1. Major radiation of mammals, birds and pollinating insects took place in which epoch?
( A ) Oegocene
( B ) Eocene
( C ) Pliocene
( D ) Palaeocene
Answer-( D )
2. Golden age of reptiles was:
( A ) Proterozoic era
( B ) Palaeozoic era
( C ) Mesozoic era
( D ) Coenozoic era
Answer-( C )
3. Amphibians were dominant during
( A ) Carboniferous
( B ) Silurian
( C ) Ordovician
( D ) Cambrian
Answer-( A )
4. Coacervates were experimentally produced by :
( A ) Oparin and Sydney Fox
( B ) Fischer and Huxley
( C ) Jacob and Monod
( D ) Urey and Miller
Answer-( A )
5. Chance elimination of alleles from small population is :
( A ) Adaptation
( B ) Genetic drift
( C ) Speciation
( D ) Selection pressure
Answer-( B )
6. Which are immortal ?
( A ) Germ cells
( B ) Liver cells
( C ) Kidney cells
( D ) Neurons
Answer-( A )
7. Discontinuous variations are due to :
( A ) Crossing over
( B ) Mutations
( C ) Segregation of chromosomes
( D ) Independent assortment
Answer-( B )
8. Theory of chemical origin of life was proposed by :
( A ) Miller and Fox
( B ) Oparin and Haldane
( C ) Miller and Watson
( D )Watson and Melvin
Answer-( B )
9. Evolutionary history of an organism is known as:
( A ) Ontogeny
( B ) Phylogeny
( C ) Ancestry
( D ) Palaenotology
Answer-( B )
10. Which one provides most evident proof of evolution ?
( A ) Fossils
( B ) Vestigial organs
( C ) Embryo
( D ) Morphology
Answer-( A )
11. Dinosaurs were present during :
( A ) Palaeozoic
( B ) Precambrian
( C ) Coenozoic
( D) Mesozoic
Answer-( D )
12.Extra terrestrial origin of life was proposed by
( A ) Catastrophism
( B ) Special creation
( C ) Panspermia
( D ) Sportaneous generation
Answer-( C )
13. Stanley Miller’s expreriment
Supports
( A ) Chemical theory
( B ) Abiogenesis
( C ) Biogenesis
( D ) Pangenesis
Answer-( A )
14. Operon model was proposed was
( A ) Watson & Crick
( B ) Nierenberg
( C ) Jacob & Monad
( D ) None of these
Answer-( C )
15. Echidna is
( A ) Connecting link
( B ) Vestigeal organ
( C ) Extinct link
( D ) None of these
Answer-( A )
16. S.L. Miller is related to
( A ) Origin & Evolution of life
( B ) Use and disuse theory of evolution
( C ) Neo-Darwinism
( D ) Neo-Lamarckism
Answer-( A )
17. Dryopithecus is more similar to
( A ) Ape
( B ) Gorilla
( C ) Chimpanzee
( D ) Man
Answer-( A )
18. Organic evolution was preceded by chemical evolution, the champions of this theory are
( A )A. I. Oparin and J.B.S. Haldane
( B ) Charles Darwin
( C ) Arrhenius
( D )Baptiste Lamarck
Answer-( A )
19. Adaptive radiation in Australian marsupials are example of :
( A ) Divergent Evolution
( B ) Convergent Evolution
( C ) Saltation
( D ) None
Answer-( A )
20. Appearance of antibiotic resistance bacteria is an example of
( A ) Adaptive radiation
( B ) Transduction
( C ) Pre-existing variation
( D ) Divergent Evolution
Answer-( A )
