Multiple Choice Questions

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Which of the following conditions is related to haemophilia?

  • A responsible recessive gene present in the X-chromosome

  • A responsible dominant gene presentin the X-chromosome

  • A responsible dominant gene present in the Y-chromosome

  • A responsible dominant gene present in the autosomal chromosome


A.

A responsible recessive gene present in the X-chromosome

Haemophilia is the most serious and notorious disease which is more common in man than in woman. The person which contains the recessive gene for haemophilia lacks normal clotting substance (thromboplastin) in blood so, amino injuries cause continuous bleeding and ultimate death. It is X-linked disease.


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Which one of the following conditions in chromosome number is called monosomy?

  • 2n + 1

  • 2n + 2

  • 2n - 1

  • 2n - 2


The absence of which clotting factor leads to haemophilia-A?

  • Factor VII

  • Factor VIII

  • Factor IX

  • Factor X


Indicate, the inheritance of which of the following is controlled by multiple alleles?

  • Colourblindness

  • Sickle cell anaemia

  • Blood group

  • Phenylketoneuria


Down's syndrome occurs as a result of

  • trisomy

  • tetrasomy

  • autopolyploidy

  • allopolyploidy


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The map distance between the genes A and B is 3 units, between B and C is 10 units and between C and A is 7 units. The order of the genes in a linkage map constructed on the above data would perhaps be

  • A, B, C 

  • A, C, B

  • B, C, A

  • B, A, C


One of the following is sex-influenced character

  • Appearance of beard

  • Baldness in male

  • Docile behaviour of female

  • Low BMR in female


A person with the sex chromosomes XXY suffers from :

  • Down's syndrome

  • Turner's syndrome

  • Gynandromorphism

  • Klinefelter's syndrome


9: 3: 3: 1 ratio is modified to 9 : 7 ratio due to

  • complementary gene

  • epistatic gene

  • hypostatic gene

  • supplementary gene


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Which of the following represents Klinefelter's syndrome?

  • XX

  • XO

  • XY

  • XXY


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