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Question 1

Individuals with Down syndrome have

______ copies of chromosome 21.

A One

B Two

C Three

D Four

Question 2

Which of the followings is a well

known autosomal abnormality at
birth?

A Klinefelter syndrome

B Patau syndrome

C Down syndrome

D Turner syndrome

Question 3

Mendel's principle of segregation

means that the germ cells always
receive

A One pair of alleles

B One quarter of the genes

 C One of the paired alleles

D Any pair of alleles

Question 4

The inactivated X chromosome is

referred to as a _____ body.

A Nuclear

B Barr

C Polar

D Golgi

Question 5

The genotype of a plant showing the

dominant phenotype can be
determined by

A Back cross

B Test cross

C Dihybrid cross

D Pedigree analysis

Question 6

What is the pattern of inheritance

called in which phenotype is
influenced by many genes?
 A Polygenic inheritance

B Epistasis

C Monohybrid cross

D Dihybrid cross

Question 7

Select the incorrect statement from

the following?

Baldness is a sex-limited
A trait

Linkage is an exception to
the principle of
B independent assortment
in heredity

Galactosemia is an inborn
C error of metabolism

Small population size

D results in random genetic

drift in a population

Question 8

Which one of the followings is

assigned an uppercase letter?

A Superior allele

B Dominant allele

C Inferior allele
 D Mutant allele

Question 9

The exchange of segments of non-

sister chromatids between
chromosomes of a homologous pair
is termed

A Transformation

B Translocation

C Crossing over

D Chromosomal aberration

Question 10

In blood group typing in human, if an

allele contributed by one parent is IA
and an allele contributed by the other
parent is i, the resulting blood group
of the offspring will be

A A

B B

C AB

D O

Question 11

An individual who has two different

alleles of a gene is called ______.
 A Allelopathic

B Homozygous

C Heterozygous

D Codominant

Question 12

The genotype is called a ______ when

a person is heterozygous at two
different loci.

A Trihybrid

B Dihybrid

C Monohybrid

D Mutant

Question 13

Haploids are more suitable for

mutation studies than the diploids.
This is because

All mutations, whether

A dominant or recessive are

expressed in haploids

Haploids are

B reproductively more stable

than diploids
 Mutagens penetrate in

C haploids more effectively

than is diploids

Haploids are more

D abundant in nature than

diploids

Question 14

The genetic defect-adenosine

deaminase (ADA) deficiency may be
cured permanently by

Enzyme replacement
A therapy

Periodic infusion of
genetically engineered
B lymphocytes having
functional ADA cDNA

Administering adenosine
C deaminase activators

Introducing bone marrow

cells producing ADA into
D cells at early embryonic
stages

Question 15

Which one of the following cannot be

explained on the basis of Mendel’s
Law of Dominance?

A Factors occur in pairs

 The discrete unit

B controlling a particular
character is called a factor

Out of one pair of factors

C one is dominant, and the

other recessive

Alleles do not show any

blending and both the
D characters recover as
such in F2 generation

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