Q: Whose research heralded genetics as a scientific discipline?
Mendel suspected that traits were inherited as discrete units.
Gregor Mendel
Hugo de Vries
Watson and Crick
Thomas Morgan
A: 1
Q: Hippocrates believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and devised a hypothesis known as...
Hippocrates postulated that all organs of the body of a parent gave off invisible “seeds,” which were like miniaturised building components.
Epigenesis
Pangenesis
Dysgenesis
Neogenesis
A: 2
Q: Aristotle emphasised the importance of __ in heredity.
Aristotle thought that the blood supplied generative material for building all parts of the adult body.
Diet
Soil
Blood
Climate
A: 3
Q: What are codons?
In 1961, Francis Crick and South African biologist Sydney Brenner showed that the genetic code must be read in triplets of nucleotides, called codons.
Pair of nucleotides
Other name for nucleotides
Mutated nucleotides
Triplets of nucleotides
A: 4
Q: When did the Human Genome Project begin?
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
1990
2003
2000
1983
A: 1
