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Principles of Inheritance 2

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster were used for genetic studies by

a)

Sutton and Boveri

b)

Gregor Johann Mendel

c)

T H Morgan

2.

Which of the following is not about Drosophila used by Morgan in his experiments?

a)

They can be grown in simple synthetic medium

b)

They completed life cycle in 2 years

c)

A single mating produce large number of progeny flies

d)

There was a clear differentiation of male and female sexes.

3.

What does this symbol used in pedigree charts, represent?

a)

Parents and children

b)

Mating

c)

Consanguineous mating

4.

Which of the following is a chromosomal disorder?

a)

Turner's syndrome

b)

Thalassemia

c)

Phenylketonuria

d)

Color blindness

5.

The possibility of a female becoming haemophilic is rare, because

a)

mother of female has to be carrier and father haemophilic(unviable in later life)

b)

father of female has to be carrier and mother haemophilic

c)

both mother and father should be carrier

6.

Skin color shows polygenic inheritance in humans, the genotype with three dominant alleles and three recessive alleles will have _______________ skin color.

a)

dark

b)

light

c)

intermediate

7.

Which of the following is not a phenotypic expression of phenyl ketonuria?

a)

Mental retardation

b)

Reduced skin and hair pigmentation

c)

excretion of phenyl pyruvic acid through urine

d)

Non stop bleeding

8.

Male honey bees produce sperms by _____________ cell division, to form 16 chromosomes in each sperm.

a)

Mitosis

b)

Meiosis

9.

The mother is not herself colorblind because the gene for colorblindness is ________________, so the effect is suppressed by the normal gene present on other X chromosome.

a)

recessive

b)

dominant

10.

Which of the following types of Thalassemia, is due to mutation of Hb A1 and Hb A2 genes present on chromosome number 16 of each parent?

a)

Alpha Thalassemia

b)

Beta Thalassemia