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#Question id: 4577


Which of these is a statement that Darwin would have rejected?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
  1. Environmental change plays a role in evolution.

  2. The smallest entity that can evolve is an individual organism.

  3. Individuals can acquire new characteristics as they respond to new environments or situations.

  4. Inherited variation in a population is a necessary precondition for natural selection to operate.

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#Question id: 5349

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

The following is the inheritance pattern of a trait under observation:

(i) The trait often follow cris cross inheritance 

(iii) Unaffected father born to affected daughter

The trait is likely to be

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#Question id: 5348

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Miniature wings (Xm) in Drosophila result from an X-linked allele that is recessive to the allele for long wings (XL). Following different cross with resulting progeny were possible

Male parent

Female parent

Heterozygous

Male offspring

Female offspring

Long wings

XLY

Long wing

XL Xm

       A

B

Miniature wings

XmY

Long wing

XL Xm

C

D

Which of the following above offspring is not possible to carry miniature wings?

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#Question id: 5239

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following statements is not true for Hfr strains of E. coli ?

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#Question id: 5240

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

If bacteria grow in the presence of a large amount of DNase, which of the following recombination process completely inhibited?

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#Question id: 5241

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Genes a, b, and c are widely spaced in the bacterial genome. Transducing phage from an a+ b+ c+ bacterium were used to infect a culture of a- b- c- cells, and b+ transductants were selected. Which of the following best describes the predicted genotypes of these transductants?

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#Question id: 5242

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Auxotrohic bacteria plating on different medium, it is observed that colonies grow on minimal plus threonine only, no colony on minimal plus leucine and no colonies grow on minimal medium cystein only. What are the actual genotypes of auxotroph?