The three nonsense codons are
A. UAG (amber), GUG (valine) and UAA (ochre)
B. AUG (methionine), GUG (valine) and UAG (amber)
C. AUG (methionine), UAG (amber) and UAA (ochre)
D. UAG (amber), UAA (ochre) and UGA (opel or umber)
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
In terms of the evolution of organisms, which one among the following is the most avanced?
A. Bat - Mammal
B. Pigeon - Aves
C. Shark - Pisces
D. Vulture - Aves
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
DNA as genetic material was proved by
A. Altman
B. McLeod
C. Fredrick Meischer
D. Griffith
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
Mendel selected garden pea as his experimental material because its advantages include:
A. It is a perennial plant
B. It has perfect bisexual flowers containing both male and female parts
C. Plants are heterozygous
D. The flowers are predominantly crosspollinating
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
According to which of the following, meteorites travelling through the earths atmosphere are strongly incandescent only on the surface while the interior remains cold?
A. Mundaka Upanishad
B. Hypothesis of panspermia
C. Oparin hypothesis
D. None of the above
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
The common mutagens used in mutation breeding are
A. Short-wave electromagnetic radiations
B. Ionising radiations
C. Chemicals
D. All of the above
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
Who among the following for the first time made a definite distinction between heritable changes and those which can not be inherited?
A. McDougall
B. F. B. Summer
C. A. Weismann
D. G. Cuvier
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
Consider the following statements.
1. Character are transferred from parents to progeny through DNA.
2. Coded information in nucleic acid depend upon arrangement of nucleotides.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
A. Only 1
B. Only 2
C. Both 1 and 2
D. None of the above
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
According to Britten-Davidson (1969) operon-operator model, the regulation of gene expression in higher cells includes
A. Regulator genes, operator genes, promoter genes and structural genes
B. Sensor genes, producer genes, integrator genes and receptor genes
C. Sensor genes, promoter genes, integrator genes and receptor genes
D. Regulator genes, structural genes, receptor genes and operator genes
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
Which of the following rocks show almost no trace of life?
A. Palaeozoic rocks
B. Archaeozoic rock
C. Mesozoic rocks
D. Proterozoic rocks
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
During crossing over the breakage of chromatids and fusion of broken segments take place due to the action of
A. Polymerase and ligase respectively
B. Endonuclease and synthetase respectively
C. Endonuclease and ligase respectively
D. Synthetase and ligase respectively
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
Match
List-I (RNA polymerase parts) with
List-II (Functions) and select the correct answer:
List-I
List-II
a. Sigma factor
1. Ineffective in transcribing RNA, because it transcribes both strands
b. The core enzyme
2. Transcribes only one strand of the DNA template
c. The holozyme
3. Interacts with the core enzyme to form the complete enzyme
d. The β-subunit
4. Required for the interaction with the sigma factor
A. a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
B. a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1
C. a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4
D. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
Which of the following properties of protenoid micro spheres have revealed concentric double layered boundaries around them through which diffusion of material from the interior to the exterior occurs?
A. Physical properties
B. Structural properties
C. Enzymatic properties
D. None of the above
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
According to the theory of abiogenesis, the coacervates turned into the first primitive living systems called
A. Prokaryotes
B. Eobionts
C. Eubacteria
D. None of the above
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
According to which of the following theories, "the different stages in the development of an individual represent the different stages through which the race passed in the process of evolution"?
A. Theory of recapitulation
B. Theory of special creation
C. Theory of individual assortment
D. All of the above
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
The plant in which foreign gene (s) has / have been introduced is called
A. Hybrid plant
B. Transgenic plant
C. Mutagenic plant
D. Transplant
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
Which of the following is actually a giant palindrome with its two halves virtually identical?
A. The linear rDNA
B. The A - DNA
C. The D - DNA
D. The B - DNA
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
Match the following columns:
Column I
Column II
a. Non-parental gene exchange
1. Crossing over
b. Non-sister chromatids
2. X and Y
c. Sex chromosome
3. Sex-linked disease
d. Haemophilia
4. Recombination
A. a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3
B. a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
C. a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1
D. a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
A normal woman whose father was colourblind, is married to a normal man. The sons would be
A. 75% colourblind
B. 50% colourblind
C. All normal
D. All colourblind
Select an option to see the answer and solution.
Biological concept of species is mainly based on
A. reproductive isolation
B. morphological features only
C. method of reproduction only
D. morphology and method of reproduction
Select an option to see the answer and solution.