Mendelian Genetics MCQs | Mendelian Genetics Multiple Choice Questions and Answers
Questions
1
The characteristic indicated by the blackened figures is probably:
Answer: Dominant
2
What are the genotypes of the parents?
Answer: Both are heterozygous dominant
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3
The cytoplasm of an animal cell is divided by means of:
Answer: A cleavage furrow
5
Long radishes crossed with round radishes result in all oval radishes. This type of inheritance is:
Answer: Multiple alleles
6
In drosophila (fruit flies), eye colour is sex-linked and red eye colour is dominant to white eye colour. Which of the following are not possible in a cross between a red-eyed male and a heterozygous female?
Answer: Carrier female
7
Genetic traits of seeds are noted as follows: L = long, l = short
W = wrinkled, w = smooth Y = yellow, y = white
R = ribbed, r = grooved
Which of the following is the genotype for a short, wrinkled, yellow, grooved seed?
Answer: LlWwYYRr
8
Carriers of the colour-blindness trait include:
Answer: Women who are heterozygous for the trait
9
A strand of DNA with the sequence A A C T T G will have a complimentary strand with the following sequence:
Answer: TTGAAC
10
The innate tendency of offspring to resemble their parents is called
Answer: Heridity
12
The physical expression or appearance of a character is called as
Answer: Phenotype
13
If the genotype consists of only one type of allele. It is called
Answer: Homozygous
14
If different alleles are present in the same genotype then it is called
Answer: Hetreozygous
16
The number of types of gametes produced by a heterozygous individual is
Answer: 2
18
The number of types of gametes produced by a homozygous individual is
Answer: 1
