Multiple Choice Questions

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Chromosomes are arranged along the equator during

  • Prophase

  • Metaphase

  • Anaphase

  • Telophase


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Telophase

In plant cells, during metaphase chromosomes line up around the equator of the spindle and attached by their centromere to the spindle fibres (microtubules). In animal cells, during metaphase, smaller chromosomes are usually central in position with larger ones peripheral in position.


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Given below is a sample of portion of DNA strand given the base sequence on the opposite strand. What is so special show in it?

5’−GAATTC….3’

3’−CTTAAG … 5’

  • Detection mutation

  • Start codon at 5′ end

  • The palindromic sequence of base pairs

  • Replication completed


 Development of an embryo without fertilization is called as

  • Apomixis

  • Polyembryony

  • Parthenocarpy

  • Parthenogenesis


In animals normally which organism has a maximum number of chromosomes?

  • Butterfly

  • Elephant

  • Hermit crab

  • Chimpanzee


Tow genes R and y are located very close on the chromosome linkage map on maize plant. When RRYY and rryy genotypes are hybridized, then F2 segregation will show

  • Higher number of the recombinant types

  • Segregation with expected 9:3:3:1 ratio

  • Segregation is 3:1 ratio

  • Higher number of the parental types


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A fern differs from a moss in having

  • Swimming archegonia

  • Swimming antherozoids

  • Independent gametophytes

  • Independent sporophytes


The mobile genetic element is

  • Transposon

  • Mutation

  • Endonuclease

  • Variation


During meiosis-I, the bivalent chromosomes clearly appear as tetrads during

  • Diakinesis

  • Diplotene

  • Pachytene

  • Zygotene


Phage genome site on bacterial chromosome resulted in the structure

  • Nucleic acid

  • Heterocyst

  • Prophage

  • None of these


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A point mutation where guanine is replaced by cytosine is also called

  • Frameshift mutation

  • Transition mutation

  • Translocation mutation

  • Transversion mutation


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