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MCQs for Heredity and Evolution
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1. Which of the following decides the sex of the child?
2. A man with blood group A marries a woman having blood group O. What will be the blood group of the child?
3. A cross between a tall pea-plant (TT) and a short pea-plant (tt) resulted in progenies that were all tall plants because
4. A cross between a tall pea-plant (TT) and a short pea-plant (tt) resulted in progenies that were all tall plants because
5. Pure-bred pea plant A is crossed with pure¬bred pea plant B. It is found that the plants which look like A do not appear in Fj gene¬ration but re-emerge in F2 generation. Which of the plants A and B are tall and dwarf?
6. A man with blood group A marries a woman having blood group O. What will be the blood group of the child?
7. A zygote which has an X-chromosome inherited from the father will develop into a
8. The number of pairs of sex chromosomes in the zygote of a human being is
9. Those organs which have different basic structure but have similar appearance and perform similar functions are called
10. Identify the two organisms which are now extinct and are studied from their fossils.
11. Process of selecting individuals with desired characters by man is called
12. In humans if gene B gives brown eyes and gene b gives blue eyes, what will be the colour of eyes of the persons having combinations (i) Bb and (ii) BB?
13. What does the progeny of a tall plant with round seeds and a short plant with wrinkled seeds look like?
14. Which one of the following pairs are homologous organs?
15. If a round, green seeded pea-plant (RRyy) is crossed with a wrinkled yellow seeded pea- plant (rrYY), the seeds produced in F1 generation are
16. Which of the following characters can be acquired but not inherited?
17. The process of evolution of a species whereby characteristics which help individual organisms to survive and reproduce are passed on to their offspring and those characteristics which do not help are not passed on is called
18. Process of selecting individuals with desired characters by man is called
19. The process by which new species develop from the existing species is known as
20. The remaps (or impressions) of dead animals or plant? that lived in the remote past are known as
21. Those organs which have different basic structure but have similar appearance and perform similar functions are called
22. The theory of evolution of species by natural selection was given by