POPULATION GENETICS & PRINCIPLES OF ANIMAL BREEDING MCQ

Information on repeatability of a trait is valuable to a breeder for predicting *

·         Future performance of an animal

·         Performance of ancestor

·         Past performance of an animal

·         Performance of progeny

 

Smallest cockatoos in avian world *

·         Rose-breasted

·         Moluccan

·         Bare-eyed

·         Goffin’s

 

Base pair substitution involving replacement of purine with pyrimidine is termed as *

·         Transition

·         Frameshift mutation

·         Somatic mutation

·         Transversion

 

The important qualities of exotic germplasm are *

·         Highly disease resistant

·         High adaptability

·         Superior management

·         Low production potential

 

The dog breed known for tricolour phenotypic appearance *

·         Beagle

·         Poodle

·         Spaniels

·         Dachshund

 

The dog breed known for wedge shaped head *

·         Dobermann

·         German Shepherd

·         Dachshund

·         Saint Bernard

 

A selection method to exploit non-additive gene action is *

·         Reciprocal recurrent selection

·         Correlated selection

·         Indirect selection

·         Index selection

 

Crisscrossing is a type of *

·         Rotational crossbreeding

·         Purebreeding

·         Back crossing

·         In-cross breeding

 

Dispersive process occurs in *

·         Large population

·         Random mated population

·         Migrant population

·         Small population

 

Ancestor for present day hound dog breeds in India *

·         Afghan hound

·         Basset hound

·         Grey hound

·         Blood hound

 

The following F2 phenotypic ratio is not an indication of epistasis interaction *

·         9:6:7

·         9:7

·         12:3:1

·         1:2:1

 

A calf produced from embryo transfer technology has the genes from *

·         Sire, donor and recipient

·         Sire and donor dam

·         Sire and recipient dam

·         Sire only

 

Faster rate of genetic improvement can be achieved in *

·         Cattle for milk production

·         Sheep for lamb production

·         Pig for litter size

·         Broiler for growth rate

 

Number of X-chromosomes inactivated in XXXY individual will be *

·         Zero

·         Three

·         Two

·         One

 

Tandem method of selection is useful in *

·         Negatively correlated traits

·         Positively correlated traits

·         Threshold traits

·         Qualitative traits

 

An individual with Down’s syndrome will have the following chromosome abnormality *

·         Nullisomy

·         Monosomy

·         Euploidy

·         Trisomy

 

Early weaning could be followed in small ruminants and pigs to reduce the generation interval or to get more progenies within a shorter spell. *

·         True

·         False

 

The pet bird with extremely large bill is *

·         Parakeets

·         Whydah

·         Toucans

·         Gold macaw

 

The cat breed with Jet Black coat colour *

·         Rex

·         Bombay

·         American short hair

·         Birman

 

In three-breed rotational cross, the sire used are *

·         Inbreds

·         Crossbreds

·         Purebreds

·         Outbreds

 

The response ceases after many generation of selection is called *

·         Heritability

·         Selection intensity

·         Selection limit

·         Repeatability

 

Ancestor for present day hound dog breeds in India *

·         Basset hound

·         Grey hound

·         Blood hound

·         Afghan hound

 

Type of comb morphology with ‘rrpp’ genotype *

·         Rose comb

·         Single comb

·         Walnut comb

·         Pea comb

 

The estimate of prepotency in the population achieved by using *

·         None of these

·         Inbreeding coefficient

·         Selection coefficient

·         Path coefficient

 

A color blind boy has 2 sisters. One color blind and one not color blind. What can be the possible nature of their parents? *

·         Colour blind father and carrier mother

·         Colour blind father and normal mother

·         Normal father and colour blind mother

·         Colour blind father and colour blind mother

 

A heterozygous tall pea plant is crossed with a dwarf plant. The probability that the offspring will be tall is *

·         50 per cent

·         75 per cent

·         25 per cent

·         100 per cent

 

Male calico cat is due to *

·         Mitochondrial inheritance

·         Mi-ke effect

·         X-chromosome mutation

·         Klinefelter’s syndrome

 

Cattle breed with cervico-thoracic type of hump *

·         Siri

·         Ponwar

·         Dangi

·         Arunachali

 

The sheep breed developed by Robert Bakewell was *

·         Hampshire down

·         Blackface

·         Leicester

·         Dorset horn

 

Domestication of animals carried out for *

·         All of the above

·         Religious purposes

·         Economic needs

·         Companionship

 

When a dominant gene is expressed only in 70 % of the individuals carrying it, then it is *

·         Incomplete penetrance

·         Variable expressivity

·         Dominant epistasis

·         Incomplete dominance

 

Horse breed known for their ability to work at high altitudes *

·         Kathiawari

·         Spiti

·         Mewari

·         Bhutia

 

