a. Trisomy of 21st Chromosome b. XXY c. XO Solution: Aneuploidy occurs when chromatid segregation fails during the cell division cycle, resulting in the gain or loss of a chromosome(s). Polyploidy...
4. Discuss in detail the contributions of Morgan and Sturvant in the area of genetics.
Solution: Hunt, Thomas Morgan and his colleagues carried out multiple dihybrid crosses of drosophila to examine the sex-linked genes and experimentally proved the theory of inheritance. Example:...
3. A normal visioned woman, whose father is colour blind, marries a normal visioned man. What would be the probability of her sons and daughters to be colour blind? Explain with the help of a pedigree chart.
Solution: Color blindness is a disorder that can be handed down through the generations .
2. a. In humans, males are heterogametic and females are homogametic. Explain. Are there any examples where males are homogametic and females heterogametic?
b. Also describe as to, who determines the sex of an unborn child? Mention whether the temperature has a role in sex determination. Solution: Humans have XY chromosomes that determine their gender....
1. In a plant, tallness is dominant over dwarfness and red flower is dominant over white. Starting with the parents work out a dihybrid cross. What is the standard dihybrid ratio? Do you think the values would deviate if the two genes in question are interacting with each other?
Solution:
15. It is said, that the harmful alleles get eliminated from the population over some time, yet sickle cell anaemia is persisting in the human population. Why?
Solution: The human population still has sickle cell anaemia. It affects people who have mutations in both their maternal and paternal haemoglobin genes. The patients are more protected against...
14. With the help of an example differentiate between incomplete dominance and co-dominance.
Solution: It creates a combination of the expression of two alleles in partial dominance, and the F1 does not resemble either of the parents. Flower colour in a dog flower is an example. There is no...
13. What is artificial selection? Do you think it affects the process of natural selection? How?
Solution: It is a type of selection in which people choose desired features or a mix of traits in order to take advantage of species differences. Only in plants does the process of natural selection...
12. What is recombination? Discuss the applications of recombination from genetic engineering.
Solution: Recombination is the process of creating non-parental gene combinations through cross-over or independent selection. Alfred Sturtevant calculated the distance between gene pairs on the...
11. How do genes and chromosomes share similarity from genetical studies?
Solution: 1. It both occurs in pair 2. Genes and chromosomes separate during gamete development, and one of each pair is passed to a gamete. 3. The pairs will independently separate each...
10. Discuss why Drosophila has been used extensively for genetical studies.
Solution: Because it is a simple synthetic medium that can be cultivated in the laboratory, Drosophila has been utilised extensively for genetic studies. A single mating can result in a vast number...
9. If a father and son are both defective in red-green colour vision, is it likely that the son inherited the trait from his father? Comment.
Solution: Color blindness is a frequent genetic illness, meaning it is handed down from one generation to the next. When a father is colorblind, his daughter can only inherit an X chromosome. As a...
7. In peas, tallness is dominant over dwarfness, and red colour of flowers is dominant over the white colour. When a tall plant bearing red flowers was pollinated with a dwarf plant bearing white flowers, the different phenotypic groups were obtained in the progeny in numbers mentioned against them:
Tall, Red = 138 Tall, White = 132 Dwarf, Red = 136 Dwarf, White = 128 Mention the genotypes of the two parents and the four offspring types. Solution:
6. What are the characteristic features of a true-breeding line?
Solution: It boosts the organism's homozygozity. Through deletion, this also aids in the elimination of dangerous recessive genes. As a result, it encourages the accumulation of superior genes.
5. A plant with red flowers was crossed with another plant with yellow flowers. If F1 showed all flowers orange in colour, explain the inheritance.
Solution: Incomplete dominance is the inheritance. F1 had a phenotype that was in between the parent plants and did not resemble either of them.
4. How was it concluded that genes are located on chromosomes?
Solution: Morgan confirmed Mendelian inheritance laws as well as the fact that genes are found on the same chromosomes. In Drosophila, he discovered that eye colour was a sex-linked feature....
3. What is Downβs syndrome? Give its symptoms and cause. Why is it that the chance of having a child with Downβs syndrome increases if the age of the mother exceeds forty years?
Solution: The presence of an extra copy of chromosomal number 21 (9trisomy of 21) causes Down syndrome. 23 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes make up the karyotype. (There are a total...
2. Can a child have blood group O if his parents have blood group βAβ and βBβ? Explain.
Solution: Yes, a child can have blood group O if both of his parents have blood groups A and B. The gene I controls ABO blood grouping in humans. IA, IB, and I are the three alleles of the gene (I)....
1. In a Mendelian monohybrid cross, the F2 generation shows identical genotypic and phenotypic ratios. What does it tell us about the nature of alleles involved? Justify your answer.
Solution: Starting with homozygous dominant and homozygous recessive parents in a monohybrid cross, F1 with partial dominance can show identical genotypic and phenotypic ratios.
15. How does a mutagen induce mutation? Explain with example.
Solution: A mutagen can alter the alignment and content of nitrogen bases in DNA, resulting in a different gene product and therefore mutation.
14. Even if a character shows multiple allelism, an individual will only have two alleles for that character. Why?
Solution: A diploid organism has more than two alleles, and each character has two alleles. Multiple alleles can be discovered in population research.
13. Discuss the genetic basis of wrinkled phenotype of pea seed.
Solution: The tiny grain size produced by a double recessive allele is the genetic basis for the wrinkled phenotype of pea seed.
2. In our society, a woman is often blamed for not bearing a male child. Do you think it is right? Justify.
Solution: The father, not the mother, determines the baby's sex. The X chromosome is carried by 50% of sperm while the Y chromosome is carried by 50% of sperm. After fusing, the zygote has XX or YY...
11. A, B, D are three independently assorting genes with their recessive alleles a, b, d, respectively. A cross was made between individuals of Aa bb DD genotype with aa bb dd. Find out the type of genotypes of the offspring produced.
Solution: The given cross is Aa bb DD X aa bb dd. Hence the offspringβs would be:
10. For the expression of traits, genes provide only the potentiality and the environment provides the opportunity. Comment on the veracity of the statement.
Solution: Individual phenotype is the product of the interaction of environment and genotype. Phenotype = Genotype + Environment
9. In a monohybrid cross of plants with red and white-flowered plants, Mendel got only red-flowered plants. On self-pollinating these F1 plants got both red and white-flowered plants in 3:1 ratio. Explain the basis of using RR and rr symbols to represent the genotype of plants of the parental generation.
Solution: Mendel obtained only red-flowered plants with genotype Rr by crossing red (RR) and white (rr) flowering plants. This is the first hybrid generation's filial progeny (F1) or plants. F1...
8. How are the alleles of a particular gene differ from each other? Explain its significance.
Solution: Homozygous means that the allelic pairings of a gene are same, whereas heterozygous means that the allelic pairs of a gene are different. A dominant factor is one of two distinct factors,...
7. Genes contain the information that is required to express a particular trait.β Explain.
Solution:
6. To obtain the F1 generation Mendel pollinated a pure-breeding tall plant with a pure breeding dwarf plant. But forgetting the F2 generation, he simply self-pollinated the tall F1 plants. Why?
Solution: Because of true breeding, Mendel pollinated a pure-breeding tall plant with a pure-breeding dwarf plant to produce the F1 generation. Half of the kids of a genotype resemble one parent,...
5. The pedigree chart given below shows a particular trait which is absent in parents but present in the next generation irrespective of sexes. Draw your conclusion based on the pedigree.
Solution: According to the pedigree, both parents are carriers, and only a handful of the kids exhibit the feature that is gender agnostic. The other could be normal or a carrier.
4. A person has to perform crosses to study the inheritance of a few traits/characters. What should be the criteria for selecting the organisms?
Solution: True breeding is the criterion for selecting the organisms.
3. Enlist the steps of controlled cross-pollination. Would emasculation be needed in a cucurbit plant? Give reasons for your answer.
Solution: 1. Selection of parents with desired characters 2 Emasculation and bagging procedures protect the stigma against contamination (unwanted pollen grains). Cucurbits are monoecious...
2. Do you think Mendelβs laws of inheritance would have been different if the characters that he chose were located on the same chromosome?
Solution: Even if the characteristics were on the same chromosome, Mendel's rules of inheritance would not have been different because Mendel's laws of inheritance would not have been different even...
1. What is the cross between the progeny of F1 and the homozygous recessive parent called? How is it useful?Solution:
The Test cross is a cross between F1 progeny (that is, F2 generation) and a homozygous recessive parent that is used to determine the genotype (genetic makeup) of a plant whose phenotype (visible...
18. Mother and father of a person with βOβ blood group have βAβ and βBβ blood
group, respectively. What would be the genotype of both mother and father? a. Mother is homozygous for βAβ blood group and father is heterozygous for βBβ b. Mother is heterozygous for βAβ blood...
17. In the F2 generation of a Mendelian dihybrid cross the number of
phenotypes and genotypes are: a. phenotypes β 4; genotypes β 16 b. phenotypes β 9; genotypes β 4 c. phenotypes β 4; genotypes β 8 d. phenotypes β 4; genotypes β 9Solution: Option (d) is the...
16. Two genes βAβ and βBβ are linked. In a dihybrid cross involving these two
genes, the F1 heterozygote is crossed with the homozygous recessive parental type (aa bb). What would be the ratio of offspring in the next generation? a. 1: 1 : 1: 1 b. 9 : 3 : 3: 1 c. 3: 1 d. 1: 1...
15. It is said that Mendel proposed that the factor controlling any character
is discrete and independent. His proposition was based on the a. results of the F3 generation of a cross. b. observations that the offspring of a cross made between the plants having two contrasting...
14. 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 Solution: Option (b) is...
13. In a certain taxon of insects, some have 17 chromosomes and the others
have 18 chromosomes. The 17 and 18 chromosome-bearing organisms are: a. males and females, respectively b. females and males, respectively c. all males d. all females Solution: Option (a) is the...
12. Occasionally, a single gene may express more than one effect. The
the phenomenon is called: a. multiple allelism b. mosaicism c. pleiotropy d. polygeny Solution: Option (c) is the answer.
11. Mendelβs Law of independent assortment holds good for genes situated
on the: a. non-homologous chromosomes b. homologous chromosomes c. extranuclear genetic element d. same chromosome Solution: Option (b) is the answer.
10. Which of the following will not result in variations among siblings?
a. Independent assortment of genes b. Crossing over c. Linkage d. Mutation Solution: Option (c) is the answer
9. In a dihybrid cross, if you get 9:3:3:1 ratio it denotes that:
a. The alleles of two genes are interacting with each other b. It is a multigenic inheritance c. It is a case of multiple allelism d. The alleles of two genes are segregating independently Solution:...
8. A cross between two tall plants resulted in offspring having few dwarf
plants. What would be the genotypes of both the parents? a. TT and Tt b. Tt and Tt c. TT and TT d. Tt and tt Solution: Option (b) is the answer.
7. Z Z / ZW type of sex determination is seen in:
a. Platypus b. Snails c. Cockroach d. Peacock Solution: Option (d) is the answer.
6. The person having genotype IA IB would show the blood group as AB. This is
because of: a. Pleiotropy b. Co-dominance c. Segregation d. Incomplete dominance Solution: Option (b) is the answer.
5. In sickle cell anaemia glutamic acid is replaced by valine. Which one of
the following triplets codes for valine? a. G G G b. A A G c. G A A d. G U G Solution: Option (d) is the answer.
4. If a genetic disease is transferred from a phenotypically normal but carrier
female to only some of the male progeny, the disease is: a. Autosomal dominant b. Autosomal recessive c. Sex-linked dominant d. Sex-linked recessiveSolution: Option (d) is the answer.
3. Distance between the genes and the percentage of recombination shows:
a. a direct relationship b. an inverse relationship c. a parallel relationship d. no relationship Solution: Option (a) is the answer.
2. Conditions of a karyotype 2n +1, 2n β1 and 2n + 2, 2n β 2 are called:
a. Aneuploidy b. Polyploidy c. Allopolyploidy d. Monosomy Solution: Option (a) is the answer.
1. All genes located on the same chromosome:
a. Form different groups depending upon their relative distance b. Form one linkage group c. Will not from any linkage groups d. Form interactive groups that affect the phenotype Solution: Option...