Category: Variations and Mutations Mcqs

A.A change that is inherited
B.A change affecting only the parents but never inherited
C.A change responsible for growth of organism
D.A change affecting the offsprings in F2, generation

A.Wrestler’s muscles
B.Small feet of Chinese women
C.Circumcised penis of Muslims
D.All of these

A.Exposure of organisms to high energy radiations
B.Growing different strains in the same medium
C.Adding all the required substances in nutrient medium
D.Starving the bacteria

A.All the dissimilarities of environmental conditions
B.All the dissimilarities
C.All the dissimilarities between environmental conditions and animals
D.None of these

A.Genes are located on chromosomes
B.Genes are very small and not visible through compound microscopes
C.It will be a very expressive process
D.Scientists have yet not found any method and have not been able to do so.

A.Heritable
B.Often non-heritable
C.Always non-heritable
D.Partially heritable

A.The individuals did not transmit acquired characters to their offsprings
B.Individuals in a population did not show gene variation
C.Somatic variations did not get inherited
D.Somatic variations did not get transformed into genetic variations

A.Confine to ‘soma’ only and are heritable
B.Confine to ‘germ’ and are inheritable
C.Confine to ‘soma’ only and are inheritable
D.Confine both to ‘soma’ and ‘germ’ and are often heritable and often non-heritable

A.Variations
B.Mutations
C.Both (a) & (b)
D.None of these

A.Independent assortment
B.Variation
C.Mutation
D.Natural selection