Short Answer Type(a) Can a plant flowering in Mumbai be pollinated by pollen grains of the same species growing in New Delhi ? Provide explanations to your answer.
Both Haemophilia and Thalassemia are blood related disorders in humans. Write their causes and the difference between the two. Name the category of genetic disorder they both come under.
Both are Mendelian disorders.
* Haemophilia is a sex linked recessive disorder. The gene for haemophilia is located on X-chromosome. The gene passes from a carrier female to her son.
* Thalessemia is an autosomal linked recessive disease.
* It occurs due to either mutation or deletion resulting in reduced rate of synthesis of one of globin chains of haemoglobin.
* The difference between Haemophilia and Thalessemia is : - In haemophilia, clotting is affected, i.e. there can be a non-stop bleeding even after a minor cut.
* In Thalessemia, anaemia is the characteristic of this disease
(a) List the two methodologies which were involved in human genome project. Mention how they were used.
(b) Expand ‘YAC’ and mention what was it used for.
Name a human disease, its causal organism, symptoms (any three) and vector, spread by intake of water and food contaminated by human faecal matter.
(a) Write the desirable characters a farmer looks for in his sugarcane crop. (b) How did plant breeding techniques help north Indian farmers to develop cane with desired characters ?
Secondary treatment of the sewage is also called Biological treatment. Justify this statement and explain the process
(a) Explain the significance of palindromic nucleotide sequence in the formation of recombinant DNA.
(b) Write the use of restriction endonuclease in the above process.
Describe the roles of heat, primers and the bacterium Thermus aquaticus in the process of PCR.
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