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Agriculture · Q37

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 37

Q37

Auto-sexing in silkworm is achieved through

A.
Deletion
B.
Duplication
C.
Translocation
Answer
D.
Inversion

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Auto-sexing in silkworms is achieved through Translocation.
Translocation means a location change. It often refers to genetics, when part of a chromosome is transferred to another chromosome. Chromosomes are structures that carry genes, our units of heredity.
In silkworms, the female is the heterogametic sex and has one Z and one W chromosome, whereas the male has two Z chromosomes.