father? Comment.

HARD
12th CBSE
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Discuss why Drosophila has been used extensively for genetical studies.

MEDIUM
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How do genes and chromosomes share: similarity from the point of view of genetical studies?

HARD
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What is recombination? Discuss the applications of recombination from the point of view of genetic engineering.

HARD
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What is artificial selection? Do you think it affects the process of natural selection? How?

HARD
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With the help of an example, differentiate between incomplete dominance and codominance.

HARD
12th CBSE
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It is said, that the harmful alleles get eliminated from population over a period of time, yet sickle cell anaemia is persisting in human population. Why?