Type of heterosis important for development of composite breed *

·         Retained heterosis

·         Positive heterosis

·         Double heterosis

·         Null heterosis

 

Who has developed American saddle horse? *

·         Thomas Bates

·         Settlers

·         William Tompkins

·         John Babcock

 

The mechanism that equalize the X-chromosome between the two sexes even though males and females have different number of X-chromosome *

·         Inactivation of X-chromosome

·         Dosage compensation

·         Hyperactivation of X-chromosome

·         Epigenetic inheritance

 

In an experiment, AaBb(F1) was test crossed with aabb. In the progeny, genotypes Aabb, were more frequent that AaBb and aabb. The genotypes of the parents of F1 should be *

·         AAbb x aaBB

·         AAbb x AABB

·         AABB X aaBB

·         AABB X aabb

 

Brush tongued parrots are known as *

·         Cockatiels

·         Lories

·         Lorikeets

·         Both (a) and (b)

 

Identify the operational complication of selection *

·         Foundation stock

·         Positive correlation

·         Types of gene action

·         Phenotype

 

A woman married for the second time. Her first husband was of blood type ‘A’, and her child by that marriage was of type ‘A’. Her second husband is of type ‘B’ and their child is of type ‘AB’. What is not the woman’s blood group? *

·         IAIB

·         ii

·         IAIA

·         IAi

 

Hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive trait. If a father and son are both haemophiliacs, but the mother is normal, her genotype should be *

·         HH

·         hY

·         Hh

·         hh

 

The degree of relationship by descent between the two parents is called *

·         All of them

·         Coefficient of kinship

·         Co-anscestry

·         Cosanguinity

 

Two coloured goat breed of Gujarat *

·         Kahmi

·         Mehsani

·         Gohilwadi

·         Surati

 

Largest flying parrot species *

·         Whydah

·         Hyacinth

·         Toucans

·         Blue and gold Macaw

 

When there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died in a population of species, then the species is called as *

·         Vulnerable

·         Critical

·         Extinct

·         Endangered

 

Identify the short haired cat breed *

·         Sphinx

·         Birman

·         Abyssinian

·         Peterbald

 

The animal that was probably last to be domesticated *

·         Turkey

·         Horse

·         Chicken

·         Pig

 

The idea of progeny testing was advocated 2000 years ago by *

·         Roman Varro

·         William Tompkins

·         Robert Bakewell

·         Colling brothers

 

The polygenic genes show *

·         Different genotypes

·         Different phenotypes

·         None of these

·         Different karyotypes

 

Cloned buffalo calf named “Shresth” was developed by *

·         Kinkin University, Japan

·         National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal

·         University of California, Vermont

·         University of Hawai

 

Sheep breed known for its carpet wool and mutton quality in north-western semi-arid region of India is *

·         Sonadi

·         Malpura

·         Marwari

·         Muzafarnagri

 

The frequency of crossing over between any two linked genes is *

·         Same as if they are not linked

·         Determined by their relative dominance

·         Higher if they are recessive

·         Proportional to the distance between them

 

The first person to demonstrate Mendelian inheritance of qualitative characters in animals *

·         John Muller

·         W.E. Castle

·         William Bateson

·         T.H. Morgan

 

When cloned genes are introduced into single cells that give rise to whole organisms which can be propagated by normal breeding methods are called *

·         Chimera

·         Genetically modified organism

·         Epigenetic organism

·         Mosaic

 

Identify the feedback mechanism used to control the biotic potential *

·         Over crowding

·         Plant succession

·         Environmental resistance

·         Death

 

The following genotypes are found in a population: AA = 60; Aa = 40; aa= 25. Find the gene frequencies. *

·         A=0.64 and a=0.36

·         A=0.68 and a=0.32

·         A=0.32 and a=0.68

·         A=0.36 and a=0.64

 

Base pair substitution involving replacement of purine with pyrimidine is termed as *

·         Transversion

·         Transition

·         Somatic mutation

·         Frameshift mutation

 

Two coloured goat breed of Gujarat *

·         Kahmi

·         Gohilwadi

·         Surati

·         Mehsani

 

Number of X-chromosomes inactivated in XXXY individual will be *

·         One

·         Three

·         Two

·         Zero

 

Identify the operational complication of selection *

·         Positive correlation

·         Types of gene action

·         Foundation stock

·         Phenotype

 

Cattle breed with cervico-thoracic type of hump *

·         Ponwar

·         Arunachali

·         Siri

·         Dangi

 

How many different gametes can be formed by the AaBBccDD parental genotype? *

·         2

·         1

·         8

·         4

The dog breed also known as badger dog *

·         Spaniels

·         Beagle

·         Poodle

·         Dachshund

 

