Sex Determination, Linkage And Crossing Over Test
Sex Determination, Linkage And Crossing Over
This is online test 02 for CBSE class 12 Biology Principles of Inheritance and Variation (Sex determination, linkage and crossing over).. There are 10 questions in this test with each question having around four answer choices.
Questions & Answers
1
Which organism’s male contain a pair of Z chromosome as sex chromosome besides autosomes?
- ABirdsCorrect
- BLizards
- CHuman beings
- DInsects
2
Linkage is the
- AGeneration of parental gene combination
- BPhysical association of two genes present on same chromosomeCorrect
- CPhysical association of two genes present on different chromosome
- DGeneration of non-parental gene combination
3
On the basis of sex chromosome shown below, the bird shown is

- AMaleCorrect
- BCannot be decided
- CFemale
- DTransgender
4
Male heterogamety is present in
- ATortoise
- BInsects
- CMammalsCorrect
- DBirds
5
Alfred Sturtevant used the frequency of recombination between genes on same chromosome as measure of the distance between
- AGenes and mapped their positionCorrect
- BAll of the above
- CGenes and identified their traits
- DChromosomes in gametes
6
In our society, female are blamed for producing female children due to
- AScientific reasons
- BFalse notationCorrect
- CProduction of same kind of gametes
- DBiological concepts
7
In birds, female has been designed to be the Z and W chromosomes. In these organism female have
- AOne Z and two W chromosomes
- BOne Z and one W chromosomeCorrect
- CTwo Z and 1 one W chromosome
- DOne Z and 0 W chromosomes
8
Two genes p and q showing 1.3% of recombination while other two genes x and y show 37.2 percent of recombination. Which pair of genes is close to each other?
- AThere is no relation between them
- BBoth pairs are equally placed
- Cp and qCorrect
- Dx and y
9
Assertion: In human beings, 23 pairs of chromosomes are present in diploid cells. Reason: 22 pairs of chromosomes are equal in male and female but a pair sex chromosome is different in them.
- ABoth assertion and reason are correctCorrect
- BBoth assertion and reason are incorrect
- CAssertion is correct but reason do not explain the assertion
- DAssertion is correct but reason is incorrect
10
In XO type of sex determination a. Some sperms bears X-chromosome where as some do not. b. Numbers of male and female chromosomes are equal. c. An egg fertilized by sperms having X-chromosome becomes female.
- ABoth “a” and “b” are correctCorrect
- BBoth “b” and “c” are correct
- COnly “b” is correct
- DOnly “a” is correct