Given below are two statements:
Statement I: When many alleles of a single gene govern a character, it is called polygenic inheritance.
Statement II: In Polygenic inheritance, the effect of each allele is additive.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Match List-I with List-II:
List - I Type of Inheritance |
List - II Example |
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(A) | Incomplete dominance | (I) | Blood groups in human |
(B) | Co-dominance | (II) | Flower colour in Antirrhinum |
(C) | Pleiotropy | (III) | Skin colour in human |
(D) | Polygenic inheritance | (IV) | Phenylketonuria |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
When a tall pea plant with round seeds was selfed, it produced the progeny of :
(a) Tall plants with round seeds and
(b) Tall plants with wrinkled seeds.
Identify the genotype of the parent plant.
Aneuploidy is a chromosomal disorder where chromosome number is not the exact copy of its haploid set of chromosomes, due to :
A. Substitution
B. Addition
C. Deletion
D. Translocation
E. Inversion
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :