Mendelian Inheritance
Mendelian Inheritance: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Law of Segregation, Monohybrid Cross, Law of Independent Assortment, Dihybrid Cross, Mendel's Laws of Inheritance, Incomplete Dominance, Pleiotropy, Multiple Alleles, Polygenic Inheritance and, Punnett Square
Important Questions on Mendelian Inheritance
Monohybrid cross concerns the inheritance of a single character.
What is the definition of monohybrid cross?
What is a Punnett square example?
The inheritance in which the traits are controlled by two or more genes are called pleiotropy.
Which of the following is an example of polygenic trait?
The phenomenon of single gene-regulating several phenotypes is called
The character appears in the first filial generation is called recessive characters.
Define first filial generation.
Fill in the blank with the correct answer from the bracket.
Law of independent assortment is formulated from _____ cross. (monohybrid, test, back, dihybrid)
State the law of independent assortment proposed by Mendel.
Mendel's law of segregation states that
State the law of segregation proposed by Mendel.
Which of the following represents the phenotypic dihybrid ratio?
Which of the following is not the trait selected by Mendel in his experiment?
Mention any two contrasting characters in pea plant that were studied by Mendel.
AB blood group is an example of incomplete dominance.
Which of the following is an example of multiple allelism?
With the help of an example explain incomplete dominance.
In a plant, a cross between homozygous red-flowered (RR) plants and homozygous white-flowered (rr) plants showed a progeny of plants with all pink flowers,
What is this phenomenon known as?Mother and father of a person with ‘O’ blood group have ‘A’ and ‘B’ blood group, respectively. What would be the genotype of both mother and father?
