Gynecomastia is an important clinical feature seen in individuals with:
1. Klinefelter's syndrome
2. Turner’s syndrome
3. Oculocutaneous albinism
4. Down’s syndrome

Subtopic:  Sex Aneuploidy - Turner & Klinefelter Syndrome |
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The physiological basis of pleiotropy is:

1. lack of independent assortment in linked genes
2. separation of homologous chromosomes at anaphase I in meiosis I
3. dominance is not an autonomous feature of an allele
4. inter-relationships of many metabolic pathways in the living organisms
Subtopic:  Polygenic Inheritance & Pleiotropy |
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Drosophila melanogaster is a model organism for the study of genetics. The advantages of this organism include all the following except:

1. A long life cycle
2. A large number of progeny produced by a single mating
3. Clear differentiation between sexes
4. Hereditary variation is easily seen with low-power microscopes

Subtopic:  Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance: Introduction |
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Level 1: 80%+
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The rediscovery of Mendel’s Laws is credited independently to:

1. de Vries, Correns and von Tschermak
2. Sutton and Boveri
3. Garrod
4. Beadle and Tatum
Subtopic:  Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance: Further Considerations |
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The number of types of gametes produced by a plant with the genotype AaBbCCDd will be:

1. 2 2. 4
3. 8 4. 16
Subtopic:  Dihybrid Cross: Details |
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The number of recessive traits in a garden pea in the list given in the box below is:

dwarf stem height, wrinkled seed shape,
yellow seed color, yellow pod color, inflated pod shape,
terminal flower position, violet flower color
 
1. 2 2. 3
3. 4 4. 5
Subtopic:  Introduction to Genetics: 1 | Introduction to Genetics: 2 |
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Level 2: 60%+
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After analysis of results drawn from his experiments with pea plants, Mendel concluded:

1. There is considerable genetic variation in garden peas.
2. Traits are inherited in discrete units, and are not the results of "blending."
3. Recessive genes occur more frequently in the F1 than do dominant ones.
4. Genes are composed of DNA.
Subtopic:  Law of Segregation and Law of Independent Assortment |
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Level 1: 80%+
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Total number of autosomes will be the same in:

I. Male and female humans
II. Male and female birds
III. Male and female Drosophila
IV. Male and female grasshopper

 

1. Only I, II, and III
2. Only I, II, and IV
3. Only II, III, and IV
4. I, II, III, and IV
Subtopic:  Sex Determination |
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Level 2: 60%+
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The genetic change shown in the given figure shows the pathogenesis of:

 

1. Phenylketonuria 2. Cystic fibrosis
3. Sickle cell anemia 4. Thalassemia

Subtopic:  Mendelian Disorders: Sickle Cell Anemia |
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In a dihybrid cross between two pea plants with round and yellow seeds [heterozygous at both loci], the yellow and green color will segregate in a ratio:
1. 1 : 1
2. 3 : 1
3. 1 : 1 : 1 : 1
4. 9 : 3 : 3 : 1
Subtopic:  Dihybrid Cross Analysis |
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