Principles of Inheritance and Variation Question 7

7. Select the incorrect statement.

(a) Male fruit fly is heterogametic.

(b) In male grasshoppers, $50 %$ of sperms have no sex-chromosome.

(c) In domesticated fowls, sex of progeny depends on the type of sperm rather than egg.

(d) Human males have one, of their sexchromosome much shorter than the other.

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Answer : c

Hints & Solution

(c) In birds female heterogamety is found thus sex of progeny depends on the types of egg rather than the type of sperms of birds (fowls).