Which one of the following experiments suggests that the simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter?   

1.	Larvae could appear in decaying organic matter.
2.	Meat was not spoiled, when heated and kept sealed in a vessel.
3.	Microbes did not appear in stored meat.
4.	Microbes appeared from unsterilized organic matter.

Which one of the following phenomena supports Darwin’s concept of natural selection in organic evolution?   

Which of the following is relatively most accurate method for dating of fossils? 
1. Electron-spin resonance method
2. Uranium-lead method
3. Potassium-argon method
4. Radio-carbon method

De Vries gave his mutation theory on organic evolution while working on   
1. Oenothera lamarckiana
2. Drosophila melanogaster
3. Pisum sativum
4. Althea rosea 

At a particular locus, the 'A' allele frequency is 0.6 and that of 'a' allele is 0.4. What would be the frequency of heterozygotes in a random mating population at equilibrium? 

Which one of the following amino acids was not found to be synthesized in Miller’s experiment?  
1. Glycine.
2. Aspartic acid
3. Glutamic acid
4. Alanine 

An important evidence in favor of organic evolution is the occurrence of 
1. Homologous and vestigial organs 
2. Analogous and vestigial organs
3. Homologous organs only
4. Homologous and analogous organs 

Which one of the following is not a living fossil? 
1. King crab
2. Sphenodon
3. Archaeopteryx
4. Peripatus

Evolutionary history of an organism is known as
1. Phylogeny
2. Ancestry
3. Paleontology
4. Ontogeny

Jurassic period of the Mesozoic era is characterized by