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science 2

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to Mendel alleles have the following character:

a)

Pair of genes

b)

Responsible for character

c)

Production of gametes

d)

Recessive factors

2.

9 : 3 : 3 : 1 ratio is due to ______.

a)

Segregation

b)

Crossing over

c)

Independent assortment

d)

Recessiveness.

3.

The region of the chromosome where the spindle fibres get attached during cell division:

a)

Chromomere

b)

Centrosome

c)

Centromere

d)

Chromonema

4.

The centromere is found at the centre of the ______ chromosome.

a)

Telocentric

b)

Metacentric

c)

Sub – metacentric

d)

Acrocentric.

5.

The units form the backbone of the DNA.

a)

5 carbon sugar

b)

Phosphate

c)

Nitrogenous bases

d)

Sugar phosphate

6.

Okazaki fragments are joined together by ______.

a)

Helicase

b)

DNA polymerase

c)

RNA primer

d)

DNA ligase.

7.

The number of chromosomes found in human beings are:

a)

22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of allosomes.

b)

22 autosomes and 1 allosome

c)

46 autosomes

d)

46 pairs autosomes and 1 pair of allosomes.

8.

The loss of one or more chromosome in ploidy is called ______.

a)

Tetraploidy

b)

Aneuploidy

c)

Euploidy

d)

Polyploidy

9.

Biogenetic law states that _____.

a)

Ontogeny and phylogeny go together.

b)

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

c)

Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny.

d)

There is no relationship between phylogeny and ontogeny.

10.

The ‘use and disuse theory’ was proposed by _____.

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Ernst Haeckel

c)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

d)

Gregor Mendel.

11.

Paleontologists deal with _____.

a)

Embryological evidences

b)

Fossil evidences

c)

Vestigial organ evidences

d)

All the above.

12.

The best way of direct dating fossils of recent origin is by _____.

a)

Radio – carbon method

b)

Uranium lead method

c)

Potassium – argon method

d)

Both (a) and (c).

13.

The term Ethnobotany was coined by _____.

a)

Khorana

b)

J.W. Harshberger

c)

Ronald Ross

d)

Hugo de Vries

14.

Which method of crop improvement can be practised by a farmer if he is inexperienced?

a)

clonal selection

b)

mass selection

c)

pure line selection

d)

hybridisation.

15.

Pusa Komai is a disease resistant variety of:

a)

sugarcane

b)

rice

c)

cow pea

d)

maize

16.

Himgiri developed by hybridisation and selection for disease resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of ______.

a)

chilli

b)

maize

c)

sugarcane

d)

wheat.

17.

The miracle rice which saved millions of lives and celebrated its 50th birthday is:

a)

IR 8

b)

IR 24

c)

Atomita 2

d)

ponni

18.

Which of the following is used to produce products useful to humans by biotechnology techniques?

a)

enzyme from organism

b)

live organism

c)

vitamins

d)

both (a) and (b).

19.

We can cut the DNA with the help of:

a)

scissors

b)

restriction endonucleases

c)

knife

d)

RNAase

20.

rDNA is a ______.

a)

vector DNA

b)

circular DNA

c)

recombinant of vector DNA and desired DNA

d)

satellite DNA

21.

DNA fingerprinting is based on the principle of identifying sequences of DNA:

a)

single-stranded

b)

mutated

c)

polymorphic

d)

repetitive

22.

Organisms with a modified endogenous gene or a foreign gene are also known as ______.

a)

transgenic organisms

b)

genetically modified

c)

mutated

d)

both (a) and (b).

23.

In hexaploid wheat (2n = 6x = 42) the haploid (n) and the basic(x) number of chromosomes are:

a)

n = 7 and x = 21

b)

n = 21 and x = 21

c)

n = 1 and x = 1

d)

n = 21 and x = 7