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Home · Schooling · CBSE · Class 12 · Biology · Ch 4

Principles of Inheritance and Variation

Chapter 4

CBSE Class 12 Biology

Mendel's laws, linkage, sex determination, mutations, pedigree.

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  1. 1Mendel's law of segregation:

  2. 2F2 generation ratio in monohybrid cross is:

  3. 3Down's syndrome is caused by:

  4. 4Sex determination in humans is XY-XX type, meaning male is:

  5. 5Haemophilia is:

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