Consider the given two statements:
Assertion (A): Male honeybees do not have father and thus cannot have sons, but have a grandfather and can have grandsons.
Reason (R): Male honeybees produce sperms by mitosis.
 
1. Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) correctly explains (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not correctly explain (A)
3. (A) is True but (R) is False
4. (A) is False but (R) is True

Subtopic:  Sex Determination: Further Considerations |
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Consider the given two statements:
Assertion: A sex linked recessive disorders is expected to be more common in males than in females.
Reason: Males are hemizygous for sex chromosomes.
1. Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason correctly explains Assertion
2. Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason does not correctly explain Assertion
3. Assertion is true but Reason is false
4. Assertion is false but Reason is true
Subtopic:  Sex Linked Recessive Inheritance |
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What is not true regarding Phenylketonuria?
1. It is inborn error of metabolism.
2. It is inherited as the autosomal recessive trait.
3. The affected individual lacks an enzyme that converts the amino acid tyrosine into phenylalanine.
4. Accumulation of phenylpyruvic acid in brain results in mental retardation.
Subtopic:  Mendelian Disorders |
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Consider the two statements:
Statement I: Thalassemia is a qualitative problem of synthesising an incorrectly functioning globin.
Statement II: Sickle cell anaemia is a quantitative problem of synthesising too few globin molecules while the latter.
1. Statement I is correct; Statement II is correct
2. Statement I is correct; Statement II is incorrect
3. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is correct
4. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is incorrect
Subtopic:  Mendelian Disorders: Thalassemia |
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Turner’s Syndrome:
I:  is an aneuploidy
II: causes infertility in affected females
III: does not affect the development secondary sexual characters in affected females
1. Only I and II are correct
2. Only I and III are correct
3. Only II and III are correct
4. I, II and III are correct
 
Subtopic:  Sex Aneuploidy - Turner & Klinefelter Syndrome |
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The cause of Klinefelter's syndrome in humans is : 
1. Absence of Y-chromosome
2. Absence of X-chromosome
3. Extra copy of an autosome
4. Extra copy of an X-chromosome
 
Subtopic:  Sex Aneuploidy - Turner & Klinefelter Syndrome |
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Select the incorrect pair : 
1. Polygenic inheritance Haemophilia
2.  Linkage Drosophila 
3. Incomplete dominance  Antirrhinum
4. Pleiotropy Phenylketonuria
Subtopic:  Polygenic Inheritance & Pleiotropy | Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance: Introduction | Linkage | Mendelian Disorders: Hemophilia |
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According to Mendel, the nature of the unit factors that control the expression of traits were : 
1. Stable 
2. Blending
3. Stable and discrete 
4. Discrete
 
Subtopic:  Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance: Introduction | Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance: Further Considerations |
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Which of the following animals exhibit male heterogamety?
(i) Fruit fly 
(ii) Fowl
(iii) Human
(iv) Honey bee
1. (i) and (iii) 
2. (ii) and (iv)
3. (ii) and (iii) 
4. (i) and (iv) 
Subtopic:  Sex Determination |
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The probability of all possible genotypes of offsprings in a genetic cross can be obtained with the help of :
1. Test cross 
2. Back cross 
3. Punnett square 
4. Linkage cross
Subtopic:  Monohybrid Cross: 1 | Monohybrid Cross: Further Understanding |
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