Monday, December 13, 2010

Vestigeal pelvic girdle and bones of hind limbs are characteristic of

Q. Animals belonging to different classes of Vertebrates have developed similar adaptational features to a particular type of habitat. This phenomenon is called
  1 Convergent evolution
  2 Adaptive radiation
  3 Mimicry
  4 Parallel evolution
    Ans:1 

Q. Vestigeal pelvic girdle and bones of hind limbs are characteristic of
  1 Whales
  2 Dolphins
  3 Seals
  4 Sharks
    Ans:1 

Q. Who considered evolution as due to mutation?
  1 Charles Darwin
  2 Lamarck
  3 Hugo de Vries
  4 Wallace
    Ans:3 

Q. Hugo de Cries based his theory of mutation on observing the organism
  1 Drosophila
  2 Pea plant
  3 Oenothera
  4 Elephant
    Ans:3 

Q. Palaeontology is the study of
  1 Birds
  2 Bones
  3 Fossils
  4 Primates
    Ans:3 

Q. The biogenetic law was proposed by
  1 Alfred Russel Wallace
  2 Charles Darwin
  3 Ernst von Haeckel
  4 Lamarck
    Ans:3 

Q. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny is the theory of
  1 Evolution
  2 Reduction
  3 Recapitulation
  4 Darwinism
    Ans:3 

Q. Wallace's line is a line
  1 Drawn by Darwin
  2 Across the mountains
  3 Between two zoogeographical areas
  4 Between different classes of animals
    Ans:3 

Q. The solenocytes of Platyhelminthes, the nephridium of Annelids, and the kidneys of Vertebrates all have a similar function of excretion by differ in origin. They are said to be
  1 Analogous
  2 Homologous
  3 Adaptational
  4 Vestigeal
    Ans:1 

Q. The various organs of mouth parts used for biting, sucking, chewing etc of insects, though differ externally and in functions, are built on the same basic plan and it is termed
  1 Analogy
  2 Homology
  3 Parallel evolution
  4 Isolation
    Ans:2 

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