1.
Hammerling’s experimental
material to prove nucleus as the physical basis of heredity was
a) Neurospora
b) Amoeba
c) Acetabularia
d) Drosophila
2. Mendel’s experimental material
was
a) Pisum sativum
b) Oryza sativa
c) Vigna sinensis
d) Arabidopsis thaliana
3. Which of the following is
called as “Drosophila of the plant kingdom”
a) Neurospora
b) E.coli
c) Pisum sativum
d) Arabidopsis thaliana
4. The organism used to study DNA
replication
a) Neurospora crassa
b) Drosophila melanogaster
c) Escherichia coli
d) Bacillus sublitis
5. Griffith’s transformation
experiment was carried out using
a) Escherichia coli
b) Bacillus sublitis
c) Diplococcus pneumoniae
d) Salmonella typhimurium
6. Incomplete dominance was first
described in
a) Mirabilis jalapa
b) Arabidopsis thaliana
c) Pisum sativum
d) Triticum aestivum
7. Mutation was discovered by Hugo
de vries in
a) Pisum sativum
b) Triticum secale
c) Oenothera lamarckiana
d) Mirabilis jalapa
8. The model organism widely used
for developmental and toxicological studies
a) Neurospora crassa
b) Drosophila melanogaster
c) Danio rerio
d) Bacillus sublitis
9. Temin and Baltimore discovered
reverse transcriptase in
a) retro virus
b) T2 phages
c) Roux’s sarcoma virus
d) herpes virus
10. The concept of pure line put
forward by Johannsen was based on his experiments on
a) Pisum sativum
b) Phaseolus vulgaris
c) Vigna sinensis
d) Arabidopsis thaliana
11. The mitotic crossing over was
reported in the fungus
a) Aspergillus niger
b) Penicillium notatum
c) Aspergillus nidulans
d) Sacharomyces cerviseae
12. Tetrad analysis confirmed the
occurrence of crossing over during tetrad stage. This was first reported in
a) Neurospora
b) E.coli
c) Pisum sativum
d) Arabidopsis thaliana
13. Creighton and McClintock
provided cytological evidence for crossing over based on experiments in
a) maize
b) rice
c) pea
d) Arabidopsis
14. Sex determination in plants
was extensively investigated in
a) Pisum sativum
b) Phaseolus vulgaris
c) Melandrium
d) Arabidopsis thaliana
15. The most widely used model for studying developmental biology and neurology
15. The most widely used model for studying developmental biology and neurology
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| Model Organism |
a) Escherichia coli
b) Saccharomyces cervisae
c) Caenorhabditis elegans
d) Neurospora crassa
Answers:
1-c
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2-a
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3-d
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4-c
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5-c
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6-a
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7-c
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8-c
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9-c
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10-b
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11-c
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12-a
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13-a
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14-c
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15-c
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