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11.

The incorrect statement with regard to haemophilia is

  • It is a sex - linked disease

  • It is a recessive disease

  • It is dominant disease

  • It is dominant disease

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12.

If both parents are carriers for thalassemia, which is an autosomal recessive disorder, what are the chances of pregnancy resulting in an affected child?

  • No Chance

  • 50%

  • 25%

  • 25%

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13.

Which enzyme/s will be produced in cell in which there is a non-sense mutation in the lac Y gene?

  • beta - galactosidase

  • Lactose permease

  • Transacetylase

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14.

A gene showing codominance has:

  • One allele dominant on the other

  • alleles tightly linked on the same chromosome

  • alleles that are recessive to each other

  • alleles that are recessive to each other

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15.

The term "linkage" was coined by

  • T.H. Morgan

  • T. Bover

  • G. Mendel

  • G. Mendel

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16.

In the following human pedigree, the filled symbols represent the affected individuals. Identify the type of given pedigree. 

  • Autosomal dominant

  • X-linked recessive

  • Autosomal recessive

  • Autosomal recessive

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17.

A colour blind man marries a woman with normal sight who has no history of colour blindness in her family. What is the probability of their grandson being colour blind?

  • 0.5

  • 1

  • Nil

  • Nil

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18.

In his classic experiments on pea plants, Mendel did not use

  • Seed colour

  • Pod length

  • Seed shape

  • Seed shape

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19.

Fruit colour in squash is an example  of 

  • recessive epistasis

  • dominant epistasis

  • complementary genes

  • complementary genes


B.

dominant epistasis

Fruit colour is squash is an example of eominant cpistasis in which the dominant gene(epistatic gene) masks be to hide the effect of another gene (recessive hypostic gene). Squash fruit appear white due to the epistatic effect of 'W' allele (white colour) over 'G' allele (green colour)

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20.

A normal-visioned man whose father was colour-blind, marries a woman whose father was also colour-blind. They have their first child as a daughter. What are the chances that this child would be colour-blind?

  • 100%

  • 0%

  • 25%

  • 25%

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