Question Bank No: 7

1. The traits controlled by gene located on X- chromosomes are called

 a)sex linked
 b)sex limited
 c)Sex influenced
 d)sex controlled

2. The percentage of crossing over will be more if

 a)linked genes are located less apart from each other
 b)linked genes are located far apart from each other
 c)both (a) and (b)
 d)linked genes are in complete linkage

3. Twenty two pairs of similar human chromosomes are called

 a)sex chromosome
 b)genomes
 c)Alleles
 d)Autosomes

4. A haemophilic man marries a normal homozygous women. What is the probability that their son will be homophilic.

 a)0%
 b)100%
 c)50%
 d)25%

5. An exception of mendel's law is

 a)Dominance
 b)Co- dominance
 c)Seggregation
 d)Linkage

6. An individual with genotype Aa Bb Cc will produce

 a)4 types of gametes
 b)3 types of gametes
 c)6 types of gametes
 d)8 types of gametes

7. The ability of a gene to have many effects is called.

 a)Quantitative inheritance
 b)epistasis
 c)Seggregation
 d)pleiotropy

8. 9:7 ratio is the result of

 a)monohybrid cross
 b)incomplete dominance
 c)co-dominance
 d)epistasis

9. The genotype of blood group A is

 a)1%
 b)/A/A or /A/0
 c)/B/B or /B/0
 d) /A/B

10. Which of the following is an example of multiple alleles.

 a)sickle cell anaemia
 b)flower colour in Lathyrus
 c)eye colour in Drosophila
 d)ABO blood types in humans

11. Allele pairs separate during gamete formation and the paired condition is restored by the random fusion of gametes during fertilization is the

 a)law of independent assortment
 b)Law of dominance
 c)Law of recessiveness
 d)Law of segregation

12. When tall red plant is crossed with a dwarf white plant, all the plants of F1 generation are found to be tall red. Which of the following ratio will be available when a test cross is made.

 a)1 : 2 : 1
 b)3 : 1
 c)1 : 1 : 1 : 1
 d)1 : 2 : 2: 1

13. What is not true of Euglena

 a)Presence of chlorophyll
 b)Presence of proteinaceous pellicle
 c)Presence of cellulose cell wall
 d)Presence of flagellum

14. In a random mating populations in equilibrium which of the following brings about a change in gene frequency.

 a)Random drift
 b)Selection
 c)Migration
 d)Mutation

15. Ancestors of mammals.

 a)Ornithrischia
 b)Theraspidia
 c)Silusidea
 d)Chelonia

16. Which of the following set are vestigial structures in man?

 a)Hair, Olecranon Process, coccyx and vermiform appendix
 b)Wisdom tooth, mammary glands, coccyx and patella
 c)Coccyx, nictitating membrane, appendix and ear muscles
 d)Hair, ear ossicles, coccyx and patella

17. Which of the following scales are similar to mammalian teeth.

 a)Cycloid
 b)Placoid
 c)Ganoid
 d)Cninoid

18. Jacobson's organ is concerned with

 a)Burrowing
 b)touch
 c)Chemoreception
 d)Smell

19. Lining layer of fallopian tubes, bronchi and bronchioles consists of

 a)Squamous epithelium
 b)Ciliated epithelium
 c)Columnar epithelium
 d)Cubical epithelium

20. Which is not the property of yellow fibres

 a)Contain elastin
 b)Fewer in number
 c)Straight and branched
 d)Provide toughness and strength

21. Which one has abudent white fiberes

 a)Tendon
 b)Ligament
 c)Cartilage
 d)Bone

22. In frog oviduct is formed by

 a)Wolffian duct
 b)Bidder's Canal
 c)Metanephric duct
 d)Mullerian duct

23. Unique feature of Mammalian body is the presence of

 a)Four chambered heart
 b)Presence of diaphragm
 c)Homeothermy
 d)Rib cage

24. Besides bats, echolocation also occurs in

 a)Primates
 b)wild cat
 c)Wales and Dolphins
 d)Beavers

25. A four chambered heart is not found

 a)Snake
 b)Bird
 c)Whale
 d)Mammal

26. Presence of gills in tadpole of Frog indicates that

 a)Frog will have gills in future
 b)Frog evolved from gilled ancestors
 c)Fishes were amphibians in the past
 d)Fished evolved from grog like ancestors

27. Which one is a cat fish

 a)Labeo rohita
 b)Catla catla
 c)Cirrhina Mrigala
 d)Wallago atlu

28. A characteristic of achinodermata is

 a)Bilateral symmetry
 b)Metamerism
 c)Water vascular system
 d)Shizocoel

29. Torsion occurs in the visceral mass of

 a)Gastropoda
 b)Pelecypoda
 c)Cephalopoda
 d)Monoplacophora

30. Beetle larva is

 a)Maggot
 b)Caterpillar
 c)Nymph
 d)Grub

31. In which group of arthropoda, the body is divisible into head , thorax and abdomen -

 a)Myriapoda
 b)Crustasea
 c)Arachnida
 d)Insecta

32. Which ones do not occur in Earthworm-

 a)Septal nephridia
 b)Macronephridia
 c)Nephridiopore
 d)Integumetoary nephriria

33. Find out the correct match

 a)Amoeba proteus - Kalaazar
 b)Leishmania - Sleeping sickness
 c)Wuchereria bancrofti - Filariasis
 d)Culex - Malaria

34. Which one is an excretory organ.

 a)Archaeocyte
 b)Choanocyte
 c)Pinacocyte
 d)Melanocyte

35. Which is wrongly matched

 a)Annelida - Notopodia
 b)Ciliophora - Axonemes
 c)Cnidaria - Parapodia
 d)Euglenoidae - Myonemes

36. Nektons are

 a)Animals associated with plants
 b)Suspended plants
 c)Floating plants
 d)Swimming organisms

37. Potato and sweet potato have edible parts which are

 a)Homologous
 b)Analogous
 c)Recent introduction
 d)Two species of the same genus

38. Flippers of seal are modified

 a)Hind limbs
 b)Fore limbs
 c)Fins
 d)Fills

39. Age of fossils was previously determined by radioactive elements. More precise recent method when has led to revision of evolutionary period is

 a)Study of carbohydrate and protein in fossils
 b)Study of conditions of fossilization
 c)Electron spin resonance and fossil DNA
 d)Presence of carbohydrate on protein in rocks

40. Sequence of substances appearing during the origin of life would have been

 a)Aminoacid, ammonia, Phosphates, nucleic acids
 b)Ammonia, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acid
 c)Nucleotides, aminoacids, nucleic acids, enzymes
 d)Enzymes, Aminoacids, proteins, nucleic acids

41. Coacervates were experimentally produced by

 a)Oparin and Sidney fox
 b)Fishcher and Huxley
 c)Jacob and Monod
 d)Urey and Miller

42. A factor against achieving maximum population growth is

 a)Saturation level
 b)Carrying capacity
 c)Environmental resistance
 d)Population pressure

43. Active immunity is produced

 a)By taking injection of antibodies
 b)After bacterial infection
 c)Increasing quality of blood
 d)After suffering from disease

44. Breathing movements are controlled by

 a)Lungs
 b)Trachea
 c)Medulla
 d)Hypothalmus

45. Which of the following shens a trimorphic colony

 a)Hydra
 b)Aurelia
 c)Physalia
 d)Obelia

46. Which of the following is the fastest enzyme

 a)Zymase
 b)Carbonic anhydrase
 c)Amylase
 d)Hexokinase

47. B cells produce antibodies in response to instruction received from

 a)Killer T. Cells
 b)Suppressor- T- Cells
 c)Mast cells
 d)Holper cells

48. Aeromegaly is due to

 a)Hyposecretion of GH
 b)Hypersecretion of GH
 c)Hypersecretion of ACTH
 d)Hyposecretion of ACTH

49. Histamine is secreted by

 a)Fibroblasts
 b)Adipocytes
 c)Plasma cells
 d)Mast cell

50. The minamata disease is caused by

 a)Nitrites
 b)CFC
 c)Mercury
 d)DDT