Multiple Choice Questions

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In a mutational event, when adenine is replaced by guanine, it is a case of

  • Frameshift mutation

  • Transcription

  • Transition

  • Transversion


C.

Transition

Transition is substitution gene mutation in which a purine (adenine) is replaced by another purine (guanine) or a pyrimidine (thymine) is replaced by another pyrimidine cvytosine). Change of codon ATC to GTC or ATT or ACC is an example of transition.

Transversion in substitution gene mutation in which a purine (A or G) is replaced by a pyrimidine (T or C) or vice versa.


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A man of blood group- A marries a woman of blood group- AB, which type of progeny would indicate that man is heterozygous?

  • O

  • B

  • A

  • AB


Number of Barr body which will found in case of Turner’s syndrome will be

  • 1

  • 2

  • 0

  • Can't be determined by given data


A woman with two genes (one on each X-chromosome) for haemophilia and one gene for colour blindness on the X-chromosome marries a normal man. How will the progeny be?

  • All sons and daughters are haemophilic and colourblind

  • Haemophilic and colourblind daughters

  • 50% haemophilic colourblind sons and 50% haemophilic sons

  • 50% haemophilic daughters and 50% colourblind daughters


Snapdragon flower is an exception of Mendel’s laws. It is a good example of

  • Law of dominance

  • Complementary gene

  • Codominance

  • Incomplete dominance


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A hereditary disease which is never passed on from father to son is

  • X-chromosomal linked disease

  • Autosomal linked disease

  • Y chromosomal linked disease

  • None of the above


In peal plants, yellow seeds are dominant to green. If a heterozygous yellow seeded plant is crossed with a green seeded plant, what ratio of yellow and green seeded plants could you expect in F1-generation

  • 9 : 1

  • 1 : 3

  • 3 : 1

  • 50 : 50


What base is responsible for hot spots for spontaneous pint mutations?

  • Adenine

  • Guanine

  • 5-bromouracil

  • 5-methyl cytosine


Match the following Column I with Column II.

Column I Column II
A. Complementrary Ratio  1. 9:7
B. Supplementary Ratio 2. 9:3:4
C. Epistatic Ratio 3. 12:3:1
D. Inhibitory Ratio 4. 13:3

  • A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2

  • A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4

  • A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3

  • A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4


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In Pisum sativum, there are 14 chromosomes. How many types of homologous pairs can be prepared?

  • 14

  • 7

  • 214

  • 210


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