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Pure line breed refers to

  • heterozygosity only

  • heterozygosity and linkage

  • homozygosity only

  • homozygosity and self assortment


C.

homozygosity only

Pure breeds are cultivated varieties or cultivars of an animal species, achieved through the process of selective breeding. Also, it is a true breeding genotypes, a line that has been rendered homozygous for all genes under consideration in successive generations, a line in which homozygous individuals produce only homozygous offspring like parents.


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Assertion : Antigen can be easily recognized because it has antigenic determinants.

Reason : The recognition ability is innate.

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

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

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


Gene which suppresses other gene's activity but does not lie on the same locus is called as

  • epistatic

  • supplementary

  • hypostatic

  • codominant


If a homozygous red-flowered plant is crossed with a homozygous white-flowered plant, the offsprings will be

  • half- white flowered

  • half- red flowered

  • all white flowered

  • all red flowered


Assertion : The earliest fossil form in the phylogeny of horse is eohippus.

Reason : Eohippus lived during the early pliocene epoch.

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

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

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


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Which part of the world has a high density of organism?

  • Deciduous forests

  • Grasslands

  • Tropical rain forests

  • Savannahs


Assertion : Pollution is always caused by human activities.

Reason : Pollution is not different from contamination.

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

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

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


Assertion : Chlorofluorocarbons are responsible for ozone depletion.

Reason : Ozone level decreases by as much as 67% every year.

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

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

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


Assertion : Vegetable oils are fats which are present in plant cells in soluble form.

Reason : Vegetable oils occur only in cells of embryo.

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

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

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


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Assertion : Haemophilia is a recessive sex linked disease.

Reason : Haemophilia occurs due to mutation of a structural gene on chromosome 15.

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

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

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false