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VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS- PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY AND VARIATIONS

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1. What is the cross between the progeny of F 1 and the homozygous recessive parent called? How is it
useful?
2. Do you think Mendel’s laws of inheritance would have been different if the
characters that he chooses were located on the same chromosome?
3. Enlist the steps of controlled cross pollination. Would emasculation be needed in a cucurbit plant?
Give reasons for your answer.
4. A person has to perform crosses for the purpose of studying inheritance of a few traits/characters.
What should be the criteria for selecting the organisms?
5. The pedigree chart given below shows a particular trait which is absent in parents but present in
the next generation irrespective of sexes. Draw your conclusion on the basis of the pedigree.

6. In order to obtain the. F1 generation Mendel pollinated a pure-breeding tall plant with a pure
breeding dwarf plant. But for getting the F 2 generation, he simply self-pollinated the tall F 1 plants.
Why?
7. “Genes contain the information that is required to express a particular trait.” Explain.
8. How are alleles of particular gene differ from each other? Explain its significance.
9. In a monohybrid cross of plants with red and white flowered. Plants, Mendel got only red flowered
plants. On self-pollinating these F1 plants got both red and white flowered plants in 3:1 ratio. Explain
the basis of using RR and rr symbols to represent the genotype of plants of parental generation.
10. For the expression of traits genes provide only the potentiality and the environment provides the
opportunity. Comment on the veracity of the statement.
11. A, B, D are three independently assorting genes with their recessive alleles a, b, d, respectively. A
cross was made between individuals of Aa bb DD genotype with aa bb dd. Find out the type of
genotypes of the off spring produced.
12. In our society a woman is often blamed for not bearing male child. Do you think it is right? Justify.
13. Discuss the genetic basis of wrinkled phenotype of pea seed.
14. Even if a character shows multiple allelism, an individual will only have two alleles for that
character. Why?
15. How does a mutagen induce mutation? Explain with example.

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