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| 12th Biology Chapter 24 - Evolution Questions Bank |
Biology 2nd Year Chapter 24 Evolution Solved MCQs, Important Short Questions and Long Questions Bank
MCQs
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1. A group of interbreeding individuals
2. A respiratory protein which is present in all aerobic species is:
3. According of endosymbiotic theory chlorophyll is
4. According to endosymbiotic theory mitochondria is
5. Acquired Characteristics of an individual cannot be:
6. Alfred Wallace developed a theory of natural selection essentially identical to
7. Among the birds Darwin collected 13 types of:
8. Among the Sclentists who believed in divine creation was
9. An acquired character is
10. Another theory of natural selection other than Darwin was developed by
11. Archaebacteria can tolerate high tomperatures upto
12. Archaeobacteria
13. Archeobacteria can tolerate temperature upto
14. Armadillos, the armored mammals live only in
15. As per natural selection the survival in struggle for existence is not random.It depends on surviving individuals
16. Asian lion
17. Biogeography is the geographical distribution of
18. Book ""The Origin of Species"" was written by:
19. Change in genetic make up
20. Change in the frequency of alleles occurring by chance
21. Comparative anatomy
22. Cytochrome
23. Darwin ""Origin of species"" was published in:
24. Darwin came back to Great Britain in
25. Descent with modification means
26. Ear muscles in man
27. Edosymbiont hypothesis
28. Emigration and immigration of members of a population, cause disturbance in the:
29. Endangered species of plants have been recorded to more than
30. Enough protective ozone was built about how many years ago?
31. Essay on the principle of population
32. Eukaryotic cells
33. Evolution is a
34. Flagella may have arisen through the ingestion of prokeryotes similar to spiral shaped bacteria called:
35. Fore limbs of man and wings of bat
36. Fossil record shows that the earliest known vertebrate fossils of
37. Fossils
38. Functionally alike but structurally different
39. Galapagos
40. H.M.S.Beagle
41. Hardy-Weinberg law is used to measure
42. Hardy-Weinberg's theorem describes the frequencies of genotype of nonevolving
43. Homozygous
44. Hot springs
45. How many finches did Darwin collect on galapagos island?
46. How many types of finches did Darwin collect on Galapagos Island?
47. If all the members of a population are homozygous for the same allele then that allele is
48. 2, the allelic frequency of the heterozygous will be
49. 2, the allelic frequency of the recessive trait will be
50. In a population that is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, 16 percent of the individuals show the recessive trait.What is the frequency of the dominant allele in the Population?
51. In allelic frequency P + Q =
52. In endosymbiont idea, flagella are formed from
53. In Hardy Weinberg’s equation i.e., p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1 p-stands for
54. In human eustachian tubes connect middle ear with
55. In man the vestigial organ is:-
56. In natural selection, the environment plays role affecting the proportions of gene in
57. In Pakistan among the animals declared extinct is:
58. In terrestrial vertebrates, the gills are modified to form
59. Inheritance of acquired characteristics
60. Its frequency is
61. Its genotypic frequency will be
62. Life can form abiotically only in
63. Lyell published the principles of
64. Match catastrophism with one of the following
65. Match convergent evolution with one of the followings
66. Match divergent evolution with one of the following
67. Match theory of natural selection with one of the followings
68. Modern synthesis includes
69. Most fossils are found in
70. Neo Darwinism
71. Number of dominant alleles in this population is
72. Ozone is formed from
73. Papers on inheritance was published by
74. Population genetics emphasized on
75. Principle of geology was published by
76. Selection acts directly on
77. Similarity in characteristics resulting from common ancestry is known as
78. The 2
79. The “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” supports the evidence from
80. The armored mammal that lives only in America is the:
81. The bacteria living in hydrothermal vent are
82. The breeding of domesticated plants and animals refers to
83. The change in frequency of alleles at a locus that occurs by chance is:
84. The chloroplast of the eukaryotes was formed from
85. The compound used first by photosynthetic organism as a hydrogen sources was
86. The endosymbiont hypothesis was proposed by
87. The essay “Principle of population” was published by
88. The evolution of aerobic prokaryotes took place due to
89. The evolution of photosynthetic prokaryotes took place due to
90. The evolutionary hypothesis that “the prokaryotic cell membrane invaginated to enclose its copy of genetic material” is said to be
91. The first eukaryotes were appeared about
92. The first eukaryotic cell appeared about how many years ago?
93. The first person who argued with evidences that species have undergone evolution and were not specially created in their present form, was:
94. The first photosynthetic organisms probably used Hydrogen Sulphide as a source of Hydrogen for CO₂ to
95. The forest of the world have been reduced by
96. The gene pool consists of all alleles at all gene loci in all individual of:
97. The idea of endosymbiont was proposed by
98. The idea of inheritance of acquired character was proposed by
99. The integration of the principles of genetics and evolution is called as
100. The island near South American coastline is
101. The latest fossil found is
102. The level of classification between species and family is called as
103. The main reason of the extinction of the species is
104. The mammal which live only in America is
105. The measure to prevent the extinction of species is
106. The mechanism of evolution called “natural selection” was proposed by
107. The oldest known fossils
108. The oldest known fossils are of:
109. The origin of species
110. The prokaryotes arise how many years ago?
111. The proteins found in all aerobic species are
112. The rudimentary structures that had important functions in ancestors in the remote past are said to be
113. The scientist who published Principle of Geology was
114. The second oldest vertebrate fossil
115. The shuffling of alleles due to meiosis and random fertilization having no effect on over all genetic structure of a population signifies
116. The smallest biological unit that can evolve over time is
117. The species which are near to become endangered are called as
118. The structures which have common origin but different function
119. The structures which have similarity in function are
120. The study of distribution of living things on earth is called
121. The study of total aggregate of genes in a population at any one time is known as
122. The theory of natural selection says
123. The theory of natural selection was formulated by
124. The theory of natural selection was supported by
125. The theory of special creation says
126. The total aggregate gene of population is
127. The tropical rain forests have been reduced to what percentage of their original extent?
128. The ultimate source of all changes is:
129. Theory of special creation
130. Tubes that connect the middle ear with the throat in humans are called
131. Vermiform appendix in man is
132. What would be the frequency of heterozygote if the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
133. Which is mismatched for analogous structures?
134. Which is mismatched for homologous structures?
135. Which of the following is a fossil?
136. Which of the following is vestigial organ of whale
137. Which of the followings can change allelic frequency?
138. Which of the followings cannot change allelic frequency?
139. Which of the followings is not a vestigial organ?
140. Which one of the following believes in theory of special creation?
141. Which one of the following is endangered in Pakistan?
142. Which one of the following is not declared as an extinct species in Pakistan?
143. Who published an essay on ""The principle of population""?
144. Who published papers on inheritance?
145. Wings of bats
146. Zoos and botanical gardens are to save species whose extinction is
Short Questions
1. Define Biogeography?
2. Define Embryology?
3. Define endangered species. What are endangered species? Give examples. Differentiate between endangered and threatened species.
