Multiple Choice QuestionsWhich one of the following is the most primitive ancestor of man?
Homo habilis
Australopithecus
Ramapithecus punjabicus
Homo neanderthalensis
Which one of the following ancestors of man first time showed bipedal movement
Australopithecus
Cro-magnon
Java ape man
Peking mann
The important gas which was absent during the formation of Earth is
oxygen
hydrogen
nitrogen
carbon dioxide
Homo erectus evolved during
Oligocene
Pliocene
Pleistocene
Miocene
C.
Pleistocene
Homo erectus lived from the end of Pliocene epoch to the later Pleistocene about 1.3 to 1.8 million years ago. This species originated in Africa and spread as far as India, China and Java. It walked erect over long legs, height 1.5 - 1.79 mt, brain size (cranial capacity) 775 - 1225 cm, prognathus face with prominent brow ridges, no chin, massive jaws and larger teeth. Use of tools made up of bones and stones, fire, acheulean hand axes and some primitive type of speech had developed.
Bursa fabricius is an important organ of birds. This organ is associated with
generation of basophil
production of uric acid
metabolism of fatty acids
generation of B-cell
Variation in gene frequencies within populations can occur by chance rather than by natural selection. This is referred to as
genetic flow
genetic drift
random mating
genetic load
The process by which organisms with different evolutionary history evolve similar phenotypic adaptations in response to a common environmental challenge, is called
natural selection
convergent evolution
non-random evolution
adaptive radiation
The tendency of population to remain in genetic equilibrium may be disturbed by
random mating
lack of migration
lack of mutations
lack of random mating
According to Darwin, the organic evolution is due to
intraspecific competition
interspecific competition
competition within closely related species
reduced feeding efficiency in one species due to the presence of interfering species
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