DAY-18-TYPES OF PROBLEMS ON GENETICS-TEST PAPER

1. A colour blind father may have a normal daughter 8. If a man who is colour blind marries a woman who
but again a colour blind grandson through her. This is pure normal for colour vision, the chances of their
indicates that the gene responsible for colour sons having colour blindness is
blindness is located on (a)100% (b) 50 : 50
(a) X-chromosome and recessive (c) 0% (zero) (d) 75 : 25
(b) X-chromosome and dominant 9. A girl of normal vision whose father was colour
(c) Y-chromosome and dominant blind marries a man of normal vision whose father
(d)X-chromosome and recessive was also colour blind. Their sons would be (of total
2. A colour blind man marries the daughter of another number of sons)
colour blind man whose wife has a normal genotype (a) All normal (b) 25% colour blind
for colour vision in their progeny (c) All colour blind (d) 50% colour blind.
(a) All the children would be colour blind 10. Daughter would be colour blind only if
(b) All their sons are colour blind (a) Only father is colour blind
(c) Half of theirs sons and half of their daughters (b) Only mother is colour blind
would be colour blind (c) Mother is carrier and father normal
(d)None of the daughters would be colour blind (d) Mother is carrier and father colour blind.
3. A female whose father was colour blind, marries a 11. If a colour blind woman marries a normal man their
normal man. What percentage of her sons would be children will be
colour blind?
(a) All normal
(a) All (b) 50%
(b) All colour blind
(c) 25% (d) Non-predictable
(c) All daughters normal and all sons colour blind
4. A marriage between normal visioned man and colour
(d) All sons normal and all daughters coloud blind
blind woman will produce which of the following
types of offsprings? 12. If a colour blind woman marries a normal visioned
man, their sons will be
(a) Normal sons and carrier daughters
(a) All colour blind
(b) Colour blind sons and carrier daughters
(b) All normal visioned
(c) Colour blind sons and 50% carrier daughters
(c) One-half colour blind and one-half normal
(d) 50% colour blind sons and 50% carrier daughters
(d) Three-fourths colour blind and one-fourth
5. A woman with normal vision, but whose father was
normal
colour blind, marries a colour blind man. Suppose
that the fourth child of this couple was a boy. This 13. A woman with no history of colour blindness
boy marries a colour blind man. What are the risks for
this couple of having a son or daughters who is
(a) Must be colour blind
colour blind?
(b) Must have normal colour vision
(a) 0% (b) 25%
(c) May be colour blind or may be of normal vision
(c) 50% (d) 100%
(d) Will be partially colour blind since he is
14. Both husband and wife have normal vision through
heterozygous for the colour blind mutant allele
their fathers were colour blind and mothers did not
6. A normal woman whose father was colour blind is have any gene for colour blindness. The probability
married to a normal man. The sons would be of their daughters becoming colour blind is
(a) All normal (b) All colour blind (a) 0% (b) 25%
(c) 75% colour blind (d) 50% colour blind (c) 50% (d) 75%
7. If a normal woman marries a colour blind man 15. If a man and a woman both having colour blind
(a) All the children will be normal fathers marry, the percentage probability of their
(b) All their children will be colour blind first daughters to be colour blind is
(c) All their sons will be colour blind and daughters (a) 25% (b) 50%
will be normal (c) 100% (d) 0%
(d) All daughters will be colour blind and sons will
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16. A colour blind daughter is born when 19. A phenotypically normal couple has two normal
(a) Mother is carrier, father is normal daughters and a son affected with haemophilia.
What is the probability that both the daughters are
(b) Mother is carrier, father is colour blind
heterzogyous carriers?
(c) Father is colour blind, mother is normal
(a) 0% (b) 25%
(d) Mother is colour blind, father is normal
(c) 100% (d) 50%
17. A sex-linked recessive gene ‘c’ produces red-green
20. Haemophilia is more commonly seen in human
colour blindness in human beings. A normal woman
males than in human females because
whose father was colour blind marries a colour blind
man. Of all the girls born to these parents what (a) A greater proportion of girls die in infancy
percentage is expected to be colour blind? (b) This disease is due to a Y-linked recessive
(a) 25% (b) 75% mutation
(c) 100% (d) 50% (c) This disease is due to an X-linked recessive
mutation
18. Which of the following conditions is related to
haemophilia? (d) This is due to an X-linked dominant mutation
(a) A recessive gene responsible present in the X-
chromosomes
(b) A dominant gene responsible present in the X-
chromosomes
(c) A responsible dominant gene present in the Y-
chromosomes
(d) A responsible dominant gene present in the
autosomal chromosomes

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