WorksheetsMendelian Genetics and Dihybrid Inheritance
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 40mins
Individuals having dissimilar traits (alleles) on homologous chromosomes are called
Dominant
Recessive
Homozygous
Heterozygous
An allele is considered dominant
When it express desirable phenotype
Both (b) and (c)
When it express in homozygosity
When it express even in the presence of alternate allele
Mendel's dihybrid ratio is
1:1:1:1
3:1
9:3:3:1
9:1:1:5
Mendel studied seven contrasting characters for his breeding experiment with Pisum sativum, which of the following characters did he not use?
Plant height
Pod color
Pod shape
Leaf shape
An organism with two identical allele of a gene in a cell is called
Hybrid
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Homozgous
Which principle of inheritance was not given by Mendel
Independent assortment
Dominance
Purity of gametes
Linkage
When dominant BB and recessive bb is crossed, the percentage of progeny showing the parental genotype is
75%
0%
50%
25%
The year 1900 AD is highly significant for genetics due to
Chromosome theory of heredity
Principle of linkage
Discovery of genes
Rediscovery of Mendelism
The process by which the segregation of Mendelian factors takes place is
Hybridisation
Mitosis
Meiosis
Fertilisation
Which would most probably be the genetic makeup of the parents of a colour blind daughter?
Normal mother and normal father
Carrier mother and color blind father
Color blind mother and normal father
Carrier mother and normal father
If a heterozygous tall plant is crossed with a homozygous dwarf plant the proportion of dwarf progeny will be
75%
100%
50%
25%
When two tall plants are crossed 45 tall plants and 14 dwarf plants are obtained. The genotype of parent plants is
TT × TT
TT × tt
Tt × Tt
TT × Tt
Which of the following is not a dominant character selected by Mendel in Pisum?
Axillary flowers
Violet flower colour
Yellow pod color
Yellow seed colour
Who discovered the phenomenon of incomplete dominance in Mirabilis and Antirrhinum?
De Vries
Bateson
Davenport
Carl Correns
How many types of gametes are produced by a trihybrid?
4
8
3
16
A dihybrid heterozygous tall plant with round seed is crossed with a similar genotype, what percentage of plants should possess Tt Rr genotype?
6.25%
12.5%
75%
25%
A cross by changing the source of ovum is
Back cross
Test cross
Monohybrid
Reciprocal cross
When the phenotypic and genotypic ratios resemble in the F2 generation it is an example of
Independent assortment
Incomplete dominance
Qualitative inheritance
Segregation
When the dihybrid Tt rr plants are self-fertilized, what percentage of descendants would be heterozygous for one character and homozygous for another?
100%
25%
50%
75%
In a double heterozygous plant (Eg: Aa Bb) four types of gametes are produced. This illustrate the law of
Purity of gametes
Independent assortment
Segregation
Dominance
Back cross with recessive parent is called
Monohybrid cross
Multiple cross
Single cross
Test cross
If a gene has multiple effects, it is called
Polygeny
Pleiotropism
Multiple allelism
Epistasis
Maize has 10 pairs of chromosomes. How many linkage groups should it possess
20
5
40
10
Linked genes may be separated by
Segregation
Crossing over
Polyploidy
Gene mutation
Crossing over in diploid organism is responsible for
Dominance of genes
Linkage between genes
Segregation of alleles
Recombination of linked gene
Drosophila melanogaster has
2 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes
3 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes
2 pairs of autosomes and 2 pairs of sex chromosomes
1 pair of autosomes and 3 pairs of sex chromosomes
A trisomic individual has a chromosomal number of
2n -1
2n +2
2n +3
2n +1
Among the following which one is the best chemical for inducing the polyploidy?
Acridines
Ethylene
Mustard gas
Colchicine
Down’s syndrome is an example of
Monosomy
Trisomy
Triploidy
Euploidy
Which of the following is 6x (hexaploid) wheat?
Triticum durum
T. monococcum
T. aestivum
Triticale
The holandric genes are located on
Mitochondria
Y-chromosome
Polytene chromosome
X-chromosome
If the haploid number of chromosomes in a plant is 12, then the number of chromosomes in monosomic is
25
23
26
22
Alleles are paired in
Dihybrid
In diploid organism
All of these
In zygote
Inheritance of flower colour is an example of incomplete dominance, which is seen in:
Antirrhinum
Pisum
Solanum
Hibiscus
Haemophilia most likely originated as a result of
A non disjunction of chromosome number 21
The crossing over to two sex chromosomes
A gene mutation in the X- chromosome
The separation of two homologous chromosomes
Chromosome complement with 2n-1 is called as
Tetrasomy
Monosomy
Trisomy
Nullisomy
The most striking example of point mutation is found in a disease called
Sickle cell anemia
Night blindness
Turners syndrome
Down’s syndrome
Gynaecomastia is a common feature seen in:
Cystic fibrosis
Down’s syndrome
Turner’s syndrome
Klinefelter’s syndrome
XO type of sex determination is seen in:
Man
Grasshopper
Birds
Drosophila
Which of the following is not a Mendelian disorder?
Thalesemia
Turner’s syndrome
Cystic fibrosis
Haemophilia
How many type of phenotypes possible for ABO blood group
1
4
3
2
Haemophilia in man is due to
Sex-linked inheritance
Sex-limited inheritance
Sex-influenced inheritance
Primary non-disjunction
In XO type of sex determination
Females produce two different types of gametes
Males produce two different types of gametes
Males produce single type of gametes
Females produce gametes with Y chromosome
Which one of the following cannot be explained on the basis of Mendel’s Law of Dominance?
