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From a single ear of corn, a farmer planted 200

QUESTIONS ON MENDELISM kernels which produced 140 tall and 40 dwarf plants.
ASSIGNMENT The genotype of these offsprings are most likely
(a) TT, Tt and tt (b) TT and tt only
(c) TT and Tt only (d) Tt and tt only
1. What type of gametes will form by genotype RrYY 10. From a cross Aa BB × aa BB, following genotypic
(a) RY, Ry, rY, ry (b) RY, Ry, ry, ry ratio will be obtained in F1 generation
(c) Ry, Ry, Yy, ry (d) RY, RY, rY, rY (a) 1 Aa BB : 1 aa BB (b) 1 Aa BB : 3 aa BB
2. Pure homozygous offsprings in a dihybrid cross in (c) 3 Aa BB : 1 aa BB (d) All Aa BB : No aa BB
the F2 generation will be 11. If enough crosses are made between male flies of
(a) 1/2 (b) 1/4 the genotype 'Aa' and the female flies of the
(c) 1/8 (d) 1/16 genotype 'aa' to produce about 1000 offsprings.
3. In hybridization, Tt × tt give rise to the progeny of Which one of the following is the most likely
ratio distribution of genotypes in the offsprings
(a) 1 : 1 (b) 1 : 2 (a) 250 Aa : 750 aa
(c) 2 : 1 (d) 1 : 2: 1 (b) 750 Aa : 250 aa
4. The percentage of heterozygous individuals obtained (c) 243 AA : 517 Aa : 240 aa
in F2 generation from selfing the plants with (d) 481 Aa : 519 aa
genotype Rr would be
12. A black hybrid mouse is crossed with a pure brown
(a) 24 (b) 50 mouse to produce a total of 24 young ones. Which of
(c) 75 (d) 100 the following result is most likely to be correct
5. If in a garden pea plant, a cross is made between (a) 13 black males and 11 black females
red flowered and white flowered plants. What will be
(b) 11 brown males and 13 brown females
the phenotypic ratio in F2 generation
(c) 8 black males, 10 black females, 3 brown males,
(a) 1 : 2 : 1 (b) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1
3 brown females
(c) 3 : 1 (d) 1 : 3
(d) 5 black males, 6 brown males, 7 black females,
6. Self pollination between Tt and Tt plants results into
6 brown females
genotype ratio of
13. Some pure black mice were mistakenly mixed with
(a) 3 : 1 (b) 1 : 2 : 1
hybrid black mice. The quickest way to discover
(c) 1 : 3 (d) 4 : 0 whether one individual black mouse is pure is
7. If dwarf pea plant was treated with Gibberellic acid, it
(a) To cross it with pure black mouse and all the
grew as tall as the pure tall pea plant. If this treated
offsprings must be black
plant is crossed with a pure tall plant then the
(b) To cross it with a brown mouse and all the
phenotypic ratio of is likely to be
offsprings must be black
(a) All dwarf (b) 50% dwarf 50% tall
(c) To cross it with a known hybrid black mouse and
(c) 75% tall 25% dwarf (d) All tall all the offsprings must be black or brown mice in
8. Normal maize has starchy seeds which remain equal numbers
smooth when dry. A mutant form has sugary seeds (d) To cross it with a pure brown mouse and all the
which go crinckled when dry. When a mutant was offsprings must be black or brown in equal
crossed with a normal plant, an F1 was produced numbers
which had smooth seeds. What would be the relative
14. When experimenting with the factor of tallness in
ratios of the different seed types, if the F1 was
Pisum sativum, Mendel obtained the results 73.97%
allowed to self
tall and 26.03% dwarf from one of the cross. This
(a) 1 smooth : 3 sugary (b) 3 smooth : 1 sugary shows that the parents are
(c) 1 smooth : 1 sugary (d) All sugary (a) Hybrid tall and pure dwarf plant
(b) Hybrid tall and pure tall plant
(c) Hybrid tall and hybird tall plant
 (d) Pure tall and pure dwarf plant (a) 76 : 24 (b) 40 : 60
15. In pea plants, red flowers (R) are dominant over to (c) 52 : 48 (d) 84 : 16
white flowers (r) and tall plants (T) are dominant over 21. If at a tall plant is crossed with a dwarf plant and
to dwarf plants (t). The table below shows the obtained progeny is half tall and half dwarf plants.
gametes and the possible offsprings produced in a Then the genotype of progeny will be
dihybrid cross. The numbers 1 to 16 represent the (a) TT ´ tt (b) Tt ´ tt
genotypes of each individual cross (e.g. 3 = RrTT) (c) TT ´ Tt (d) Tt ´ Tt
RT Rt rT rt 22. A self-fertilizing trihybrid plant forms
RT 1 2 3 4 (a) 8 different gametes and 16 different zygotes
Rt 5 6 7 8 (b) 8 different gametes and 32 different zygotes
rT 9 10 11 12 (c) 8 different gametes and 64 different zygotes
rt 13 14 15 16 (d) 4 different gametes and 16 different zygotes
If plant 7 is crossed with plant 12, then what 23. In a plant, red fruit (R) is dominant over yellow fruit
proportion of the offsprings produced will be (r) and tallness (T) is dominant over shortness (t). If
homozygous for both the recessive characters? a plant with RRTt genotype is crossed with a plant
(a) 50% (b) 37.5% that is rrtt.
(c) 25% (d) 12.5% (a) 75% will be tall with red fruit
16. The genotypes of a plant variety were TtHh, Tthh, (b) All the offspring will be tall with red fruit
ttHh and tthh, where T = tallness and H = hairy stem. (c) 25% will be tall with red fruit
Which one of the following crosses would produce (d) 50% will be tall with red fruit
progeny giving a phenotypic ratio approximately 1 : 1 24. If a cross is made between AA and aa, the nature of
:1:1 F1 progeny will be
(a) TtHh × TtHh (b) TtHh × Tthh (a) Genotypically AA, phenotypically a
(c) TtHh × ttHh (d) TtHh × tthh (b) Genotypically Aa, phyenotypically a
17. From a mating of two dihybrid individuals (AaBb × (c) Genotypically Aa, phyenotypically A
AaBb), how many of the 16 possible zygote (d) Genotypically aa, phyenotypically A
combinations would be expected to contain only two
dominant genes
(a) One (b) Three
(c) Four (d) Six
18. In a dihybrid cross 80 plants are obtained. The ratio
of homozygous and heterozygous shall be
(a) 40 : 40 (b) 10 : 70
(c) 20 : 60 (d) 30 : 50
19. In a monohybrid cross 120 plants are obtained. The
ratio of homozygous and heterozygous shall be
(a) 40 : 80 (b) 60 : 60
(c) 20 : 100 (d) 10 : 110
20. When AABB and aabb are crossed, in F2 generation
the ratio of AaBb will be
(a) 1 / 16 (b) 2 / 16
(c) 8 / 16 (d) 4 / 16
21. Blue flowered and white flowered plant on crossing
gave progeny of blue and white flowered in the ratio
of 60 : 40. What ratio of blue and white is expected if
the blue flowered are self pollinated