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This section includes 200950 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your General Knowledge knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 15501. |
wife: woman : : _______ : man |
| A. | father |
| B. | husband |
| C. | boy |
| D. | groom |
| Answer» C. boy | |
| 15502. |
Mendel’s “factors” are in fact |
| A. | none of these |
| B. | genes |
| C. | chromosomes |
| D. | units |
| Answer» C. chromosomes | |
| 15503. |
elbow: arm : : knee : _________ |
| A. | walking |
| B. | leg |
| C. | finger |
| D. | nose |
| Answer» C. finger | |
| 15504. |
Guilt : Past : : Hope : ? |
| A. | Present |
| B. | Sorrow |
| C. | Past |
| D. | Future |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15505. |
An inherited character and its detectable variant is called |
| A. | both (1) and (2) |
| B. | gene |
| C. | trait |
| D. | allele |
| Answer» D. allele | |
| 15506. |
Telephone : Cable : : Radio : ? |
| A. | Microphone |
| B. | Electricity |
| C. | Wire |
| D. | Wireless |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15507. |
Ignorance : Education : : Disease : ? |
| A. | Hospital |
| B. | Doctor |
| C. | Nurse |
| D. | Medicine |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15508. |
car: road : : train : ________ |
| A. | track |
| B. | fast |
| C. | vehicle |
| D. | wheel |
| Answer» B. fast | |
| 15509. |
wave: tide : : moment : ________ |
| A. | time |
| B. | tardiness |
| C. | ocean |
| D. | clock |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15510. |
Which of the following character was not considered by Mendel? |
| A. | Position of flower |
| B. | Tallness or dwarfness |
| C. | Wrinkled or round leaves |
| D. | Seed coat colour |
| Answer» D. Seed coat colour | |
| 15511. |
Which of the following is a dominant character in pea? |
| A. | Dwarf plant |
| B. | Terminal flower |
| C. | Inflated pod |
| D. | Wrinkled seeds |
| Answer» D. Wrinkled seeds | |
| 15512. |
Mendel selected pea plant because of |
| A. | its short life span |
| B. | many contrasting characters |
| C. | it produced many seeds and large |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15513. |
The botanical name of garden pea is |
| A. | Solanum tuberosum |
| B. | Mangifera indica |
| C. | Lathyrus odoratus |
| D. | Pisum sativum |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15514. |
Pointing towards a person, a man said to a woman, “His mother is the only daughter of your father.” How is the woman related to that person? |
| A. | Sister |
| B. | Daughter |
| C. | Mother |
| D. | Wife |
| Answer» D. Wife | |
| 15515. |
Mendel’s work was rediscovered by three biologists from which of the following countries? |
| A. | Austria, Holland and Germany |
| B. | Germany, France and England |
| C. | Holland, England and Austria |
| D. | Holland, France and England |
| Answer» B. Germany, France and England | |
| 15516. |
Mendel's laws were first published in the year |
| A. | 1866 |
| B. | 1928 |
| C. | 1890 |
| D. | 1875 |
| Answer» B. 1928 | |
| 15517. |
The Mendelian principles of inheritance were rediscovered by |
| A. | Morgan |
| B. | Lederberg and Tatum |
| C. | Hugo de Vries, Tschermark and Correns |
| D. | Sutton and Boveri |
| Answer» D. Sutton and Boveri | |
| 15518. |
The year 1900 A.D. is highly significant for geneticists due to |
| A. | principle of linkage |
| B. | rediscovery of Mendelism |
| C. | discovery of genes |
| D. | chromosome theory of heredity |
| Answer» C. discovery of genes | |
| 15519. |
The first scientific study leading to the formulation of laws of inheritance was carried out by |
| A. | Mendel |
| B. | Lemarck |
| C. | Hugo De Vries |
| D. | Darwin |
| Answer» B. Lemarck | |
| 15520. |
The term “factor” for gene was coined by |
| A. | F. Griffith |
| B. | Johannsen |
| C. | Johann Mendel |
| D. | William Bateson |
| Answer» D. William Bateson | |
| 15521. |
A girl introduced a boy as the son of the daughter of the father of her uncle. The boy is girl’s ? |
| A. | Uncle |
| B. | Nephew |
| C. | Brother |
| D. | Son |
| Answer» D. Son | |
| 15522. |
Mendel was a ? |
| A. | taxonomist |
| B. | cytologist |
| C. | mathematician |
| D. | physiologist |
| Answer» D. physiologist | |
| 15523. |
Gregor Mendel was born in |
| A. | Czechoslovakia |
| B. | Russia |
| C. | Austria |
| D. | U.K |
| Answer» D. U.K | |
| 15524. |
Under which topic was Mendel’s work published in Natural History Society of Brunn? |
| A. | Origin of Species |
| B. | Experiment on Heredity and Variation |
| C. | Experiments in Plant Hybridization |
| D. | Mendel's Laws of Inheritance |
| Answer» D. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance | |
| 15525. |
A woman walking with a boy meets another woman and on being asked about her relationship with the boy, she says,My maternal uncle and his maternal uncle's maternal uncle are brothers.How is the boy related to the woman ? |
| A. | Husband |
| B. | Brother-in-law |
| C. | Son |
| D. | Grandson |
| Answer» D. Grandson | |
| 15526. |
Organisms produced by sexual reproduction are called |
| A. | genes |
| B. | characters |
| C. | clones |
| D. | offsprings |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15527. |
