Multiple Choice Questions

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Human ancestors who left cave paintings were

  • Neanderthal man

  • Cro- magnon man

  • Java ape man

  • Peking man


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Cro- magnon man

Human ancestor Characteristic feature
Neanderthal man Believe in "Immortality of soul", Make tools of bones, stones, quartz.
Cro- magnon mam Cave painting, highest cranial capacity
Java ape man Make use of fire
Peking man Use nonsyllabic and non-articulate language.

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About how long ago was the earth formed

  • 3 billion years ago

  • 10 billion years ago

  • 4.6 billion years ago

  • 20 billion years ago


Age of fishes is also known as

  • Permian Era

  • Silurian Era

  • Devonian Era

  • Ordovician Era


Which of the following provides most evident proof of evolution?

  • Fossils

  • Morphology

  • Embryo

  • Vestigial organs


Which of the following is not a vestigial structure in Homo sapiens ?

  • Third molar

  • Epiglottis

  • Plica semilunaris

  • Pyrimidalis muscle


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Total number of bones in the hindlimb of a man is

  • 14

  • 21

  • 24

  • 30


During which geological period of evolution did the greatest diversification of life occurred on the earth?

  • Permian

  • Jurassic

  • Cambrian

  • Ordovician


Pneumatic bones are expected to be found in

  • house lizard

  • flying fish

  • pigeon

  • tadpole of frog


The diversity in the type of beaks of finches adapted to different feeding habits on the Galapagos islands, as observed by Darwin, provides evidence for

  • Origin of species by natural selection

  • Intraspecific Variations

  • Intraspecific competition

  • Interspecific competition


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The presence of diversity at the junction of territories to two different habitats is known as

  • bottleneck effect

  • edge effect

  • junction effect

  • Pasteur effect


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