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261.

Which of the following is a X-linked disease ?

  • Tetany

  • Colourblindness

  • Xeroderma

  • Hypertricosis


262.

The condition in which there are more than two complete set of chromosome is called :

  • polytene

  • monoploidy

  • polyploidy

  • aneuploidy


263.

In human the inheritance of sex linkage takes place through :

  • autosomes

  • Y - chromosome

  • X- chromosome

  • both 'b' and 'c'


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264.

Frameshift mutation occurs when

  • base is subsituted

  • base is deleted or added

  • anticodons are absent

  • none of these


B.

base is deleted or added

Frameshift mutation occurs when one or more nucleotides are either added r deleted from DNA. Eg.

Original (wild type) message or reading frame

CAT GAT CAT GAT CAT GAT CAT

After Deletion

CAT GAT ATG ATC ATG ATC AT

Message out of frame.


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265.

Pure line breed refers to

  • heterozygosity only

  • heterozygosity and linkage

  • homozygosity only

  • homozygosity and self assortment


266.

If a homozygous red flowered plant is crossed with a homozygous white flowered plant, the offspring would be

  • half red-flowered

  • all red-flowered

  • half white-flowered

  • half pink-flowered.


267.

The ratio in a dihybrid test cross between two individuals is given by

  • 2 : 1

  • 1 : 2 : 1

  • 3 : 1

  • 1 : 1 : 1 :1


268.

If an inheritable mutation is observed in a population at high frequency, it is referred as

  • DNA polymorphism

  • Expressed sequence tag

  • Sequence annotation

  • Linkage

  • Linkage


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269.

Multiple allelism is observed in

  • flower colour in Snapdragon

  • pod colour in Pisum sativum

  • haemophilia in man

  • sex determination in birds

  • sex determination in birds


270.

The graphical representation to calculate the probability of all possible genotypes of offsprings in a genetic cross was developed by

  • Gregor Mendel

  • Kornberg

  • Har Gobind Khorana

  • George Gamow

  • George Gamow


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