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Select the correct statement from the following:

  • Darwinian variations are small and directionless

  • Fitness is the end result of the ability to adapt and gets selected by nature

  • All mammals except whales and camels have seven cervical vertebrae

  • All mammals except whales and camels have seven cervical vertebrae


B.

Fitness is the end result of the ability to adapt and gets selected by nature

Fitness (survival of the fittest) is a result of selection and proliferation of only those organisms which were most suitably adapted to the environment and get selected by nature.

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Which one of the following pairs of organisms are exotic species introduced in India?

  • ficus religiosa , lantana camara

  • lantana camara, water hyacinth

  • water hyacinth, prosopis cinereria

  • water hyacinth, prosopis cinereria


Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the same species if they

  • can reproduce freely with each other and form seeds

  • have more than 90 per cent similar genes

  • look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites

  • look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites


The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for

  • responsiveness to touch

  • interaction with the environment and progressive evolution

  • reproduction

  • reproduction


Probiotics are

  • safe antibiotics

  • cancer inducing microbes

  • new kind of food allergens

  • new kind of food allergens


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