Match the terms in Column-I with their description in Column-II and choose the correct option. 

	Column-I		Column-II
A.	Dominance	1.	Many govern a single character
B.	Codominance	2.	In a heterozygous organism, only one allele expresses itself
C.	Pleiotropy	3.	In a heterozygous organism, both alleles express themselves fully
D.	Polygenic inheritance	4.	A single gene influences many characters

 

	A	B	C	D
1.	2	3	4	1
2.	4	1	2	3
3.	4	3	1	2
4.	2	1	4	3

A cell at the telophase stage is observed by a student in a plant brought from the field. He tells his teacher that this cell is not like other cells at the telophase stage. There is no formation of a cell plate and thus the cell is containing more chromosomes as compared to other dividing cells. This would result in:

1. polyploidy

2. somaclonal variation

3. polyteny

4. aneuploidy

A colour-blind man marries a woman with normal sight who has no history of colour blindness in her family. What is the probability of their grandson being colour blind? (consider the grandsons only through son)

1. 0.5

2. 1

3. Nil

4. 0.25

In his classic experiments on pea plants Mendel did not use?

1. Seed color

2. Pod length

3. Seed shape

4. Flower position

A pleiotropic gene:

The movement of a gene from one linkage group to another is called:

Fruit colour in squash is an example of:

1. Recessive epistasis

2. Dominant epistasis

3. Complementary genes

4. Inhibitory genes

A man whose father was colour blind marries a woman who had a colour blind mother and a normal father. What percentage of male children of this couple will be colour blind?

1. 25%

2. 0%

3. 50%

4. 75%