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SAMPLE QUESTIONS
GROUP - A
(Objective-type Questions)
1. Choose the correct answer :
(i) A cross between F1 hybrid and a recessive parent gives the ratio of
(a) 3:1 (c) 1:1
(b) 2:1 (d) 4:1
(ii) A cross of F1 with the recessive parent is known as
(a) back cross (c) hyrbid cross
(b) test cross (d) double cross
(iii) A woman with albinic father marries and albinic man. The proportion of her progeny is
(a) 2 normal : 1 albinic (c) all albinic
(d) all normal (d) 1 normal : 1 albinic
(iv) Y cromosome is called
(a) sex cromosome (c) androsome
(b) autosome (d) gynaesome
(v) Which one is a sex-linked disorder ?
(a) leukemia (c) night blindness
(b) cancer (d) colour blindness
(vi) A haemophilic man marries a normal homozygous woman. What is the probability
that their son will be haemophilic?
(a) 100% (c) 50%
(b) 75% (d) 0%
(vii) What is the probability that their daughter will be haemophilic?
(a) 100% (c) 50%
(b) 75% (d) 0%
(viii) A furitfly exhibiting both male and female trait is
(a) heterozygous (c) hemizygous
(b) gynandromorph (d) Gynandev
(ix) Genes located in Y chromosome are
(a) mutant genes (c) holandric genes
(b) autosomal genes (d) sex-linked genes
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(x) A colourblind person cannot distinguish
(a) all colours (c) green colour
(b) red colour (d) red and green colours
(xi) The gene responsible for haemophilia is linked to which chromosome ?
(a) X (c) Y
(b) both X and Y (d) Autosome
(xii) Red-green colourblindness in man is :
(a) sex-linked character (c) sex influenced character
(b) sex-limited character (d) sexual character
(xiii) Sex-linked characters are
(a) dominant (c) recessive
(b) lethal (d) not inherited
(xiv) Which gene is present in the Y chromosome that codes for the protein TDF?
(a) Cry (c) Sry
(b) Try (d) tra
(xv) In birds, which type of chromosomal basis of sex determination is present?
(a) XX - XY (c) ZW - ZZ
(b) XX - XO (d) ZZ - ZO
(xvi) When the ratio of X / A = 0.67 in genic balance theory, which type of sex is expressed ?
(a) super female (c) super male
(b) intersex (d) triploid female
(xvii) Which type of sex determination is found Bonellia
(a) temperature dependent (c) holandric
(b) chemotacic (d) pseudoautosomal
(xviii) In a person with Turner syndrome, the number of X chromosome is
(a) 1 (c) 3
(b) 2 (d) 0
(xix) A Down syndrome will be
(a) 45 + XX (c) 44 + XXY
(b) 44 + XY (d) 22 + XY
(xx) Number of Barr bodies present in Turner syndrome is
(a) 0 (c) 2
(b) 1 (d) b or c
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2. Answer each of the following in one or two words :
(i) Name two sex-linked diseases of human being.
(ii) How Down syndrome is caused?
(iii) In which chromosome is the gene for haemophilia located?
(iv) What is the chromosomal formula for Truner syndrome?
(v) Which sex is usually a carrier?
(vi) Who proposed the ‘Genic balance theory’?
(vii) What are holandric genes?
(viii) In which chromosome, the factors for haemophilia and colourblindness is found?
(ix) What is the other name of Bleeders disease?
(x) Which protein is in ‘Sry’ gene of Y chromosome?
(xi) What is ‘Gynandromorph’?
(xii) What is ‘Free martin’?
(xiii) What ‘Criss-cross inheritance’?
(xiv) Which type of defect is found in ‘Thalassemia’?
(xv) Who first described ‘Klinefelter’s syndrome’?
GROUP - B
(Short Answer-type Questions)
1. Difference between :
(i) Phenotype and Genotype
(ii) Autosome and Allosome
(iii) X chromosome and Y chromosome
(iv) Supermale and superfemale
(v) Sex differentiation and Sex reversal
(vi) Gynadromaph and Free martin
(vii) Down syndrome and Turner syndrome
2. Write brief notes on the following (within 50 words each) :
(i) Criss-cross inheritance
(ii) Holandric gene
(iii) Haplo-diploidy mechanism of sex determination
(iv) Genic balance theory
(v) Free martin
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(vi) Gynamdromorph
(vii) Single gene effect
(viii) Sex reversal
(ix) Temperature-dependant sex determination.
(x) Chemotactic sex determination
(xi) Thalassemia
(xii) Down syndrome
(xiii) Turner syndrome
(xiv) Klinefelter syndrome
GROUP - C
(Long Answer-type Questions)
1. Discuss the chromosomal theory of sex determination.
2. What is genic balance theory and explain its role in sex determination.
3. Explain sex-linked inheritance. Discuss the phenomenon with the example of colour
blindness.
4. Give an account of sex-linkage in Drasophila and Man.
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