Among fraternal twins, one baby is haemophilic while the baby's brother is normal. Which statement is true:
1.  Baby is male
2.  Baby is female
3.  Mother is heterozygous
4.  Mother is homozygous

Subtopic:  Mendelian Disorders: Hemophilia |
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AIPMT - 1999
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Minor change in a gene's structure is called:
1.  Reversible mutation
2.  Point mutation
3.  Forward mutation
4.  Backward mutation

Subtopic:  Mutation |
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AIPMT - 1999
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According to Mendelism which character is showing dominance:

1. Terminal position of the flower

2. Green colour in the seed coat

3. Wrinkled seed

4. Green pod colour

Subtopic:  Introduction to Genetics: 1 |
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AIPMT - 2000
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Which of the following is the correct match:

1. Down Syndrome = 21st Chromosome

2. Sickel cell anaemia = X – Chromosome

3. Haemophilia = Y – Chromosome

4. Parkinson Disease = X & Y Chromosomes

Subtopic:  Non - Disjunction & Aneuploidy |
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AIPMT - 2002
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Change in the sequence of nucleotides in DNA is called:

1. Mutagen

2. Mutation

3. Recombination

4. Translation

Subtopic:  Mutation |
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AIPMT - 2002
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Which of the following is the example of a sex-linked disease:

1. AIDS

2. Colour blindness

3. Syphilis

4. Gonorrhoea

Subtopic:  Sex Linked Recessive Inheritance |
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AIPMT - 2002
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A gene is said to be dominant if:

1. It expresses its effect only in the homozygous stage
2. It expresses only in heterozygous condition
3. It expresses both in homozygous and heterozygous conditions
4. It is never expressed in any condition
Subtopic:  Monohybrid Cross: Further Understanding |
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AIPMT - 2002
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Mangolian idiots are due to trisomy in the 21st chromosome is called:

1. Down's syndrome

2. Turner's syndrome

3. Kleinfelters syndrome

4. Triplex syndrome

Subtopic:  Non - Disjunction & Aneuploidy |
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AIPMT - 2000
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In Drosophila the XXY condition leads to femaleness whereas in human beings the same condition leads to Klinefelter's syndrome in males. It proves:

1. In human beings, the Y chromosome is active in sex determination.
2. Y chromosome is active in sex determination in both human beings and Drosophila.
3. In Drosophila Y-chromosome decides femaleness.
4. The Y chromosome of man has genes for the syndrome.
Subtopic:  Sex Aneuploidy - Turner & Klinefelter Syndrome |
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The linkage map of the X-chromosome of fruitfly has 66 units, with yellow body gene (y) at one end and bobbed hair (b) gene at the other end. The recombination frequency between these two genes (y and b) should be:

1. 60%

2. > 50%

3. ≤ 50%

4. 100%

Subtopic:  Recombination & Gene Mapping |
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AIPMT - 2003
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