NEET : Multiple Choice questions: General Account of Mendel

1. Which one of the following is degree or parameter by which offspring look different from the parents.

A. Sexual reproduction 

B. Variation

C. Mutation

D. Evolution

Answer : B Explanation 

2. Which one of the following statement is  not correct for the Sahiwal.

A. Sahiwal is a breed of cow.

B. It was developed in Punjab 

C. It was developed on the basis of variation through artificial selection.

D. All of the above 

Answer : D Explanation

3.  To propose the law of inheritance , Gregor johann Mendel conducted his Experiments on Garden pea between 

A. 1857 to 1863

B. 1902 to 1908 

C. 1800 to 1807

D. 1957 to 1963

Answer : A Explanation

4. Considered the following  sentences and select the number of correct statement.

1. Mendel selected fourteen true breeding plants of Pea.

2. Mendel considered seven contrasting characters in pea plants.

3. He conducted his experiments on the Garden Pea plant or Pisum sativum for seven years.

4. Mendel was first to use Mathematical and statistical logic in Biology

A. Two           B. Three

C. Four           D. One

Answer : C Explanation

5. Violet color is dominant over white color in Mendel Experiment. Violet color belong to 
A. Seed color 
B. Pod color 
C. Flower color 
D. Stem color

Answer : C Explanation 

6. Which one of the following pair of contrast charater was not considered by Mendel.

A. Seed shape and seed color

B. Flower color and flower Position

C.Pod color and Pod shape

D.Stem color and stem shape 

Answer : D Explanation

7. Which one of the following statement is incorrect.

A.Factors or gene which code for a pair of contrast character called allele.

B.Allele is slightly different from the gene.

C. Gene is expressed by a pair of alphabetically system

D.Gene is a unit of inheritance.

Answer: C Explanation

8. Punnet Square is used to calculate the genotype and phenotype ratio after a cross. It was developed by 

A. Hugo de vries

B.T.H. Morgan 

C. Gregor Mendel

D. Reginald .C . Punnet 

Answer : D Explanation

9. Punnet Square was developed by Reginald C Punnet. He was a  

A. German

B. British

D. American

D. French

Answer : B Explanation

10. Which one of the following was / were reason due to which the work of Mendel remain unrecognised till 1900.

A. In those days,  communication was not easy.

B. Concept of allele or factor was not accepted by Biologist because he could not give any physical proof.

C. Mendel's approach of using mathematics to explain biological phenomena was totally new.

D. All of the above.

Answer : D Explanation