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Explain the chromosomal theory of inheritance.

Important Questions on Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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Schematically represent the inheritance of two genes in pea plants with reference to seed colour and shape.
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State Mendel’s law of independent assortment. Describe the law with an appropriate dihybrid cross.
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A true breeding homozygous pea plant with round seeds and yellow cotyledons is crossed with homozygous pea plant with wrinkled seeds and green cotyledons.

Work out the cross to show the phenotype and genotype ratio of F1 and F2 generations.

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A cross wạs carried out between two individuals, heterozygous for two pairs of genes. Assuming segregation and independent assortment, the number of different genotypes and phenotypes obtained respectively would be
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A true breeding homozygous pea plant with round seeds and yellow cotyledons is crossed with homozygous pea plant with wrinkled seeds and green cotyledons.

State the Mendel's generalisation that can be derived from above cross.

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State Mendel’s law of independent assortment and explain it with the help of a cross between a homozygous yellow round (YYRR) and a green wrinkled (yyrr) pea plant. What will be the phenotype of the F1 and F2 progenies?
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Describe the chromosomal theory of inheritance. Distinguish between incomplete dominance and Co-dominance.
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In Morgan's experiment with Drosophila, when a yellow bodied white-eyed female was crossed with brown bodied red-eyed male and their F1 Progeny were intercrossed. What was the percentage of recombinants in the F2 generation?
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Write the scientific name of the organism Thomas Hunt Morgan and his colleagues worked with for their experiments. Explain the correlation between linkage and recombination with respect to genes as studied by them.
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Some of F2 progeny are formed during dihybrid cross between round and yellow o and wrinkled and green + pea plants. Their genotypes are:
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Define dihybrid cross. Explain Mendel's dihybrid cross experiment by checker board.
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State the law of independent assortment. Explain with the hybrid cross of the pea plant.
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In Golden Rice, thin grains are dominant over fat grains and straight leaves are dominant over wavy leaves. You are assigned to carry out a cross between two heterozygous dominant varieties for the above traits. Use appropriate symbols and derive the phenotypic ratios using Punnett square.
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Seed traits of a given plant species following genetic inheritance are:

S= long, s= short;
W= wrinkled, w= smooth;
Y= yellow, y= white;
R= ribbed, r= grooved
A cross was performed between two plants, P and Q of the same species; wherein, the plant P bears seeds that are homozygous recessive for grooved, homozygous dominant for long trait, and heterozygous for wrinkled texture and yellow colour. The plant Q bears seeds that are homozygous recessive for short and smooth traits, homozygous dominant for yellow colour and ribbed trait. Given that there are no influencing factors, state the resulting phenotype of the offspring for this cross.

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A cross between two plants with genotypes, PpQq and PpQq was carried out where P and Q are dominant over p and q, respectively. Of the total progeny obtained, the proportion of the offspring that would only express one of the two dominant alleles is
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Mendel crossed a homozygous pea plant having yellow and round seeds with another pea plant bearing green and wrinkled seeds. He found that in some of the F2 population, new combinations of the parental characters were observed. How will you explain the appearance of a new combination of the parental characters in F2 offspring? Support your answer with the help of a Punnett square.
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The maximum number of different gametes of the pollens produced by a tall pea plant with round, yellow, seeds of the genotype TtRrYY, if the three loci are unlinked, would be
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A round seeded tall pea plant is crossed with round seeded dwarf plant and obtained progeny are with following phenotypes
3 - Tall, Round
3 - Dwarf, Round
1 - Tall, Wrinkled
1 - Dwarf, Wrinkled

The possible genotype of parents: