This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Genetic And Mendel S Law Of Heredity – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Genetic And Mendel S Law Of Heredity Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In a gamete there will be. A) Only autosomes. B) One pair of sex chromosomes. C) No sex chromosomes. D) Only one sex chromosome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Only one sex chromosome. 2. Genes control heredity in man and other organisms.This is. A) A bead like structure on the chromosomes. B) A protein molecule. C) A segment RNA. D) A segment of RNA and DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A segment of RNA and DNA. 3. In all of the Mendel, s experiments the alleles causing a trait were. A) Incomplete dominant. B) Co-dominant. C) Co-recessive. D) Dominant-recessive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dominant-recessive. 4. Which is the correct chronological order? (A) Mendel, s laws of inheritance (B) Darwin, s theory of evolution (C) Blood circulation by Harvey (D) De Vries theory of mutation A) C, B, A, D. B) B, D, A, C. C) D, B, C, A. D) A, B, C, D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) C, B, A, D. 5. Sugar present in the nucleotides is. A) Hexose sugar. B) Pentose sugar. C) No sugar. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pentose sugar. 6. There are 23 pairs of chromosomes in man, How many types of eggs can woman produce supposing that she is Heterozygous for each of her 23 pairs of chromosomes? A) 46. B) 23. C) 8.4 million. D) 2.3 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8.4 million. 7. The genotypic ratio in the F2 generation in a monohybrid cross will be. A) 3:1. B) 3:3. C) 1:9. D) 9:1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 9:1. 8. When tall Red plant is crossed with dwarf white plant, the F2 generation tall red and dwarf white will occur in the ratio of. A) 3:3. B) 3:1. C) 9:1. D) 1:9. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9:1. 9. If a mouse over eight times of its normal size has been produced by introducing human growth hormone gene, the technique involved is called. A) Hormonal feeding. B) Mutation breeding. C) Hybridization. D) Genetic engineering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genetic engineering. 10. A pair of chromosomes determines sex in human beings and, therefore these chromosomes are called sex chromosomes What is the name given to the other chromosomes? A) Heterosomes. B) Spherosomes. C) Polysomes. D) Autosomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autosomes. 11. If a boy, s father has haemophilia and his mother has one gene for it, what is the chance that the boy will inherit the disease? A) 25%. B) 100%. C) 75%. D) 50%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 50%. 12. Law of Independent Assortment A) Every organism has two alleles which separate when gametes are produced. B) Alleles for traits are the same. C) Genes from different traits are inherited independently of one another. D) The allele combination of an organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genes from different traits are inherited independently of one another. 13. Law of Segregation A) Every organism has two alleles which separate when gametes are produced. B) Alleles for traits are the same. C) Genes from different traits are inherited independently of one another. D) The allele combination of an organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Every organism has two alleles which separate when gametes are produced. 14. A lot of information about linkage in genetics has been obtained by researches on the organism. A) Oenothera. B) Escherichia coli. C) Pisum. D) Drosphila. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drosphila. 15. Genes are made of. A) Carbohydrates. B) Fats. C) Nucleotides. D) Poteins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nucleotides. 16. An organism that breeds true for a particular character producing identical gametes is called. A) Hemizygous. B) Homogamous. C) Heterozgous. D) Homozygous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homozygous. 17. Which of the following human disease/s is/are hereditary in nature? A) Haemophilia. B) Phenylketonuria. C) Sickle-cell anaemia. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. Linked genes are present in. A) Different chromosomes. B) Same chromosomes. C) Sex chromosomes. D) Autosomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Same chromosomes. 19. The number of chromosomes in Turner, s Syndrome is. A) 43. B) 46. C) 45. D) 47. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 45. 20. That genes control heredity through their control on enzymes synthesis and that one gene controls the synthesis of one enzyme ..... the, one gene one enzyme hypothesis ..... was proposed by. A) Beadle and Tatum. B) Darwin. C) Mendel. D) Morgan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beadle and Tatum. 21. Hereditary characters are carried to the next generation by. A) Mitchondria. B) Chromosomes. C) Plastids. D) Ribosomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chromosomes. 22. Haploid chromosome number is not seen in. A) Primary spermatocytes. B) Spermatids. C) Sperms. D) Spermatids and sperms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary spermatocytes. 23. Consider the following discoveries in life sciences. 1. Principal 2. Nucleus 3. DNA as the genetic material 4. Light essential for the photosynthesis The correct chronological sequence of these discoveries is. A) 2, 3, 1, 4. B) 2, 1, 3, 4. C) 1, 2, 4, 3,. D) 4, 2, 1, 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4, 2, 1, 3. 24. Gene, the basic unit of heredity, was first synthesized in the laboratory by. A) Arthur Kornberg. B) Johannson. C) Gregor Johann Mendel. D) Watson and Crick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arthur Kornberg. 25. Mutation may cause. A) Polyploidy. B) Chromosomal aberration. C) Variation. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 26. The theory of jumping genes was propounded by. A) Gregor Johann Medel. B) Thomas Hunt Morgan. C) Barbara McClintock. D) Watson and Crick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Barbara McClintock. 27. During protein synthesis a particular kind of RNA acts as an intermediary between DNA and ribosomes.This is. A) Cytoplasmic RNA. B) M-RNA. C) T-RNA. D) R-RNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) M-RNA. 28. The new techniques developed during the last few years have made it possible to produce an intergeneric hybrid between potato and tomato, the pomato through. A) Embryo culture. B) Genetic engineering. C) Protoplast culture. D) Endosperm culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protoplast culture. 