Mendelian Genetics

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Mendelian Genetics: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Mendel's Laws of Inheritance, Mendel's Experiment, Pre-Mendelian Concepts of Heredity & Qualitative Inheritance etc.

Important Questions on Mendelian Genetics

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Which of the following law of inheritance has not been given by Mendel:

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A homozygous tall pea plant with yellow seeds is crossed with a dwarf pea plant with green seeds. The phenotypic ratio of its F2 plants would be:

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What will happen when there are two dominant genes in a qualitative type of inheritance?

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What is the other name of qualitative inheritance?

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Give an example of qualitative inheritance?

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What is qualitative inheritance?

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Which among the following characters selected by Mendel in a pea plant is a recessive character?

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What is the scientific name of the pea plant?

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What is the scientific name of the plant that Mendel used for his experiment?

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Which of the following trait was not studied by Mendel in his work?

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Arrange the discoveries in ascending chronological order.
A. Discovery of citric acid cycle
B. Discovery of cell
C. Laws of inheritance
D. Book on agriculture and weeds
E. Discovery of genetic nature of RNA
F. Description and identification of plants

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Which of the following characters not studied by Mendel in his Pea plant experiment?

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Which one of the following Mendelian traits is present on the 5th  Chromosome?

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Who enunciated the principles or laws of inheritance?

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The criteria to be fulfilled by a molecule to act as genetic material includes:
(i) It should be able to replicate.
(ii) It should be structurally and chemically stable.
(iii) It should be able to undergo slow mutations.
(iv) It should be able to express itself in the form of 'Mendelian characters'.

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One of the important factors which led to Mendel's success was

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Mendel studied seven characters that were located on __A__ different chromosomes. Maximum three characters are located on chromosome __B__.

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Which of the following is the dominant character according to Mendel?

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The following blanks can be filled only by numbers.

1. Gregor Mendel conducted hybridization experiments on garden peas for (P) years.
2. Mendel selected (Q) true-breeding pea plant varieties.
3. In a human population, there are (R) alleles for ABO Blood group.
4. In Drosophila, genes for white eye and yellow body show (S)% recombination.

The correct arrangement is

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Why Mendel's work was not recognized till 1900?