What is the basis of pleiotropy?

1. A spontaneous mutation during the replication of DNA.

2. Interrelationship between various metabolic pathways in the body.

3. Chromosomal aberration as chromosomes are the vehicles of genes.

4. the behaviour of chromosomes during meiosis or gamete formation.

Subtopic:  Polygenic Inheritance & Pleiotropy |
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A female whose father was colorblind marries and normal male whose father was also colorblind. What is the probablility that their daughter will be colorblind?

1. 0 %

2. 25 %

3. 50 %

4. 75 %

Subtopic:  Sex Linked Recessive Inheritance |
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In humans, the dominance relationship between the A and B alleles of ABO blood group gene is an example of

(1) complete dominance.

(2) incomplete dominance.

(3) codominance.

(3) epistasis

 

Subtopic:  Dominance Deviation from Mendel: 2 |
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One of the Mendel's pure strains of pea plants had green peas. How many different types of eggs could such a plant produce with regard to pea color?

1. 1

2. 2

3. 4

4. 8

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A woman receives her X chromosomes from:

1. Her mother only

2. Her father only

3. Both her mother and father 

4. Mitochondria of mother only

 

Subtopic:  Sex Determination |
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The insertion or deletion of a base pair into the genetic code will cause a frame shift mutation unless the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is:

(1) One

(2) Two

(3) three

(4) Ten

Subtopic:  Genetic Code: II | Genetic Code |
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A gene showing codominance has

(1) one allele dominant on the other

(2) alleles tightly linked on the same chromosome

(3) alleles that are recessive to each other

(4) both alleles independently expressed in the heterozygote

Subtopic:  Dominance Deviation from Mendel: 2 |
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In his classic experiments on pea plants, Mendel did not use

(1) seed colour

(2) pod length

(3) seed shape

(4) flower position

Subtopic:  Introduction to Genetics: 2 |
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How many pairs of contrasting characters in pea plants were studied by Mendel in his experiments?

(1) Five

(2) Six

(3) Eight

(4) Seven

Subtopic:  Introduction to Genetics: 2 |
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Which one from those given below is the period of Mendel's hybridisation experiments?

(1) 1856 - 1863

(2) 1840 - 1850

(3) 1857 - 1869

(4) 1870 - 1877

Subtopic:  Introduction to Genetics: 2 |
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