Session: 2024-25

Grade – X BLOSSOM
Homework for Diwali Break
ENGLISH
Revise Literature
First Flight:
Ch- Madam Rides the bus & The Sermon at Banaras
Grammar - Practice Tenses based on 'Editing & Omissions'
Writing Skills - Practice Formal Letter & Analytical Paragraph
ASL - Prepare a Speech on 'Diwali Celebration' during holidays at home.
Hindi
Learn the Q/ A of Ch..1,2,3,4 ( Surdas ke Pd, Ram - Laxman- Parshuram
Samvad, Aatamkathay, Danturit muskan) Learn and Write..(Anuched) Cyber
Apradh

Physics

●Learn the activities of Chapter 12.

●Do practice of numericals of Chapter 9 and 11 from NCERT CHEMISTRY

Revise the class notes and previous year questions answers of

Chalter-4(Carbon and its compounds).

BIOLOGY

Solve the attached pdf on A4 size sheets.

Social Science

Learn Q/A of Ch- Print culture and the modern world, ch- Political parties.

Mathematics

Solve the Attached Assignment on A4 size sheets.

 Grade-X
Subject- BIOLOGY
HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK

What is the basic unit of heredity?

● A) Gene
● B) Chromosome
● C) DNA
● D) RNA

Which of the following is a homozygous genotype?

● A) Aa
● B) AA
● C) AB
● D) Aabb

In a Punnett square, what does each box represent?

● A) A parent
● B) An offspring's genotype
● C) A chromosome
● D) A gene

What is the phenotypic ratio of a monohybrid cross?

● A) 1:1
● B) 3:1
● C) 9:3:3:1
● D) 1:2:1

Which of the following pairs of alleles is heterozygous?

● A) BB
● B) Aa
● C) aa
● D) AAbb

Which scientist is known as the father of genetics?

● A) Charles Darwin
● B) Gregor Mendel
● C) Louis Pasteur
● D) James Watson

What is the term for different forms of a gene?

● A) Alleles
● B) Genotypes
● C) Phenotypes
● D) Chromosomes
If a trait is dominant, which genotype(s) can express that trait?
● A) Homozygous recessive
● B) Homozygous dominant
● C) Heterozygous
● D) Both B and C

What is the probability of getting a homozygous recessive offspring from a cross between two heterozygous parents
(Tt x Tt)?
● A) 0%
● B) 25%
● C) 50%
● D) 75%

What is the probability of getting a homozygous recessive offspring from a cross between two heterozygous parents
(Tt x Tt)?
● A) 0%
● B) 25%
● C) 50%
● D) 75%

Question answers

Q1. If a trait A exists in 10% of a population of an asexually reproducing species and a trait B ists in 60% of the same
population, which trait is likely to have arisen earlier?
Q2. How does the creation of variations in a species promote survival?
Q3. How do Mendels experiments show that traits may be dominant or recessive?
Q4. How do Mendels experiments show that traits are inherited independently?
Q5. A man with blood group A niarries a woman with blood group O and their daughter has blood group O. Is this information
enough to tell you which of the traits-blood group A or O dominant? Why or why not?
Q6. How the sex of the child determined in human beings?
Q7. A study found that children with light-coloured eyes are likely to have parents with light-coloured eyes. On this basis, can
we say anything about whether the light eye colour trait is dominant or recessive? Why or why not?
Q8. Outline a project which aims to nd the dominant coat colour in dogs.
Q9. Explain how sexual reproduction gives rise to more viable variations than asexual reproduction. How does this affect the
evolution of those organisms that reproduce sexually?
Q10. Give a dihybrid cross between pod shape and pod colour.
Q11. Why did Mendel choose pea plant for his experiments.
Q12. Give a monohybrid cross between axial and terminal owers.
Q13. De ne the following terms
A. Homozygous trait
B. Heterozygous trait
C. Gene
D. Allele
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 Session: 2024-25
Grade – X
Subject Mathematics
Assignment for Diwali Break

1. The difference of squares of two natural numbers is 45. The square of the smaller number is four times
the larger number. Find the numbers.
2. Using quadratic formula, solve the following for x:
9x2 – 3(a 2 + b 2)x + a2b 2 = 0
3. The sum of the squares of two consective odd numbers is 394. Find the numbers.
4.in the ratio in which the point P (3/4, 5/12) divides the line segment joining the points A (1/2, 3/2) and B
(2, -5)
5. If the coordinates of one end of a diameter of a circle are (2, 3) and the coordinates of its centre are ( -
2, 5), then what are the coordinates of the other end of the diameter? (CBSE 2012)
6. If a point A (0, 2) is equidistant from the points B (3, p) and C (p, 5), then find the value of p.
7. Prove that the points (7, 10), (-2,5) and (3,-4) are the vertices of an isosceles right triangle.
8. If tan A=b/a, where a and b are real numbers, find value of sin 2A .
9. If cosθ+sin θ=√2cosθ, show that cosθ-sinθ=√2sinθ .
10. Prove that Sinθ (1+tanθ)+cosθ (1+cotθ)=secθ+cosecθ
11. For what values of a and b does the following pair of equations have an infinite numbers of
solutions. 2x+3y=7, a(x+y)-b(x-y)=3a+b-2
12. For what value of k will the following equations have infinitely many solutions? 2x-3y=7, (k+1) x+
(1-2k) y=5k-4
13. The sum of denominator and numerator of a fraction is 3 less than twice the denominator. If each of
the numerator and denominator is denominator is decreased by 1, the fraction becomes 1/2. Find the
fraction.
14. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 12. The number obtained by interchanging the two digits
exceeds the given number by 18. Find the number.
15. Write the zeroes of the polynomial x 2 + 2x + 1.
16. Write the zeroes of the polynomial x 2 – x – 6.
17. Write a quadratic polynomial, the sum and product of whose zeroes are 3 and –2 respectively.
18. A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting a
black king?
19. What is the probability that two different friends have different birthdays? (ignoring leap year).
20. A box contains 3 blue, 2 white and 4 red marbles. If a marble is drawn at random from the box, what is
the probability that it will not be a white marble?
21. From a well-shuffled pack of cards, a card is drawn at random. Find the probability of getting a black
queen.
22. A bag contains 4 red and 6 black balls. A ball is taken out of the bag at random. Find the probability
of getting a black ball.
23. Find the missing frequencies when the mean of dats is 53. (CBSE 2008)

Age (in
0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 Total
years)

Number of
15 F1 21 F2 17 100
people
24. State and prove basic proportionality theorem.
25. L and M are two points on the sides DE and DF of the triangle DEF such that DL=4, LE=4/3, DM=6 and
DF=8. Is LM parallel to EF? Why?
26. Four equal circle are described about the four corners of a square so that each touches two of the
others, as shown in the figure. Find the area of the shaded region, each side of the square measuring 14
cm.
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27. In the figure, MN and PQ are teh arcs of two concentric circles of radii 7 cm and 3.5 cm respectively
and ∠MON = 30°. Find the area of the shaded region.
28. The following table gives production yield per hectare of wheat of 100 farms of a village.
Production yield Number of farms

40-45 4

45-50 6

50-55 16

55-60 20

60-65 30

65-70 24

29. The distribution below gives the weights of 30 students of a class. Find the mean and median weight
of students
Weight Number of students

40-45 2

45-50 3

50-55 8

55-60 6

60-65 6

65-70 3

70-75 2

30. The lengths of 40 leaves of a plant are measured correct up to the nearest millimetre and the data is
as under:
Length Number of leaves

118-126 4

126-134 5

134-142 10

142-150 12

150-158 4

158-166 5

Find the mean and median length of the leaves