1.

The word organic evolution was coined by

A) Herbert Spencer B) Dobzhansky C) Oparin D) Cuvier
2. Identify the true statement
A) Catastrophism → Life originated from resistant spores
B) Spontaneous generation → Life originated from manure, dew
C) Biogenesis → Life originated from non living organisms
D) Coacervate theory → Life originates primarily by biological evolution which later led to
chemical evolution
3. Match the following
a)Aristotle 1) Catastrophism
b) George Cuvier 2) Abiogenesis
c) Louis Pasteur 3) Coacervate theory
d) Oparin & Haldane 4) Biogenesis
A) 4 12 3 B) 3 4 1 2 C) 2 1 4 3 D) 1 3 2 4
4. Identify a, b, c and d
Anaerobic heterotrophs -a
Chemoautotrophic organisms -b
Anoxygenic phototrophic organisms - c
Oxygenic phototrophic organisms - d
A) Purple & green sulphur bacteria, Fermentors, Blue green algae, Iron & Sulphur bacteria
B) Blue green algae, Purple & green sulphur bacteria, Iron & sulphur bacteria, Fermentors
C) Fermentors, Iron & Sulphur bacteria, Purple & green sulphur bacteria, Blue green algae
D) Iron & sulphur bacteria, Blue green algae, Fermentors, Purple & green sulphur bacteria
5. Prokaryotes which internalized in ancestral eukaryotes and lived symbiotically are
A)Mitochondria B) Ribosomes C) Plastids D) A & C
6. End products of Urey Miller experiment include
A) Valine B) Glutamic acid C) Aspartic acid D) Cysteine
7. Connecting links as per palaeontology are
A) Eusthenopteron – between reptiles and birds
B) Archaeopteryx – between reptiles & mammals
C) Seymouria - between amphibians & reptiles
D) Cynognathous – between fishes & amphibians
8. Golden age of reptiles is represented by
A) Precambrian era B) Paleozoic era C) Mesozoic era D) Coenozoic era
9. Golden age of Fishes is represented by _ period
A) Silurian B) Devonian C) Carboniferous D) Permian
10. Golden age of amphibians is represented by _ period
A) Silurian B) Devonian C) Carboniferous D) Permian
11. The father of modern embryology is
A) Ernst Haeckel B) Herbert spencer C) Von baer D) Haldane
12. Theory of recapitulation is given by
A) Ernst Haeckel B) Herbert spencer C) Von baer D) Haldane
13. Match the following
a) Homologous organs 1) Flippers of whaler, Wings of bat
b) Analogous organs 2) Mammary glands in human males
 c) Vestigial organs 3) Wings of butterfly, Wings of bird
d) Atavistic organs 4) Tailed human body
14. The organisms which possess the characters of two different groups between which they are
transitional
A) Peripatus – between arthropods and Molluscs
B) Periplaneta – between annelids and arthropods
C) Eutherians – between reptiles and aves
D) prototherians – between reptiles and mammals
15. Conclusions of nuttal serological experiments
A) Whale is closely related to dog
B) North americaan Llamas are closely related to the camels of Europe
C) Anthropoid ape is more closely related to man than to monkey and dog
D) A & B
16. NO girl child is born with ready made perforations in their pinna. This was justified by
A) Use & Disuse theory B) Germplasm theory
C) Biochemicla recapitulation D) Blood precipitation tests
17. Identify the false statement on adoptive radiation
a) When animals of a certain habitat enter into different habitats, they evolve into different
forms
b) It indicates convergent evolution
c) Darwins finches of Galapagos islands evolved from main land, the south America
d) Darwins finches have many forms with variations in beak pattern were formed from the
original seed eating birds
18. Example fro convergent evolution include
A) Shark & Whale B) Earthworm & Snake C) A & B D) Flippersof whale & Paw of cat
19. Human being is described as moving museum of antiquities by
A) August Weismann B) Weidersheim C) Russel Wallace D) Von Baer
20. Mutations are described as _ by Darwin
A) Sportsof nature B) Saltattions C) Discontinuous variations D) A & B
21. Development of resistance to DDt by mosquitoes is an example for
A) Stabilizing selection B)Directional selection C) Disruptive selection D)Any of the above
22. Biston betularia, Darwin finches followed
A) Stabilizing selection B)Directional selection C) Disruptive selection D)Any of the above
23. Centripetal selction among the following
A) Stabilizing selection B)Directional selection C) Disruptive selection D)Any of the above
24. Neo-Darwinist who believed in gene and chromosomal mutations, gentic recombinations,
natural selection and reproductive isolation
A) Cope B) Osborn C) Packard D) Huxley
25. The hypothesis “ Nature offered positive selection pressure to the black forms of Biston
betularia” is experimentally tested by
A) Russel Wallace B) Bernard Kettlewell C) Simpson D) Darwin
26. The change in the frequency of a gene that occurs merely by chance and not by selection in
small populations is called
A) Genetic load B) Genetic drift C) Sewallwright effect D) A & C
27. The existence of deleterious genes with in the populations is called
A) Genetic load B) Genetic drift C) Sewallwright effect D) A & C
28. If a small group of individuals from a population start anew colony in an isolated region,
those individuals are called
A) Founders B) Bottle neck effect C) Microevolution D) Macroevolution
29. Evolution of new species in asingle lineage is called
A)Anagenesis B) Cladogenesis C) Allopatric speciation D) Sympatric speciation
30. If one species diverges into two or more species, it is called
A)Anagenesis B) Cladogenesis C) Allopatric speciation D) Sympatric speciation
31. If speciation takes place in the organisms due to geographical isolation
A)Anagenesis B) Cladogenesis C) Allopatric speciation D) Sympatric speciation
32. If speciation takes place in the organisms which live in the same habitar, capable of
interbreeding but do ot interbreed due to some isolation mechanisms is called
A)Anagenesis B) Cladogenesis C) Allopatric speciation D) Sympatric speciation
33. The following struggle as per Darwin is the most severe check on the rate of reproduction
A) Intraspecific struggle B) Interspecific struggle C) Environment Struggle D) All the above
34. Identify the objections of Darwinism
A) Occurance of Vestigial organs
B) Arrival of Fittest
C) Difference between somatic and germinal variations
D) All the above
35. Embryos of Frog, salamander, tortoise, chick and man is studied by
A) Ernst Haeckel B) Von baer C) August weisman D) Lamarck
36. Ontogeny repeats phylogeny statement is given by
A) Ernst Haeckel B) Von baer C) August weisman D) Lamarck
37. Complex polymers formed in the prebiotic soup aggregates into large colloidal substances
called
A) Coacervates B) free genes C) Protobionts D) Ancestral prokaryotes
38. Origin of human beings occurred in
A) Paleozoic era B)Precambrian era C) Mesozoic era D) Coenozoic era
39. Origin of birds occurred in _ period
A) Devonian B) Silurian C) Jurassic D) Triassic
40. Origin of dinosaurs occurred in _ period
A) Devonian B) Silurian C) Jurassic D) Triassic
41. Origin of amphibians occurred in _ period
A) Devonian B) Silurian C) Jurassic D) Triassic
42. The fossilizedfaecal matter among the following
A) moulds B) casts C) petrifications D) coprolites
43. The age of fossil is calculated by
A) C – 14 B) U-238 C) K-40 D) All the above
44. Development of normal eyes and skin colour in cave dwelling animal, Proteus anguinus is
observed by
A) Bernard Kettlewell B) Paul kammarer C) Weidersheim D) Herbert spencer
45. Survival of Fittest term is given by
A) Darwin B) Herbert spencer C)Huxley D) Haeckel