Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Principles of Inheritance and Variation

Question:

Haemophilia is characterized by:

Options:

Excessive clotting

Non-stop bleeding from minor cuts

High RBC count

Autosomal inheritance

Correct Answer:

Non-stop bleeding from minor cuts

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Non-stop bleeding from minor cuts

Haemophilia : This sex linked recessive disease, which shows its transmission from unaffected carrier female to some of the male progeny has been widely studied. In this disease, a single protein that is a part of the cascade of proteins involved in the clotting of blood is affected. Due to this, in an affected individual a simple cut will result in non-stop bleeding. The heterozygous female (carrier) for haemophilia may transmit the disease to sons. The possibility of a female becoming a haemophilic is extremely rare because mother of such a female has to be at least carrier and the father should be haemophilic (unviable in the later stage of life). The family pedigree of Queen Victoria shows a number of haemophilic descendents as she was a carrier of the disease.