Multiple Choice Questions

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One of the following is sex-influenced character

  • Appearance of beard

  • Baldness in male

  • Docile behaviour of female

  • Low BMR in female


B.

Baldness in male

D.

Low BMR in female

Inheritance of pattern baldness in man is an example of sex-influenced trait which is dominant in males and recessive in females.


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Which of the following represents Klinefelter's syndrome?

  • XX

  • XO

  • XY

  • XXY


9: 3: 3: 1 ratio is modified to 9 : 7 ratio due to

  • complementary gene

  • epistatic gene

  • hypostatic gene

  • supplementary gene


Indicate, the inheritance of which of the following is controlled by multiple alleles?

  • Colourblindness

  • Sickle cell anaemia

  • Blood group

  • Phenylketoneuria


Down's syndrome occurs as a result of

  • trisomy

  • tetrasomy

  • autopolyploidy

  • allopolyploidy


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The map distance between the genes A and B is 3 units, between B and C is 10 units and between C and A is 7 units. The order of the genes in a linkage map constructed on the above data would perhaps be

  • A, B, C 

  • A, C, B

  • B, C, A

  • B, A, C


A person with the sex chromosomes XXY suffers from :

  • Down's syndrome

  • Turner's syndrome

  • Gynandromorphism

  • Klinefelter's syndrome


Which of the following conditions is related to haemophilia?

  • A responsible recessive gene present in the X-chromosome

  • A responsible dominant gene presentin the X-chromosome

  • A responsible dominant gene present in the Y-chromosome

  • A responsible dominant gene present in the autosomal chromosome


Which one of the following conditions in chromosome number is called monosomy?

  • 2n + 1

  • 2n + 2

  • 2n - 1

  • 2n - 2


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The absence of which clotting factor leads to haemophilia-A?

  • Factor VII

  • Factor VIII

  • Factor IX

  • Factor X


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