Assertion : Phenylketonuria is a recessive hereditary disease caused by the body’s failure to oxidize an amino acid phenylalanine to tyrosine, because of a defective enzyme.

Reason : It results in the presence of phenylalanine acid in the urine.

  1. If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion
  2. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion
  3. If the assertion is true but the reason is false
  4. If both the assertion and reason are false
Subtopic:  Mendelian Disorders |
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Assertion   :       In honey bee, life history shows natural and complete parthenogenesis.

Reason      :       In honey bee, both drones and workers are parthenogenetically developed.

  1. If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion
  2. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion
  3. If the assertion is true but the reason is false
  4. If both the assertion and reason are false
Subtopic:  Sex Determination |
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Assertion: Dominance is not always an autonomous feature of gene or its product.

Reason: Occasionally a single gene product may produce more than one effects.

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  2. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion
  3. If the assertion is true but the reason is false
  4. If both the assertion and reason are false
Subtopic:  Monohybrid Cross: 1 | Polygenic Inheritance & Pleiotropy |
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In the following questions a statement of assertion (A) is followed by a statement of reason (R).
Assertion (A): Organisms lacking one complete chromosome are called monosomics.
Reason (R): Down’s syndrome is an example of monosomy.
  
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
2. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
3. (A) is true but (R) is false.
4. Both (A) and (R) are false.
  1. If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion
  2. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion
  3. If the assertion is true but the reason is false
  4. If both the assertion and reason are false
Subtopic:  Non - Disjunction & Aneuploidy | Sex Aneuploidy - Turner & Klinefelter Syndrome |
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