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CET Biology 4

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Presence of gill slits in the embryos of all vertebrates support the theory of

  1. organic evolution

  2. biogenesis

  3. metamorphosis

  4. recapitulation


Correct Option: D

Coacervates are

  1. lipoproteins

  2. mixtures of ammonia, carbohydrates and water

  3. colloidal suspensions

  4. fatty acids and nitrogenous compounds


Correct Option: C

Wings of mosquitoes, bats and birds show ________ evolution.

  1. divergent

  2. convergent

  3. atavism

  4. micro


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Wings of mosquitoes, bats and birds show convergent evolution. Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.

Hugo de Vries worked on the plant

  1. Pisum sativum

  2. Lathyrus odoratus

  3. Primula sinensis

  4. Oenothera lamarckiana


Correct Option: D

Possible early source(s) of energy was/were

  1. Chlorophyll

  2. CO2

  3. UV radiations and lightning

  4. Green plants


Correct Option: C

Animal 'A' is a connecting link between 'B' and 'C'. What are 'A' 'B' and 'C' respectively?

  1. Balanoglossus, reptiles, mammals

  2. Neopilina, Annelida, Arthropoda

  3. Peripatus, Mollusca, Annelida

  4. Protopterus, Fishes, Amphibia


Correct Option: D

Which of the following pairs has homologous organs?

  1. Air sacs of fish and lungs of frog

  2. Wings of bird and wings of butterfly

  3. Flippers of whale and forelimbs of horse

  4. Wings of bat and wings of cockroach


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 The correct option is 3.

Evolutionary divergence is characterized by

  1. development of dissimilar characters in closely related groups.

  2. development of a common set of characters in the groups of different ancestry.

  3. development of characters by random mating.

  4. development of characters by inbreeding.


Correct Option: A

Miller synthesised simple amino acids form water vapours and mixtures containing

  1. H2, O2, N2 (1 : 2 : 1)

  2. H2, O2, N2 (2 : 1 : 2)

  3. CH4, NH3, H2 (2 : 1 : 2)

  4. CH4, NH3, H2 (1 : 2 : 1)


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 The correct option is 4.

Peripatus resembles arthropoda in having

  1. segmented metanephridia

  2. paired appendages

  3. ciliated reproductive cells

  4. dorsal ostiated heart


Correct Option: D

Dark-coloured peppered moth is able to survive in industrial areas because of

  1. high fecundity

  2. genetic drift

  3. natural selection

  4. lethal mutation


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Dark-coloured peppered moth is able to survive in industrial areas because of natural selection.

Which one of the following is a living fossil?

  1. Sphenodon

  2. Archaeopteryx

  3. Peripatus

  4. All of these.


Correct Option: D

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

  1. Larvae could appear in decaying organic matter.

  2. Microbes did not appear in stored meat.

  3. Microbes appeared from unsterilized organic matter.

  4. Meat was not spoiled, when heated and kept sealed in a vessel.


Correct Option: D

Living organism with oldest fossil history is

  1. Dinosaur

  2. Archaeopteryx

  3. Horse

  4. Man


Correct Option: C

Life cannot originate from inorganic materials now because of

  1. low atmospheric temperature

  2. high degree of pollution

  3. high atmospheric oxygen

  4. absence of raw materials


Correct Option: C

Which one of the following amino-acids was not found to be synthesized in Miller's experiment?

  1. Aspartic acid

  2. Leucine

  3. Alanine

  4. Glycine


Correct Option: B

A bird with teeth is

  1. Kiwi

  2. Ostrich

  3. Dodo

  4. Archaeopteryx


Correct Option: D

Arrange the periods of palaeozoic era in ascending order in a geological time scale:

  1. Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian

  2. Cambrian, Devonian, Ordovician, Silurian, Carboniferous, Permian

  3. Cambrian, Ordovician, Devonian, Silurian, Carboniferous, Permian

  4. Silurian, Devonian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Permian, Carboniferous


Correct Option: A

The statement 'nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution' was given by

  1. Dobzhansky

  2. Darwin

  3. Hooker

  4. Wallace


Correct Option: A

Which of the following sets represents vestigial organs?

  1. Vermiform appendix, body hair and patella

  2. Wisdom teeth, body hair and atlas vertebra

  3. Ear muscles, cochlea and coccyx

  4. Vermiform appendix, ear muscles and coccyx


Correct Option: D

'Golden Age of Dinosaurs' was

  1. Mesozoic

  2. Coenozoic

  3. Palaeozoic

  4. Proterozoic


Correct Option: A

Ontogeny repeats phylogeny is also known as

  1. Recapitulation theory

  2. Biogenetic theory

  3. Biogenetic law

  4. Both 1 and 3


Correct Option: D

Splint bones of horse are vestigial

  1. Ulna and Fibula bones

  2. 2nd and 3rd fingers

  3. 2nd and 4th fingers

  4. Humerus and Femur bones


Correct Option: C

Which one represents a connecting link as an evidence from comparative anatomy in favour of organic evolution?

  1. Whale between fishes and mammals.

  2. Duck-billed platypus between reptiles and mammals.

  3. Java ape man between modern man and Peking man.

  4. Archaeopteryx between birds and mammals.


Correct Option: B

Which of the following is not correctly paired?

  1. Mesozoic − Age of mammals

  2. Study of fossils − Palaeontolgy

  3. Mutation theory − Hugo de Vries

  4. Origin of Species − Charles Darwin


Correct Option: A

Which of the following pairs represents homologous organs?

  1. Seal flippers and cat paw

  2. Insect wing and bird wing

  3. Bats wing and insect wing

  4. Thorn of Bougainvilla and tendril of pea


Correct Option: A

Theory of spontaneous creation was supported by

  1. Van Helmont

  2. Redi

  3. Spallanzani

  4. Pasteur


Correct Option: A

Which of the following is not correct match?

  1. Taung child − Australopithecus

  2. Use and disuse − Lamarck

  3. Survival of the fittest − Darwin

  4. Father of concept of evolution − Empedocles


Correct Option: C

The first organisms were

  1. Chemoautotrophs

  2. Chemoheterotrophs

  3. Photoautotrophs

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B

Which one of the following is the correct sequence in the evolution of modern man?

  1. Pithecanthropus, Sinanthropus, Neanderthal, Homo sapiens, Cro-Magnon man

  2. Ramapithecus, Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Cro-Magnon

  3. Cro-Magnon man, Neanderthal man, Pithecanthropus, Sinanthropus, Homo sapiens

  4. Ramapithecus, Cro-Magnon man, Pithecanthropus, Neanderthal man, Homo sapiens


Correct Option: B

Match the lists:

 
List - I List - II
Theories of evolution/origin of life Scientists
a. Catastrophism 1. Cuvier
b. Inheritance of acquired characters 2. Lamarck
c. Preformation 3. Bonnet
d. Pangenesis 4. Darwin
  1. a - 1, b - 2, c - 3, d - 4

  2. a - 4, b - 3, c - 2, d - 1

  3. a - 1, b - 3, c - 2, d - 4

  4. a - 4, b - 2, c - 3, d - 1


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 The correct option is

a. Catastrophism       1. Cuvier b. Inheritance of acquired characters         2. Lamarck c. Preformation      3. Bonnet d. Pangenesis        4. Darwin

'Continuity of germplasm' theory was given by

  1. De Vries

  2. Weismann

  3. Darwin

  4. Lamarck


Correct Option: B

The cranial capacity of which one of the following pre-historic humans was almost the same as that of the modern man?

  1. Neanderthal man

  2. Peking man`

  3. Java Ape man

  4. Australopithecus man


Correct Option: A

The earliest known jawless fossil vertebrates with heavy armour or dermal plates are collectively called the

  1. Placoderms

  2. Ostracoderms

  3. Acanthodii

  4. Arthrodira


Correct Option: B

Neoceratodus is a connecting link between

  1. Cyclostomes and Fishes

  2. Fishes and Amphibians

  3. Amphibians and Reptiles

  4. Molluscs and echinoderms


Correct Option: B
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