A woman receives her X chromosomes from:

1. Her mother only

2. Her father only

3. Both her mother and father 

4. Mitochondria of mother only

 

Which of the following would not be a feature seen in a patient with the following karyotype ?

1. Many loops on finger tips

2. Congenital heart disease

3. Big and wrinkled tongue

4. Mucus clogging of airways

Given below is the initial amino acids of the beta chain of a hemoglobin molecule. What will be true about this hemoglobin molecule ?

The disease inheritance pattern exemplified in the given pedigree analysis can be:
 

Consider the following statements:

I. People affected by phenylketonuria are unable to convert tyrosine to phenylalanine.

II. Alzheimer's disease results from accumulation of amyloid protein plaques in the brain.

III. Klinefelter's and Turner's syndromes are the result of non disjunction of the sex chromosomes in either of sexes.

Which of the above statements are true?

1. I and II only

2. I and III only

3. II and III only

4. I, II and III

Consider the following statements:

I. If we put them through test cross, all homozygous dominant combinations will breed true but heterozygous genotypes will follow the segregation.

II. Two gene interactions such as epistasis do not follow the Menedelian principle of segregation.

III. In any diploid individual, only two alleles can be found, so multiple alleles can be detected only in a population.

Which of the above statements are true?

1. I and II only

2. I and III only

3. II and III only

4. I, II and III

A gene showing codominance has

(1) one allele dominant on the other

(2) alleles tightly linked on the same chromosome

(3) alleles that are recessive to each other

(4) both alleles independently expressed in the heterozygote

In his classic experiments on pea plants, Mendel did not use

(1) seed colour

(2) pod length

(3) seed shape

(4) flower position

How many pairs of contrasting characters in pea plants were studied by Mendel in his experiments?

(1) Five

(2) Six

(3) Eight

(4) Seven

Which one from those given below is the period of Mendel's hybridisation experiments?

(1) 1856 - 1863

(2) 1840 - 1850

(3) 1857 - 1869

(4) 1870 - 1877