Q.1
Theory of spontaneous creation was supported by ... ... [ AFMC 2000 ]
  • a) Van Helmont
  • b) Redi
  • c) Spallanzani
  • d) Pasteur
Q.2
Homologous organs indicate ... .. [ RPMT 2011 ]
  • a) Convergent evolution
  • b) Parallel evolution
  • c) Natural selection
  • d) Common descent
Q.3
Mutation theory cannot explain .. .. [ CPMT 2001 ]
  • a) Mimicry
  • b) Industrial melanism
  • c) Connecting link
  • d) Living fossils
Q.4
Which period is largely associated with extinction of dinosaurs, increase in flowering plants and reptiles ... .. [ DPMT 2009]
  • a) Triassic
  • b) Jurassic
  • c) Cretaceous
  • d) Permian
Q.5
A connecting/ missing link between reptiles and birds is .... ... [ AFMC 1998 ]
  • a) Archaeopteryx
  • b) Platypus
  • c) Java Ape man
  • d) Whale
Q.6
Organs having similar functions but different origin and devlopment are known as ... .. [ JKCMEE 2004 ]
  • a) Homologous organs
  • b) Analogous organs
  • c) Metalogous organs
  • d) Vestigial organs
Q.7
Reproductive isolation between segment of a single population is ... .. [ DPMT 2009]
  • a) Sympatry
  • b) Allopatry
  • c) Population divergence
  • d) Disruptive divergence
Q.8
'Survival of fittest' was used by ... .. [ AFMC 2005]
  • a) Charls Darwin
  • b) Herbert Spencer
  • c) Jean Baptiste Lamarck
  • d) Hugo de Vries
Q.9
Coevolution does not occur in case of ... ... [ BHU 2002 ]
  • a) Parasitism
  • b) Mutualism
  • c) Both A and B
  • d) Commensalism
Q.10
Homologous organs are ... .. [ CBSE 1995 ]
  • a) Dissimilar origin and dissimilar structure
  • b) Dissimilar origin but similar function
  • c) Similar origin with similar or dissimilar functions
  • d) Similar origin with dissimilar functions
Q.11
Ultimate source of variations is .. .. [ CPMT 2009]
  • a) Meiosis
  • b) Sexual reproduction
  • c) Mutation
  • d) Independent assortment
Q.12
In which respect, Darwin's theory is wrong ... .. [ BHU 1995 ]
  • a) high efficiency of reproduction
  • b) origin of species
  • c) survival of the fittest
  • d) arrival of the fittest
Q.13
Vestigial pelvic girdle and bone remnants of hind limbs are characteristic of ... ... [ Har PMT 2000 ]
  • a) Whale
  • b) Dolphin
  • c) Shark
  • d) Seal
Q.14
According to Darwin, evolution is ... .. [ KCET 2010]
  • a) Sudden but discontinuous process
  • b) slow, gradual and continuous process
  • c) Slow, sudden and discontinuous process
  • d) Slow and discontinuous process
Q.15
In which condition gene ratio remains constant in a species ... .. [ CBSE 2002 ]
  • a) Gene flow
  • b) Mutation
  • c) Random mating
  • d) Sexual selection
Q.16
According to Darwin, diversity as found in Australian marsupials is due to ... .. [ AMU 2011]
  • a) Convergent evolution
  • b) Adaptive radiation
  • c) Parallel radiation
  • d) Parallel evolution
Q.17
Darwinism explains all except ... .. [ KCET 2009]
  • a) Within each species there are variations
  • b) Variations are inherited from parents to offspring through genes
  • c) Organisms tend to produce more offspring than can survive
  • d) Organisms with better traits that overcome competition are best suited under the environment
Q.18
Who disapproved abiogenesis for the first time? ... .. [ Manipal 2004 ]
  • a) Lamarck
  • b) F. Redi
  • c) Pasteur
  • d) Darwin
Q.19
Match the following columns and find correct combination
Column I Column II
a) Darwin p) Mutation Theory
b) De Vries q) Protobiosis
c) Pasteur r) Origin of Species
d) Fox s) Special Creation
- - t) Swan-Necked Flask Experiment
  • a) a = r, b = p, c = t, d= q
  • b) a = p, b = q c = r, d= s
  • c) a = t, b = r, c = q, d= p
  • d) a = r, b = t, c = p, d= q
Q.20
Coal has been mainly formed by ... .. [ AFMC 2000 ]
  • a) Bryophytes
  • b) Pteridophytes/ pteridosperms
  • c) Angiosperms
  • d) Algae
Q.21
Darwin judged the fitness of individual through ... .. [ DPMT 2009]
  • a) Ability to defend
  • b) Strategy for obtaining food
  • c) Number of offspring
  • d) Dominance over others
Q.22
Dinosaurs were dominant during ... .. [ MPPMT 1987 ]
  • a) Devonian
  • b) Pleistocene
  • c) Permian
  • d) Jurassic
Q.23
By the statement " Survival of the Fittest" Darwin meant .. .. [ KCET 2011]
  • a) Strongest of all species survives
  • b) Most intelligent of species survives
  • c) Cleverest of the species survives
  • d) In a species, most adaptable to changes survive
Q.24
Swan-necked flask experiment was performed by ... ... [ KCET 2001 ]
  • a) Louis Pastur
  • b) Robert Koch
  • c) Francisco Redi
  • d) Aristotle
Q.25
Development of adaptations along parallel lines in unrelated groups of animals is ... ... [ MPPMT 2002 ]
  • a) Adaptive convergence
  • b) Adaptive radiation
  • c) Adaptive divergence
  • d) Adaptive induction
Q.26
Reproductive isolation is ... .. [ kerala 200]
  • a) inability to interbreed
  • b) ability to interbreed
  • c) breeding in isolation
  • d) none of above
Q.27
A brief reduction in size of population due to natural calamities leads to random genetic drift. For this statement identify the correct example ... ...
