EVALUATION

This end-of-chapter Evaluation section brings together objective (multiple-choice, assertion-reason and match-the-following) and descriptive (short-answer and long-answer) questions spanning every topic in the chapter: the chromosomal theory of inheritance and its historical development; linkage, coupling/repulsion and the two kinds of linkage; the mechanism, types and significance of crossing over and recombination; genetic/gene mapping using two-point and three-point test crosses; multiple alleles and self-incompatibility in Nicotiana; sex determination across papaya, Sphaerocarpos and maize; the classification of point mutations and the physical and chemical agents that induce them; numerical and structural chromosomal aberrations; and the DNA-and-RNA metabolism topics of eukaryotic DNA replication, transcription, RNA splicing and editing, alternative splicing, translation and transposons. Working thr …