1. | Mutations destroy telomerase inhibitor |
2. | Mutations inactivate the cell control |
3. | Mutations inhibit the production of telomerase |
4. | Mutations in proto–oncogenes accelerate the cell cycle |
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:
1. | Is expressed only in primitive plants |
2. | Is a gene that evolved during Pliocene |
3. | Controls a trait only in combination with another gene |
4. | Controls multiple traits in an individual |
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
1. | 50% | 2. | 25 % |
3. | 100% | 4. | no chance |
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%
1. | XO type of sex chromosomes determines male sex in grasshopper |
2. | XO condition in humans as found in Turner syndrome, determines female sex |
3. | Homozygous sex chromosomes (XX) produce males in Drosophila |
4. | Homozygous sex chromosomes (ZZ) determine the female sex in birds. |
Sickle cell anaemia is:
1. | an autosomal linked dominant trait |
2. | caused by substitution of valine by glutamic acid in the globin chain of haemoglobin |
3. | caused by a change in base pair of DNA |
4. | characterized by elongated sickle like RBCs with a nucleus |