Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Principles of Inheritance and Variation

Question:

Match List-I with List-II:

List-I

Scientists 

List-II

Discover 

(A) Sutton and Boveri (I) X-Body
(B) Sturtevant (II) Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance
(C) Henking (III) Transformation in bacteria
(D) Griffith (IV) Genetic maps

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A)-(II), (B) -(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

(A)-(II),(B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)

(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(II), (B) -(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (1) –(A)-(II), (B) -(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

List-I

Scientists 

List-II

Discover 

(A) Sutton and Boveri (II) Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance
(B) Sturtevant (IV) Genetic maps
(C) Henking (I) X-Body
(D) Griffith (III) Transformation in bacteria

In 1928, Frederick Griffith, in a series of experiments with Streptococcus pneumoniae (bacterium responsible for pneumonia), witnessed a miraculous transformation in the bacteria.

Boveri and Sutton's chromosome theory of inheritance stated that genes are found at specific locations on chromosomes, and that the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis can explain Mendel’s laws of inheritance.

Henking (1891) could trace a specific nuclear structure all through spermatogenesis in a few insects, and it was also observed by him that 50 per cent of the sperm received this structure after spermatogenesis, whereas the other 50 per cent sperm did not receive it. Henking gave a name to this structure as the X body but he could not explain its significance.

Alfred Sturtevant used the frequency of recombination between gene pairs on the same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes and ‘mapped’ their position on the chromosome. Today genetic maps are extensively used as a starting point in the sequencing of whole genomes as was done in the case of the Human Genome Sequencing Project