Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolution

NCERT Solutions for class 10 science chapter-9 Heredity and Evolution

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The heredity and Evolution chapter brings the interesting concept of genes and how are they passed from parents to offspring. The chapter talks in detail about Gregor Mendel and his experiments with Pea by which he discovered the laws of genetics. The chapter discusses Laws of dominance, segregation and independent assortment. We also learn how to use the Punnet square to solve genetic crosses and discuss the phenotypic and genotypic ratios. Further, the chapter explores the idea of evolution and details Darwin's idea of Natural Selection and speciation. We understand various pieces of evidence of evolution- fossils, homology, analogous traits, embryological similarity, and biogeographical cues. We talk briefly about human evolution.

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