A new breed can be developed by *

·         Inbreeding

·         Grading up

·         Crossbreeding

·         Out crossing

 

Identify the bird that can be used to study the evolution of human language *

·         Canaries

·         Starlings

·         Lories

·         Love birds

 

Crisscrossing also known as *

·         Alternate breeding

·         All of the above

·         Back crossing

·         Reciprocal back crossing

 

Genetic changes can occur only in *

·         Three ways

·         Two ways

·         Four ways

·         One way

 

A man and a woman each carry the allele for phenylketonuria, an inborn error of metabolism. If the couple has a normal child, without phenylketonuria, what is the probability this child is a carrier of the disease? *

·         0.50

·         1.00

·         0.33

·         0.67

 

Statement with regard to comb pattern in poultry (i) Complementary interaction of genes at a loci (ii) Single type comb pattern is due to complementary interaction of recessive alleles (iii) Walnut type comb pattern is due to complementary interaction of dominant alleles *

·         (i) and (ii) are correct

·         All are correct

·         (i) is wrong

·         (i) and (iii) are wrong

 

In pedigree sheets of dogs, how many generations of ancestor’s details will be included? *

·         Five

·         Four

·         Two

·         Three

 

TRUE OR FALSE:

Breed Registry was set up to safeguard the purity of the breed and to supply authentic record of performance *

·         True

·         False

 

Breeding plumage is also known as eclipse plumage in whydah birds *

·         True

·         False

 

Complementarity is heterosis *

·         True

·         False

 

Cats with curly hair are usually as a result of a mutation; and its takes time and skill in breeding *

·         True

·         False 

 

Collateral relatives are neither direct ancestors nor direct descendants of an individual *

·         True

·         False

 

Criss-cross inheritance is observed in sex-influenced inheritance *

·         True

·         False

 

First work of trap nesting of birds was carried out in Australia. *

·         True

·         False

 

For measuring the general combining ability, out crossing is followed *

·         True

·         False

 

GCA and SCA are expressed as variance and not as values. *

·         True

·         False

 

Genetic diversity can be achieved by increasing the number of animals in a population *

·         True

·         False

 

Genomic selection is based on few molecular markers in a genome *

·         True

·         False

 

In idealized population, unequal number of male and females are present *

·         True

·         False

 

In crisscrossing, Females are from crossbred population *

·         True

·         False

 

Inbreeding is useful to maintain genetic purity *

·         True

·         False

 

Marker assisted selection is a form of indirect selection *

·         True

·         False

 

Maximum gain will result when the selection differential and the heritability are low and the generation interval is high *

·         True

·         False

 

See-saw effect is caused by a genetic synergism between two traits *

·         True

·         False

 

Speciation is also known as reproductive isolation *

·         True

·         False

 

Tabby pattern describes pattern of stripes, swirls or dots in varied colours in cats *

·         True

·         False

 

The number of linkage groups for a species will exceed the number of pairs of chromosomes *

·         True

·         False

 

The population mean gets increased in positive assortative mating *

·         True

·         False

 

The higher gene frequency obtained by initial selection can be maintained by non-random mating in subsequent generations *

·         True

·         False

 

The founder effect is extreme form of genetic drift *

·         True

·         False

 

Top cross in dairy cattle usually refers to the last sire in a pedigree *

·         True

·         False

 

Match the following-I *

·         Assortative mating  - Inbreeding

·         Random mating      - Wildlife

·         Manx                       - Mutation

·         Porcupine men        - Holandric genes

·         Baldness                  - Sex influenced

 

Match the following-II *

·         Heterosis                       -  -ve or +ve

·         Inbreeding coefficient  -  0 to 1

·         Parent and offspring     -  0.50

·         Unrelated individuals   -  0

·         Fullsib mating              -   0.25

 

Matach the following-III

·         Pati               -  Assam

·         Calico           -  Mi-ke

·         Colling Bro. -  Short horn

·         Tompkins     -  Hereford

·         Teressa         -  Andaman & Nico.

 

Match the following-IV *

·         Alexander Rich  -  Discov. of DNA

·         Muller                 -  ClB

·         Meischer             -  ‘Z’ DNA

·         Bridges               -  Balance theory

·         Falconar             -  Exp. with mice

 

Match the following - V *

·         Chromosome          -   Idiogram

·         Turner syndrome    -  47, +18

·         Patau syndrome      -  45, XO

·         1/29 chromosome   -  Translocation

·         Bos indicus             -  Acrocentric

 

Match the following-VI *

·         Jaffarabadi           -  Riverine

·         Luti                      -  Swamp

·         Kernal colour      -  Gene interaction

·         Snail coiling        -  Maternal effect

·         Environ.mimics   -  Phenocopy

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