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Chapter 9 Heredity and Evolution MCQ Questions Class 10 Science with Answers

Question. Which of the following plants did Mendel choose for his experiments?         
(a) Pisum sativum
(b) Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
(c) Mirabilis jalapa
(d) None of these
Answer : A

Question. Which of these is not a part of Darwinism?        
(a) Struggle for existence
(b) Overpopulation
(c) Natural selection
(d) Use and disuse of organs
Answer : D

Question. A section of DNA providing information for one protein is called—
(a) Nucleus
(b) Chromosomes
(c) Trait
(d) Gene
Answer : D

Question. Amongst which of the following animals, sex of the offsprings not genetically determined?
(a) Humans
(b) Snails
(c) Birds
(d) Dogs
Answer : B

Question. Which one of the following gives a survival advantage and thus alters frequency of inherited trait.
(i) natural selection
(ii) genetic drift
(a) only (i) (b) only (ii)
(c) both (i) and (ii)
(d) none of these
Answer : A

Question. Which of the following is a totally impossible outcome of Mendel’s Experiment (cross breeding pure bred tall and short pea plants)
(a) 3 tall 1 short plant
(b) 24 tall and 8 short plants
(c) 8 tall and 0 short plants
(d) 4 tall plants and 1 medium-height plant.
Answer : D

Question. Which of the following is controlled by genes?
(i) Weight of a person
(ii) Height of a person
(a) only 1 (i) (b) only (ii)
(c) both (i) and (ii)
(d) Sometimes (i) and sometimes (ii)
Answer : B

Question. What is the probability that a human progeny will be a boy?
(a) 50%
(b) 56%
(c) 47.34%
(d) It varies
Answer : A

Question. Homologous organs have
(a) Same structure, same function
(b) Different structure, different function
(c) Same structure, different function
(d) Same function, different structure
Answer : C

Question. Who have a perfect pair of sex chromosomes?
(a) Girls only
(b) Boys only
(c) Both girls and boys
(d) It depends on many other factors
Answer : A

Question. Which one of the following is not one of the direct conclusions that can be drawm from Mendel’s experiment?
(a) Only one parental trait is expressed
(b) Two copies of each trait is inherited in sexually reproducing orgainsm
(c) For recessive trait to be expressed, both copies should be identical.
(d) Natural selection can alter frequency of an inherited trait.
Answer : D

Question. Which one is a possible progeny in F2 generation of pure bred tall plant with round seed and short plant with wrinkled seeds?
(a) Tall plant with round seeds
(b) Tall plant with wrinkled seeds
(c) Short plant with round seed
(d) All of the above
Answer : D

Question. Which one of the following is present in the nucleus?
(a) Gene
(b) DNA
(c) Chromosomes
(d) All of these
Answer : D

Question. Analogous organs have
(a) Same structure, same function
(b) Different structure, different function
(c) Same structure, different function
(d) Same function, different structure
Answer : D

Question. How can we know how old fossils are:
(a) Fossils found closer to surface are recent than those found much below
(b) Detecting ratios of isotopes
(c) Studying its characteristics
(d) All of these
Answer : D

Question. With whom we associate theory of evolution?
(a) Charles Darwin
(b) Mendel
(c) Stanley Miller
(d) Harold Urey
Answer : A

Question. The science dealing with heredity and variations is called         
(a) palaeontology
(b) genetics
(c) embryology
(d) phylogeny
Answer : B

Question. The Japanese are genetically the closest to        
(a) Indian schoolboys
(b) chimpanzees
(c) gorillas
(d) monkeys
Answer : A

Question. Which of the following is not one of Mendel’s laws?         
(a) Law of dominance
(b) Law of segregation
(c) Law of independent assortment
(d) Law of incomplete dominance
Answer : D

Question. The hereditary units are stretches of DNA called         
(a) chromosomes
(b) traits
(c) characters
(d) genes
Answer : D

Question. What happened when Mendel crossed two traits of a character (say, tallness and dwarfness) in pea plants?        
(a) Both the traits appeared in equal numbers in F1 .
(b) The offspring showed a blend of the two traits.
(c) Only the dominant trait appeared in F1 .
(d) Only the recessive trait appeared in F1 .
Answer : C

Question. The genetic constitution of an individual organism is called         
(a) its genotype
(b) its phenotype
(c) heredity
(d) gene
Answer : A

Question. The forelimbs of man, cat, bat and whale are        
(a) analogous organs
(b) homologous organs
(c) missing links
(d) fossils
Answer : B

Question. Mendel’s contribution to genetics was the         
(a) principle of mutation
(b) theory of natural selection
(c) law of independent assortment of factors
(d) principle of genetic recombination
Answer : C

Question. Surgically removing tails of mice over several generations do not yield mice without tails.This proves that
(a) Both a and b are correct
(b) Cutting tail does not cause genetic change. So it not inherited.
(c) Acquired characters during ones own life are not inherited.
(d) Neither a nor b is correct
Answer : A

Question. A random change in the frequency of alleles in any population over several generations due to errors in the gametes is called
(a) Genetic Drift
(b) Gene flow
(c) Genetic error
(d) Genetic crash
Answer : A

Question. How life might have originated on earth was experimentally shown by
(a) Urey and Miller
(b) Oparin and Haldane
(c) Watson and Crick
(d) None of the above
Answer : A

Question. The theory of Natural Selection was proposed by
(a) Darwin
(b) Lamarck
(c) Mendel
(d) Haldane
Answer : A

Question. The number of autosomes in a human body cell is
(a) 46
(b) 44
(c) 22
(d) 23
Answer : B

Question. Forelimb of frog, lizard, bird and man has some evolutionary relationship. This are
(a) Homologous organs
(b) Hand relationship
(c) Missing links
(d) Analogous organs
Answer : A

Question. If in human a sperm (22+Y) fertilizes an egg (22+X), the sex of the foetus shall be
(a) Male
(b) Female
(c) Either male or Female
(d) None of the answers
Answer : A

 

Question. The F2 phenotype ratio of a monohybrid cross studied by Mendel is
(a) 1:1
(b) 2:1
(c) 3:1
(d) 4:1
Answer : C

Question. If T is for tallness and t for dwarfness, what shall be the genotype of a tall pea plant according to Mendelism?
(a) TT
(b) Tt
(c) Either TT or Tt
(d) tt
Answer : C

Question. A Yellow and Round seeded pea plant has genotype YyRr. The gametes produced shall be
(a) Yy, Rr
(b) YR, yR, Yr, yr
(c) YR, yr
(d) Y, y, R, r
Answer : B

Question. If in human a sperm (22+Y) fertilizes an egg (22+X), the sex of the foetus shall be
(a) Male
(b) Female
(c) Either male or Female
(d) both
Answer : A

Question. Forelimb of frog, lizard, bird and man has some evolutionary relationship. This are
(a) Hand relationship
(b) Missing links
(c) Analogous organs
(d) Homologous organs
Answer : D

Question. The number of autosomes in a human body cell is
(a) 44
(b) 46
(c) 22
(d) 23
Answer : A

Question. The theory of Natural Selection was proposed by
(a) Lamarck
(b) Darwin
(c) Mendel
(d) Haldane
Answer : B

Question. How life might have originated on earth was experimentally shown by
(a) Urey and Miller
(b) Oparin and Haldane
(c) Watson and Crick
(d) None of the above
Answer : A

Question. Surgically removing tails of mice over several generations’ do not yield mice without tails.
This proves that

(a) Cutting tail does not cause genetic change. So it not inherited.
(b) Acquired characters during one’s own life are not inherited.
(c) Neither a nor b is correct
(d) Both a and b are correct
Answer : D

Question. A random change in the frequency of alleles in any population over several generations due to errors in the gametes is called
(a) Gene flow
(b) Genetic Drift
(c) Genetic error
(d) Genetic crash
Answer : B

Question. A Yellow and Round seeded pea plant has genotype YyRr. The gametes produced shall be
(a) YR, yR, Yr, yr
(b) Yy, Rr
(c) YR, yr
(d) Y, y, R, r
Answer : A

Question. If T is for tallness and t for dwarfness, what shall be the genotype of a tall pea plant according to Mendelism?
(a) Either TT or Tt
(b) TT
(c) Tt
(d) tt
Answer : A