(I). A, B, C, D, E and F are six members of a family.(II). One couple has parents and their children in the family.(III). A is the son of C and E is the daughter of A.(IV). D is the daughter of F who is the mother of E.Which of the following pairs is the parents of the couple ? |
| A. | CF |
| B. | AB |
| C. | AF |
| D. | BC |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15528. |
Offsprings are |
| A. | show an intermediate characters |
| B. | not exactly identical to either of their |
| C. | exactly identical to either of their |
| D. | both (2) and (3) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15529. |
Organisms produced by asexual reproduction are called |
| A. | factors |
| B. | offsprings |
| C. | both (1) and (2) |
| D. | clones |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15530. |
A and B are young ones of C. If C is the father of A but B is not the son of C. How are B and C related ? |
| A. | Niece and Uncle |
| B. | Daughter and Father |
| C. | Niece and Uncle |
| D. | Daughter and Mother |
| Answer» C. Niece and Uncle | |
| 15531. |
C has two children A and B, if A is his son, B must be his daughter ? |
| A. | Mother–in–law |
| B. | Cousin |
| C. | Sister–in–law |
| D. | Mother |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15532. |
The first scientific explanation regarding inheritance was given by |
| A. | Johannsen |
| B. | Griffith |
| C. | Gregor Johann Mendel |
| D. | William Bateson |
| Answer» D. William Bateson | |
| 15533. |
Pointing to a photograph, a man said,I have no brother or sister but that man’s father is my father’s son.Whose photograph was it? |
| A. | His own |
| B. | His nephew’s |
| C. | His father’s |
| D. | His son’s |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15534. |
Pointing to a man in a photograph, a woman said,His brother's father is the only son of my grandfather.How is the woman related to the man in the photograph? |
| A. | Sister |
| B. | Aunt |
| C. | Grandmother |
| D. | Daughter |
| Answer» B. Aunt | |
| 15535. |
A man said to a lady,Your mother's husband's sister is my aunt.How is the lady related to the man? |
| A. | Sister |
| B. | Daughter |
| C. | Mother |
| D. | Grand daughter |
| Answer» B. Daughter | |
| 15536. |
Term “genetics” was coined by |
| A. | Karl Correns |
| B. | Johannsen |
| C. | William Bateson |
| D. | Morgan |
| Answer» D. Morgan | |
| 15537. |
Introducing a man, a woman said,His wife is the only daughter of my father.How is that man related to the woman? |
| A. | Father–in–law |
| B. | Husband |
| C. | Maternal uncle |
| D. | Brother |
| Answer» C. Maternal uncle | |
| 15538. |
If X is the brother of the son of Y�s son, how is X related to Y? |
| A. | Cousin |
| B. | Son |
| C. | Grandson |
| D. | Brother |
| Answer» D. Brother | |
| 15539. |
A, B, C, D, E and F are members of a club. There are two married couples in the goup. A is the brother of D's Husband. C is the president of Women's Association. F is a Sitar Player, and Bachelor. B's wife is not a member of the Club. Four of them belong to the same family. B and F are colleagues in the club. How is F related to B? |
| A. | Wife |
| B. | Husband |
| C. | Father |
| D. | It is not possible to determine. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15540. |
The greek word which means ‘to grow into’ is |
| A. | factor |
| B. | inheritance |
| C. | genesis |
| D. | genetics |
| Answer» D. genetics | |
| 15541. |
Variation is |
| A. | differences between parents and |
| B. | differences among the offsprings of the |
| C. | differences between individuals of same |
| D. | all of the above. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15542. |
Transmission of characters from one generation to the next or from parents to offsprings is called |
| A. | mutation |
| B. | recombination |
| C. | variation |
| D. | heredity |
| Answer» B. recombination | |
| 15543. |
The phenomenon of ‘like begets like’ is due to ? |
| A. | heredity |
| B. | variation |
| C. | genetics |
| D. | germplasm |
| Answer» B. variation | |
| 15544. |
In certain code, TOGETHER is written as RQEGRJCT. In the same code PAROLE will be written as ? |
| A. | NCPQJG |
| B. | NCQPJG |
| C. | RCPQJK |
| D. | RCTQNG |
| Answer» B. NCQPJG | |
| 15545. |
In certain code, TOGETHER is written as RQEGRJCT .in the same code, PAROLE will be written as ? |
| A. | NCPQJG |
| B. | RCTQNG |
| C. | NCQPJG |
| D. | RCPQJK |
| Answer» B. RCTQNG | |
| 15546. |
If SCIENCE is coded as UFMJTJM, GENE will be coded as ? |
| A. | IHRJ |
| B. | HGQI |
| C. | IHSJ |
| D. | IHRI |
| Answer» B. HGQI | |
| 15547. |
In a certain code, PAINTER is written NCGPRGP, then REASON would be written as ? |
| A. | PCYQMN |
| B. | PGYQMN |
| C. | PGYUMP |
| D. | PGYUPM |
| Answer» D. PGYUPM | |
| 15548. |
If TRANSFER is coded as RTNAFSRE, then ELEPHANT would be coded as ? |
| A. | LEPEHATN |
| B. | LEPEAHTN |
| C. | LEEPAHTN |
| D. | LEPEAHNT |
| Answer» C. LEEPAHTN | |
| 15549. |
If ‘paper’ is called ‘eraser’, eraser is called ‘bag’, ‘bag’ is called ‘scale’, scale is called ‘pencil’ and pencil is called ‘paper’, what will a person write with? |
| A. | Pencil |
| B. | Scale |
| C. | Eraser |
| D. | paper |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15550. |
If'eraser' is called 'box', 'box' is called 'pencil', 'pencil' is called 'sharpener', and 'sharpener' is called 'bag', what will a child write with? |
| A. | Eraser |
| B. | Bag |
| C. | Pencil |
| D. | Sharpener |
| Answer» E. | |