Study Material
Organic Evolution
Very Short Answer Questions
Q2. Define prebiotic soup. Who coined this term?
Q3. How did eukaryotes evolve?
Q4. What are the components of the mixture used by Urey & Miller in their experiments to simulate the primitive atmosphere?
Q5. Mention the names of any four connecting links that you have studied.
Q6. Define Biogenetic Law, giving an example.
Q7. Define atavism with an example.
Q8. Cite two examples to disprove Lamarck's inheritance of acquired characters.
Q9. Who influenced Darwin most, in formulating the idea of Natural Selection?
Q10. What is common between Darwinism and Lamarckism?
Q11. What is meant by genetic load? Give an example.
Q12. Distinguish between allopatric and sympatric speciations.
Q13. Mention the scientific names of ape like and man like earlier primates. Which man like primate first used hides to cover the bodies?
Q1. Distinguish between homologous and analogous organs.
Q2. Write a short note on the theory of mutations.
Q3. Explain Darwin's theory of Natural Selection with industrial melanism as an experimental proof.
Q4. Discuss the role of different patterns of selections in evolution.
Q5. Write a short note on Neo- Darwinism.
Q6. In a population of 100 rabbits which is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, 24 are homozygous long-eared. Short ears are recessive to long ears. There are only two alleles for this gene. Find out the frequency of recessive allele in the population.
Q7. What is meant by genetic drift? Explain genetic drift citing the example of Founder Effect.