1. The physical manifestation of an organism's genes is its ?

Phenotype

Genotype

Environment

Genetic code

Answer: Phenotype

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2. Blue eye colour in human is recessive to brown eye colour. The expected children of a marriage between blue-eyed woman and brown-eyed male who had a blue-eyed mother are likely to be ?

three blue-eyed and one brown-eyed

one blue-eyed and one brown-eyed

all brown-eyed

all blue-eyed

Answer: one blue-eyed and one brown-eyed

Explanation:


3. The number of autosomes in a human body cell is ?

23

44

22

46

Answer: 44

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4. Wild cabbage has evolved into new varieties like cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower by ?

reproductive isolation

artificial selection

natural selection

genetic drift

Answer: artificial selection

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5. Across between two individuals results in a ratio of 9 : 3 : 3 :1 for four possible phenotypes of progeny. This is an example of a ?

F1 generation

Test cross

Monohybrid cross

Dihybrid cross

Answer: Dihybrid cross

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6. A random change in the frequency of alleles in any population over several generations due to errors in the gametes is called ?

Genetic crash

Genetic error

Genetic Drift

Gene flow

Answer: Genetic Drift

Explanation:


7. If a plant is heterozygous for tallness, the F generation has both tall and dwarf plants. This proves the principle of ?

incomplete dominance

independent assortment

segregation

dominance

Answer: segregation

Explanation:


8. When a true breeding tall plant is crossed with a true breeding short plant and the F produced is self pollinated to produce F ratio of true breeding tall and true breeding short plant in F will be ?

1 : 3

1 : 2

1 : 1

2 : 1

Answer: 1 : 1

Explanation:

When pure bred tall plant with phenotype (TT) crossed with short plant with phenotype (tt), the possible progeny in F2 generation: TT (1), tt (1) and Tt (2). Thus the ratio of pure tall (TT) to pure short (tt) is 1:1.


9. Which concept was not included in Charles Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection ?

Overproduction of offspring.

Survival of the fittest

Punctuated equilibrium

Struggle for existence

Answer: Punctuated equilibrium

Explanation:


10. Those organs which have the same basic structure but different functions are called ?

Analogous organs

Homologous organs

Vestigial organs

None of these

Answer: Homologous organs

Explanation: