A baby has been born with a small tail. It is a case exhibiting

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301.

In which one of the following sets of three items each belong to the category mentioned against them

  • Lysine, glycine, thiamine - amino acids

  • Myosin, oxytocin and gastrin - hormones

  • Rennin, helicase and hyaluronidase - enzymes

  • Optic nerve, oculomotor, vagus - sensory nerves


302.

Given below is a highly simplified representation of the human sex chromosomes from a karyotype

  • The gene a and b could be of

    colour blindness and body height

  • attached ear lobe and Rhesus blood group

  • haemophilia and red-green colour blindness

  • phenylketonuria and haemophilia


303.

Genes present in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells are found in

  • mitochondria and inherited via egg cytoplasm

  • lysosomes and peroxisomes

  • Golgi bodies and smooth endoplasmic reticulum

  • plastids and inherited via male gamete


304.

Given below is a pedigree chart showing the inheritance ofa certain sex-linked trait in humans

The trait traced in the above pedigree chart is

  • dominant X- linked

  • recessive X- linked

  • dominant Y- linked

  • recessive Y- linked


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305.

The "cri-du-chat" syndrome is caused by change in chromosome structure involving

  • deletion

  • duplication

  • inversion

  • translocation


306.

Grain colour in wheat is determined by three pairs of polygenes. Following the cross AABBCC (dark colour) x aabbcc (light colour), in F2 generation what proportion of the progeny is likely to resemble either parent?

  • None

  • Less than 5 percent

  • One third

  • Half


307.

Primary source of allelic variation is

  • independent assortment

  • recombination

  • mutation

  • polyploidy


308.

Assertion: Polytene chromosomes have a high amount of DNA.

Reason: Polytene chromosomes are formed by repeated replication of chromosomal DNA without separation of chromatids.

  • 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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309.

A baby has been born with a small tail. It is a case exhibiting

  • retrogressive evolution

  • mutation

  • atavism

  • metamorphosis


C.

atavism

In biology, an atavism is a modification of a biological structure whereby an ancestral trait reappears after having been lost through evolutionary change in previous generations. Atavisms can occur in several ways, one of which is when genes for previously existing phenotypic features are preserved in DNA, and these become expressed through a mutation that either knocks out the overriding genes for the new traits or makes the old traits override the new one.


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310.

Given below is a pedigree chart of a family with five children. It shows the inheritance of attached ear-lobes as opposed to the free ones. The squares represent the male individuals and circles the female individuals. Which one of the following conclusions drawn is correct

  • The parents are homozygous recessive.

  • The trait is Y-linked.

  • The parents are homozygous dominant.

  • The parents are heterozygous.


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