Principle of inheritance & Variation FM: 50
Class: XII
A. Short Answer Type Questions: 2 X 5= 10
Q.1. What is the cross known as when the progeny of F1 and a homozygous recessive plant is
crossed? State its advantage.
Q.2. What are the criteria for selecting organisms to perform crosses to study the inheritance
of a few traits?
Q.3. How are the alleles of a gene different from each other? What is its importance?
Q.4. How is a mutation induced by the mutagen? Explain with examples.
Q.5. Differentiate between dominance, co-dominance and incomplete dominance.
B. Short Answer Type Questions: 3X5= 15
Q.1. How is it possible for a child to have a blood group O if the parents have blood groups A
and B?
Q.2. Explain Down’s syndrome.
Q.3. A plant with yellow flowers was crossed with a plant with red flowers. The F1 progeny
obtained had orange flowers. What is the inheritance pattern?
Q.4. What is recombination? Mention its applications with reference to genetic engineering.
Q.5. Why does sickle-cell anaemia persist in the human population when it is believed that
the harmful alleles get eliminated from the population after a certain time?
C. Long Answer Type Questions: 5 X 2 =10
Q.1. A colour-blind father has a daughter with normal vision. The daughter marries a man
with a normal vision. What is the probability of her children to be colour blind? Explain with
the help of a pedigree chart.
Q.2. A tall plant with red flowers (dominant) is crossed with a dwarf plant with white flowers
(recessive). Work out a dihybrid cross and state the dihybrid ratio. What will be the effect on
the dihybrid ratio if the two genes are interacting with each other?
D. Very Short Answer Type Questions: 1 X 5= 5
[Link] autosome, hemizygous, homozygous, heterozygous & Back Cross?
Principle of inheritance & Variation FM: 50
Class: XII
1. In humans, sex is determined by _____
A. Sex chromosomes of the father B. Sex chromosomes of the mother
C. Quantity of sperm in the semen D. Size of egg to be fertilized
2. A gene showing codominance has
A. One allele dominant on the other B. Both alleles independently expressed in the
heterozygote C. Alleles tighty linked on the same chromosome D. Alleles that are
recessive to each other
3. In his classic experiment on peas, Mendel did not use
A. Seed shape B. Seed colour C. Pod Length D. all of the above
4. How many pairs of contrasting characters in pea plants were studied by Mendel in his
experiments?
A. 9 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7
5. A disease caused by an autosomal primary nondisjunction is
A. Turner’s syndrome B. Down’s syndrome
C. Klinefelter’s syndrome D. Sickle cell Anemia
6. The mechanism that causes a gene to move from one linkage group to another is called
A. Translocation B. Crossing over C. Duplication D. None of the above
7. A true breeding plant is ____
A. Always homozygous recessive in its genetic constitution
B. Produced due to cross-pollination among unrelated plants
C. One that is able to breed on its own
D. Near homozygous and produces offspring of its own kind
8. The incorrect statement with regard to haemophilia is ____
A. It is a dominant disease B. A single protein involved in the clotting of blood is affected
C. It is a recessive disease D. None of the above
9. A normal visioned man whose father was colourblind, marries a woman whose father was
also colourblind. They have their first child as a daughter. What are the chances that this child
would also be colourblind?
A. 0% B. 10% C. 50% D. 100%
10. Mutations can be induced with ____
A. Gamma radiations B. Infrared radiations C. Ethylene D. IAA