CHAPTER – 4 – PRINCIPLE INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
1. Who is known as the father of genetics ?
2. What is the term for the physical appearance of a character ?
A) Genotype B) Phenotype. C) Allele D) Gene
3. A person with the genotype XC X is –
A) Colourblind male c) Colourblind female
B) Colourblind carrier female d) Homozygous female
[Link] to law of ................... the phenotype appears in F1 hybrid
progeny is dominant and which does not appear is recessive .
5. What is the term for the crossing of an individual with with a homozygous
recessive individual?
A) Test cross. B) Back cross.
C) Dihybrid cross. D) Monohybrid cross
6. What is the term for the phenomenon where two alleles have an equal
effect on the phenotype of progeny
A) Dominance B) pleiotropic
C) Co-dominance D) Incomplete dominance
7. What is the term for the phenomenon where a single gene affects
multiple phenotype ?
A) Pleiotropy. B) Polygenic inheritance
C) phenocopy. D) Dominance
8. The phenotype ration of f2 generation in dihybrid cross is -
A) 3:1 b) [Link] c) [Link] d) [Link]
9. Which statement is correct for haemophilia ?
A) females can be affected if they’re homozygous for the defect
B) females can never be carrier
C) It is X – linked dominant disease
D) It is a chromosomal disorder.
10. The less the distance between two genes on same chromosome more will
be parental character – (True /False)
11. . The study of heredity and variation is known as.......
12. Which law states that alleles separate during gamete formation.
13 .Match the following –
A) Klinfelter syndrome - ABO blood group
B) Downs syndrome. – Mirabilis jhalapa
C) Phenylketonuria - Drosophila
D) Turners syndrome. – 44 + XXY
E) Incomplete dominance - underdeveloped ovary
F) Multiple allele. – trisomy of 21
G) T. H. Morgan. - mendelian disorder
14. Crossing over occurs between –
A) Sister chromatid B) Non- sister chromatid
C) DNA and RNA C) All chromosome.
15. The ratio of F2 generation in co – dominance ........
16. ....A.. located on ...B....and .....B.... is found inside...C.... of eukaryotic
cell .
I) A – DNA , B – Gene , C – Chromosome
II) A – Gene , B – RNA ,C – Nucleus
Iii) A -Gene ,B – Chromosome , C – Nucleus
IV) A – Allele , B – Gene , C- Chromosome
17. Write any one similarity between gene and chromosome.
[Link] determination in birds is –
A) XX – XO B) ZZ- ZW. C) XX- XY D) XY – ZW
19. The number of chromosomes is female honey bee is ..... And in male
honey bee is ......
20. A colour blind man has colour sister in normal brother then genotype of
father is ......... and mother.........
21. Crossing over in diploid organisms is responsible for
a) Dominance of gene b) linage between gene
c) Recombination of linked gene. D) A and B
22. The symbol of empty circle used in pedigree analysis represents - a)
Normal male b) Normal female.
c) Sex unspecified. D) None
23. Change in single base pair of DNA is .................
24. A Colourblind father will transfer this defective gene to his son .(True
/False)
25. Aneuploidy is defined as –
a) Increase in whole set of chromosomes
b) Failure of cytokinesis after telophase
c) Gain or loss of chromosomes
d ) all of these