Evolution – Online MCQs Test – Biology MCAT

1. Which one of the following terms would most correctly describe the relationship between the flight organs of animals like locust, bat, swallow and flying fish?

2. Study of different species show close resemblance in their anatomy is:

3. Which one of the following was absent in a free form at the time of origin of life?

4. Mutations are mainly responsible for controlling

5. “A process in which the fittest of an organism in its environment selects those traits that will be passed on with greater frequency from one generation to the next” is:

6. Muscles found vestigial in man:

7. De Vries is known for his:

8. An old view about evolution states that the organisms were created by a super organism in the same condition as they exist now. This theory is called

9. According to heterotroph hypothesis the source of food for the earliest form of life consisted of

10. The sequence of origin of life may be considered as

11. Theory of organic evolution based on the principle of “Use and disuse of organ” is now considered as:

12. According to the neo-Darwinian theory, which of the following is responsible for the origin of new species?

13. The most primitive living vascular plants are:

14. “Under stable conditions allelic frequencies and their genotype ratios remain constant generation after generation”, this is:

15. Darwin tail to give explanation about

16. In a famous experiment A. Weismann cut off tails of new-born mice generation after generation. At the end of experiment, tails of mice neither disappeared nor shortened. This experiment

17. Inorganic evolution means

18. The theory of evolution indicates that

19. Lamarck’s theory was strongly opposed criticized and rejected by:

20. “Germinal Continuity Theory” was proposed by: