MCQ Bank
______ soils suggest that larger plants and animals had moved onto land.
- A) Ordovician
- B) Precambrian
- C) Silurian
- D) Cambrian
According to __________ model the diversity continues to expand without reaching a global carrying capacity.
- A) Exponential
- B) Time lag
- C) Fluid mosaic model
- D) Logistic
_____ arose from the Old World monkeys before the end of the Oligocene.
- A) Macaques
- B) Baboons
- C) Monkeys
- D) Apes
The perching birds radiated in the _______.
- A) none
- B) Triassic
- C) Jurassic
- D) Miocene
The oldest known bird fossil is _____.
- A) ichthysaurs
- B) plesiosaurs
- C) archaeopteryx
- D) dinasaurs
_______ is concerned with species confinement to its present range in space.
- A) Marine biogeography
- B) Ecological biogeography
- C) Biogeography.
- D) Plant biogeography
Gorillas seem to have diverged first, about _____ Ma.
- A) 13
- B) 12
- C) 10
- D) 11
First dinosaurs were bipedal _______.
- A) omnivores
- B) detritivores
- C) decomposers
- D) carnivores
The skeleton of Archaeopteryx is very like that of ________.
- A) Dinosaurs
- B) Deinonychus
- C) Icthysaurs
- D) Plesiosaurs
Processes are _____ that seek to explain the patterns.
- A) hypotheses
- B) theory
- C) observation
- D) law
Prokaryotes lack a ____ and have (usually) a single circular chromosome.
- A) none
- B) cytoplasm
- C) cytosol
- D) nucleus
Marsupials, and Placentals, radiated dramatically in the _______.
- A) Triassic
- B) Miocene
- C) Jurassic
- D) Tertiary
Archaeopteryx is ............ fossil of ancient dinosaurs.
- A) Reptiles like
- B) Bird Like
- C) Mammal like
- D) Amphibians like
According to exponential model, _______ limitations slow the rate of increase of life.
- A) time
- B) both a and b
- C) Food
- D) Space
Sets of discrete footprints, usually formed by _____.
- A) arthropods
- B) birds
- C) amphibians
- D) reptiles
A classic example of an adaptive radiation due to development of teeth _____.
- A) Placentals
- B) Both a and b
- C) Marsupials
- D) Monotremes
Brain size of H. eractus is about ____ cm3 in a body up to 1.6 m tall.
- A) 830-1200
- B) 930-1100
- C) 730-1100
- D) 830–1100
The substantial skeletons, of Praeanthropus afarensis, ___ Ma old.
- A) 3.2
- B) 3.4
- C) 3.3
- D) 3.5
Primitive forms have ______ clades.
- A) 2
- B) 4
- C) 5
- D) 3
________ females lay eggs, and newborn young grow in pouch.
- A) METATHERIA
- B) MONOTREMATA
- C) EUTHERIA
- D) none