Explore topic-wise MCQs in Cytogenetics.

This section includes 16 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Cytogenetics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

In animals polypoidy is rarely practiced as _______________

A. Giants are harder to train and take care of
B. Increase in size is not appreciable
C. It is often sterile
D. Animal cells are resistant to colchicine
Answer» C. It is often sterile
2.

Farmers often practice polyploidy as ____________________

A. It makes the plants more durable
B. They take longer time to undergo meiosis
C. It increases complexity and there is a hope of new species
D. It produces larger plant parts and products
Answer» E.
3.

Normal wheat Triticum aestivum is ___________

A. Monoploid
B. Tetraploid
C. Pentaploid
D. Hexaploid
Answer» E.
4.

A male bee can’t have a________________

A. Mother
B. Faher
C. Grand father
D. Grand mother
Answer» D. Grand mother
5.

NORMAL_WHEAT_TRITICUM_AESTIVUM_IS____________?$

A. Monoploid
B. Tetraploid
C. Pentaploid
D. Hexaploid
Answer» E.
6.

In animals polypoidy is rarely practiced as _______________$

A. Giants are harder to train and take care of
B. Increase in size is not appreciable
C. It is often sterile
D. Animal cells are resistant to colchicine
Answer» C. It is often sterile
7.

Farmers often practice polyploidy as ____________________$

A. It makes the plants more durable
B. They take longer time to undergo meiosis
C. It increases complexity and there is a hope of new species
D. It produces larger plant parts and products
Answer» E.
8.

Which of the following pairing will not occur during meiosis of tetraploid?

A. Two bivalent
B. One bivalent and two univalent
C. Trivalent and univalent
D. Quadrivalent
Answer» C. Trivalent and univalent
9.

Choose the odd one out?

A. Leaf
B. Endosperm
C. Fertilized egg
D. Petals
Answer» C. Fertilized egg
10.

In an experiment, you culture the anthers and leaves of a flower. You see the plants so generated are_____________

A. Triploid
B. Monoploid and diploid
C. Diploid and triploid
D. Diploid
Answer» C. Diploid and triploid
11.

Colchicine is used to cause______________

A. Mitotic non-disjunction
B. Meiotic non-disjunction
C. Mitotic disjunction
D. Meiotic disjunction
Answer» B. Meiotic non-disjunction
12.

Which of the following will be sterile?

A. Tetraploid
B. Triploid
C. Diploid
D. Monoploid
Answer» C. Diploid
13.

A male bee can’t have a________________$

A. Mother
B. Faher
C. Grand father
D. Grand mother
Answer» D. Grand mother
14.

A male ant is _______________

A. Polyploid
B. Triploid
C. Diploid
D. Monoploid
Answer» E.
15.

Euploidy is a form of allopoliplody.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
16.

Euploidy is a chromosomal variation in ______________________

A. Size
B. Position of genes
C. Number
D. Structure
Answer» D. Structure