12th Class Biology Principle Of Inheritance And Variation Question Bank Case Based - Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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    Direction Read the following and answer the questions from given below In court, a woman of AB blood group claims that a man of O blood group is the father of her son having O blood group. The judge orders to take the help of a geneticist to solve the problem. Finally, it was concluded that man of O blood group was not the father of woman's son.
    (iv) Out of the three alleles of gene I, the sugar polymers on the plasma membrane of RBCs is controlled by how many alleles?
     

    A) All three            

    B) Two

    C) One                 

    D) Zero

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    [b] The plasma membrane of the RBC has sugar polymers that protrude from its surface and the kind of sugar is controlled by T gene. It has three alleles, \[{{I}^{A}}\], \[{{I}^{B}}\]and i. Out of these only two alleles \[{{I}^{A}}\] and \[{{I}^{B}}\] produce a slightly different form of the sugar, while allele 'i' does not produce any sugar.


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