Multiple Choice Questions

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Mutations which alter nucleotide sequence within a gene are :

  • frame shift mutations

  • base pair substitutions

  • both 'a' and 'b'

  • none of these


A.

frame shift mutations

Gene mutation or point mutation is the result of a change in the nucleotide sequence of the DNA molecule in a particular region of the chromosome. It occurs in the form of duplication, insertion, deletion, inversion or substitution of bases. Frame- shift mutation is the addition or deletion of a base that may change the reading frame of nucleotide sequence. 

Base pair substitution is a type of mutation involving replacement or substitution of a single nucleotide base with another in DNA or RNA molecule.


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Assertion : Clones are a group of organisms of identical genotype, produced by a single parent through asexual means.

Reason : Clones exhibit high genetic variations.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both the assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


A point mutation comprising the substitution of a purine by pyrimidine is called

  • transition

  • translocation

  • deletion

  • transversion


Assertion : Plasmids are double stranded extrachromosomal DNA.

Reason : Plasmids are possessed by eukaryotic cells.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both the assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false.

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


Innitiation codon is :

  • AUG

  • UUU

  • UAG

  • AAG


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Which organism was used by Beadle and Tatum to proposed one gene-one enzyme hypothesis ?

  • E. coli

  • Nostoc

  • Drosophila

  • Neurospora


Non-coding sequences of DNA are:

  • exon

  • intron

  • rhizoids

  • cistron


Wobble hypothesis was given by

  • R.W. Holley

  • M. Nirenberg

  • H.G. Khorana

  • F.H.C. Crick


Jumping genes in maize were discovered by:

  • Hugo de Vries

  • T.H. Morgan

  • Barbara McClintock

  • Mendel


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Lac is obtained from :

  • Laccifer

  • Bombyx

  • Dactylopius

  • Lytta


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