The book "Origin of Species" was written by Charles Darwin in
1859
1885
1883
1897
Correct Answer :
A. 1859
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Fossil Archaeopteryx was discovered and preserved as
a petrified specimen
a mineralised specimen
a mould
embedded in amber
Species were regarded as unchangeable by
Lamarck
Morgan
Charles Darwin
Many biologists of 19th century
The first fossil man was
Australopithecus
Homo erectus
Sinanthropus
Ginganlo pithecus
Darwin proposed his theory of natural selection on the basis of
Mutation
Environmental factors
Lama's theory
Chromosomal aberrations
An animal is more likely to be preserved as a fossil if it contains large quantities of
cartilage and bone
proteins
inorganic materials
keratin materials
The idea of spontaneous generation is essentially correct in regard to
origin of life
evolution
mutations
embryology
Which of these does not play a role in evolution ?
Mutation
Polyploidy
Natural selection
Acquired characters
A fossil is a
laboratory preserved animal
dead animal of the past
organic relic of the past
stuffed animal
Which animals dominated in Paleozoic era ?
Fishes
Amphibians
Reptiles
Birds
Co-worker of Darwin was
Bateson
Mendel
Wallace
Lamarck
A kind of mimicry which presumably works as a double insurance is
batesian mimicry
mullerian mimicry
warning colouration
concealing colouration
Pangenesis theory was given by
Charles Darwin
Lamarck
Wsismann
Becker
Which were dominant during Mesozoic era
Pisces
Birds
Ruling mammals
Ruling reptiles
Role of isolation in evolution is
differentiation of species
maintenance of species
evolutionary divergence
extermination of species
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
Geological evidence of most primitive mammals is found in
Centred Africa
China
India
Australia
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
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
The epoch of human civilisation is
Pliocene
Holocene
Pleistocene
Palaeocene
Which is a vestigeal organ of python
Nose
Scales
Teeth
Hindlimbs
The idea of "Survival of fittest" was given by
Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Mai thus
Lovell
Doubis in 1891 found the fossil of Java ape man. It is
Sinanthropus pekinensis
Homoerectus
Homo rhodesiensis
Homo spisaens
The book "Voyage of the Beagle" is concerned with which one of the following ?
Lamarckism
Theory of natural selection
Bird flight mechanisms
Both and
Amphibians appeared and became dominant in the
Mesozoic era
Coenozoic era
Palaeozoic era
None of these
Peking man is known as
Homo sapiens
Pithecanthropus
Sinanthropus
None of these
The diploid number of chromosome in Chimpanzee, Gorilla and Orangutan is
2n = 44
2n = 46
2n = 48
none of these
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny is the statement relating to
morphology
physiology
taxonomy
embryology
The earliest ancestor of horse from early Eocene period is
miobibbus
eohippus
merychippus
pliohippus
The book "Origin of Species" was written by Charles Darwin in
1859
1885
1883
1897
Which is not a vestigeal organ
Wisdom teeth
Fossa ovalis
Muscles of ear pinna
Ileum