Question. The F2 phenotype ratio of a monohybrid cross studied by Mendel is
(a) 3:1
(b) 1:1
(c) 2:1
(d) 4:1
Answer : A

Question. Mendel conducted his hybridisation experiment with :-
(a) Chick pea
(b) Pigeon pea
(c) Garden pea
(d) Wild pea
Answer : C

Question. Mendel studied seven contrasting characters for his breeding experiment with Pisum sativum, which of the following character did he not use :-
(a) Pod colour
(b) Pod shape
(c) Leaf shape
(d) Plant height
Answer : C

Question. The main reason of Mendel's successs in discovering the principles of inheritance was :-
(a) He considered each character separately
(b) He was lucky not to encounter linkage problem
(c) The plant was pure breeding
(d) All the above
Answer : D

Question. Mendel was lucky in the choice of the material of his experiments, among the following, which contributed, to his success ?
(a) He observed distinct inherited traits
(b) He qualitatively analysed his date
(c) He liked pea plants
(d) He considered only one character at one time
Answer : D

Question. A segment of DNA providing information for a protein is called 
(a) nucleus
(b) chromosomes
(c) trait
(d) gene.
Answer : D

Question. Allele that cannot express itself in presence of another is 
(a) codominant
(b) dominant
(c) recessive
(d) complementary.
Answer : C

Question. In Drosophila, red eye character is dominant over white eye character. When a homozygous red-eyed individual is crossed with a homozygous white-eyed individual, and individuals of F1 generation are intercrossed, 12 individuals are produced. White-eyed individuals of these will be 
(a) three
(b) six
(c) nine
(d) twelve.
Answer : A

Question. Identify P, Q, R and S in the case of normal human from given flow chart and select the correct option. 
CBSE Class 10 Science Heredity and Evolution MCQs  

      P   Q   R   S
(a) XX XY XY XX
(b) XY XX XX XY
(c) XXX XY XYY XXX
(d) XO XX XX XO
Answer : B

Question. Segregation of alleles takes place during 
(a) meiosis
(b) cleavage
(c) fertilisation
(d) crossing over.
Answer : A

Question. The information source for making proteins in the cell is the 
(a) chromosome
(b) DNA
(c) enzyme
(d) nucleus.
Answer : B

Question. A true breeding tall and smooth-seeded pea plant was crossed with a true breeding dwarf and wrinkled-seeded plant. All the F1 plants were tall and demonstrate 
(a) principle of assortment of characters
(b) that recombination of characters appears in F2 generation
(c) that P tall plants were heterozygous
(d) that tallness was dominant over dwarfness.
Answer : D

Question. The percentage of yr gamete produced by YyRr parent will be 
(a) 25%
(b) 50%
(c) 75%
(d) 12.5%.
Answer : A

Question. Two variants found in human population are shown in the given figure. Identify them and select the correct option. 
(i) This is an inherited character.
(ii) This is acquired during lifetime.
(iii) This is a non-genetic trait.
(a) (ii) and (iii)
(b) Only (i)
(c) (i) and (iii)
(d) Only (ii)
Answer : B

Question. The reason why some mutations, which are harmful, do not get eliminated from gene pool is that 
(a) they are recessive and carried by heterozygous individuals
(b) they are dominant and show up more frequently
(c) genetic drift occur because of a small population
(d) they have future survival value.
Answer : A

Question. Mutation is a 
(a) change that causes evolution when inherited
(b) change which affects the parents only but never inherited
(c) change which affects the offspring of F2 generation only
(d) factor responsible for plant growth.
Answer : A

Question. Refer to the given figure and select the correct statement(s) regarding it. 
CBSE Class 10 Science Heredity and Evolution MCQs

(i) It is a monohybrid cross.
(ii) Red flower colour trait is dominant over white flower colour trait.
(iii) Both the traits red flower colour and white flower colour were inherited in F1 plants, but only red flower trait was expressed.
(a) (ii) and (iii)
(b) Only (i)
(c) Only (ii)
(d) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Answer : D

