1. The period is known as the Age of Giant Lycopods
A) Cretaceous
B) Jurassic
C) Triassic
D) Carboniferous
2. Gondwana land consists of
A) India, Africa, Australia, South America &Antartica
B) South America &Antartica
C) Africa, America &Antartica
D) India & Australia
3. Whose name is most closely associated with molecular evolution?
A) Theodosius Dobzhansky
B) Motoo Kimura
C) Frederick Sanger
D) Stephen Jay Gould
4. Theory of Continental Drift was proposed by
A) Du Tolit
B) Charles Darwin
C) Alfred Wegener
D) Weisman
5. Species that occur in different geographical regions
separated by a special barrier are
A) Autogenic
B) Allogenic
C) Allopatric
D) Sympatric
6. Genes found in different species that evolved from the same
gene in a common ancestor is called
A) Homologs
B) Paralogs
C) Orthologs
D) Homeologs
7. Microevolution means
A) Evolution at the geographical level
B) Evolution in a small community
C) Changes in gene frequency within a population
D) Spatial evolution
8. The ‘mutation theory’ of organic evolution was put forward by
A) Hugo deVries
B) Weismann
C) Darwin
D) Lamarck
9. Changing climate may isolate populations on mountain peaks or in remnant lakes
or islands. This is called ------- speciation
A) Allopatric
B) Sympatric
C) Parapatric
D) None of the above
10. When a population formerly continuous in range, splits into two or more geographically isolated populations and form new species, the mode of speciation is
A) Sympatric speciation
B) Polytypic speciation
C) Allopatric speciation
D) Evolutionary speciation
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Answers
1. D) Carboniferous
2. A) India, Africa, Australia, South America &Antartica
3. B) Motoo Kimura
4. C) Alfred Wegener
5. C) Allopatric
6. C) Orthologs
7. C) Changes in gene frequency within a population
8.A) Hugo deVries
9. A) Allopatric
10. C) Allopatric speciation