Principles of Inheritance and Variations

Multiple Choice questions

1. Downs syndrome is caused due to
a. Monosomy of 21
st
b. Disomy of 21
chromosome
st
c. Trisomy of 21
chromosome
st
d. An extra X chromosome in female
chromosome

Answer: c.

2. X shaped structure
a. Chiasma
b. Gene
c. DNA
d. RNA

Answer: a.

3. What type if allele produces its effects only in
homozygous individuals?
a. Recessive
b. Dominant
c. Incomplete recessive
d. None of the above

Answer: a.
4. In male fruit flies white eyes are determined by a
a. Recessive gene on Y
b. Recessive gene on X
c. Dominant gene on X
d. Dominant gene on Y

Answer: b.

5. When alleles move into different gametes, it shows the

a. Dominance
b. Incomplete dominance
c. Segregation
d. Crossing over

Answer: c.

6. Mendels experimental plant is

a. sweet pea
b. garden pea
c. sweet potato
d. wild pea

Answer: b.

7. The ABO blood groups in human is the example for

a. dominance
b. recessive
c. Incomplete dominance
d. Codominance

Answer: d.

8. Turners syndrome is caused due to

a. presence of extra X chromosome in male
b. absence of one of the X chromosome in male
c. absence of one of the X chromosome in female
d. Presence of one extra chromosome in female.

Answer: c.

9. Langdon Down first reported the disease called

a. Downs syndrome
b. Klinefelters syndrome
c. Turners syndrome
d. Sickle cell anemia

Answer: a.

10. Sickle cell anemia caused by the presence of mutant
allele in ----chromosome

a. seventh
b. eighth
c. tenth
d. eleventh

Answer: d.

11. Symptom of Turners syndrome are

a. webbed neck
b. sterility
c. poor development of breasts
d. All the above.

Answer: d.

12. One map unit is equal to -----percent of recombination

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

Answer: a.

13. Genotype Tt represents the phenotype of

a. tall
b. dwarf
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above.

Answer: a.

14. ----proposed the chromosomal theory of the inheritance

a. Sulton
b. Boveri
c. Down
d. Both a and b
e. Both a and c

Answer: d.

15. ----pairs of chromosomes are present in drosophila fly.
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5

Answer: c.

16. What is the characteristic shape of the Y chromosome in
drosophila?
a. Y
b. X
c. J
d. L

Answer: c.

17. Find the dominant character in pisum sativum

a. constricted pod
b. Inflated pod
c. Wrinkled
d. Dwarf

Answer: b.

18. How many autosomes are found in a single mature
human sperm.

a. 20
b. 21
c. 22
d. 23

Answer: c.

19. --------is the phenotypic and genotypic ratio of
incomplete dominance.

a. 1: 1: 1
b. 1: 2: 1
c. 1:2:2
d. 2:2:2

Answer: b.

20. Find the Mendelian disorders that are sex linked.
a. Haemophilia
b. Colour blindness
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above.

Answer: c.

21. Who was the first map to chromosomes?

a. Alfred Sturtevant
b. Slton
c. Down
d. Mendel

Answer: a.

22. Female has-----chromosome

a. XX
b. XY
c. XXY
d. YYY

Answer: a.

23. Genetics is the study of

a. variation
b. inheritance
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above

Answer: c.

24. Genetic constitution of an organism

a. Phenotype
b. Genotype
c. Dihybrid
d. Monohybrid

Answer: b.


25. Different forms of gene

a. chromosome
b. alleles
c. linkage
d. all the above

Answer: b.