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1. Polygenic inheritance of human skin colour was first (a) Males are smaller than females
studied by (b) It has a short life cycle
(1) Nilsson-Ehle (2) Bateson and Punnett (c) It has smaller number of morphologically distinct
(3) Davenport (4) Morgan and Sturtevant chromosomes
2. Geneticist observed that two completely linked genes (d) It is found over ripe fruits.
do not segregate independently of each other in Which features are considered suitable for
dihybrid cross. In such a condition, F2 ratio deviated experimental genetics?
very significantly from the (1) (a), (c) and (d) (2) (b) and (c)
(1) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1 to 9 : 6 : 1 (3) (b), (c) and (d) (4) (a) and (c)
(2) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1 to 3 : 1 12. In honey bee males are
(3) 3 : 1 to 9 : 3 : 3 : 1 (1) Diploid
(4) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1 to 1 : 2 : 1 : 2 : 4 : 2 : 1 : 2 : 1 (2) Infertile
3. T.H. Morgan found Drosophila melanogaster very (3) Parthenogenetically produced
suitable experimental material for discovering the (4) Produced by worker bees
basis of genetic variation due to all, except 13. Mark the statement incorrect for chromosomal theory
(1) Laboratory culture in simple synthetic medium of inheritance.
(2) Life-span is one to two days (1) Both chromosomes and genes retain their number
(3) Single mating produce a large number of progeny and individuality throughout the life of an
flies organism
(4) The male and female flied are easily (2) Chromosomes are carriers of Mendelian factors
distinguishable which segregate and assort independently during
4. In which of the following pairs of organism, the male meiosis
and female individuals have same number of (3) The two alleles of a gene pair are located on
chromosomes? homologous sites of non-homologous
(1) Human being and grasshopper chromosomes
(2) Grasshopper and Drosophila (4) A gamete carries only one chromosome of a type
(3) Birds and human being and one of two alleles of a gene
(4) Birds and honey bees 14. Genes responsible for eye and body colour in
Drosophila are present on
5. Two genes w + and m+ on X-chromosome shows (1) Two different autosomes
37.2 percent recombination. Accordign to Sturtevant, (2) The same chromosomes
the distance between these two genes are (3) An autosome and a X-chromosome respectively
(1) 62.8 cM (2) 1.3 cM (4) Both X and Y-chromosomes
(3) 37.2 cM (4) 98.7 cM 15. Butterfly is different from grasshopper as each
6. In which of the following organisms, sperm will somatic cell of the former has
decide the sex of progenies? (1) Only one sex chromosome in male individual
(1) Drosophila (2) Birds (2) Two sex chromosomes in female individual
(3) Moths (4) Butterfly (3) Only one sex chromosome in female individual
7. In grasshopper, the male sex in progeny is decided by (4) Only autosomes in male individual
(1) Ova with (A + X) genotype 16. Relationship between Mendelian factors and
(2) Sperm with (A + X) genotype chromosomes was found by
(3) Sperm with (A + O) genotype (1) Sutton and Boveri
(4) Sperm with (A + Z) genotype (2) Morgan and Sturtevant
8. Most frequent skin colour seen in a human population (3) Bateson and Punnett
is (4) Johannsen
(1) Dark 17. A gene which hides/masks the action of another gene
(2) Fairly light is termed as
(3) Very light (1) Dominant gene (2) Epistatic gene
(4) Intermediate skin colour (3) Hypostatic gene (4) Duplicate gene
9. Term recombination was proposed by 18. There are seven phenotypes of skin colour in man.
(1) Morgan (2) Sturtevant Which phenotype is more frequent than others?
(3) Mendal (4) Hugo de Vries (1) Fairly dark (2) Light
10. Term ‘X-body’ was given by (3) Mulatto (4) Dark
(1) Henking (2) Stevens 19. How many linkage groups are present in human
(3) Carl Correns (4) A.H. Sturtevant male?
11. Some feature of Drosophila are given below (1) 22 (2) 23