4. Define endosymbiont hypothesis.
5. Define fossil.Where are most of the fossils found?
6. Define genetic drift.
7. Define Hardy Weinberg Theorem and give its equation in the form of binomial expansion.
8. Define population genetics?
9. Define Species?
10. Define the Hardy-Weinberg theorem?
11. Define the term Neo-Darwanism.
12. Define the theory of natural selection?
13. Different between homologous and analogous organs?
14. Differentiate between endangered and threatened species?
15. Differentiate between homologous and analogous organs.
16. Differentiate between homology and analogy.
17. Differentiate between natural selection and artificial selection?
18. Explain “Natural Selection”?
19. Explain “Theory of Special Creation” (Creationism).What are its believers called as?
20. Give an exact definition of evolution (of living beings).What are its believers termed as?
21. How did endosymbiotic development of chloroplasts occur during the evolution of plants?
22. How does fossil record provide evidence of evolution?
23. How natural selection occurs?
24. How were the theories of natural selection of Darwin and Wallace different from each other?
25. Name any five species declared extinct in Pakistan?
26. Name any four factors affecting gene frequency.
27. Name some vestigial structures in man?
28. Name the earliest evolutionist.
29. On what evidences Darwin’s theory of evolution was mainly based?
30. State endosymbiont hypothesis regarding the evolution of eukaryotic cell.Who proposed this hypothesis?
31. State/define theory of special creation.
32. What are Fossils?
33. What are Homologous structures?
34. What are hydrothermal vents?
35. What are hydrothermal vents? How do they support life?
36. What are vestigial organs? Name some important vestigial organs of man. What are vestigial organs? Give one example
37. What Darwin said about Finches of Galapagos?
38. What did Lamarck said about the use and disuse of organs?
39. What does biogeography mean?
40. What does evolution refer?
41. What does indicate that prokaryotes are ancestors of all life?
42. What factors affect the gene frequency?
43. What is Gene pool?
44. What is genetic drift?
45. What is hardy-Weinberg equation used for?
46. What is modern synthesis/ Neo-Darwinism? Give the concept of Neo-Darwinism.
47. What is Molecular Biology?
48. What is Neodarwinism?
49. What is population?
50. What is Spirochete?
51. What is struggle for existence’ in Darwin’s theory of evolution?
52. What is the Concept of Evolution?
53. What is the Concept of special creation?
54. What is the contribution of Georges Cuvier in biology?
55. What is the important turning point for evolutionary theory?
56. What is the main difference between the theories of Lamarck and Darwin regarding organic evolution?
57. What the name was of eh islands which Darwin visited during his voyage and which were inhabited by finches?
58. What was Darwin’s is idea of Origin of Species?
59. What was Lamarck’s theory regarding evolution based on? When was it presented?
60. What was teh second idea of Lamarck called?
61. What was the contribution of Wallace in the development of theory of natural selection?
62. What was the name of the ship on which Darwin performed voyage, in which capacity?
63. What was the source of hydrogen for reducing CO₂ in first photosynthetic organisms?
64. What was the statement or theorem of Hardy-Weinberg?
65. When and where was Charles Darwin born?
66. When did eukaryotes evolve?
67. When was life made possible on land and how?
68. Where are most of the fossils found?
69. Which are the two hypotheses regarding the evolution of the eukaryotic cell?
70. Which armored mammals are distributed only in America?
71. Which group of bacteria can tolerate temperature up to 120°C?
72. Which idea is known as endosymbiont hypothesis?
73. Which mating is called a non-random mating?
74. Which organisms originated first, prokaryotes or eukaryotes and when?
75. Which were the first photosynthetic organisms? Which raw materials were used by them for photosynthesis?
76. Who published the book “Principles of Geology”?
77. Who published the essay on the “Principle of Population”?
78. Who was Darwin’s predecessor who developed a comprehensive model that attempted to explain how life evolves?
79. Write the name of theories of evolution presented by Lamarck and Darwin.
Long Questions
1. Describe evidence of evolution by comparative anatomy.
2. Describe the evidences of evolution from biogeography and fossil record.
3. Describe the evidences of evolution from comparative anatomy and molecular biology.
4. Describe the evidences of evolution from comparative embryology and molecular biology.
5. Discuss evolution from prokaryotes to eukaryotes.
6. Discuss the evolution from prokaryote to eukaryote.
7. Explain briefly about natural selection and adaptation.
8. Explain Darwin theory of natural selection.
9. Explain endosymbiont hypothesis for origin of eukaryotic cells.
10. Explain Hardy Weinberg Theorem?
11. Explain the theory inheritance of acquired characteristics.
12. How comparative embryology support the process of evolution. Describe comparative embryology and molecular biology as an evidence of evolution.
13. State different factors affecting the gene frequency.
14. State the different factors affecting gene frequency.
15. What two main points are given by Darwin in his book The Origin of Species? Describe in detail.
16. Write a note on endangered species with their methods of conservation.
17. Write a note on Hardy Weinberg theorem.