Question. In plant, tall phenotype is dominant over dwarf phenotype, and the alleles are designated as T and t, respectively. Upon crossing one tall and one dwarf plant, total 250 plants were obtained, out of which 124 displayed tall phenotype and rest were dwarf. Thus, the genotype of the parent plants were 
(a) TT × TT
(b) TT × tt
(c) Tt × Tt
(d) Tt × tt.
Answer : D

Question. Mendel performed a cross between two garden pea plants; one with round and green seed and the other with yellow and wrinkled seed as shown below. 
CBSE Class 10 Science Heredity and Evolution MCQs
CBSE Class 10 Science Heredity and Evolution MCQs

(a) (i) and (iii)
(b) (ii) and (iv)
(c) (ii) and (iii)
(d) (i) and (iv)
Answer : A

Question. Mendel studied seven contrasting characters for his breeding experiment with Pisum sativum. Which of the following characters did he not use? 
(a) Pod colour
(b) Pod shape
(c) Leaf shape
(d) Plant height
Answer : C

Question. An allele is said to be dominant if 
(a) it is expressed in both homozygous and heterozygous conditions
(b) it is expressed only in second generation
(c) it is expressed only in heterozygous condition
(d) it is expressed only in homozygous condition.
Answer : A

Question. What will be the percentage of purple stemmed plants in the F2 generation, when the F1 generation resulted due to cross breeding of green stemmed (GG) tomato plants with purple stemmed (gg) tomato plants, are self pollinated? 
(a) 10%
(b) 25%
(c) 75%
(d) 50%
Answer : B

Question. If a genotype consists of different types of alleles, it is called 
(a) homozygous
(b) heterozygous
(c) monoallelic
(d) uniallelic.
Answer : B

Question. Which of the following represents the characteristic of a pleiotropic gene? 
(a) Controls sexual characters.
(b) Present only in prokaryotes.
(c) Controls one character in association with the other.
(d) Control more than one character.
Answer : D

Question. In human beings, the statistical probability of having a male child is 
(a) 25%
(b) 50%
(c) 75%
(d) 60%.
Answer : B

Question. The year 1990 AD is highly significant for genetics due to :-
(a) Principle of linkage
(b) Chromosome theory of heredity
(c) Rediscovery of Mendelism
(d) Discovery of genes
Answer : C

Question. Genotype means :-
(a) Genetic composition of the individual
(b) Genetic composition of the germ cell
(c) Genetic composition of plastids
(d) Genetic compositon of an organ
Answer : A

Question. The physical manifestation of an organism's genes is its :-
(a) Environment
(b) Phenotype
(c) Genetic code
(d) Genotype
Answer : B

Question. An organism with two identical alleles of a gene in a cell is called :-
(a) Homozygous
(b) Domainant
(c) Heterozygous
(d) Hybrid
Answer : A

Question. When an individual is having both the alleles of contrasting characters it is said to be :-
(a) Heterozygous
(b) Dioecious
(c) Monoecious
(d) Linked genes
Answer : A

Question. When an allele fails to express itself in F1 generation in the presence of other allele, the former is said to be :-
(a) Recessive
(b) Codominant
(c) Complementary
(d) Epistatic
Answer : A

Question. Alleles are :-
(a) Homologous chromosome
(b) Chromosome that have crossed over
(c) Alternate forms of gene
(d) Linked genes
Answer : C

Question. Mendel's laws apply only when :-
(a) F1 in monohybrid cross shows two types of individuals
(b) The character are linked
(c) Parents are pure breeding
(d) First pair of contrasting character is dependent upon other pairs
Answer : C

Question. Which of Mendel's procedures differed from those of his predecessor and contributed most of his success ?
(a) He observed many characteristics of each trait
(b) He observed distinct inherited traits
(c) He quantitatively analysed his data
(d) He kept breeding records
Answer : C

Question. If a plant is heterozygous for tallness, the F2 generation has both tall and dwarf plants. This proves the principle of :-
(a) dominance
(b) segregation
(c) independent assortment
(d) incomplete dominance
Answer : B

