
In a di-hybrid cross where two parents differ in two pairs of contrasting traits like seed colour yellow (YY) and seed colour green (yy) with seed shape round (RR) and seed shape wrinkled (rr), the number of green coloured seeds (yy) among sixteen products of the F2 generation will be


Important Questions on Heredity and Variation

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Scientist _____ first described linkage in Drosophila. (Darwin, Morgan, Mendel, Muller)

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The law of Mendel obtained from the monohybrid cross is known as _____. (Independent Assortment, Linkage, Segregation, Dominance)

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Mendel did an experiment on _____ plant. [Paddy, Wheat, Bean, Pea]
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From the dihybrid cross, Mendel derived the law of _____. [Independent Assortment, Segregation, Linkage, Non-disjunction]

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Mendel worked on _____ pairs of contrasting characters. [4, 5, 7, 9]

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The dwarf character of pea plant is a _____ character. [Recessive, Dominant, Semi-dominant, Codominant]

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_____ is the phenotypic F2 ratio obtained from monohybrid cross. [1 : 1, 3 : 1, 1:2:3, 2: 1]
