Multiple Choice Questions

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Inheritance of ABO blood groups illustrates

  • polyploidy

  • multiple allelism

  • euploidy

  • dominance


D.

dominance

Inheritance of ABO blood groups is an example of multiple allelism. Multiple alleles are three or more alternative forms of genes or alleles occupying the same locus. Bernstein (1925) proposed that inheritance of ABO blood types of man is determined by a series of three allelomorphic genes IA, IB and i.


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Turner's syndrome chromosome pattern is:

  • XO

  • XXX

  • XYY

  • XXY


The main cause of Edward syndrome, Patau syndrome and Down syndrome is :

  • mutation of gene

  • change in both autosomes and heterosomes

  • change in autosomes

  • change in heterosomes


'Heterosis' is related to :

  • cloning

  • selection

  • hybridization

  • introduction


First geneticist, father of genetics was

  • de Vries

  • Mendel

  • Darwin

  • Morgan


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When a tall plant with rounded seeds (TTRR) is crossed with a dwarf plant with wrinkled seeds (ttrr), the F1 generation consists of tall plants with rounded seeds. How many types of gametes an F1 plant would produce ?

  • One

  • Three

  • Four

  • Eight


Sex determination in humans takes place by

  • sex chromosomes of father

  • measurement of sperm

  • measurement of ovum

  • sex chromosomes of mother


Crossing over in diploid organisms is responsible for

  • dominance of genes

  • linkage between genes

  • recombination of linked genes

  • segregation of alleles


The number of chromosomes in Klinefelter's syndrome are :

  • 47

  • 46

  • 45

  • 44


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The genotype of a man having female sexual characters will be :

  • XXY

  • XYY

  • XO

  • XXX


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