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Principles of Inheritance and Variation DPP-01

1. Mendel conducted hybridisation experiments on 8. Experiments of Mendel had a ______ sampling size.
Garden Pea for ______. (1) Medium (2) Large
(1) Four years (2) Five years (3) Small (4) None of the above
(3) Six years (4) Seven years
9. What is the degree by which progeny differ from
2. Mendel proposed the law of inheritance in... their parents?
(1) Plants (2) Animal (1) Mutation (2) Inheritance
(3) Algae (4) all (3) Variation (4) Mendelism

3. Selection of Pisum sativum for hybridization 10. Which of the following trait of pea plant was not
experiments, because of - studied by Mendel in his experiment.
(1) Presence of 7 characters and short life span. (1) Flower position (2) Seed colour
(2) Presence of contrasting characters and short life (3) Pod length (4) Seed shape
span.
(3) Presence of long-life span and fertile hybrid. 11. Which statements are correct about re-discovery of
(4) Presence of many observable hybrids and easily Mendel’s work -
availability of plant. (1) Mendel died in 1884 and his work is re-
discovered in 1900.
4. Among the given traits of Pisum sativum which one (2) Scientists found that Mendel’s work was also
is recessive trait - applicable to animals.
(1) Violet flower colour (3) Scientists were Hugo de-Vries, Carl Correns
(2) Inflated pod shape and Erich von Tschermak for the rediscovery of
Mendel’s work.
(3) Green colour of pod
(4) Mendel’s paper was published in ‘Flora’ in
(4) Wrinkled shape of seed
1901 by Hugo de-Vries.
(1) Statement 1 and 3 are correct.
5. Mendel has worked on Pisum sativum for 7 years by
(2) Statement 2 and 4 are correct.
taking -
(3) Statement 3 and 4 are correct.
(1) 7 Pairs of contrasting traits.
(4) Statement 1, 2, 3 & 4 are correct.
(2) 14 true breeding pea plant varieties.
(3) Location of traits on chromosome number 1, 4,
5 & 7 of Pisum sativum plant. 12. What is the process by which characters are passed
on from parent to progeny?
(4) All are correct
(1) Inheritance (2) Variation
(3) Mendelism (4) Mutation
6. Which of the given genotype represent homozygous
condition?
(1) Tt (2) Rr 13. A true breeding line is one that -
(3) tt (4) Yy (1) Have under gone continuous self pollination.
(2) Shows the stable trait inheritance.
7. First time mathematical and statistical analysis used (3) Shows expression for several generations.
in biology by... (4) All of these
(1) Mendel (2) Morgan
(3) Hudo de-vries (4) Bateson
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14. Select the incorrect statement from the following 15. The main reason for success of Mendel was-
(1) Inheritance is the process by which the (1) Study of all the characters at the same time.
characters are passed from parent to the (2) Study of one or two characters at one time.
progeny (3) Study of all the plants at the same time.
(2) Inheritance is the basis of heredity. (4) Counting of plants.
(3) Variation is the degree by which the progeny
differs from their parents.
(4) Sahiwal breed of buffaloes in Punjab are
produced through artificial selection and
domestication from wilds cows.
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Answer Key

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2. (4)
3. (2)
4. (4)
5. (4)
6. (3)
7. (1)
8. (2)
9. (3)
10. (3)
11. (4)
12. (1)
13. (4)
14. (4)
15. (2)

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