MCQ Bank
Both Wallace’s and Darwin’s papers were published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society in__________.
- A) 1859
- B) 1829
- C) 1849
- D) 1839
Formation of new forms from an ancestral species, usually in response to the opening of new habitats is_________.
- A) Genetic drift
- B) Adaptive radiation
- C) Speciation
- D) Adaptation
Enzyme lactate dehydrogenase catalyzes the conversion of _________ to lactate.
- A) Amino acid
- B) Cholesterol
- C) Pyruvate
- D) Uric acid
It tends to favor the common phenotypes and eliminate variation from a population.
- A) Oscillating selection
- B) None of these
- C) Positive frequency-dependent selection
- D) Negative frequency dependent selection
In __________ any allele may increase or depart the population.
- A) Natural selection
- B) Mutation
- C) None of these
- D) Genetic drift
Extinct hippopotamus like animal, now called
- A) Greater Rhea
- B) Toxodon
- C) Thoantherium
- D) Glyptodonts
Stock of different genes in an interbreeding population is called as________.
- A) Gene pool
- B) Genetic drift
- C) Gene flow
- D) Gene reservoir
In___________, the fitness of a phenotype does not depend on its frequency
- A) Oscillating selection
- B) Both of these
- C) None of tese
- D) Frequency dependent selection
Gradual changes over the time with changing environment was foundation of
- A) Theory of uniformitarianism
- B) Theory of natural selection
- C) None of these
- D) Theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics
Inbreeding is common in ________population.
- A) Small
- B) Endangered
- C) Large
- D) Conspicuous
Which of the following is NOT the component of Fitness?
- A) Mating success
- B) Survival
- C) High mortality rate
- D) Number of offspring per mating
Who suggested that genes are responsible for traits?
- A) Lamarck
- B) Mendel
- C) Darwin
- D) Weismann
It favors the rare phenotype and makes them more common to maintain variation.
- A) Oscillating selection
- B) Negative frequency-dependent selection
- C) Positive frequency-dependent selection
- D) None of these
It acts against only one extreme of phenotypes, causing a shift in distribution toward the other extreme.
- A) Directional Selection
- B) Oscillating
- C) Stabilizing Selection
- D) Disruptive Selection
Enzyme lactate dehydrogenase in mummichog populations in North are better catalyst at ______temperatures.
- A) Moderate
- B) High
- C) Low
- D) None of these
Which of the following reduce genetic variation within a population?
- A) Crossing over
- B) None of these
- C) Mutation
- D) Inbreeding
Female sea star releases about ______eggs each season.
- A) 10 million
- B) 3 million
- C) 5 million
- D) 1 million
It may promote or constrain evolutionary changes.
- A) Natural selection
- B) Genetic drift
- C) Mutation
- D) Gene flow
Sickle cell anemia is _____________ trait.
- A) Heterozygous
- B) none of these
- C) Homozygous recessive
- D) Homozygous dominant
Horses had been present and had become extinct long ago in___________.
- A) N.America
- B) Africa
- C) S.America
- D) Asia