The Hindu Science Quiz | On genetics

The Hindu Science Quiz | On genetics

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1 / 5 | Whose research heralded genetics as a scientific discipline?

• Gregor Mendel
• Hugo de Vries
• Watson and Crick
• Thomas Morgan

Mendel suspected that traits were inherited as discrete units.

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2 / 5 | Hippocrates believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and devised a hypothesis known as...

• Epigenesis
• Pangenesis
• Dysgenesis
• Neogenesis

Hippocrates postulated that all organs of the body of a parent gave off invisible “seeds,” which were like miniaturised building components.

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3 / 5 | Aristotle emphasised the importance of __ in heredity.

• Diet
• Soil
• Blood
• Climate

Aristotle thought that the blood supplied generative material for building all parts of the adult body.

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4 / 5 | What are codons?

• Pair of nucleotides
• Other name for nucleotides
• Mutated nucleotides
• Triplets of nucleotides

In 1961, Francis Crick and South African biologist Sydney Brenner showed that the genetic code must be read in triplets of nucleotides, called codons.

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5 / 5 | When did the Human Genome Project begin?

• 1990
• 2003
• 2000
• 1983

By the time of its completion in 2003, HGP researchers had successfully determined, stored, and rendered publicly available the sequences of almost all the genetic content of the human genome. Click here to know more about genetics. https://www.britannica.com/science/genetics

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