Question. Mendel crossed a pure white flowered recessive pea plant with a dominant pure red flowered plant. The first generation of hybrids from the cross should show :-
(a) 50% white flowers and 50% red flowers
(b) all red flowered plants
(c) 75% red flowered and 25% red flowered plants
(d) all white flowered plants
Answer : B

Question. If a couple has three daughters, what are the chances that the fourth child will be a son ?
(a) 100%
(b) 75%
(c) 50%
(d) 0%
Answer : C

Question. If a heterozygous tall plant is crossed with a homozygous dwarf plant, the proportion of dwarf progeny will :-
(a) 50%
(b) 75%
(c) 100%
(d) 25%
Answer : A

Question. The crossing of a homozygous tall plant with a dwarf would yield F2 plants in the ratio of :-
(a) two tall and two dwarf
(b) one homozygous tall, one homozygous dwarf and two heterozygous tall
(c) all homozygous dwarf
(d) all homozygous tall
Answer : B

Question. When a true breeding tall plant is crossed with a true breeding short plant and the F1 produced is self pollinated to produce F2 ratio of true breeding tall and true breeding short plant in F2 will be :-
(a) 1 : 2
(b) 1 : 1
(c) 2 : 1
(d) 1 : 3
Answer : B

Question. Blue eye colour in human is recessive to brown eye colour. The expected children of a marriage between blue-eyed woman and brown-eyed male who had a blue-eyed mother are likely to be :-
(a) all blue-eyed
(b) three blue-eyed and one brown-eyed
(c) all brown-eyed
(d) one blue-eyed and one brown-eyed
Answer : D

Question. The genotype of a dominant parent is determined by crossing it with the recessive parent. This cross is called :-
(a) back cross
(b) test cross
(c) long cross
(d) out cross
Answer : B

Question. The results of a test cross reveal that all the offspring resemble the parent being tested. This parent must be :-
(a) heterozygous
(b) homozygous
(c) recessive
(d) haploid
Answer : B

Question. Which of the following is a totally impossible outcome of Mendel’s Experiment (cross breeding pure bred tall and short pea plants)
(a) 3 tall 1 short plant
(b) 24 tall and 8 short plants
(c) 8 tall and 0 short plants
(d) 4 tall plants and 1 medium-height plant.
Answer : D

Question. Which one is a possible progeny in F2 generation of pure bred tall plant with round seed and short plant with wrinkled seeds?
(a) Tall plant with round seeds
(b) Tall plant with wrinkled seeds
(c) Short plant with round seed
(d) All of the above
Answer : D

Question. Which of the following is controlled by genes?
(i) Weight of a person
(ii) Height of a person
(a) only 1 (i)
(b) only (ii)
(c) both (i) and (ii)
(d) Sometimes (i) and sometimes (ii)
Answer : B

Question. Amongst which of the following animals, sex of the offsprings not genetically determined?
(a) Humans
(b) Snails
(c) Birds
(d) Dogs
Answer : B

Question. Who have a perfect pair of sex chromosomes?
(a) Girls only
(b) Boys only
(c) Both girls and boys
(d) It depends on many other factors
Answer : A

Question. Which one of the following gives a survival advantage and thus alters frequency of inherited trait.
(i) natural selection
(ii) genetic drift
(a) only (i)
(b) only (ii)
(c) both (i) and (ii)
(d) none of these
Answer : A

Question. With whom we associate theory of evolution?
(a) Charles Darwin
(b) Mendel
(c) Stanley Miller
(d) Harold Urey
Answer : A

Question. Which of the following can be called a characteristic?
(a) Plants can photosynthesise
(b) We have 2 eyes
(c) Mango tree is multicellular
(d) All of these
Answer : D

Question. Homologous organs have
(a) Same structure, same function
(b) Different structure, different function
(c) Same structure, different function
(d) Same function, different structure
Answer : C

Question. Fossils helps
(a) To study evolution
(b) To understand climatic conditions in past
(c) For a hierarchy of organisms (classification)
(d) They help in all the above
Answer : D

Question. Which one of the following strongly indicates that bird and dinosaurs are closely related?
(a) They both have feathers
(b) They both respire
(c) They both reproduce
(d) They both have eyes
Answer : A

Question. Organism A recently came into existence while B was formed millions of years ago.
What does this indicate?

(i) A is more efficient than B
(ii) A is more complex than B
(a) Only (i)
(b) Only (ii)
(c) Both (i) and (ii)
(d) Either (i) or (ii)
Answer : C

 
Fill in The Blank

Question. There are ......... pairs of chromosomes in human.
Answer :23

Question. Mendel chose .......... characters in Pea for his experiments.
Answer : Seven

Question. The traits which express themselves in F1 generation are called ..........
Answer : Dominant

Question. .......... traits are unable to express in a hybrid.
Answer : Recessive

Question. .......... speciation occurs in geographically separated populations.
Answer : Allopatric

Question. The sex chromosomes in female are indicated by .........
Answer : XX

Question. Gene is the segment of ..........
Answer : DNA

Question. If tall plant contains TT gene then dwarf plant contains .......... .
Answer : TT

Question. The age of fossil is usually determined by analysing the ......... present in the rock from which fossil is recovered.
Answer : Radioactive materials

Question. Earth cam into existence probably .......... million years ago.
Answer : 4600

Question. The process by which new species develop from existing ones is called ..........
Answer : speciation

Question. .......... . called father of genetics.
Answer : Mendel

Question. Mendel is known as the father of ..........
Answer : genetics

Question. The analogous organs have similar functions but have ......... structures.
Answer : Different

Question. Broccoli has been developed from .......... cabbage through artificial selection.
Answer : Wild

 

Question : The F2 phenotype ratio of a monohybrid cross studied by Mendel is
a) 1:1
b) 2:1
c) 3:1
d) 4:1
Answer : C
 
Question : If T is for tallness and t for dwarfness, what shall be the genotype of a tall pea plant according to Mendelism?
a) TT
b) Tt
c) Either TT or Tt
d) tt
Answer : C
 
Question : A Yellow and Round seeded pea plant has genotype YyRr. The gametes produced shall be
a) Yy, Rr
b) YR, yR, Yr, yr
c) YR, yr
d) Y, y, R, r
Answer : B
 
Question : If in human a sperm (22+Y) fertilizes an egg (22+X), the sex of the foetus shall be
a) Male
b) Female
c) Either male or Female
d) both
Answer : A
 
Question : Forelimb of frog, lizard, bird and man has some evolutionary relationship. This are
a) Hand relationship
b) Missing links
c) Analogous organs
d) Homologous organs
Answer : D
 
Question : The number of autosomes in a human body cell is
a) 44
b) 46
c) 22
d) 23
Answer : A
 
Question : The theory of Natural Selection was proposed by
a) Lamarck
b) Darwin
c) Mendel
d) Haldane
Answer : B
 
Question : How life might have originated on earth was experimentally shown by
a) Urey and Miller
b) Oparin and Haldane
c) Watson and Crick
d) None of the above
Answer : A
 
Question : Surgically removing tails of mice over several generations’ do not yield mice without tails.
This proves that
a) Cutting tail does not cause genetic change. So it not inherited.
b) Acquired characters during one’s own life are not inherited.
c) Neither a nor b is correct
d) Both a and b are correct
Answer : D
 
Question : A random change in the frequency of alleles in any population over several generations due to errors in the gametes is called
a) Gene flow
b) Genetic Drift
c) Genetic error
d) Genetic crash
Answer : B
 
Question : The number of pairs of sex chromosomes in a human diploid cell is
a) one 
b) two 
c) three 
d) four
Answer B
 
Question : Emasculation process in plants involves
a) removal of anthers of flowers well before maturity of gynoecium of flowers.
b) removal of gynoecium of flowers well before the maturity of anthers of flowers.
c) removal of anthers and gynoecium of flowers simultaneously before the maturity of flowers.
d) neither of these.
Answer A
 
Question : A pea plant with round and yellow coloured seeds is crossed with a pea plant with wrinkled and green coloured seeds. The ratio of 4 different types of observed traits would be
a) 9 : 4 : 2 : 1 
b) 7 : 6 : 2 : 1 
c) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1 
d) 4 : 4 : 4 : 4
Answer C
 
Question : Diversity is quite high in organisms which produce through
a) Asexual reproduction 
b) Budding
c) Binary fission 
d) Sexual reproduction
Answer D
 
Question : A zygote having Y chromosome inherited from father and X chromosome inherited from mother will develop into
a) girl 
b) boy 
c) eunuch 
d) either boy or girl
Answer B
 
Question : Name the organ which is vestigal in man but functional in birds
a) vermiform appendix 
b) caecum
c) nictitating membrane 
d) third molar
Answer B
 
Question : The gases used in the spark-discharge apparatus of Miller and Urey were
a) NH3, NH4 and O2 
b) NH3, CO2 and O2 
c) NH3, CO2 and CH
d) NH3, H2 and CH4
Answer D
 
Question : Genetic drift operates mostly in
a) smaller populations 
b) larger populations
c) mendelian populations 
d) island populations
Answer A
 
Question : The maleness of a child is determined by
a) the X chromosome in the zygote
b) the Y chromosome in zygote
c) the cytoplasm of germ cell which determines the sex
d) sex is determined by chance
Answer B
 
Question : If the fossil of an organism is found in the deeper layers of earth, then we can predict that
a) the extinction of organism has occurred recently
b) the extinction of organism has occurred thousands of years ago
c) the fossil position in the layers of earth is not related to its time of extinction
d) time of extinction cannot be determined.
Answer B

Question : Which one of the following is not one of the direct conclusions that can be drawm from Mendel’s experiment?
a) Only one parental trait is expressed
b) Two copies of each trait is inherited in sexually reproducing orgainsm
c) For recessive trait to be expressed, both copies should be identical.
d) Natural selection can alter frequency of an inherited trait.
Answer : D

Question : A section of DNA providing information for one protein is called—
a) Nucleus
b) Chromosomes
c) Trait
d) Gene
Answer : D

Question : Which one of the following is present in the nucleus?
a) Gene
b) DNA
c) Chromosomes
d) All of these
Answer : D

Question : What is the probability that a human progeny will be a boy?
a) 50%
b) 56%
c) 47.34%
d) It varies
Answer : A

Question : There is an inbuilt tendency of variation during reproduction because of–
(i) Errors in DNA copying
(ii) Sexual reproduction
a) only (i)
b) only (ii)
c) both (i) and (ii)
d) none of them
Answer : B

Question : If we breed a group of squirrels and surgically remove their tails, then amongst the progeny of these tailless squirrels–
a) All have no tail
b) All have a tail
c) Some of them have tails
d) Cannot be determined.
Answer : B

Question : Formation of 2 independent species due to genetic drift, geographical isolation, natural selection is specifically referred as–
a) Evolution
b) Classification
c) Speciation
d) Reproduction
Answer : C

Question : If A and B have n characteristics common while A and C have n/2 characteristics common, then which of the two organisms are more closely related?
a) A and C
b) A and B
c) Characteristics need to be known
d) None of these
Answer : C

Question : Analogous organs have
a) Same structure, same function
b) Different structure, different function
c) Same structure, different function
d) Same function, different structure
Answer : D

Question : How can we know how old fossils are:
a) Fossils found closer to surface are recent than those found much below
b) Detecting ratios of isotopes
c) Studying its characteristics
d) All of these
Answer : D

Question : Wild cabbage is being cultivated for thousands of years and humans have generated broccoli, cauliflower, kala etc. from it. This is an example of
a) Natural selection
b) Genetic drift
c) Geographic isolation
d) Artificial selection
Answer : D

 

Case study questions

I Read the given information and answer the following questions.

Sahil performed an experiment to study inheritance pattern of genes. He crossed tall pea plants (TT) with short pea plants (tt) and obtained all tall plants in F1 generation.

Question : What will be the set of genes present in F1 generation?
Answer :
Tt

Question : Give reason why only tall plants are observed in F1 progeny.
Answer : 
Tallness is a dominant character and dwarfness is a recessive character.

Question : When F1 plants were self pollinated, a total of 800 plants produced. How many of these would be tall, medium height or short plants? Give the genotype of F2 generation.
Answer : Out of 800 plants 600 plants will be tall and 200 plants will be small, 1 TT: 2Tt: 1tt

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