PLANT GENETICS QUIZ

Which of the following transposable elements are not found in plants?

Tam3

Ac

L1

All are found

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When do kinetochore microtubules pull chromosomes towards opposite spindle poles?

In anaphase A

In anaphase B

In telophase

In metaphase

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The homologous chromosomes follow the process of synopsis in the

zygotene

leptotene

pachytene

diplotene

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When F1 plants are crossed with homozygous recessive plants, it is known as

test cross

recessive cross

para-cross

criss-cross

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In the meiotic cell divison in daughter cells are produced by two successive division in which

first division is reductional and second is equational

first division is equational, second is reductional

both divisions are equational

both divisions are reductional

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The shortest of mitotic phases is the

telophase

metaphase

interphase

anaphase

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When an organism has a life cycle with alternation of generations, the haploid generation is the

gamete

zygote

gametophyte

sporophyte

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What is the approximate size (in kb) of the melon mitochondrial genome?

2400 kilobase

1200 kilobase

3000 kilobase

600 kilobase

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In case of incomplete dominance, the phenotypic ratio of a monohybrid cross will be

1:1:2

3:1:1

1:2:1

1:3:1

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During meiosis crossing over takes place at

diakinesis stage

pachytene stage

zygotene stage

diplotene stage

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