A woman with 47 chromosomes due to three copies of chromosome 21

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251.

A woman with normal vision, but whose father was colourblind, marries a colourblind man. Suppose that the fourth child of this couple was a boy. This boy

  • must have normal colour vision

  • will be partially colourblind since he is heterozygous for the colourblind mutant allele

  • must be colourblind

  • may be colourblind or may be of normal vision


252.

Husband has blood group A and wife has blood group B. What is the blood group of children

  • A

  • B

  • AB

  • A, B, AB or 0


253.

Which of the following is not a hereditary disease?

  • Cretinism

  • Cystic fibrosis

  • Thalassaemia

  • Haemophilia


254.

de Vries gave his mutation theory on organic evolution while working on

  • Althea rosea

  • Drosophila melanogaster

  • Oenothera lamarckiana

  • Pisum sativum


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255.

A woman with 47 chromosomes due to three copies of chromosome 21 is characterized by

  • Down syndrome

  • triploidy

  • Turner syndrome

  • super femaleness


A.

Down syndrome

Down syndrome is caused by the trisomy on 21st chromosome. In this, fusion of normal n gamete (haploid) takes place with n + 1 gamete (diploid). It was first described by J. Langdon Down in 1866.

Common symptoms include short height, stocky build, short hands, flattened facial features and poor muscle tone and are mentally retarded.


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256.

Kappa particles indicate

  • nuclear inheritance

  • cytoplasmic inheritance

  • mutation

  • nucleo-cytoplasmic inheritance


257.

Using imprints from a plate with complete medium and carrying bacterial colonies, you can select streptomycin resistant mutants and prove that such mutations do not originate as adaptation. These imprints need to be used

  • only on plates with streptomycin

  • on plates with minimal medium

  • only on plates without streptomycin

  • on plates with and without streptomycin


258.

In order to find out the different types of gametes produced by a pea plant having the genotype AaBb, it should be crossed to a plant with the genotype

  • aaBB

  • AaBb

  • AABB

  • aabb


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259.

A person who is trisomic for twenty first pair of chromosome suffers from

  • Klinefelter's syndrome

  • Down's syndrome

  • Turner's syndrome

  • None of the above


260.

In which blood group antigen are absent

  • O

  • A

  • B

  • AB


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