What is the number of chromosome pairs in maize $(Zea \ mays)$?

The father has blood group $AB$ and the mother has blood group $O$. Which of the following blood groups can the child have?

Match List-$I$ with List-$II$ :

List-$I$ (Type of Inheritance)	List-$II$ (Example)
$A$. Incomplete dominance	$I$. Blood groups in human
$B$. Co-dominance	$II$. Flower colour in Antirrhinum
$C$. Pleiotropy	$III$. Skin colour in human
$D$. Polygenic inheritance	$IV$. Phenylketonuria

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

The application of the principles of genetics for the improvement of the human race is called ..............

Arrange the following plants with respect to an increasing number of chromosomes:
Rice,Maize,Apple

Read the following statements and identify the correct ones.
$(1)$ Linkage and recombination were first understood in $Lathyrus$ $odoratus$.
$(2)$ Mendel's work was rediscovered by Correns,Tschermak,and de Vries,which was published in $1900$.
$(3)$ $T.H.$ Morgan is considered the father of experimental genetics.
$(4)$ $A$ child born to parents with thalassemia major can be affected by thalassemia.
$(5)$ In birds,the female is homogametic and the male is heterogametic.