Question Bank No: 1

1. Sex determination in grasshopper is

 a)XY method
 b)XO method
 c)ZZ method
 d)XX method

2. Sudden heritable discrete change in the genetic material is.

 a)Spontaneous mutation
 b) Frame shift mutation
 c)forward mutation
 d)Reverse mutation

3. Phenylketonuria the inborn error of metabolism is first reported by

 a)Mendel
 b)T. H. Morgan
 c)Archibald Garrod
 d)Baleson

4. In sickle cell anaemia the aminoacid glutamic acid is substituted by

 a)Valine
 b)Glyceine
 c)Lysine
 d)Methiokine

5. Which of the following is an autosomal genetic disease of man

 a)Colourblindness
 b)Haemophilia
 c)Huntington's disease
 d)Malaria

6. 2AXO chromosomes complement leads into

 a)Turners syndrome
 b)Alkaptonuria
 c)Phenyl ketomuria
 d)Huntington's disease

7. Which of the following shows criss cross inheritance

 a)Both a and b
 b)Colour blindness
 c)Phenyl ketonuria
 d)Alkapto nuria

8. In man trisomy on 21st autosome pair leads in to the formation of

 a)Klinefelters syndrome
 b)Downs syndrome
 c)Twiners syndrome
 d)Crydochat syndrome

9. When a colourblind man narraies a carries (Heterozygous) woman the percentage of colourblind off springs would be

 a)50%
 b)25%
 c)75%
 d)100%

10. 44A XXY chromosome complements leads in

 a)Down's syndrome
 b)Alsheimer's syndrome
 c)Klinefloters male
 d)Pheny ketonaria

11. Chromatin fibers are produced by the coiling and condersation of bodies of about 30 nm diameter called.

 a)Solenoid
 b)Nucleosome
 c)Chiasma
 d)Nucleoid

12. Prokaryotic 'nucleus' is made up of

 a)Proteins only
 b)DNA only
 c)Both protein and DNA
 d)RNA and Histones only

13. 2n-1 individuals is

 a)Monosomic
 b)Trisonic
 c)Nullisonic
 d)Tetrasomic

14. The first man made cereal is

 a)Triticale
 b)Raphanobrassica
 c)Bt. Cotton
 d)Flavour saver

15. When a segment of chromosome breaks and relocates within a non homologous chromosomes leads in to.

 a)Reciprocal translocation
 b)Non reciprocal translocation
 c)Inversion
 d)Duplication

16. 2n + 1 is

 a)Trisomy
 b)Monosomy
 c)Nullisomy
 d)Tetrasomy

17. Mutation in Barley is first induced using X ray was by

 a)L. J. Stadler
 b)Muller
 c)C. B Bridges
 d)Sutton

18. Who is the father of mutation theory

 a)Charles Darwin
 b)G. B. Lamark
 c)Hugo De Vries
 d)A. Weismann

19. The inheritance of hairy ear rim in man is through

 a)21st autosome
 b)X Chromosome
 c)Y chromosomes
 d)X and Y chromosome

20. In Drosophila and man sex determination is by

 a)XX method
 b)XY method
 c)XO method
 d)ZZ method

21. Genes carried on 'Y' chromosomes are called

 a)Autosomal
 b)Holandric
 c)Homozygous
 d)Homologous

22. The linked genes can be assorted by

 a)Coupling
 b)Repelson
 c)Crossing over
 d)Mutation

23. The number of chiasma is directionally proportional to.

 a)Number of linkage
 b)Number of crossing over
 c)Number of chromosomes
 d)Number of linkage group

24. Linkage in Drosphila (Eye colour) is experimentally proved by

 a)T. H. Morgan
 b)A. Garrod
 c)Bateson
 d)Gregor Mendel

25. The frequency of crossing over between two genes is generally proportional to.

 a)Diameter of the genes
 b)Aminoacid sequence
 c)NNucleotide Sequence
 d)Distance between the genes

26. The number of linkage groups in Drosophite is

 a)4
 b)3
 c)8
 d)16

27. The association of genes that are physically located on the same chromosome is called.

 a)Crossing over
 b)Linkage
 c)Terminalisation
 d)Synapsis

28. The term gene was first coined in 1909 by

 a)Flemming
 b)Bateson
 c)Johannsen
 d)C. B. Bridges

29. Chromosome theory of inheritance was proposed by

 a)Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri
 b)Flemming and Strasburgor
 c)Hofmeister and Waldeyer
 d)T. H. Morgan