PRINCIPLES OF INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
CHAPTER – 4 (UNIT VII – GENETICS AND EVOLUTION)
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE: 1 MARK
1. What is frameshift mutation?
2. Express the genotype of AB blood group?
3. Name the amino acid which fails to convert tyrosine into phenylketonuria.
4. Who proposed Mutation theory?
5. What is a back cross.
6. Who is the father of genetics?
7. Who termed gene?
8. Who termed genetics?
9. What is called heredity?
10. What is called point mutation?
11. Who coined the term ‘mutation’?
12. What is multiple allele?
13. What is mutation?
14. What is called mutagens?
15. Who rediscovered Mendel’s Law?
16. What is the genotype of an individual with turner’s syndrome.
17. What is meant by linkage group?
18. Who proposed the chromosomal theory of inheritance.
19. Name any two autosomal genetic disorder.
20. Name two sex linked disease of man.
21. Define:
i. Phenotype.
ii. Genotype.
iii. Test cross.
iv. Linkage
v. Gene.
vi. Homozygous
vii. Heterozygous
viii. Allele
SHORT ANSWER TYPE: 2 OR 3 MARKS
1. Explain the chromosomal theory of inheritance.
2. What is co-dominance? Explain with example.
3. How is sex determined in man?
4. Why the father never passes on the gene for haemophilia to his son?
5. Express the genotype of AB blood group.
6. Write the Mendel’s Law of Inheritance.
7. Explain incomplete dominance with example.
8. A child has blood group O. If the father has blood group A and mother blood group is B. Write
the genotypes of parents and possible genotypes of other offsprings.
9. What are the significance of crossing over?
10. Describe about Pedigree analysis.
11. What is point mutation? Give one example.
12. What is sex linked inheritance? Give one example.
13. Explain the haploid-diploid sex determination.
14. What do you mean by pleiotropy?
15. Write short notes on:
i. Haemophilia.
ii. Sickle cell anemia
iii. Colour blindness
iv. Phenylketonuria.
v. Thalassemia.
vi. Down’s syndrome.
vii. Turner’s syndrome.
viii. Klinefelter’s syndrome.
16. Write the difference between/ Distinguish between:
i. Sex chromosome and autosome.
ii. Down’s syndrome and Turner’s syndrome.
iii. Linkage and Recombination.
iv. Aneuploidy and Polyploidy.
v. Genotype and Phenotype.
vi. Klinefelter syndrome and Turner syndrome.
vii. Linkage and crossing over.
viii. Incomplete dominance and co-dominance.
ix. Deletion and duplication.
ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS: 4 OR 5 MARK
1. What is pedigree analysis? Explain with example how such analysis can be useful.
(or)
What is pedigree analysis? Describe about pedigree analysis with its significance.
2. Describe the Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance.
3. Describe the various chromosomal genetic disorder/disorder.
4. Explain the chromosomal theory of inheritance.
5. Describe the various Mendelian genetic disorder.
6. What is mutation? Explain the different types of mutation in details.
7. Explain the various types of chromosomal aberrations.
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