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Class 12 Biology Practice Test: Principles of Inheritance and Variation - Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
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Class 12 Biology Practice Test: Principles of Inheritance and Variation - Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
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1. The process of transfer of characters from parents to offspring is referred to as ______
2. Which of the following is not a pair of contrasting traits studied by Mendel?
3. Which of the following is a recessive trait in pea plants?
4. The structure of DNA by ______ received the Nobel Prize in 1962.
5. What technique in plant biology was used by Gregor Mendel to derive the patterns of inheritance?
6. What branch of biology focusses on the study of patterns of inheritance?
7. Who proposed the laws of inheritance in living organisms?
8. What was the model organism used by Mendel to give the laws of inheritance?
9. What determines the differences between the progeny and parents?
10. If you were to sample garden pea plants in Mendel’s garden, which of the following statements would hold?
11. What method is used to produce a true-breeding line?
12. What was the type of pea lines used by Mendel?
13. Which of the following is not an attribute associated with Mendel’s studies?
14. Which of the following approaches used by early humans is not an instance of exploitation of variation in population for the benefit of society?
15. Sexual reproduction produces larger variations than asexual reproduction.
16. What, according to Medel, was responsible for the inheritance of specific traits?
17. Which of the following is a dominant character in pea plants?
18. Round and wrinkled seeds were one of the contrasting traits used by Mendel to devise the laws of inheritance.