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Transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring is

A

Variation

B

Heredity

C

Blending

D

Somatoplasm

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CENGAGE BIOLOGY-MENDELIAN INHERITANCE-CONSOLIDATED EXERCISE (MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS WITH ONE OR MORE THAN ONE CORRECT ANSWER)
  1. Genotypic ratio of dihybrid cross is:

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  2. Gene term used by Mendel is

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  3. How many different types of gametes can be formed by "F"(1) progeny re...

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  4. The ability of a gene to have multiple phenotypic effects is known ...

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  5. The term gene for Mendellan factor was coined by

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  6. Transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring is

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  7. When dominant and recessive alleles express themselves together, it is...

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  8. Genes controlling seven traits in Pea studied by Mendel were actually ...

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  9. Two crosses between the same pair of genotypes or phenotypes in which ...

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  10. If a character is controlled by six alleles of a gene, then the possib...

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  11. Which one of the following cross would have ratio

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  12. Presence of intermediate character during stage is called

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  13. In sickle cell anaemia, Glutamic acid is replaced by

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  14. The phenotypic ratio of incomplete dominance is ……….. .

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  15. ABO blood group were discovered by :

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  16. A person with blood group AB has which of the antigens in RBCs.

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  17. Possible blood groups of children born to parents having A and AB gr...

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  18. Mendel's law of independent assortment is applicable for

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  19. Variations occur mostly due to:

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  20. Gregor Johann Mendel, the father of gentics was

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