Prototherians are the connecting links between: from Biology Evo

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301.

Assertion : Bats and whales are classified as mammals.

Reason : Bats and whales have four-chambered heart.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If Assertion is true statement but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false statements


302.

Assertion : Organochlorine pesticides are organic compounds that have been chlorinated.

Reason : Fenitrothion is one of the organochlorine pesticides. 

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If Assertion is true statement but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false statements


303.

Assertion : Holoblastic cleavage with almost equal-sized blastomeres is a characteristic of placental animals.

Reason : Eggs of most mammals, including humans, are of centrolecithal type.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If Assertion is true statement but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false statements


304.

Assertion : All birds, except the ones like koel (cuckoo) build nests for retiring and taking rest during night time (day time for nocutrnal).

Reason : Koel lays its eggs in the nests of tailor bird.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If Assertion is true statement but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false statements


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305.

Assertion : Old age is not an illness. It is a continuation of life with decreasing capacity for adaptation.

Reason : Cessation of mitosis is a normal genetically programmed event.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If Assertion is true statement but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false statements


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306.

Prototherians are the connecting links between:

  • amphibians and aves

  • reptiles and mammals

  • fishes and amphibians

  • reptiles and amphibinas


B.

reptiles and mammals

Prototherians is the sub- class of Order Monotremata. These contains egg laying animals, which are the most ancestral forms in the class Mammalia. These are the connecting links between repltiles and mammals. Connecting links are those extinct organisms which possess the characters of two different groups of organisms.


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307.

The pioneers in the field of 'organic evolution' are:

  • Karl Landsteiner, Hugo de Vries, Malthus

  • Darwin, Hugo de Vries, Lamarck, Huxley

  • Lamarck, Karl Landsteiner, Malthus, Hugo de Vries

  • Darwin, Lamarck, Karl Landsteiner, Hugo de Vries


308.

Darwin finches are related to which of the following evidences ?

  • Fossils

  • Embryology

  • Anatomy

  • Geographical distribution


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309.

Allopatric speciation is due to :

  • geographical separation of population

  • hybridization between closely related species

  • migration of the members of a species from one to other population

  • both (b) and (c)


310.

Evolutionary convergence is characterized by:

  • development of characteristics by random mating

  • replacement of common characteristic in different related groups

  • development of dissimilar characteristics in closely related groups

  • development of a common set of characteristics in groups of different ancestry


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