Biology : XII-CH05 – Principles of Inheritance and Variation – Assertion and Reason

Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option.

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: In a monohybrid cross F1 generation indicates recessive characters.

Reason: Dominance occurs only in homozygous state.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Sickle cell anaemia is an example of point mutation.

Reason: It occur due change in single nucleotide in beta gene.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Assertion: Cystic fibrosis is Mendelian disorder .

Reason: Tuners syndrome is chromosomal disorder.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Assertion: Increase in a whole set of chromosome in an organism is known as polyploidy.

Reason: Failure of cytokinesis after telophase stage of cell division results in polyploidy.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Deletions and insertions of base pairs of DNA, causes frame-shift mutation.

Reason: A classical example of frame-shift mutation is sickle cell anaemia.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

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(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Assertion: Female of Turner’s syndrome is sterile.

Reason: Such female contain rudimentary ovaries.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Assertion: Test cross is a back cross.

Reason: In test cross, F1-individual is crossed with recessive parents.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: In humans, the gamete contributed by the male determines whether the child produced will be male or female.

Reason: Sex in human is a polygenic trait depending upon a cumulative effect of some gene on X-chromosomes and some on Y-chromosomes.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: UV radiation is mutagen.

Reason: UV radiation can cause mutation in organism.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Inheritance of holandric gene are always from father to son.

Reason: Holandric genes are found on Y-chromosomes.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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