Evolution – Online MCQs Test – Biology MCAT

1. It correctly represents evolutionary sequence of vertebrates:

2. Fossils are

3. The theory of natural selection explains which of the following?

4. “A logical result of over production is the severe compitition for food and space and other necessities of life”, what Darwin called the:

5. Lamarks theory based on following points except:

6. Archaeopteryx is a connecting link between:

7. The genetic constitution of a deme is known as:

8. A more or less genetically isolated unit of population is known as:

9. According to Lamarck, blacksmith developing a bigger biceps in the arm is an example of:

10. 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

11. A branch of genetics that deals with the frequency, distribution and inheritance of alleles in population is:

12. From evolutionary point of view birds come from:

13. Gill pouches in vertebrates are examples of:

14. Archacopteryx was a fossil:

15. “Small changes through successive generations promote the origin of new organs or characters, which are transmitted to its offspring in the next generation”. This is called:

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. Artificial selection in breeding provides evidence for evolution is:

18. The theory of organic evolution given by Charles Darwin in:

19. A branch of biology in which various organisms showing resemblances have been classified is called:

20. Struggle between the individuals of same species having similar needs is: