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Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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Ques. 1AIPMT 2002

If a diploid cell is treated with colchicine then it becomes : -

  1. Tetraploid
  2. Monoploid
  3. Diploid
  4. Triploid

Answer

(1) Tetraploid

Solution

Colchicine inhibits the formation of spindle fibres during cell division.

⇒ The chromosomes replicate and the chromatids separate, but they cannot move to the poles and the cell does not divide.

∴ The chromosome number doubles: 2n 4n, i.e. a diploid cell becomes tetraploid.

As per NCERT, failure of cytokinesis after telophase leads to an increase in a whole set of chromosomes, called polyploidy.

Answer: (1)

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Ques. 2AIPMT 2001

Two non-allelic genes produce the new phenotype when present together but fail to do so independently then it is called

  1. Polygene
  2. Complementary gene
  3. Non-complementary gene
  4. Epistasis
Ques. 3AIPMT 2001

A and B genes are linked. What shall be genotype of progeny in a cross between AB/ab and ab/ab?

  1. AABB and aabb
  2. None
  3. AaBb and aabb
  4. AAbb and aabb
Ques. 4AIPMT 2001

When dominant and recessive alleles express themselves together it is called

  1. Dominance
  2. Pseudo dominance
  3. Co-dominance
  4. Amphidominance
Ques. 5AIPMT 2001

Ratio of complementary genes is

  1. 9 : 3 : 4
  2. 9 : 7
  3. 12 : 3 : 1
  4. 9 : 3 : 3 : 4
Ques. 6AIPMT 2001

Independent assortment of genes does not take place when

  1. Genes are located on non-homologous chromosomes
  2. Genes are linked and located on same chromosome
  3. Genes are located on homologous chromosomes
  4. All the above
Ques. 7AIPMT 2001

Sickle cell anaemia is due to

  1. Change of amino acid in either or chain of haemoglobin
  2. Change of amino acid in chain of haemoglobin
  3. Change of amino acid in both and chain of haemoglobin
  4. Change of amino acid in chain of haemoglobin
Ques. 8AIPMT 2001

Number of Barr bodies in XXXX female is

  1. 3
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 4
Ques. 9AIPMT 2001

Male XX and female XY sometime occur due to

  1. Aneuploidy
  2. Deletion
  3. Transfer of segments in X and Y chromosomes
  4. Hormonal imbalance
Ques. 10AIPMT 2001

Probability of four sons to a couple is : -

  1. 116
  2. 18
  3. 14
  4. 132
Ques. 11AIPMT 2000

Due to the cross between TTRr × ttrr the resultant progenies showed how many percent plants tall, red flowered:

  1. 50%
  2. 100%
  3. 75%
  4. 25%

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