Multiple Choice Questions

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Non-coding sequences of DNA are:

  • exon

  • intron

  • rhizoids

  • cistron


A.

exon

A segment of DNA that is both transcribed into RNA and translated into protein is called exon whereas the segment of DNA that is transcribed from eukaryotic DNA but removed before the mature m-RNA is translated into protein is called Introns.


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Jumping genes in maize were discovered by:

  • Hugo de Vries

  • T.H. Morgan

  • Barbara McClintock

  • Mendel


Innitiation codon is :

  • AUG

  • UUU

  • UAG

  • AAG


Mutations which alter nucleotide sequence within a gene are :

  • frame shift mutations

  • base pair substitutions

  • both 'a' and 'b'

  • none of these


Which organism was used by Beadle and Tatum to proposed one gene-one enzyme hypothesis ?

  • E. coli

  • Nostoc

  • Drosophila

  • Neurospora


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Lac is obtained from :

  • Laccifer

  • Bombyx

  • Dactylopius

  • Lytta


A point mutation comprising the substitution of a purine by pyrimidine is called

  • transition

  • translocation

  • deletion

  • transversion


Wobble hypothesis was given by

  • R.W. Holley

  • M. Nirenberg

  • H.G. Khorana

  • F.H.C. Crick


Assertion : Clones are a group of organisms of identical genotype, produced by a single parent through asexual means.

Reason : Clones exhibit high genetic variations.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both the assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


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Assertion : Plasmids are double stranded extrachromosomal DNA.

Reason : Plasmids are possessed by eukaryotic cells.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both the assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false.

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


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