CS/B.Sc.(H)/GENETICS/MOL. BIO/SEM-6/MLG-603/2012
2012
MOLECULAR HUMAN GENETICS
Time Allotted : 3 Hours Full Marks : 70
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words
as far as practicable.
GROUP – A
( Multiple Choice Type Questions )
1. Choose the correct alternatives for any ten of the following :
10 × 1 = 10
i) Who coined the term "Genome" ?
a) Bateson b) Winkler
c) Johansson d) Mendel.
ii) Which Human chromosome is the largest acrocentric
chromosome ?
a) 13 b) 14
c) 15 d) Y.
iii) Which chromosome possesses lowest number/density of
genes ?
a) 13 b) Y
c) 1 d) 22.
iv) Allelic heterogeneity means
a) existence of many different disease-causing alleles
at same locus
b) same disease by mutations at different loci
c) variable expression of a gene in the same locus
d) complex patterns of inheritance occur from the
same locus.
v) In which year Map based Duchene Muscular Dystrophy
Gene was discovered on Chromsome Xp ?
a) 1982 b) 1986
c) 1987 d) 1988.
vi) In which year Human Genome Project was proposed ?
a) 1982 b) 1985
c) 1988 d) 1990.