Multiple Choice Questions

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Which one of the following can help in the diagnosis of a genetical disorder?

  • ELISA

  • ABO blood group

  • PCR

  • NMR


C.

PCR

PCR is a technique in which a small fragment of DNA is rapidly cloned or duplicated to produce multiple DNA copies. Thus, it helps in the diagnosis of a genetical disorder. This technique was conceived by American biochemist Kary B. Mullis.


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When paternal and maternal chromosomes change their materials with each other in cell division this event is called

  • synapsis

  • crossing over

  • bivalent forming

  • dyad- forming


The children of a haemophilic man and a normal woman are

  • all haemophilic

  • only daughters are haemophilic

  • only sons are haemophilic

  • neither sons nor daughters are haemophilic


2n - 1 condition is called

  • trisomy

  • monosomy

  • nullisomy

  • tetrasomy


If a plant having yellow or round seeds was crossed with another plant having green and wrinkled seeds then F, progeny are in the ratio

  • 15 : 1

  • 1 : 15

  • 1 : 13

  • all yellow and round seeds


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In which blood group antigen are absent

  • O

  • A

  • B

  • AB


A man of blood group 'A', marries a woman of blood group 'B', both of them are heterozygous for blood group, chances of their first child having blood group AB will be

  • 25%

  • 50%

  • 75%

  • 100%


Which of the following conditions represents a case of codominant genes

  • A gene expresses itself, suppressing the phenotypic effect of its alleles.

  • Genes that are similar in phenotypic effect when present separately, but when together interact to produce a different trait.

  • Alleles, both of which interact to produce a trait, which may or may not resemble either of the parental types.

  • Alleles, each of which produces an independent effect in a heterozygous condition.


A person who is trisomic for twenty first pair of chromosome suffers from

  • Klinefelter's syndrome

  • Down's syndrome

  • Turner's syndrome

  • None of the above


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2n-1 condition represent

  • tetrasomy

  • trisomy

  • monosomy

  • multisomy


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