60 Most Important Questions

of

EVOLUTION
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1. Stellar distance are measured in

1) Miles
2) Light
3) Kilometers
4) Dobson unit

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2. Given below are two statements
Statement I : Universe is around 20 million years old.
Statement II : Galaxies contain stars but clouds of gas and dust are not included in them.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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3.Given below are two statements
Statement I : Big Bang theory attempts to explain the the origin of universe.
Statement II : When the Universe expanded, its temperature came down.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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4.Given below are two statements
Statement I : There was no atmosphere on early Earth.
Statement II : Life appeared 500 years after the formation of earth.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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5. Early Greek Thinkers thought units of life called _______ were transferred to different
planets including earth.

1) Panspermia
2) Spores
3) Asteroids
4) Animalcule

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6. Theory of spontaneous generation was refuted by

1) Darwin
2) Haldane
3) Early Greek thinkers
4) Louis Pasteur

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7.Given below are two statements
Statement I : Most scientists believe in chemical evolution.
Statement II : Chemical Evolution refers to formation of biomolecules preceded the
appearance of first cellular forms of life.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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8.Given below are two statements
Statement I : It is generally believed that variations in a population results in variable
fitness.
Statement II : Homology is a accounted for by the idea of branching descent.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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9. Find the false statement.

1) Homo erectus probably ate meat

2) Neanderthal man lived between 100,000-40,000 years back
3) Neanderthals buried their dead
4) None of the above.

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10. Find the wrong match.

1) Dryopithecus à Walked on all forms

2) Homo habilis à Probably did not eat meat
3) Homo erectus à large brain around 900 cc
4) Pre historic art à 75000– 10,000 years ago

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11. Mammal living wholly in water is

1) Whale
2) Seals
3) Sea cows
4) All of these

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12. The most successful story of evolution is mat of

1) Man
2) Horse
3) Dryopithecus
4) Mammals

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13. A fish like reptile is

1) Tyrannosaurus rex
2) Ichthyophis
3) Pelycosaurs
4) Ichthyosaurus

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14. ________, the dinosaurs suddenly disappeared from the Earth

1) 200 mya
2) 15 mya
3) 65 mya
4) 1.5 mya

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15. First mammals were

1) Shrew like
2) Large in size
3) Elephant like
4) Platypus like

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16. When reptiles came down ________ took over this earth.

1) Birds
2) Dinosaurs
3) Mammals
4) Amphibians

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17. Given below are two statements
Statement I : Reptiles evolved from the birds.
Statement II : First amphibians lived on both land and water.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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18. Given below are two statements
Statement I : Jawless fish evolved around 500 mya.
Statement II : First organisms that invaded land were plants.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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19. Given below are two statements
Statement I : Lobefins evolved into first reptiles.
Statement II : A coelacanth was caught in south Africa in 1938.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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20. Find the right statement.

1) Psilophyton is the ancestor of Bryophytes.

2) Seed ferns are ancestors of progymnosperms
3) Conifers are ancestors of cycads
4) Zosterophyllum is ancestor of Lycopods

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21.Given below are two statements
Statement I : Turtles are ancestors of Sauropsids.
Statement II : Therapsids are ancestors of synapsids.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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22. First cellular form of life appeared around

1) 2000 mya
2) 4500 mya
3) 4000 mya
4) 3000 mya

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23.Given below are two statements
Statement I : Natural selection is a process in which non inheritable variations enabling
better survival are enabled to reproduce and leave greater number of progeny.
Statement II : Variations due to recombination during gametogenesis results in evolution.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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24. Factor is affecting hardy – Weinberg equilibrium is/are

1) Gene flow
2) Speciation
3) Non inheritable variations
4) All of these

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25. Give below are two statements.
Statement I : Different-aged rock segments contain fossils of different life forms who probably died
during the formation of that particular segment.
Statement II : A study of fossils in different sedimentary layers indicate the geological period in which
they existed.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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26. Evidence of evolution coming from Fossils is called
1) Extinct evidence
2) Paleontological evidence
3) Sedimentary evidence
4) Geological evidence

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27. How is the age of fossils calculated?
1) By Radioactive dating
2) By Paleontological evidence
3) By Seismology
4) By counting the fossil’s annual rings

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28. Embryological support for evolution was proposed by
1) Ernst heckle
2) Ernst von baer
3) Darwin
4) Lamarck

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29. Earth is a part of
1) Milky way Galaxy
2) Solar system
3) Universe
4) All of the above

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30. Which of following gases was/were formed earliest In the Universe?
1) Helium
2) Hydrogen
3) Nitrogen
4) Both 1 and 2

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31. Earth was formed about
1) 4.5 million years ago
2) 4.5 billion years ago
3) 4 million years ago
4) 4.5 million years ago

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 32. Given below are two statements
Statement I : There was no atmosphere on early Earth.
Statement II : Water vapour, methane, carbon-di-oxide and ammonia were released from molten mass
covering the Earth's surface, sometime after the formation of Earth.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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33. What is formed when methane reacts with water?
1) Carbon-di-oxide
2) Nitrogen
3) Water
4) Both 1 and 3

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34. When did life appear on Earth?
1) 500 million years after formation of Earth
2) 4000 million years after formation of Earth
3) 4.5 billion years ago.
4) 3 billion years ago.

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35. The most accepted theory about start of life on Earth is that
1) Life on Earth came from outer space
2) Life spontaneously came out of rotting and decaying matter like straw, mud.
3) Life came from pre-existing life.
4) Life came from pre-existing non-living organic molecules which were preceded by chemical
evolution.

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36. Theory of Spontaneous generation was disapproved by
1) Oparin and Haldane
2) Louis Pasteur.
3) Darwin
4) Thomus Malthus

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37. "Life comes from pre-existing Life" was demostrated by
1) Oparin and Haldane
2) Louis Pasteur.
3) Darwin
4) Thomus Malthus

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38. Find the false statement.
1) Oparin was from Russia
2) Haldane was from England
3) RNA was formed before cell
4) Formation of life was succeeded by chemical evolution.

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39. Chemical evolution is
1) Formation of cells from biomolecules
2) Formation of organic molecules from inorganic constituents.
3) Formation of multicellular organisms from inorganic constituents.
4) Formation of multicellular organisms from unicellular organisms.

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40. S.L. Miller. created conditions similar to early Earth in Laboratory in year
1) 1845
2) 1953
3) 1928
4) 1865

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41. Which of the following was not a part of S.L. Miller's experiment?
1) Methane
2) 800°C Temperature
3) Water vapour
4) Oxygen

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42. In his experiment, S.L. Miller observed formation of
1) Amino acids
2) Sugars
3) Nitrogenous bases
4) Fats and pigments.

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 43. The first non cellular forms of life could have originated
1) 4.5 billion years ago
2) 3 billion years ago
3) 2 billion years ago
4) 3.5 billion years ago

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44. The first cellular form of life originated about
1) 4 billion years ago
2) 3 billion years ago
3) 2 billion years ago
4) 3.5 billion years ago

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45. Given below are two statements
Statement I : First cells originated in water.
Statement II : First cells that originated in water were eukaryotic cells.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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46. Earth is about 4000 years old. This is true according to which Theory?
1) Theory of special creation
2) Theory of spontaneous generation
3) Panspermia
4) Oparin and Haldane Hypothesis

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47. Given below are two statements
Statement I : There has been no evolution of life forms since beginning of time.
Statement II : Charles Darwin concluded that existing life forms share similarities among themselves to
varying degrees but not with life forms that existed millions of years ago.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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48. The Fitness to which Darwin refers is
1) Physical fitness
2) Mental fitness
3) Reproductive fitness
4) All of the above

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49. Alfred wallace worked in
1) Galapagos Islands
2) Malay Archipelago
3) Amazon Rainforests
4) Alps

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50. Given below are two statements
Statement I : All existing life forms share similarities and share common ancestors.
Statement II : Fossils are remains of hard parts of life forms found in rocks.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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51. Given below are two statements.
Statement I : Sum total of all allelic frequencies in a Population is 0.
Statement II : Five factors are known to affect Handy-Weinberg equilibrium.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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52. Given below are two statements
Statement I : The Hardy-Weinberg principle states that frequencies in a population are Stable and
constant from generations to generation.
Statement II : Gene flow disturbs Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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53. Which of the following would result in Evolution?
1) Gene migration
2) Mutation
3) Genetic recombination
4) All of the a bare

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54. Stabalising selection is when more individuals acquire
1) Mean character value
2) Value other than the mean character value
3) Peripheral character value at both ends of distribution curve
4) All None of the above

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55. About ________ million year ago, first cellular forms of life appeared on Earth.
1) 2
2) 2000
3) 3
4) 3000

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56. Jawless fish evolved around
1) 500 mya
2) 320 mya
3) 350 mya
4) 1938

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57. Lobe fins are
1) Amphibians
2) Jawless fish
3) Cartilaginous fish
4) Bony fish

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 58. First organisms to invade land were
1) Amphibians
2) Lobefins
3) Reptiles
4) Plants

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59. Which of the following organisms are immediate ancestors of Amphibians?
1) Jawless fish
2) Lobefins
3) Reptiles
4) Cartilaginous fish.

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60. Given below are two statements.
Statement I : Reptilian eggs generally dry up in Sun.
Statement II : Amphibians evolved into reptiles.
In the light of the above statements , choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

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