Which one of the following in birds indicates their reptilian ancestry?
1. | Scales on their heart |
2. | Four-chambered heart |
3. | Two special chambers crop and grizzlies in their digestive tract |
4. | Egg with a calcareous shell |
Darwinism explains all the following except:
1. | Within each species, there is variation |
2. | Organisms tend to produce more offspring than can survive |
3. | Offspring with better traits that overcome competition are best suited for the environment |
4. | Variations are inherited from parents to offspring through genes |
Theory of pangenesis was given by:
1. Darwin
2. Lamarck
3. Hugo de Vries
4. Oparin
Which of the following is not true for a species?
1. | Members of a species interbreed |
2. | Variations occur among members of species |
3. | Each species is reproductively isolated from every other species |
4. | Gene flow does not occur between the populations of a species |
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:
1. origin of species by natural selection
2. intraspecific variations
3. intraspecific competition
4. interspecific competition
Age of fishes is also known as:
1. Permian Era
2. Silurian Era
3. Devonian Era
4. Ordovician Era
1. | Hyenas and wolves will become scarce. |
2. | Its gene pool will be lost forever |
3. | The wild areas will be safe for man and domestic |
4. | The population of beautiful animals like deer will get stabilized |
Variations caused by mutation, as proposed by Hugo de Vries, are:
1. small and directionless
2. random and directional
3. random and directionless
4. small and directional
A gene locus has two alleles A, a. If the frequency of dominant allele A is 0.4, then what will be the frequency of homozygous dominant, heterozygous and homozygous recessive individuals in the population?
1. | 0.16 (AA); 0.36 (Aa); 0.48 (aa) |
2. | 0.36 (AA); 0.48 (Aa); 0.16 (aa) |
3. | 0.16 (AA); 0.24 (Aa); 0.36 (aa) |
4. | 0.16 (AA); 0.48 (Aa); 0.36 (aa) |
In a species, the weight of a newborn ranges from 2 to 5 kg. 97% of the newborns with an average weight between 3 to 3.3 kg survive whereas 99% of the infants born with weights from 2 to 2.5 kg or 4.5 kg to 5 kg die. Which type of selection process is taking place?
1. Cyclical selection
2. Directional selection
3. Stabilizing selection
4. Disruptive selection