1. | Existing living forms share similarities to varying degrees not only among themselves but also with life forms that existed millions of years ago. |
2. | There had been extinctions of different life forms in the years gone by just as new forms of life arose at different periods of the history of the earth. |
3. | There has been a sudden and dramatic evolution of life forms. |
4. | Those characteristics which enable some to survive better in natural conditions (climate, food, physical factors, etc.) would outbreed others that are less endowed to survive under such natural conditions. |
1. | Georges Cuvier | 2. | Lyell |
3. | Hugo de Vries | 4. | Alfred Russell Wallace |
Assertion(A): | The fitness, according to Darwin, refers ultimately and only to reproductive fitness. |
Reason(R): | Those who are better fit in an environment, leave more progeny than others. |
1. | (A) is True but (R) is False |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) is the correct explanation of (A) |
3. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A) |
4. | (A) is False but (R) is True |
1. | Variation among individuals of a species is due to use and disuse of organs. |
2. | Inheritance of acquired characteristics is the basis of evolution. |
3. | Natural selection is the mechanism by which the fittest individuals survive and reproduce, passing on their traits to the next generation. |
4. | All species on Earth are unchanging and have remained so since their creation. |
Assertion(A): | Darwin’s finches represent one of the best examples of adaptive radiation. |
Reason(R): | Darwin's finches are derived from a single ancestor that arrived in the Galapagos from mainland South America. |
1. | (A) is True but (R) is False |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) is the correct explanation of (A) |
3. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A) |
4. | (A) is False but (R) is True |
Consider the following statements:
I: | Nature selects for fitness. |
II: | Fitness is based on characteristics that are inherited. |
III: | Fitness is the end result of the ability to adapt and get selected by nature. |
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 |
Assertion (A): | Variations on which natural selection acts, arise as a result of random mutations. |
Reason (R): | A new variation may, or may not, be adaptive. |
1. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not correctly explain (A). |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) correctly explains (A). |
3. | (A) is False and (R) is also False. |
4. | (A) is True but (R) is False. |