Quiz: pre mendelian genetics

HISTORY OF GENETICS; PRE MENDELIAN THEORIES

Quiz

 

1. Who is the Father Of Genetics?
   1.   TH Morgan
   2.   Swaminathan
   3.   Aristotle
   4.   Mendel
2. Who is referred to as the Flyman of Genetics?
   1.   Mendel
   2.   Bateson
   3.   Sutton
   4.   Morgan
3. Swammerdam and Bonnet gave the theory of_
   1.   Epigenesis
   2.   Preformation theory
   3.   Germplasm theory
   4.   Pangenes
4. The organism studied by Sutton for chromosomal theory of inheritance was-
   1.   fruit fly
   2.   sea urchin
   3.   grass hopper
   4.   none of the above
5. Linkage, sex determination, sex linkage and autosomal linkage were discovered by Bateson along with-
   1.   Bridges
   2.   Muller
   3.   Punnet
   4.   Swammerdam
6. In human DNA, which nitrogenous base is methylated at the 5' position
   1.   adenine
   2.   guanine
   3.   cytosine
   4.   thymine
7. Mono zygotic twins have identical genotypes, and, at birth, epigenetic patterns are also similar. What happens to these epigenetic patterns as the twins age?
   1.   become more different
   2.   remain similar
   3.   depends on environment
   4.   none of the above
8. Even though your body changes and develops new physical and behavioral characteristics,your_______ never changes
   1.   archetype
   2.   phenotype
   3.   appearance
   4.   genotype
9. Dizygotic twins
   1.   have identical DNA
   2.   appear to be identical
   3.   rarely resemble each other
   4.   grow from separate zygotes
10. According to Weismann, how many types of Protoplasm are there
    1.   2
    2.   3
    3.   4
    4.   5