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1. 1.

   What do you understand by the word 'genes'?

2. 2.

   Mention whether the following statements are true or false. Rewrite the false statements.

   1. Your genes come to you only from your parents.
   2. One's height and looks are not decided by one's genes.
   3. If a tall person marries a short person the children will be of medium height.
   4. Mendel proved such ideas were wrong.
3. 3.

   Why do you think Mendel chose Pea plants for his experiment?

4. 4.

   How did Mendel go about his experiments?

5. 5.

   When Mendel crossed plants with purple flowers with those white flowers ones, all the flowers were purple. Why?

6. 6.

   Replace the following dictionary definitions with single words from the passage.

   1. a feature or quality belonging typically to a person
   2. passed from parent to child
   3. joining or merging of different parts of qualities:
   4. all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively: