Biology : Evolution

Which of the following assumption is not belonging to Hardy-Weinberg principle?

• The population size is very large

• Random mating is occurring

• Natural selection takes place

• No mutation occurs

Abundance of a species in a population, within habitat is called

• niche density

• absolute density

• relative density

• geographic density

Which of the following is a mismatch?

• Giraffe - Lamarck

• Drosophila - Morgan

• Galapagos island - Darwin's finches

• Origin of species - Mendel

Archaeopteryx is

• a living fossil

• a mammal

• a connecting link between Annelida and Arthropoda

• a connecting link between reptiles and birds

The cranial capacity of Peking man was about

• 900 cc

• 1660 cc

• 1075 cc

• 1450 cc

Beak is toothed in

• pelican

• kiwi

• ostrich

• Archaeopteryx

The earliest fossil form in phylogeny of horse is

• Merychippus

• Mesohippus

• Eohippus 

• Equus

Haeckel's biogenetic law or recapitulation theory states that

• life history of an animal reflects evolutionary history of the same

• progeny resembles parents

• mutations are acquired characters

• all organisms begin their life from zygote

Cranial capacity of modern man is

• 450-650 cc

• 600-1000 cc

• 900-1100 cc

• 1200-1600 cc

Name the ship on which Darwin got opportunity for a voyage of world.

• Titanic

• Vikrant

• Vectoria

• Beagle