Q. No.Which of the following is the relatively most accurate method for dating fossils?
(1) Pottasium-argon method
(2) Uranium-lead method
(3) Electron-spin resonance method
(4) Radio-carbon method
At a particular locus, frequency of 'A' allele is 0.6 and that of 'a' is 0.4. What would be the frequency of heterozygotes in a randomly mating population of equilibrium ?
(1) 0.16
(2) 0.36
(3) 0.48
(4) 0.24
Speciation of sympatric species is due to
| 1. | geographic isolation |
| 2. | reproductive isolation |
| 3. | isolation/separation |
| 4. | migration |
Flame cells and Malpighian tubules are the analogous organ in
| 1. | insects and arthropods respectively |
| 2. | arthropods and echinodermates respectively |
| 3. | helminths and arthropods with other insect respectively |
| 4. | arthropds and other insect with helminths respectively |
Tendrils in plants are an exapmle of
1. Convergent evolution
2. Radiation
3. Divergent evolution
4. Co-evolution
Theory of 'Saltations' was given by
| 1. | G Mendel | 2. | Hugo de Vries |
| 3. | J B S Haldane | 4. | H J Miller |
The animal group which does not exist in Galapagos island is
| 1. | Insects | 2. | Protozoa |
| 3. | Crustacea | 4. | Amphibia |
Appearence of dark-coloured pepper moths among the light-coloured ones as a result of increased industrial pollution is an example of
| 1. | Disruptive selection |
| 2. | Stabilizing selection |
| 3. | Directional selection |
| 4. | None of the above |
Match the columns
| Column I | Column II | ||
| A | Hugo de Vries | 1 | Inheritance of acquired characters |
| B | Julian Huxley | 2 | Multiplication of individual species in geographical proportion |
| C | Jean Baptiste | 3 | Mutation theory of evolution |
| A | B | C | |
| 1. | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2. | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 3. | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 4. | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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