NEET UG Evolution — practice questions
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Practice NEET UG Evolution in the app →The mechanism of evolution proposed by Darwin isThe Hardy-Weinberg principle predicts that allele frequencies in a population remain constant whenThe Miller-Urey experiment (1953) demonstrated thatApproximately how old is the universe according to the Big Bang theory as stated in the NCERT chapter on EvoluWho proposed that the first form of life arose from pre-existing non-living organic molecules through chemicalForelimbs of whales, bats, cheetahs and humans share the same bone pattern (humerus, radius, ulna, carpals, meDarwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are a classic example of which evolutionary process?Which hominid had a brain capacity of about 1400 cc and lived in the Near East and Central Asia roughly 1,00,0In a population satisfying the Hardy-Weinberg principle for a single gene with two alleles of frequencies p anLouis Pasteur's sterilised-flask experiments are historically important because they:S.L. Miller's 1953 experiment exposed a mixture of CH4, H2, NH3 and water vapour to electric discharge at 800 Wings of a butterfly and wings of a bird perform similar functions but are not anatomically homologous. Such sThe shift in the moth population near industrial regions of England from predominantly white-winged forms to pWhich statement best contrasts Darwinian variation with the mutations described by Hugo de Vries?When a small section of a population establishes itself in a new area and, by chance, has allele frequencies vSweet potato (a root modification) and potato (a stem modification) both store food underground in a similar wWhich of the following is NOT one of the factors listed in the chapter as disturbers of Hardy-Weinberg equilibAustralian marsupials and placental mammals on other continents produced strikingly similar ecological counterEarth formed about 4.5 billion years ago, and life appeared roughly 500 million years later. The first cellulaIn a Hardy-Weinberg population the recessive phenotype (genotype aa) occurs in 16 percent of individuals. AssuWhen natural selection causes more individuals to acquire character values at both extremes of the distributioKarl Ernst von Baer's critique of Ernst Haeckel's embryological argument for evolution rested on the observatiArrange the following hominids in order of appearance from earliest to most recent, based on the NCERT accountThe brain capacity of Homo habilis, as given in the chapter, was approximately:A fish caught off South Africa in 1938 turned out to be a Coelacanth, a lobefin once thought extinct. Why is tWhich statement about Lamarckian evolution is correct?In a Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for two alleles A and a with frequencies p and q, which set of conditions mustA population of 10,000 individuals contains a single rare allele 'a'. A volcanic event destroys all but 50 ranWhich option best contrasts homology and analogy as drawn in the NCERT chapter?Similarities in proteins and genes performing a given function across diverse organisms primarily indicate, peSelection of resistant strains of bacteria within months of starting antibiotic treatment is presented in the Which sequence correctly orders the major evolutionary events on the geological timeline given in the chapter?Why are Australian pouched (marsupial) mammals cited in the chapter as a striking example of evolution in isolThe Miller-Urey experiment (1953) demonstrated that:Charles Darwin's mechanism of evolution is best described as:The Hardy-Weinberg principle's equation for genotype frequencies is:The wings of insects and the wings of birds are best described as:The human APPENDIX is a classic example of a:The shift in peppered moth (Biston betularia) colour during the Industrial Revolution is an example of:The 14 species of finches that Darwin observed on the Galapagos Islands are a classic example of:Genetic drift is STRONGEST in which type of population?Homo sapiens (modern humans) first evolved in: