Punjab 12th Class Biology Chapter 24 Evolution Mcqs Test Online

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Biology

1. Which of the following is an example of vestigial structure in humans?

1.Nipple on male mammals

2.Sixth finger found is some humans

3.Human tailbone

4.Human knee cap

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2. Which condition can be explained by Lamarckism?

1.How humans lost their tail

2.How giraffes got their long neck

3.How humans became bipedal

4.All of these

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3. Which of the following is a true statement about Charles Darwin?

1.He based his theory on the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

2.He proposed natural selection as the mechanism of evolution

3.He worked out the principle of population genetics.

4.He was the first to discover that living things can change, or evolve

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4. In science the term theory generally applies to an idea that:

1.Is synonymous with what biologist means by hypothesis

2.Is considered a law of nature

3.Is a speculation lacking supportive experiments.

4.Attempts to explain many related phenomena.

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5. The earliest geological time period among the following is __________.

1.Permian

2.Jurassic

3.Cambrian

4.Quaternary

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6. Which of the following ideas is common to both Darwin’s and Lamarck’s theories of Evolution?

1.Evolution drives organisms to greater and greater complexity.

2.Adaptation results from different reproductive success

3.Evolutionary adaptation results from interactions between organisms and their

4.The fossil record supports the view that species are fixed

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7. The force that initiates evolution is _________

1.Variation

2.Adaptation

3.Extinction

4.Mutation

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8. The experiment that simulated conditions thought to be present on the early earth

1.Miller – Urey experiment

2.Geiger – Marsden experiment

3.Hershey – Chase experiment

4.Schiehallion experiment

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Question 9 of 15

9. The smallest biological unit that can evolve over time is:

1.An individual organism

2.A specie

3.A population

4.An ecosystem

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10. _________ is a vestigial organ

1.None of these

2.Papillae

3.Intestinal villi

4.Vermiform appendix

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Question 11 of 15

11. Using the Hardy-Weinberg Principle, which expression represents the frequency of the homozygous recessive genotype?

1.2Pq

2.P²

3.q²

4.d. q

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12. Which of the following pairs of structures is least likely to represent homology?

1.The haemoglobin of a baboon and that of a gorilla

2.The wings of a bat and the forelimbs of a human

3.The wings of a bird and those of an insect

4.The brain of a cat and that of a dog

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13. Natural selection is sometimes describe as survival of the fittest. Which of the following most accurately measures an organisms fitness?

1.How many fertile offspring it produces

2.How much food it is able to make or obtain

3.Its ability to withstand environmental extremes

4.Its mutation rate.

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14. All organisms share the same genetic code. This commonality is evidence that:

1.Convergent evolution has occurred

2.Evolution is occurring now

3.All organisms are descended from a common ancestor

4.Evolution occurs gradually from

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15. The process of ---------- and ----------- generate variation, and ------------ produces adaptation to the environment.

1.Genetic drift ------ mutation ------ sexual recombination

2.Mutation -------- sexual recombination ------ natural selection

3.Mutation ------- natural selection ------ genetic drift

4.Sexual recombination ------natural selection -----mutation

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