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Principles of Inheritance and Variation PYQ — Page 7

NEET UG Zoology — Principles of Inheritance and Variation previous year questions with solutions.

All Principles of Inheritance and Variation Questions (192)

Phenotype of an organism is the result of:

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How many different kinds of gametes will be produced by a plant having the genotype AABbCC?

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Sickle cell anaemia has not been eliminated from the African population because:

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Both Sickle cell anaemia and Huntington's chorea are:

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Haemophilia is more commonly seen in human males than in human females because:

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De Vries gave his mutation theory on organic evolution while working on:

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In order to find out the different types of gametes produced by a pea plant having the genotype $\mathrm{AaBb}$ it should be crossed to a plant with the genotype:

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Which of the following is not a hereditary disease?

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A women with 47 chromosomes due to three copies of chromosome 21 is characterized by:

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A man and a woman, who do not show any apparent signs of a certain inherited disease, have seven children (2 daughters and 5 sons). Three of the sons suffer from the given disease but none of the daughters affected. Which of the following mode of inheritance do you suggest for this disease?

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Genes for cytoplasmic male sterility in plants are generally located in:

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A woman with normal vision, but whose father was colour blind, marries a colour blind man. Suppose that the fourth child of this couple was a boy. This boy:

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A normal woman, whose father was colour-blind is married to a normal man. The sons would be:

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Crossing over that results in genetic recombination in higher organisms occurs between:

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One of the parents of a cross has a mutation in its mitochondria. In that cross, that parent is taken as male. During segregation of $\mathrm{F}_2$ progenies that mutation is found in:

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A male human is heterozygous for autosomal genes $\mathrm{A}$ and $\mathrm{B}$ and is also hemizygous for hemophilic gene $h$. What proportion of his sperms will be $a b h$ ?

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The recessive genes located in $X$ chromosome humans are always:

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A self-fertilizing trihybrid plant forms:

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In mutational event, when adenine is replaced by guanine. it is a case of:

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A nutritionally wild type organism, which does not required any additional growth supplement is known as:

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In a plant, red fruit $(R)$ is dominant over yellow fruit $(r)$ and tallness $(T)$ is dominant over shortness $(t)$. If a plant with RRTt genotype is crossed with a plant that is rrtt,

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In the ABO system of blood groups, if both antigens are present but no antibody, the blood group of the individual would be:

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Lack of independent assortment of two genes A and B in fruit fly Drosophila is due to:

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Extranuclear inheritance is the consequence of presence of genes in:

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