Which of the following sets do not have homologous organs?
1. | Mouth parts of cockroach and butterfly |
2. | Wings of butterfly and bird |
3. | Wings of mosquito and butterfly |
4. | Forelegs of horse and paddles of whale |
Which of the following is the relatively most accurate method for dating fossils?
(1) Pottasium-argon method
(2) Uranium-lead method
(3) Electron-spin resonance method
(4) Radio-carbon method
At a particular locus, frequency of 'A' allele is 0.6 and that of 'a' is 0.4. What would be the frequency of heterozygotes in a randomly mating population of equilibrium ?
(1) 0.16
(2) 0.36
(3) 0.48
(4) 0.24
Speciation of sympatric species is due to
1. | geographic isolation |
2. | reproductive isolation |
3. | isolation/separation |
4. | migration |
Flame cells and Malpighian tubules are the analogous organ in
1. | insects and arthropods respectively |
2. | arthropods and echinodermates respectively |
3. | helminths and arthropods with other insect respectively |
4. | arthropds and other insect with helminths respectively |
Tendrils in plants are an exapmle of
1. Convergent evolution
2. Radiation
3. Divergent evolution
4. Co-evolution
Basis of life are
1. | nucleic acids | 2. | proteins |
3. | nucleoproteins | 4. | amino acids |
Theory of 'Saltations' was given by
1. | G Mendel | 2. | Hugo de Vries |
3. | J B S Haldane | 4. | H J Miller |
The animal group which does not exist in Galapagos island is
1. | Insects | 2. | Protozoa |
3. | Crustacea | 4. | Amphibia |
Appearence of dark-coloured pepper moths among the light-coloured ones as a result of increased industrial pollution is an example of
1. | Disruptive selection |
2. | Stabilizing selection |
3. | Directional selection |
4. | None of the above |