MCQ Bank
Which of the following animals contains mosaic development?
- A) Deuterostomes
- B) Protostomes
- C) Nether Protostomes nor Deuterostomes
- D) Protostomes and Deuterostomes
Some of the ectodermal cells aligned themselves into a columnar pattern to form ________.
- A) neural plate
- B) ectodermal layer
- C) peripheral nervous system
- D) mesodermal layer
When was the Hans Driesch Discovery held?
- A) 1900
- B) 1992
- C) 1892
- D) 1920
Name the developmental step when primary germ layer form?
- A) Gastrulation
- B) Neurulation
- C) Blastulation
- D) Gestation
Which of the following is the role of oxytocin during pregnancy?
- A) Maintains the uterine lining
- B) Retains the pregnancy
- C) Causes contraction of smooth muscles to expel the baby
- D) Initiates the milk production
Which hormones prevents the corpus luteum from disintegration during pregnancy?
- A) Human gonadotropin hormones (hCG)
- B) Progesterone
- C) Prolactin
- D) Oxytocin
Oldest multicellular eukaryotes: reported from rocks 1200 Ma in _______.
- A) Africa
- B) Canada
- C) England
- D) America
There are _____ observations for distinguishing equilibrium and expansion models of diversification of life.
- A) 6
- B) 8
- C) 9
- D) 7
Archaeopteryx, found in Upper Jurassic sediments in southern Germany in _______.
- A) 1861
- B) 1971
- C) 1961
- D) 1761
Which of the following model represents the additive increase, the addition of a fixed number of new species in each unit of time?_________
- A) The linear model
- B) The curve model
- C) The exponential model
- D) The logistic model
Ants, bees, wasps and termites are _____ organisms.
- A) colonial
- B) multicellular
- C) unicellular
- D) all
Fecal pellets and coprolites are the types of ____ fossils.
- A) mineralised
- B) trace
- C) plant
- D) none
Ichthysaurs use _____ for steering.
- A) fins
- B) both
- C) paddles
- D) none
Early primates ______ were squirrel-like animals that may have climbed trees and fed on fruit, seeds and leaves.
- A) Plesiadapis
- B) Dinosaurs
- C) Plesiosaurs
- D) Ichthsaurs
Sahelanthropus and Orrorin were already bipedal by ___ Ma.
- A) 5
- B) 4
- C) 6
- D) 7
Gorillas seem to have diverged first, about ......... and the ancestors of humans and chimps separated about ..........
- A) 10 Ma, 8–6 Ma.
- B) 9 Ma, 5–3 Ma.
- C) 11 Ma, 9-4 Ma.
- D) 8 Ma, 4–1 Ma.
The gibbons of Southeast Asia are the most primitive living apes, having branched off ______ Ma.
- A) 30-25
- B) 40-35
- C) 20-15
- D) 25– 20
A unique small-sized human species, _____ arose about 18,000 years ago.
- A) none
- B) H. sapiens
- C) H. fl oresiensis
- D) H. erectus
Apes arose from the.........
- A) Old World monkeys
- B) New world Monkeys
- C) both a and b
- D) Modern world monkeys
The study of trace fossils, often called _______.
- A) ornithology
- B) ichnology
- C) paleontology
- D) geology