Genetics MCQs part 7

Solve Genetics Questions Online Test for 11th and 12th, Bachelor Studies,competitive Examination like CSIR NET, CBSE NEET, IELTS, GRE etc .

1. The term “factor” for gene was coined by

• William Bateson
• Johann Mendel
• Johannsen
• F. Griffith

2. Gregor Mendel was born in

• U.K
• Austria
• Russia
• Czechoslovakia

3. Mendel was a

• physiologist
• mathematician
• cytologist
• taxonomist

4. The first scientific study leading to the formulation of laws of inheritance was carried out by

• Darwin
• Hugo De Vries
• Lemarck
• Mendel

5. Under which title was Mendel’s work published in Natural History Society of Brunn?

• Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance
• Experiments in Plant Hybridization
• Experiment on Heredity and Variation
• Origin of Species

6. Mendel’s laws were first published in the year

• 1875
• 1890
• 1928
• 1866

7. The year 1900 A.D. is highly significant for geneticists due to

• chromosome theory of heredity
• discovery of genes
• rediscovery of Mendelism
• principle of linkage

8. The Mendelian principles of inheritance were rediscovered by

• Sutton and Boveri
• Hugo de Vries, Tschermark and Correns
• Lederberg and Tatum
• Morgan

9. Mendel’s work was rediscovered by three biologists from which of the following countries?

• Holland, France and England
• Holland, England and Austria
• Germany, France and England
• Austria, Holland and Germany

10. Mendel selected pea plant because of

• its short life span
• it produced many seeds and large flowers
• many contrasting characters
• all of these

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