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Published on: 03/01/2020
Zoology - Evolution
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Take MCQ Biology Test1.
Genetic drift leads to
Mutation
Bottle neck effect
Immigration
Isolation
2.
Which one of the following brings about evidence for convergent evolution?
Homologous structure
Analogous structure
Vestigial organs
Atavistic organs
3.
Founder's effect is related to
Genetic drift
Gene mutation
Extinction
Artificial selection
4.
Origin of fishes occurred in ___________ period
Devonian
Silurian
Cambrian
Permian
5.
The age of fossils can be determined by
electron microscope
weighing the fossils
carbon dating
analysis of bones
6.
Organs which are of no use to the organism is called as vestige. Name any four vestigial organs that can be noticed in your body.
7.
What is divergent evolution?
8.
How does Hardy-Weinberg’s expression (p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1) explain that genetic equilibrium is maintained in a population? List any four factors that can disturb the genetic equilibrium.
9.
Explain about the objections to Darwinism.
10.
How does Mutation theory of De Vries differ from Lamarck and Darwin’s view in the origin of new species.
11.
Write a brief note on Homo sapiens with respect to evolution.
12.
What is paleontology?
13.
What is the view of Neo Lamarckism?
14.
How does Neanderthal man differ from the modern man in appearance?
15.
(a) In sympatric speciation, both new and ancestral species continue to inhabit the same geographical region.
(b) Phenotypic plasticity in the ability of single genotype to produce more than one phenotype.
(c) Mass extinction of animals happened due to the elevation of CO2 level.
(d) Mass extinction is often referred to as K-T extinction.
16.
Assertion: Natural selection will help to produce variations
Reason: The variations will help the organism in times of disasters.
Codes:
(a) A is in the and R is the covered the explanation of A
(b) A and R right but R is not the correct separation of A
(c) A is correct R is false
(d) Both A & B are false
17.
| (A) | Vestigial organ | - | Four chambered heart in reptiles |
| (B) | Analogous structure | - | wings of birds |
| (C) | Homologous structure | - | bones in the forelimbs veributes |
| (D) | Atavistic organ | - | tail in human body |
(a) A only
(b) B and C
(c) C and D
(d) C only
18.
(a) Haeckel
(b) Mendel
(c) Wallace
(d) Lamarck
19.
Sudden appearance of vestigial organs in highly enlarged organisms __________
1.
(b)
Bottle neck effect
2.
(b)
Analogous structure
3.
(a)
Genetic drift
4.
(b)
Silurian
5.
(c)
carbon dating
6.
Wisdom teeth, Mammae in male, Body hair and Coccyx.
7.
Structures which are similar in origin but perform different functions are called homologous structures that bring about divergent evolution.
Eg: Thorn of Bougainvillea is used for defense and tendrils of Cucurbita are used for climbing but both are homologous structures.
8.
1. Hardy -Weinberg principle states that the allele frequencies in a population are stable and remain constant from generation to generation it is called genetic equilibrium.
2. The sum total of all the allele frequencies is one and is represented by the equation.
p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1
Any change of frequency of alleles in a population in interpreted as resulting in evolution.
The factors that affect the genetic equilibrium are
1. Gene flow/migration
2. Genetic drift
3. Mutation
4. Genetic recombination
9.
Objections to Darwinism: Some objections raised against Darwinism were -
(i) Darwin failed to explain the mechanism of variation.
(ii) Darwinism explains the survival of the fittest but not the arrival of the fittest.
(iii) He focused on small fluctuating variations that are mostly non-heritable.
(iv) He did not distinguish between somatic and germinal variations.
(v) He could not explain the occurrence of vestigial organs, over specialization of some organs like large tusks in extinct mammoths, oversized antlers in the extinct Irish deer, etc.,
10.
1. Hugo de Vries by his experiment suggest that variations is caused due to mutation among the genetic sequence of an individual.
2. Hugo de vries for the first time gave the term saltation which stands for huge mutation in a single step resulting in speciation.
3. Darwin during his voyage in H.M.S. Beagle he found that living organism share similar features existed from million of years.
4. Evolution is a sequential process that leads to betterment of life forms to cope with change in environment and that is passed to successive generation called as natural selection.
5. Mutation is a random process and direction which is not specific.
11.
Homo sapiens or modem human arose in Africa some 25,000 years ago and moved to other continents and developed into distinct races. They had a brain capacity of 1300 - 1600 cc. They started cultivating crops and domesticating animals.
12.
It is the study of prehistoric life through fossils
13.
They argued that external conditions stimulate the somatic cells to produce certain 'secretions' which reach the sex cells through the blood and bring about variations in the offspring.
14.
(i) Neanderthal human was found in Neander Valley, Germany with a brain size of 1400 cc and lived between 34,000 - 1,00,000 years ago.
(ii) They differ from the modern. human in having semierect posture, flat cranium, sloping forehead, thin large orbits, heavy brow ridges, protruding jaws and no chin.
15.
( )
(c) Mass extinction of animals happened due to the elevation of CO2 level.
16.
(d) Both A & B are false
17.
(a) A only
18.
(d) Lamarck
Reason: He proposed use & disuse theory of evolution whereas the others are Neo Darwinists.
19.
Atavism
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