Give the common name of the plant on which Mendel performed his experiments.
What for did Mendel use the term factors and what are these factors called now?
What are genes? Where are the genes located?
Class 10BiologyHeredity and Evolution
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Genetics: It is the branch of biology that deals with the study of heredity and variations.
Garden or Edible Pea.
Factors: They are particulate inheritable entities which control the expression of traits of a character, e.g, T for tallness, t for dwarfness. The factors are now called genes.
Genes: They are units of inheritance that take part in expression of particular characters. Genes are located over the chromosomes as linear segments.