This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Biology Chapter 5 Principles Of Inheritance And Variation – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Biology Chapter 5 Principles Of Inheritance And Variation Quiz 9 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Haplodiploidy technique of sex determination facilitates A) Only male species. B) Only females. C) Evolution of sociality. D) Dosage compensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evolution of sociality. 2. The non-disjunction of 21st pair of autosomal chromosome leads to A) Sickle cell anaemia. B) Klinefelter's syndrome. C) Turner's syndrome. D) Down's syndrome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Down's syndrome. 3. Who is recognized as the Father and Founder of genetics? A) Gregor Johann Mendel. B) Isaac Newton. C) Albert Einstein. D) Charles Darwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gregor Johann Mendel. 4. Heterozygous tall and violet flowered plant (Tt Ww) was selfed, and a total of 1000 seeds were collected. The number of seeds with Ttww genotype will be A) 500. B) 750. C) 250. D) 125. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 125. 5. If 75% of the offspring show dominant character, then the parents are A) Both heterozygous. B) One dominant and the other recessive. C) Both recessive. D) Both dominant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both heterozygous. 6. A man whose father was color blind marries a woman who had a colour blind mother and normal father. What percentage of male children of this couple will be colour blind? A) 25%. B) 0%. C) 50%. D) 75%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 50%. 7. The inheritance pattern of a gene over generations among humans is studied by the pedigree analysis. Character studied in the pedigree analysis is equivalent to A) Quantitative trait. B) Mendelian trait. C) Polygenic trait. D) Maternal trait. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mendelian trait. 8. A colourblind man (X$^{c}$Y) marries a woman who is carrier for haemophilia (XX$^{h}$). Which of the following is true for their progenies? A) 25% female progenies carry the genes for both haemophilia and colourblindness. B) 25% male progenies carry only the gene for haemophilia. C) 25% female progenies carry only the gene for colourblindness. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 9. The allele which is unable to express its effect in the presence of another is called A) Codominant. B) Supplementary. C) Complementary. D) Recessive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recessive. 10. A tall red-flowered pea plant after crossing with a dwarf white-flowered plant yields only tall red-flowered plants. A test cross shall give a ratio of A) 1:1. B) 3:1. C) 1:2:4:6:4:2:1. D) 1:1:1:1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1:1:1:1. 11. When dominant and recessive alleles express itself together it is called A) Codominance. B) Dominance. C) Amphidominance. D) Pseudodominance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Codominance. 12. Which of the following is not a hereditary disease? A) Cystic fibrosis. B) Thalassemia. C) Hemophilia. D) Cretinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cretinism. 13. Alleles are A) Alternate forms of genes. B) Linked genes. C) Chromosomes that have crossed over. D) Homologous chromosomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alternate forms of genes. 14. Mendelian disorders are mainly determined by A) Alteration or mutation in single gene. B) Absence of one chromosome. C) Excess of one or more chromosome. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alteration or mutation in single gene. 15. Suppose that in sheep, a dominant allele B produces black hair and a recessive allele b produces white hair. If you saw a black sheep, you'll be able to identify A) Its phenotype for hair colour. B) Its genotype for hair colour. C) The genotype of only one of its parents. D) The genotype of both the parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Its phenotype for hair colour. 16. Which one is not Non-Mendelian inheritance- A) Pleitropy. B) Polygenic Inheritance. C) Multiple allelism. D) Complete Dominance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Complete Dominance. 17. IN Mirabilis jalapa WHEN THE PLANT WITH RED FLOWER CROSSED WITH THAT OF WHITE FLOWER F1 HYBRIDS SHOW FLOWERS WITH PINK COLOUR, THIS IS DUE TO A) MENDELIAN DOMINANCE. B) CODOMINANCE. C) INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE. D) ALL OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE. 18. In sickle cell anaemia, glutamic acid is replaced by valine. Which one of the following triplets codes for valine A) GAA. B) GAG. C) GUA. D) GUG. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) GUG. 19. Which of the following is suitable for experiments on linkage? A) AABB x aabb. B) AaBb x AaBb. C) AaBB x aaBB. D) AAbb x AaBB. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AaBb x AaBb. 20. In a cross between negro and albino skin colour of humans showing polygenic inheritance, the phenotypic ratio in F$_{2}$ generation will be A) 9:3:3:1. B) 1:6:15:20:15:6:1. C) 1:4:6:4:1. D) 1:2:2:4:1:2:1:2:1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1:6:15:20:15:6:1. 21. Chromosome theory of inheritance is proposed on the basis that A) Alleles of genes and homologous chromosomes are having similarity. B) Alleles of genes and homologous chromosomes do not share any similarity. C) Alleles of genes are more than that of chromosome. D) Chromosome are more than that of alleles of genes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alleles of genes and homologous chromosomes are having similarity. 22. What is the genotype of an individual? A) Physical appearance. B) Genetic makeup. C) Nature of the individual. D) Blended characteristics of the individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genetic makeup. 23. A gamete carries only one factor of a character. Above statement justifies A) Law of dominance. B) Incomplete dominance. C) Law of segregation. D) Law of independent assortment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Law of segregation. 24. Male XX and female XY sometime occur due to A) Deletion. B) Transfer of segments in X and Y chromosome. C) Aneuploidy. D) Hormonal imbalance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transfer of segments in X and Y chromosome. 25. Mendel took the pollen from one pea plant and placed it onto the pistil of a second pea plants. This is ..... A) Trait. B) Allele. C) Self-pollination. D) Cross-pollination. 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