Darwin's finches are a good example of:

1. industrial melanism

2. connecting link

3. adaptive radiation

4. convergent evolution

Given that the frequency of children homozygous for the recessive allele for cystic
fibrosis is about 0.0016. What is the frequency of heterozygotes in the population? [Cystic fibrosis is inherited as an autosomal recessive disorder].

1. 0.960

2. 0.077

3. 0.040

4. 0.923

Peripatus is a connecting link between:

1. Ctenophora and Plantyhelminthes

2. Mollusca and Echinodermata

3. Annelida and Arthropoda

4. Coelenterata and Poriphera

One of the important consequences of geographical isolation is:

1. no change in the isolated fauna

2. preventing speciation

3. speciation through reproductive isolation

4. random creation of new species

The finches of the Galapagos islands provide evidence in favour of:

1. special creation

2. evolution due to mutation

3. retrogressive evolution

4. biogeographical evolution

Which one of the following is not a living fossil?

1. King crab

2. Sphenodon

3. Archaeopteryx

4. Peripatus

Variations caused by mutation, as proposed by Hugo de Vries, are:
1. small and directionless
2. random and directional
3. random and directionless
4. small and directional

A gene locus has two alleles A, a. If the frequency of dominant allele A is 0.4, then what will be the frequency of homozygous dominant, heterozygous and homozygous recessive individuals in the population?

In a species, the weight of a newborn ranges from 2 to 5 kg. 97% of the newborns with an average weight between 3 to 3.3 kg survive whereas 99% of the infants born with weights from 2 to 2.5 kg or 4.5 kg to 5 kg die. Which type of selection process is taking place?
1. Cyclical selection
2. Directional selection
3. Stabilizing selection
4. Disruptive selection