If there were no melanic forms in the pre-industrialisation era,what would be the end result of industrialization?
1. Peppered moths would have increased in number
2. Peppered moths would have become black due to the deposition of soor
3. Extinction of peppered moths
4. No change in the population of peppered moths
"Those who are better fit in an environment, leave more progeny than others." The evolutionary mechanism that operates for such a change is
1. Natural selection
2. Genetic drift
3. Reproductive isolation
4. Polyploidy
Which of the following primate existed about 15 mya and had a hairy body and walked like Gorillas and chimpanzees?
1. Ramapithecus
2. Australopithecus
3. Pithecanthropus
4. Sinanthropus
The primate which arose during ice age between 75,000 to 10,000 years ago is
1. Dryopithecus
2. Ramapithecus
3. Modern Homo sapiens
4. Neanderthal man
The following statements concerned with genetic drift are incorrect except one. Select the exception
1. Genetic drift maintains Hardy Weinberg equilibrium
2. Gene frequency in a small population change due to natural selections only
3. It is a change in gene frequency that occurs by chance in a small population
4. If gene migration happens multiple times, it is called genetic drift
Evolution is a
1. Stochastic process
2. Discontinuous process
3. Reversible Process
4. All of these
Sudden heritable changes are called
1. Linkages
2. Mutations
3. Recombinations
4. Natural selection
The "Use and Disuse" principal or "Theory of lnheritance of Acquired Characters" of evolution was proposed by
1. Hugo de Vries
2. Weismann
3. Lamarck
4. Darwin
Evolution of DDT resistant mosquito is best explained by which category of natural selection?
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
An example of process of evolution of different species in a given geographical area starting from a common point and radiating to other areas of geography can be
1 Origin of Numbat, Phascolarctos, Flying phalanger, Tasmanian wolf, Spotted cuscus from a primitive metatherian
2 Origin of Eohippus, Mesohippus, Parahippus and Pliohippus
3 Origin of Homo erectus, Homo neander thalensis, Homo sapiens fossils, Homo sapiens sapiens
4 Origin of Biston betularia from Biston carbonaria