A fossil is a
laboratory preserved animal
dead animal of the past
organic relic of the past
stuffed animal
Correct Answer :
C. organic relic of the past
Related Questions
Which is not a vestigeal organ
Wisdom teeth
Fossa ovalis
Muscles of ear pinna
Ileum
Pangenesis theory was given by
Charles Darwin
Lamarck
Wsismann
Becker
Connecting link between nonchordata and chordata is
Peripatus
Archaeopteryx
Tachyglossus
Balanoglossus
An example of analogy is
wings of a bird and butterfly
wings of pigeon and bat
limbs of horse and man
paddles of dolphin and fins of a fish
A starfish with six arms, may be a case of
variation
evolution
autotomy
mutation
Which of these does not play a role in evolution ?
Mutation
Polyploidy
Natural selection
Acquired characters
The recent ancestors of modem man were
Java Ape and Peking man
Peking man and Rhodesian man
Cromagnon man and Rhodesian man
Cromagnon man and Neanderthal man
Peking man is known as
Homo sapiens
Pithecanthropus
Sinanthropus
None of these
Geological evidence of most primitive mammals is found in
Centred Africa
China
India
Australia
Doubis in 1891 found the fossil of Java ape man. It is
Sinanthropus pekinensis
Homoerectus
Homo rhodesiensis
Homo spisaens
The function affected by point mutation in p-globin in sickle cell anaemia is
protein folding
transcriptional control
nonsense mutation
none of these
Some of the important evidences of organic evolution are
occurrence of homologous and vestigeal organs
occurrence of analogous and vestigial organs
occurrence of homologous and analogous organs
occurrence of analogous oragans only
Which of the following gases were absent in free form when life originated on earth?
Oxygen
Hydrogen
Methane
Ammonia
The idea of "Survival of fittest" was given by
Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Mai thus
Lovell
Species were regarded as unchangeable by
Lamarck
Morgan
Charles Darwin
Many biologists of 19th century
Fire was first used for protection and cooking by
Java man
Neanderthal man
Peking man
Cromagnon man
In forming the theory of evolution by Natural Selection, Charles Darwin was greatly influenced by
environmental factors
mutations
malthu's ideas on population control
all of these
Which were dominant during Mesozoic era
Pisces
Birds
Ruling mammals
Ruling reptiles
A fossil is a
laboratory preserved animal
dead animal of the past
organic relic of the past
stuffed animal
The epoch of human civilisation is
Pliocene
Holocene
Pleistocene
Palaeocene
Amphibians appeared and became dominant in the
Mesozoic era
Coenozoic era
Palaeozoic era
None of these
Role of isolation in evolution is
differentiation of species
maintenance of species
evolutionary divergence
extermination of species
The book "Voyage of the Beagle" is concerned with which one of the following ?
Lamarckism
Theory of natural selection
Bird flight mechanisms
Both and
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny is the statement relating to
morphology
physiology
taxonomy
embryology
Which is a vestigeal organ of python
Nose
Scales
Teeth
Hindlimbs
We use the term hybrid breakdown when the
offspring of hybrids are inviable or sterile
a hybrid zygote is formed but it fails to develop
hybrid adults fail to produce functional gametes
sperms and ova of different species of animals are unable to fuse
The fossil formed from harder parts of the body infiltrated by minerals and turned into stony shapes is
moulds
coprolites
petrified
cast
The idea of spontaneous generation is essentially correct in regard to
origin of life
evolution
mutations
embryology
The study of Galapagos Finches shows
adaptive radiation
adaptive convergence
use and disuse of organs
none of these
The resemblance between the south American llama and the African camel indicates a common ancestry. This is
homological evidence for evolution
palaentological evidence for evolution
biogeographic evidence for evolution
none of these