Principles of Inheritance and Variation

Lack of independent assortment of two genes A and B in fruit fly Drosophila is due to

1. Linkage
2. Recombination
3. Repulsion
4. Crossing over

One of the parents of a cross has a mutation in its mitochondria. In that cross, that parent is taken as a male. During segregation of F2 progenies that mutation is found in -

1. 50% of the progenies
2. 1/3 of the progenies
3. None of the progenies
4. All the progenies

A normal woman, whose father was colour-blind is married to a normal man. The sons would be :-

1. All colour-blind
2. 75% colour-blind
3. All normal
4. 50% colour-blind

The recessive genes located on X-chromosomes in humans are always -

1. Expressed in females
2. Sub-lethal
3. Expressed in males
4. Lethal

After a mutation at a genetic locus the character of an organism changes due to the change in :-

1. Protein synthesis pattern
2. RNA transcription pattern
3. DNA replication
4. Protein structure

In a mutational event, when adenine is replaced by guanine, it is a case of -

1. Frameshift mutation
2. Transition
3. Transversion
4. Transcription

Which one of the following traits of garden pea studied by Mendel was a recessive feature?

1. Green seed colour
2. Green pod colour
3. Axial flower position
4. Round seed shape

The genes controlling the seven pea characters studied by Mendel are now known to be located on how many different chromosomes?

1. Six
2. Seven
3. Five
4. Four

Two crosses between the same pair of genotypes or phenotypes in which the sources of the gametes are reversed in one cross, is known as:

1. Reciprocal cross
2. Reverse cross
3. Test cross
4. Dihybrid cross

Pattern baldness, moustaches and beard in human males are examples of:

1. Sex limited traits
2. Sex influenced traits
3. Sex determining traits
4. Sex linked traits