  • a) Long neck Giraffe
  • b) Industrial melanism
  • c) Human population of Pitcairn island
  • d) Polydactylic dwarfs in Amish population
Q.28
In which type of isolation, two species living in different habitats are prevented from interbreeding ... .. [ JKCMEE 2010]
  • a) Temporal
  • b) Behavioral
  • c) Ecological
  • d) Genetic
Q.29
The classical example of adaptive radiation during formation of new species is ... ... [ CPMT 2004 ]
  • a) Marsupials of Australia
  • b) Darwin's finches
  • c) Giant Tortoise
  • d) All the above
Q.30
The major objection against the theory of Natural Selection is that it ... .. [ CPMT 1991 ]
  • a) Stress on interspecific competition
  • b) Explains natural calamities to take heavy toll of lives
  • c) Explains adaptation
  • d) Stresses on slow and small variations
Q.31
Which of the following is not atavistic in humans? [ CPMT 2001 ]
  • a) Tail in some babies
  • b) Enlarged canines
  • c) Six fingers
  • d) Dense body hair
Q.32
Fossil reptile having mammalian traits was ... ... [ CPMT 1992 ]
  • a) Peripatus
  • b) Pelycosaurs
  • c) Tyrannosaurus
  • d) Archaeopteryx
Q.33
Darwin proposed that new species evolve from ancestral forms by ... .. [ Pb. PMT 2005]
  • a) Gradual accumulation of adaptations to changing environment
  • b) Struggle for limited resources
  • c) Accumulation of mutations
  • d) Inheritance of acquired adaptations to environment
Q.34
The most primitive cell like chemical aggregates capable of growth and division were ... ... [ Har.PMT 1993 ]
  • a) Chemoautotrophs
  • b) Eobionts
  • c) Procaryotes
  • d) Microspheres
Q.35
Miller and Urey performed an experiment to prove the origin of life. They took gases ammonia and Hydrogen along with .. ... [ AMU 2006]
  • a) N2 and H2O
  • b) CH4 and H2O
  • c) CO2 and NH3
  • d) CH4 and N2
Q.36
Which is not Lamarckian concept? ... .. [ Pb. PMT 2007]
  • a) Environmental pressure causes variations
  • b) Rate of survival of organisms is different due to variations
  • c) Inheritance of acquired characters
  • d) If an organ is used constantly, it will continuously increase its size
Q.37
Another term for adaptive evolution is ... .. [ MPPMT 2010 ]
  • a) Clinical change
  • b) Microevolution
  • c) Macroevolution
  • d) Speciation
Q.38
Unit of evolution/ natural selection or survival of the fittest or modern synthetic theory is ... ... [ JKCET 2006 ]
  • a) Species
  • b) Population
  • c) Family
  • d) Individual
Q.39
Darwin's Natural Selection is based on ... .. [ CPMT 1997 ]
  • a) Use and disuse
  • b) Inheritance of acquired characters
  • c) Variations
  • d) Prodigality, struggle for existence and survival of fittest.
Q.40
Which initiated study in population genetics and related fields ....
  • a) Hardy-Weinberg law
  • b) Lamarckism
  • c) Mechanistic theory of Darwin
  • d) Neutral theory
Q.41
Theory of inheritance of acquired characters was given by ... .. [ MPPMT 1995 ]
  • a) Wallace
  • b) Lamarck
  • c) Darwin
  • d) De vries
Q.42
Archaeopteryx, tooth fossil bird occurred during .... ... [ MPPMT 2002]
  • a) Jurassic
  • b) Triassic
  • c) Cretaceous
  • d) Permian
Q.43
Extra terrestrial origin of life was proposed by theory of ... ... [ DPMT 2005 ]
  • a) Catastrophism
  • b) Spontaneous generation
  • c) Special creation
  • d) Panspermia
Q.44
Major cause of evolution of genes and proteins is ... .. [ DMPT 2010 ]
  • a) Point mutation
  • b) Gene duplication and divergence
  • c) Chromosomal aberration
  • d) Sexual reproduction
Q.45
Which one are not analogous organs .. .. [ CPMT 2009]
  • a) Wings of birds and wings of butterfly
  • b) Eye of Octopus and eye of mammals
  • c) Flippers of penguins and flippers of Dolphin
  • d) Thorns of Bongainvillea and tendril of Cucurbita
Q.46
Which one of the following show discontinuous distribution ... [ DPMT 2011]
  • a) Bats
  • b) green Mussels
  • c) Lung Fishes
  • d) Pacific Salmons
Q.47
What is the correct formulation of Hardy Weinberg law ... .. [ DPMT 2008]
  • a) p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1
  • b) p2 + pq + q2 = 1
  • c) p2 + 2pq + q2 = 0
  • d) p2 + pq + q2 = 0
Q.48
Mule is a product of ... ... [ AFMC 2004]
  • a) Mutation
  • b) Breeding
  • c) Intraspecific hybridization
  • d) Interspecific hybridization
Q.49
Genetic drift ... ... [ KCET 1998 ]
  • a) Is random change in gene frequency
  • b) Has nothing in common with inbreeding
  • c) Is an orderly change in gene frequency
  • d) Produces greatest fluctuations in large populations
Q.50
Change in gene structure changes the trait it represents. the theory about formation of new species with the help of such changes is ... ..
  • a) Theory of natural selection
  • b) Mutation theory
  • c) Theory of inheritance of acquired characters
  • d) Theory of biogenesis
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