Match each item in Column I with one item in Column II and chose your answer from the codes given below:
Column I |
Column II |
I. Sickle cell anemia II. Polyploidy III. Darwin finches IV. Tail in humans |
1. Sympatric speciation 2. Balancing selection 3. Adaptive radiation 4. Atavism |
Codes:
I | II | III | IV | |
1. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
2. | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
3. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
4. | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
The differential success in the reproduction, of an organism, in a given environment, is :
1. | Adaptation | 2. | Natural Selection |
3. | Adaptive radiation | 4. | Saltatory evolution |
Sweet potato is homologous to:
1. | Potato | 2. | Colocasia |
3. | Ginger | 4. | Turnip |
A Hominid fossil discovered in Java in 1891, now extinct, having a cranial capacity of about 900 cc was:
1. | Homo erectus | 2. | Neanderthal man |
3. | Homo sapiens | 4. | Australopithecus |
The change in the frequency of an existing gene variant in a population due to random sampling of organisms is known as:
1. | Saltation | 2. | Adaptive radiation |
3. | Genetic drift | 4. | Gene flow |
The most critical evolutionary process, that leads to changes in allele frequencies and favors or promotes adaptation as a product of evolution, is :
1. | Genetic drift | 2. | Gene migration |
3. | Mutation | 4. | Natural selection |
Match List-I with List-II:
List-I | List-II | ||
(a) | Adaptive radiation | (i) | Selection of resistant varieties due to excessive use of herbicides and pesticides |
(b) | Convergent evolution | (ii) | Bones of forelimbs in Man and Whale |
(c) | Divergent evolution | (iii) | Wings of Butterfly and Bird |
(d) | Evolution by anthropogenic action | (iv) | Darwin Finches |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | |
1. | (ii) | (i) | (iv) | (iii) |
2. | (i) | (iv) | (iii) | (ii) |
3. | (iv) | (iii) | (ii) | (i) |
4. | (iii) | (ii) | (i) | (iv) |
All the following are examples of analogous organs except:
1. | Thorn and tendrils of Bougainvillea and Cucurbita |
2. | Sweet potato and Potato |
3. | Flippers of Penguins and Dolphins |
4. | Eye of the Octopus and of Mammals |
Consider the following statements:
I: | The thorns and tendrils of Bougainvillea and Cucurbita represent homology. |
II: | Sweet potato and potato exhibit analogy. |
III: | Homologous organs are the result of divergent evolution & analogous organs are the result of convergent evolution. |
Which of the above statements are true?
1. | I and II only | 2. | I and III only |
3. | II and III only | 4. | I, II, and III |
Allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of all the following evolutionary influences, except:
1. | Random mating | 2. | Mutations |
3. | Natural selection | 4. | Gene flow |