The discrete unit controlling a particular character is called a factor
Alleles do not show any blending and both the characters recover as such in F2 generation
Factors occur in pairs
Out of one pair of factors one is dominant, and the other recessive
The genotype of a plant showing the dominant phenotype can be determined by:
Dihybrid cross
Back cross
Test cross
Pedigree analysis
Which one of the following conditions correctly describes the manner of determining the sex in the given example?
Homozygous sex chromosomes (ZZ) determine female sex in birds
XO condition in humans as found in Turner syndrome, determines female sex
Homozygous sex chromosomes (XX) produce male in Drosophila
XO type of sex chromosomes determine male sex in grasshopper
F2 generation in a Mendelian cross showed that both genotypic and phenotypic ratios are same as 1:2:1. It represents a case of
Monohybrid cross with incomplete dominance
Monohybrid cross with complete dominanace
Dihybrid cross
Co-dominance
Alleles which can express only in pair with similar allele is
Dominant
Recessive
Among the following traits that Mendel studied, choose the recessive one
Yellow pods
Axile flower
Terminal flower
Green seed
When a dominant ‘AA’ and a recessive ‘aa’ are crossed percentage of the progenies showing the parental genotypes will be
0%
100%
25%
50%
A normal visioned man whose father was colour blind, marries a women whose father is also colour blind. They have their first child as a daughter. What are the chances that this child would be colour blind?
0%
100%
50%
25%
The incorrect statement with regard to Haemophilia is
It is sex linked disease
A single protein involved in the clotting of blood is affected
It is a recessive disease
It is a dominant disease
Person with blood group AB is considered as universal recipient because he has
Both A and B antigens in the plasma but no antibodies in the plasma
No antigen on RBC and no antibody in the plasma
Both A and B antigens on RBC but no antibodies in the plasma
Both A and B antibodies in the plasma
A patient with unknown blood group needs immediate blood transfusion. The group that can be donated will be
Blood group O
Blood group AB
Blood group A
Blood group B
Which Mendelian idea is depicted by a cross in which the F1 generation resembles both parents
Incomplete dominance
Inheritance of 1 gene
Co-dominance
Multiple allelism
An F2 hybrid generation will have
4 types of genotypes
7 types of genotypes
9 types of genotypes
16 types of genotypes
Who among the following is not concerned with re-discovery of Mendelism
Theodre Bovery
Hugode Vries
Carl Correns
Von TschermaK
The diploid number of drosophila melanogaster
16
8
4
12
Linkage phenomenon explained first by
T.H.Morgan
William Batson
Johanson
Alfsed Sturtevant
Who put forward the crossing theory of recombination
Gregor Mendel
William Bateson
T.H.Morgan
Janssen
In honeybees
The males have single sex chromosomes
The males have only one set of chromosomes
Males produce projeny by parthenogenesis
Both (a) and (c)
First child of a normal couple is phenylketouric. The probability of second male child is affected will be
50%
25%
0%
100%
Mutation of any single gene maybe
Gene mutation
All of these
Point mutation
Micromutation
A normal man whose father was haemophilic marries a woman whose father was haemophilic. They have their first child as daughter. What is the chance that this could be
100%
0%
50%
25%
Choose the sex influenced trait
Ovary in female
Hypertrichosis
Haemophilia
Pattern baldness
Clotting factors VIII is absent in
Both (a) and (b)
Haemophilia B
Thalassemia beta
Haemophilia A
Pedigree analysis is useful for
Study of inheritance when arranged mating is not possible
Study of sex linked inheritance in man
Study of Mendelian disorders in man
All of these
Choose the incorrect statement regarding haemophilia
It is x–linked
it inherit from father to daughter
A single protein in cascade of several protiens involved in clotting is affected
It is dominant in male
Choose the wrong statement
Cystic fibrosis is quantitative
Sickle cell anemia person produce abnormal Hb
Thallasemia is a quantitative problem
Mental retardation can be the effect of phenyl pyruvic acid
Which of the following cannot be detected in developing foetus by amniocentesis
Sex of the foetus
Jaundice
Down syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome
Which mendelian idea is depicted by a cross in which the F1 generation resembles both the parents
Law of dominance
Incomplete dominance
Co- dominance
Inheritance of one gene
If both parents are carriers of thalassemia, which is an autosomal recessive disorder, what are the chance of pregnancy resulting in an affected child
25%
100%
50%
No chance
A human female with Turner’s syndrome
Has 45 chromosomes with XO
Exhibits male characters
Is able to produce children with normal husband
Has one additional X chromosome
Which of the following cannot be expected on the basis of Mendel’s law of dominance
It explains the expression of one of the parental traits in F1
b) explain expression of both traits in F2
It explains the 3:1 ratio in F2
It explains the formation of functional enzyme by dominant allele
When heterozygous yellow round seed plants and self-fertilized, the frequency of occurrence of RrYY genotype among the offspring’s is
4/16
2/16
1/16
3/16
A person homozygous for autosomal loci ‘a’ and ‘b’ and heterozygous for gene ‘p’ shall produce how many types of gametes in respect of these loci
1 type
2 types
3 types
4 types
Experimental proof for chromosome theory of inheritance is given by
Sturtevant
Sutton and Bovery
Sutton
T H Morgan
The nuclear structure observed by Henking in 50% of the sperms in the testes of a insect was termed
Chromatin
Polar body
Bar body
X-body
First artificial mutation was induced in
Drosophila
Maize
Barley
Neurospora
Hemophilic person marries a girl having no history of the disease in her pedigree. What is the chance that a haemophilic child is born to them
75%
50%
0%
25%
