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WorksheetsBiology Unit-10 Test
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Series of changes in the genetic composition of a population over time is called:
Revolution
Population genetics
Evolution
Succession
Product of evolution is:
Ecosystem
Community
Biome
Species
Archaebacteria can survive at:
150°C
120°C
300°C
200°C
What was the source of hydrogen for first photosynthetic organisms?
Water
Hydrogen sulphate
Hydrogen present in soil
Hydrogen sulphide
Prokaryotes are considered to be evolved:
3.5 billion years ago
4.5 billion years ago
1.5 billion years ago
1000 million years ago
Adaptations that an organism acquires by its own actions are:
Heritable
Not heritable
Can be made heritable through some modifications
Both heritable and not heritable
Which one is according to Lamarckism is true?
Variation→adaptations→inheritance
Recombination → variation → adaptations
Adaptations→variation→inheritance
Mutations →variations → adaptations
Unique fauna was observed by Darwin in:
Ecuador
Bahamas
Galapagos
Maldives
Survival is only for the fittest is true for:
Artificial selection
Descent with modification
Natural selection
Revolution
Functionally different but structurally alike organs are:
Analogous
Homologous
Anamolous
Cosmopolitan
In Mendelism, the linkage was not observed due to:
Mutation
Synapsis
Independent assortment
Crossing over
A cross between plants having RRYY and rryy composition will yield plants with:
Round and yellow seeds
Wrinkled and yellow seeds
Round and green seeds
Wrinkled and green seeds
Self-cross between Tt and Tt plants results into the genotype ratio of:
3:1
1:3
1:2:1
4:0
When a tall plant with rounded seeds (TTRR) is crossed with a dwarf plant with wrinkled seeds (ttrr), then the generation consists of tall plants with rounded seeds. How many types of gametes a plant would produce?
One
Three
Four
Eight
The contrasting pair of alleles for all the seven traits chosen by Mendel showed:
Complete dominance
Partial dominance
Incomplete dominance
Over dominance
Inheritance of ABO blood group system is an example of
Multiple allelism
Epistasis
Partial dominance
Pleiotropy
Multiple alleles are the altered forms of a gene whose number is more than two and may have as many as 300 alleles, but a diploid organism can:
Have just one of them in its genome
Have four of them in its genome
Have two of them in its genome
Have multiple of them in its genome
In humans, the polymorphic gene ‘I’ has three multiple alleles which are the result of:
Epistasis
Mutation
Pleiotropy
Gene linkage
The genotype of blood group ‘A’ can be:
IAIA
IAIA or IAIO
IBIB
IAIO
A person with antigens ‘B’ present of membrane of RBCs and ‘anti-A’ antibodies in the blood plasma will have:
Blood group ‘A’
Blood group ‘AB’
Blood group ‘B’
Blood group ‘O’
If a female has ‘A’ blood group and her husband has ‘O’ blood group, then the blood group of their children possibly be:
A and B groups only
A and O groups only
AB only
All four groups
ABO blood grouping is controlled by gene I which has three alleles and show co-dominance. There are six genotypes. How many phenotypes are possible?
Six
Four
Three
Five
A man having a blood group O marries a woman having a blood group A whose father was also O. What is the probability of ‘O’ in their offspring?
50%
75%
25%
0%
Rh factor is named after:
Man
Monkey
Rat
Chimpanzee
Rh factor may be responsible for:
Turner’s syndrome
Sickle-cell anaemia
AIDS
Erythroblastosis fetalis
Which of the following will not result in variations among siblings?
Independent assortment of genes
Linkage
Crossing over
Mutation
All of the following can form a linkage group on human chromosome 11 except:
Gout
albinism
Leukemia
Sickle cell anemia
Genes A, B, C, and D are located on the same chromosome. The recombination frequencies (RF) are as follows:
What is the most likely order of the genes on the chromosome?
BCAD
CBAD
ACBD
DBAC
A couple has a baby boy, the chances of baby girl as a next child are:
100%
No chances
50%
Cannot predict
How many chromosomes in human male and female are similar?
23
44
45
46
If a ‘Y’ carrying sperm fertilizes the egg the zygote will be:
45A+ YY
44A+ XY
44A+ XX
43A+ X0
_________ is male sex switch which triggers developmental process towards maleness.
Se
TFM
SRY
H
Which one of the following conditions correctly describes the manner of determining the sex in the given example?
XO type of sex chromosomes determine male sex in grasshopper.
XO condition in humans as found in Turner syndrome, determines female sex.
Homozygous sex chromosomes (XX) produce male in Drosophila.
Homozygous sex chromosomes (ZZ) determine female sex in birds
Drosophila has four pairs of chromosomes. How many linkage groups does it have?
Eight
One less than the pairs of chromosomes
Four
One more than the pairs of
Which of the following is not a genetic disorder?
Hemophilia
Colour blindness
Phenylketonuria
Epilepsy
Example of X-linked dominant trait is:
Hemophilia A
Tritanopia
Hemophilia B
Hypophosphatemia
All of the following are non-allelic X-linked traits except:
Hemophilia A
Hemophilia C
Hemophilia B
TFM syndrome
What is the probability of a hemophilic daughter of a normal man whose father was hemophilic and a carrier woman?
0%
50%
25%
75%
Position of a gene on the chromosome is called its:
Phenotype
Junction
Locus
Genotype
If all the members of a population are homozygous for the same allele, that allele is said to be:
Random in population’s pool
Random in a species
Fixed in population’s pool
Fixed in the gene pool
