Match each item in Column I with one in Column II and select your answer from the codes given:
Column I | Column II | ||
Scientist | Contribution | ||
A. | Francis Crick | a. | Breaking the genetic code |
B. | Nirenberg | b. | Established Coenorhabditiselegans as a model genetics study organism |
C. | Benzer | c. | Central dogma of molecular biology |
D. | Brenner | d. | Bacteriophage genetics |
Codes:
A. | B. | C. | D. | |
1. | c | a | d | b |
2. | c | a | b | d |
3. | a | b | c | d |
4. | a | c | d | b |
Which of the following father and son duos received Nobel Prize?
1. | Nirenbergs | 2. | Kornbergs |
3. | Darwins | 4. | Lederbergs |
The famous double helix model of DNA was proposed by Watson and Crick in ____ and they shared Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in ________ for their effort.
1. | 1951, 1971 | 2. | 1943, 1963 |
3. | 1953, 1962 | 4. | 1969, 1972 |
The branch of biology that deals with inheritance, as well as the variation of characters from parents to offspring, is called as:
1. | Evolution | 2. | Genetics |
3. | Developmental biology | 4. | Forensics |
Identify the incorrect statement regarding experiments on Pisum sativum by Gregor Mendel:
1. | He conducted hybridisation experiments on garden peas for seven years (1856-1863) and proposed the laws of inheritance in living organisms. |
2. | It was for the first time that statistical analysis and mathematical logic were applied to problems in biology. |
3. | Unfortunately his experiments had a small sampling size, which gave less credibility to the data that he collected. |
4. | He investigated characters in the garden pea plant that were manifested as two opposing traits. |
A plant, on repeated self-pollination, preserves the trait expressed for many generations. Such a plant is said to be:
1. | Panmictic | 2. | Homologous |
3. | Apomictic | 4. | Pure line |
Column I | Column II | ||
A. | Law of Segregation | P. | States that alleles segregate randomly during gamete formation |
B. | Law of Independent Assortment | Q. | Crossing involving individuals differing in only one trait |
C. | Monohybrid Cross | R. | Crossing involving individuals differing in two traits |
D. | Dihybrid Cross | S. | States that alleles of different genes assort independently during gamete formation |
A | B | C | D | |
1. | P | Q | R | S |
2. | Q | P | R | S |
3. | P | S | Q | R |
4. | Q | P | S | R |
Mendel’s work remained unrecognised till 1900. Which of the following was not a reason for this?
1. | His work was widely publicised and it brought a bad name to Mendel. |
2. | His concept of factors as stable and discrete units that did not ‘blend’ was not accepted. |
3. | His approach of using mathematics to explain biological phenomena was unacceptable. |
4. | He could not provide any physical proof for the existence of factors or say what they were made of. |