Identify an autosomal recessive inborn error of metabolism the effects of which can be completely overcome by regulating the diet of the affected individual:
1. | Cystic fibrosis | 2. | Huntington’s chorea |
3. | Albinism | 4. | Phenylketonuria |
A gene is said to be dominant if:
1. | It expresses its effect only in the homozygous stage |
2. | It expresses only in heterozygous condition |
3. | It expresses both in homozygous and heterozygous conditions |
4. | It is never expressed in any condition |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The number of types of gametes produced by a plant with the genotype AaBbCCDd will be:
1. | 2 | 2. | 4 |
3. | 8 | 4. | 16 |
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 |
1. | determine whether the individual is heterozygous or homozygous dominant |
2. | determine whether a gene is located on a sex chromosome or an autosome |
3. | differentiate between incomplete dominance and codominance |
4. | identify linkage between two genes |