Multiple Choice QuestionsThe incorrect statement with regard to haemophilia is
It is a sex - linked disease
It is a recessive disease
It is dominant disease
It is dominant disease
If both parents are carriers for thalassemia, which is an autosomal recessive disorder, what are the chances of pregnancy resulting in an affected child?
No Chance
50%
25%
25%
Which enzyme/s will be produced in cell in which there is a non-sense mutation in the lac Y gene?
beta - galactosidase
Lactose permease
Transacetylase
A gene showing codominance has:
One allele dominant on the other
alleles tightly linked on the same chromosome
alleles that are recessive to each other
alleles that are recessive to each other
In the following human pedigree, the filled symbols represent the affected individuals. Identify the type of given pedigree. 
Autosomal dominant
X-linked recessive
Autosomal recessive
Autosomal recessive
B.
X-linked recessive
The given pedigree shows the autosomal recessive disorder. In this disorder, the individual inherit two mutated genes, one from each parent. This disorder is usually passed on by two carriers. Health is rarely affected, but individual have one mutated gene(recessive gene) and one normal gene(dominant gene) for the condition. The carriers have a 25% chance of having an unaffected child with normal genes, 50% chance of having an unaffected child who also is a carrier and a 25% chance of having an affected chid with recessive genes.
A colour blind man marries a woman with normal sight who has no history of colour blindness in her family. What is the probability of their grandson being colour blind?
0.5
1
Nil
Nil
In his classic experiments on pea plants, Mendel did not use
Seed colour
Pod length
Seed shape
Seed shape
Fruit colour in squash is an example of
recessive epistasis
dominant epistasis
complementary genes
complementary genes
A normal-visioned man whose father was colour-blind, marries a woman whose father was also colour-blind. They have their first child as a daughter. What are the chances that this child would be colour-blind?
100%
0%
25%
25%
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