29. Mutation cannot be caused by one of the following. A) Infrared ray. B) Ultaviolet ray. C) X-ray. D) Gamma ray. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infrared ray. 30. The molecules responsible for storing the genetic code are. A) Chromosomes. B) DNA. C) RNA. D) Proteins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DNA. 31. The sex of a child is determined by the. A) Chromosomes of the father. B) Blood group of the father. C) Rh factor of the parents. D) Chromosomes of the mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chromosomes of the father. 32. An exception to Mendel, s Laws is. A) Linkage. B) Dominance. C) Independent assortment. D) Purity of gametes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linkage. 33. Who, amongst the following is regarded as the father of genetics? A) Robert Hooke. B) Hugo De Vries. C) Gregor Johann Mendel. D) Charles Darwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gregor Johann Mendel. 34. A test cross is one which is made to determine the. A) Resistance. B) Phenotype. C) Purity. D) Genotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genotype. 35. Tijo and Levan found out. A) Mutational changes. B) Number of chromosomes in the human cell. C) Sex-linked genes. D) Chromosomal aberrations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Number of chromosomes in the human cell. 36. What is the chromosomes number in a human ovum? A) 24. B) 46. C) 48. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 37. Organisms which have similar external appearance with reference to a particular character are called. A) Analogous. B) Homologous. C) Phenocopies. D) Phenotypes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phenotypes. 38. A gene which fails to express in the presence of non-allelic genes is. A) Pleotropy. B) Hypostasis. C) Aneuploidy. D) Mutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypostasis. 39. A colur blind man is married to a normal visioned woman whose parents also had normal vision What proportion of their Children is likely to be colour blind? A) 50 percent. B) 0 percent. C) 100 percent. D) 25 percent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0 percent. 40. What is epistasis? A) The gene which masks the effect of non-allelic gene. B) An undesirable defective gene. C) The gene which fails to express itself in the presence of non allelic genes. D) All of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The gene which masks the effect of non-allelic gene. 41. One inherited haploid set of chromosomes is called. A) Genome. B) Chromomere. C) Karyotype. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genome. 42. Which fungus was of great use in finding out genetic principles? A) Agaricus. B) Penicillium. C) Neurospore. D) Mucor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neurospore. 43. Eugenics is the application of genetics to improve. A) Fruit trees. B) Human beings. C) Cattle. D) Crop plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human beings. 44. An inherited characteristic which does not appear in one generation but can appear in the next is called. A) Heterozygous. B) Homozygous. C) Recessive. D) Dominant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recessive. 45. A white woman marries a black man.They have four children-2 sons and 2 daughters What proportion of these children is likely to be black? A) 25%. B) 50%. C) 100%. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None. 46. How many alleles in a given gene are possible? A) 2. B) Any number. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any number. 47. What are oncogenes? A) Genes present in the X chromosomes causing haemophilia. B) Dominant genes. C) A set of genes which produce cancer. D) Recessive genes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A set of genes which produce cancer. 48. The suggestion that the chromosomes are the carriers of hereditary material was first made by. A) Johannson. B) Flemming. C) Sutton and Boveri. D) Morgan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sutton and Boveri. 49. In human beings, sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. What would, then be the genetic constitution of a normal woman? A) YY. B) XO. C) XX. D) XY. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) XX. 50. Rate of mutation can be increased by. A) Radiation. B) Hormones. C) I.A.A. D) Grafting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Radiation. 51. Normal monohybrid cross yields in the F2 generation, a ratio of 3:1 In some cases the ratio is found to be 2:1 Itis due to. A) Mistake in crossing. B) Incomplete dominance. C) Recessive genes. D) Lethal genes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lethal genes. 52. Body cells infected with virus produce a protein called. A) Interferon. B) Gamma globulin. C) Properdin. D) Hybridoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interferon. 53. A colour blind person commonly has difficulty in seeing. A) All colours. B) Red only. C) Red, green and pale tints. D) Violet and blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red, green and pale tints. 54. Who coined the term gene? A) Mendel. B) Hugo De Vries. C) Jacob and Mendel. D) Johannson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Johannson. 55. In which one of the following is sex determined by environment? A) Papaya. B) Honeybee. C) Maize. D) Bonnelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bonnelia. 56. External manifestation of characters helps one to identify only the. A) Phenotype. B) Genotype. C) Genes. D) Mutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phenotype. 57. Genes are arranged in the chromosomes. A) In linear fashion. B) Scattered. C) In binary fashion. D) In clusters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In linear fashion. 58. Which of the following fungi has been extensively used for genetical studies? A) Pink bread mold. B) Mushroom. C) Bread mold. D) Green mold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pink bread mold. 59. Which one of the following Laws of Mendel could be arrived at only by a dihybrid cross. A) Law of dominance. B) Law of segregation. C) Law of independent assortment. D) Law of purity of gametes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Law of independent assortment. 60. When two organisms are crossed with a view to study only one of their characters it is called. A) Polyhybrid. B) Back cross. C) Dihybrid. D) Monohybrid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monohybrid. 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