Multiple Choice Questions

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Which one of the following phenomena supports Darwin's concept of natural selection in organic evolution?

  • Development of transgenic animals

  • Production of 'Dolly' the sheep by cloning

  • Prevalence of pesticide resistant insects

  • Development of organs from 'stem cells' for
    organ transplantation


C.

Prevalence of pesticide resistant insects

According to Darwin's concept of natural selection, the organisms which are provided with favourable variations would survive because, they are the fittest to face their surrounding while the organisms, which are unfit for surrounding variations are destroyed. Prevalence of pesticide resistant insects is due to adaptability of these insects for the changes in environment (due to use of pesticides).


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Pneumatic bones are expected to be found in

  • house lizard

  • flying fish

  • pigeon

  • tadpole of frog


Which have not left any evidences of organic evolution

  • Archaeopteryx

  • Cow

  • Peripatus

  • Neopilina


In Ornithine cycle, which of the following wastes are removed from the blood?

  • Urea and urine

  • Ammonia and urea

  • CO2 and ammonia

  • CO2 and urea


Presence of tail in a child is an example of

  • atavism

  • divergent evolution

  • convergent evolution

  • mutation


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Which one of the following experiments suggests that simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter?

  • Microbes did not appear in stored meat

  • Larvae could appear in decaying organic matter

  • Microbes appeared from unsterilized organic matter

  • Meat was not spoiled, when heated and kept sealed in a vessel


There are two opposing views about origin of modern man. According to one view Homo erectus in Asia were the ancestors of modern man. A study of variations of DNA however suggested African origin of modern man. What kind of observation on DNA variation could suggest this?

  • Greater variation in Africa than in Asia

  • Variation only in Asia and no variation in Africa

  • Greater variation in Asia than in Africa

  • Similar variation in Africa and Asia


Which of the following is not vestigial in man?

  • Tail vertebrae

  • Nails

  • Nicitating membrane

  • Vermiform appendix


Mesozoic era is Golden period of

  • reptiles

  • Mollusca

  • fishes

  • amphibians


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Organs which differ in origin but perform similar functions

  • analogous

  • homologous

  • vestigial

  • all of these


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