(a) What is meant by 'heredity'? What are the units of heredity? (b) State Mendel's first law of inheritance.
BiologyClass 10ICSEAnswered 27 Mar 2026
Answer
- The transmission of characters from the parents to their offsprings is called Genes are the units of heredity which transfer characteristics from parents to their offsprings during reproduction.
- Mendel's first law of inheritance states that the characteristics of an organism are determined by internal factors which occur in pairs. Only one of a pair of such factors can be present in a single
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