MCQ Bank
_____% of DNA of Gorillas, chimpanzees and humans is identical.
- A) 94
- B) 90
- C) 96
- D) 92
In the earliest _____ a variety of mineralized skeletons appeared.
- A) Precambrian
- B) Miocene
- C) Paleocene
- D) Cambrian
The theropods include all the _____ dinosaurs.
- A) decomposers
- B) omnivorous
- C) carnivorous
- D) herbivorous
The oldest substantial skeletons, of Praeanthropus afarensis, lived approximately………….…. ago
- A) 5.2 Ma
- B) 3.2 Ma
- C) 9.2
- D) 6.2 Ma
Oldest known bird fossil was found in ………………………… Sediments
- A) Lower Devonian
- B) Upper Jurassic
- C) Lower Jurassic
- D) Upper Devonian
Which of the following does not explain the patterns of species distribution across geographical areas through a combination of historical factors?
- A) Speciation
- B) Continental drift
- C) Predation
- D) Extinction
Large brain and ____ are the distinguishing characters of Humans.
- A) limbs
- B) bipedalism
- C) jaws
- D) hairs
Since 1861, ......... more Archaeopteryx skeletons have come to light
- A) 5
- B) 8
- C) 9
- D) 6
Fecal strings: small pellets, usually ____ mm in length, or strings of excrement.
- A) <11
- B) <10
- C) >11
- D) >10
Prokaryotic cells lacks ____.
- A) nuclei
- B) all
- C) cell wall
- D) cytoplasm
Mammals diversified within ____ myr to forms as disparate as bats and rats, monkeys and whales.
- A) 8
- B) 10
- C) 7
- D) 9
The feed of Ichthysaurs consist of _____.
- A) ammonoites
- B) fishes
- C) belemnites
- D) all
Trace fossils originated from ______.
- A) fungi
- B) plants
- C) animals
- D) all
Ichthyosaurs evovled from ______.
- A) diapsids
- B) all
- C) biapsids
- D) reptiles
ancestors of humans and chimps separated about
- A) 9Ma
- B) 6-5Ma
- C) 8–6 Ma.
- D) 10Ma
Trace fossils may be classified according to the which of the following mode of behavior represented?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Feeding
- C) Movement
- D) Farming
Plants moved onto land in the
- A) Ordovician and Silurian
- B) Silurian and Permian
- C) Permian and Triassic
- D) Devonian and Ordovician
Homo sapiens means ...........
- A) same organism
- B) same person
- C) wise organism
- D) wise person
Modern humans evolved from ______.
- A) Dinosaurs
- B) H. erectus
- C) Reptiles
- D) H. sapiens
A plot of species numbers through time must show a pattern of phenomenal increase over the past ____ myr.
- A) 3500
- B) 4700
- C) 4500
- D) 2500