Sickle cell disease is an example of:
1. Sex linked recessive disorder
2. Pleiotropy
3. Polygenic trait
4. Sex influenced trait
What decides the frequency of an allele in a population?
1. | Dominance |
2. | Its location on a particular chromosome |
3. | Its degree of expression |
4. | Natural selection |
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What is the number of linkage groups in humans?
1. 22
2. 23
3. 24
4. 46
Assuming complete dominance
recessiveness and independent assortment,
the ratio of progeny with the genotypes AaBb,
AABb, Aabb and aaBb from a cross AaBb X
AABb would respectively be:
1. 4:4:2:0
2. 4:2:4:2
3. 4:4:2:2
4. 4:4:2:1
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A certain gene has 5 alleles. What will be the number of possible genotypic combinations?
1. 5
2. 15
3. 32
4. 2
How many unique gametes could be produced through independent assortment by an individual with the genotype AaBbCCDdEE?
1. | 4 | 2. | 8 |
3. | 16 | 4. | 32 |
The improvement of microscopy techniques in the late 1800s set the stage for the emergence of modern genetics because:
1. | it revealed new and unanticipated features of Mendel’s pea plant varieties. |
2. | it allowed biologists to study meiosis and mitosis, revealing the parallels between the behaviors of genes and chromosomes. |
3. | it allowed scientists to see the DNA present within chromosomes. |
4. | it led to the discovery of mitochondria. |
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An abnormal human of the karyotype 49, XXXYY will form how many Barr bodies?
1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
Male pattern baldness is a ___________ trait.
1. | Sex-linked | 2. | Sex-limited |
3. | Sex-influenced | 4. | Y-linked |
A sex aneuploid Drosophila has 2 sets of autosomes and sex chromosome complement XXY. This fly would be:
1. | A normal fertile female | 2. | A normal fertile male |
3. | An intersex | 4. | A metamale |
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