Heredity and Evolution MCQs with Answers – Biology Quiz

Heredity and Evolution MCQ

Question 1. Mendel’s principle of inheritance is based on______.

(A) Vegetative reproduction

(B) Asexual reproduction

(C) Sexual reproduction

(D) All of the above

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(B) Asexual reproduction

Question 2. Genome mapping relates to______.

(A) Mapping of brain

(B) Mapping of nerve centres

(C) Mapping of genes

(D) Blood grouping

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(C) Mapping of genes

Question 3. Who is the father of modern genetics?

(A) Thomas Hunt Morgan

(B) Charles Darwin

(C) Hugo De Vries

(D) Gregor Johann Mendel

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(D) Gregor Johann Mendel

Question 4. The classical Mendel’s work on his ‘laws of inheritance’ was performed on the organism______.

(A) Sweet pea

(B) Garden pea

(C) Snapdragon

(D) Drosophila

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(B) Garden pea

Question 5. The sugar present in DNA is_____.

(A) Ribose

(B) Deoxyribose

(C) Fructose

(D) Glucose

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(C) Fructose

Question 6. Hereditary symptoms are moved in the descendant of creatures by______.

(A) Lysosome

(B) Plasma

(C) Chromosome

(D) Ribosome

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(C) Chromosome

Question 7. Which of the following is responsible for controlling hereditary character of the living cells?

(A) Enzyme

(B) RNA

(C) Hormone

(D) DNA

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(D) DNA

Question 8. The unit of heredity in our body is called______.

(A) Nucleus

(B) Gene

(C) DNA

(D) Chromosome

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(B) Gene

Question 9. Gene is_____.

(A) All of the above

(B) A segment of DNA, RNA and histone

(C) A segment of DNA and histone

(D) A segment of DNA

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(D) A segment of DNA

Question 10. Who delivered the principle of ‘jumping gene’? 

(A) Watson and Crick

(B) Barbara Mc Clintock

(C) Tomas Hunt Morgan

(D) Gregor Johann Mendel

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(B) Barbara Mc Clintock

Question 11. Which compound present in D.N.A. does not form amino acid?

(A) Cytosine

(B) Guanine

(C) Tyrosine

(D) Adenine

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(C) Tyrosine

Question 12. Which of the following professional(s) are more likely to run the risk of a permanent change in their cell’s DNA?

  1. Researchers using carbon 14 isotope
  2. X-ray technician
  3. Coal miner
  4. Dyer and painter Select the correct answer by using the codes given below.

Code

(A) 1, 3 and 4

(B) 1, 2 and 4

(C) 1, 2 and 3

(D) Only 2

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(D) Only 2