ASSERTION-REASON QUESTIONS
GENETICS
Q1. Assertion: A geneticist crossed two pea plant and got 50% tall and 50% dwarf plant.
Reason: Both plants were heterozygous tall
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Q2.Assertion: Variations are seen in offspring’s produced by sexual reproduction.
Reason: DNA molecule generated by replication is not completely identical to the original DNA
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Q3.Assertion: Mutation is sudden change in genetic material.
Reason: Survival of species becomes harmful because of variations that happen overtime.
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Q4.Assertion: Mendel took pea plants with different characteristics – a tall plant and a short plant.
Reason: Pea plant is cross-pollinating and have unisexual flowers.
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Q5.Assertion: The sex of the child is determined by the mother.
Reason: All children will inherit an X chromosome from their mother regardless of whether they are boys or girls
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Q6. Assertion (A): When two germ cells combine, they will restore the normal number of chromosomes in the progeny
Reason (R): This ensures the stability of the DNA of the species.
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Q7.Assertion (A): Learning a skill such as dance and music is an acquired trait.
Reason (R): Acquired traits develop in the life time of an individual and do not pass to the progeny.
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Q8.Assertion (A): Traits like eye colour or height are inherited traits.
Reason (R): Each trait can be influenced by both paternal and maternal DNA
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Q9.Assertion : No two individuals are absolutely alike in population.
Reason : Variation arises due to DNA copying
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Q10.Assertion: Recessive allele is an allele whose phenotype expresses even in the presence of another allele of that
gene.
Reason: Dominant allele is represented by a capital letter, e.g. T
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Q11.Assertion: Changes in non-reproductive tissues can be passed on to the DNA of the germ cells.
Reason: Acquired traits include the traits developed during the lifetime of an individual that cannot be passed on to its
progeny.
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Q12.Assertion: The ratio of plants when Mendel took pea plants with two contrasting characters was 9 :3:3:1.
Reason: The ratio of plants when Mendel took pea plants with one contrasting character was 1:1
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Q13 Assertion : Mendel was successful in his hybridization.
Reason : Garden pea proved ideal experimental material.
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Q14. Assertion: Mendel used true-breeding pea lines for artificial pollination experiments for his genetic studies.
Reason: For several generations, a true-breeding line shows the stable trait inheritance and expression.
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Q15. Assertion: On true breeding lines, Mendel conducted cross pollination experiments.
Reason: For several generations, true breed line have stable trait inheritance.
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Q16. Assertion : Cross of F1 individual with recessive homozygous parent is test cross.
Reason : No recessive individual are obtained in the monohybrid test cross progeny.
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Q17.Assertion: The progeny produced have both the characters of parents.
Reason: The process by which characters pass from parent to progeny is known as inheritance.
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Q18. Assertion: The progeny in F2-generation traits were identical to their parental type.
Reason: The progeny show no blending of traits.
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Q19. Assertion: Genes pass from one generation to another.
Reason: The unit of inheritance are genes.
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Q20. Assertion : In a monohybrid cross, F1 generation indicate dominant characters.
Reason : Dominance occurs only in heterozygous state.
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Q21. Assertion: In monohybrid cross, at F2 stage, both parental traits are expressed in 3 : 1 proportion.
Reason: At F2 stage, the contrasting parental traits show blending.
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Q22. Assertion: The cross between the F1 progeny and either of the parent types is a test cross.
Reason: The cross between F1 progeny and the double recessive genotype is back cross.
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Q23. Assertion : A pair of contrasting characters is termed as allele.
Reason : Only one gene of an allele is expressed in an individual.
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Q24. Assertion : In Mirabilis, selfing of F1 pink flower plants produces same phenotypic & genotypic ratio.
Reason : Flower colour gene shows incomplete dominance.
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Q25. Assertion: Gametes receives only one allele of a gene.
Reason: During gamete formation, mitosis takes place leads to formation of haploid cells.
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Q26. Assertion: In F2 generation of plant Mirabilis jalapa, the pink coloured flowers appear.
Reason: This is observed due epistatic suppression of white colour alleles in one of parental flowers by red colour
alleles.
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Q27. Assertion: A good example of multiple alleles is ABO blood group system.
Reason: When IA and IB alleles are present together in ABO blood group system, they both express their own types.
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