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(3) 24 (4) 46
20. Which of the following is sex influenced trait?
(1) Milk glands in females
(2) Short index finger in males
(3) Antlers in male deer
(4) Brilliant plumage in pea-cock
21. In which of the following organism the female will
determine the sex of the progeny?
(1) Grasshopper (2) Drosophila
(3) Birds (4) Dioscorea
22. The F2 dihybrid phenotypic ratio of complimentary
genes is
(1) 9 : 6 : 1 (2) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1 (1) 89.5% (2) 98.7%
(3) 9 : 7 (4) 15 : 1 (3) 62.8% (4) 96.4%
23. Mark the incorrect pair (w.r.t. sex determination) 30. The number of linkage groups in a sperm of
(1) XX – XY type – Melandrium Drosophila and a sperm of human is respectively
(2) XX – XO type – Moth (1) 4; 24 (2) 3; 23
(3) XX – XY type – Humans (3) 4; 23 (4) 3; 24
(4) ZO – ZZ type – Butterflies 31. Law of independent assortment is applicable to
24. All of the following were the reasons for use of (1) Closely linked genes
Drosophila as ideal material for genetic studies, (2) Distantly located genes on same chromosome
except (3) Two genes present on different chromosomes
(1) It can be grown in simple synthetic medium (4) Both (2) & (3)
(2) Male is larger than female 32. The phenotypic ratio in the F2 generation of
(3) Easily observable hereditary variations were
polygenic inheritance dealing with two pairs of
present
polygenes is
(4) Single mating produces large number of
(1) 1 : 2 : 1
progenies
(2) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1
25. The distance between genes for eye colour and wings
(3) 1 : 4 : 6 : 4 : 1
in Drosophila is
(4) 1 : 6 : 15 : 20 : 15 : 6 : 1
(1) 1.3% (2) 62.8%
(3) 37.2% (4) 98.7% 33. Two white flowered sweet pea plant (Ccpp  ccPp)
26. TDF gene is the smallest gene in humans which is were crossed. Find the probability of coloured to
colourless flowered plants in their progeny.
present on
(1) Chromosome-7 (2) Chromosome-1 (1) 9 : 7 (2) 1 : 4
(3) X-chromosome (4) Y-chromosome (3) 1 : 3 (4) 1 : 15
A B
27. Who developed graphical representation to calculate 34. I and I alleles for blood group system account for
the probability of all possible genotypes of offsprings ______ and ______ sugars respectively.
in a genetic cross? (1) Glucose; Galactose
(1) Gregor Mendel (2) R.C. Punnett (2) N-acetyl glucosamine; Galactose
(3) T.H. Morgan (4) Bateson (3) N-acetyl galactosamine; Galactose
28. ________ united the knowledge of chromosomal (4) Glucose; N-acetylgalactosamine
segregation with Mendelian principles. 35. Read the following
(1) Morgan (2) Sturtevant (a) Eye colour in Drosophila
(3) Sutton (4) Boveri (b) Coat colour in rabbit
29. In the dihybrid cross conducted by Morgan (given (c) Self incompatibility in Nicotiana
below) the percentage of parental type of progeny in (d) Starch grain size in pea
F2 generation was How many of the above characters are controlled by
multiple alleles?
(1) Four (2) One
(3) Two (4) Three
36. Which of the following cannot be a reason for use of
Drosophila as ideal material for genetic studies?
(1) Can grow in simple synthetic medium
(2) Male is larger than female
(3) Easily observable hereditary variations
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(4) Single mating produces large number of 44. A. H. strutevant suggested that recombination
progenies frequencies are useful in
37. Read the following statements and choose the correct (1) Predicting the sequence of genes on
option. chromosomes
A. Males generally function as carriers of sexlinked (2) Introducing homozygosity
disorders. (3) Inducing transversions
B. Mothers passes the alleles of a sex-linked traits to (4) Inducing transitions
daughters only.
(1) Both A and B are correct
(2) Only B is correct
(3) Only A is correct
(4) Both A & B are incorrect
38. Father of experimental genetics is
(1) T.H. Morgan (2)Archibald Garrod
(3) Bateson (4)Mendel

39.
The percentage of above type of progeny in F2
generation of Morgan dihybrid cross for eye colour
and wing size obtained was
(1) 18.6% (2) 37.2%
(3) 9.3% (4) 31.4%
40. 27 : 1 : 1 : 27 test cross ratio of Hutchinson cross for
grain colour and size of endosperm in maize suggests
that the distance between the linked genes is
(1) 3.6 cM (2)96.4 cM
(3) 48.2 cM (4)1.8 cM
41. Choose incorrect statement w.r.t. given figure.

(1) The genotype is represented as ZW

(2) It produces single type of gamete
(3) It is responsible for sex determination
(4) It is heterogametic
42. Heteropycnotic X chromosome found in nucleus of
polymorphonuclear leucocytes of human females is
called
(1) X-body
(2) Sex chromatin
(3) Y-spots
(4) More than one option is correct
43. A male grasshopper
(1) Has same number of chromosomes as that in
female grasshopper
(2) Produces a single type of gamete
(3) Produces two types of gametes which differ in
chromosome number
(4) Is homogametic

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