Evolution questions
780 published questions with worked solutions.
- The type of natural selection that exerts pressure on a population, moving the mean phenotype towards one phenotypic extreme, is...
- The most likely reason for the development of resistance against pesticides in insect damaging a crop is
- Mitochondrial DNA is advantageous for evolutionary studies because
- Which one of the following amino acid was not found to be synthesized in Miller’s experiment?
- The first living beings were
- According to one of the most accepted theory, the earth atmosphere before any life had originated consists of H_2O, H_2, NH_3 and
- Miller and Urey performed an experiment to prove the origin of life. They took gases NH_3 and H_2 along with
- Spontaneous generation theory was given by
- In which era, life was absent?
- Who first conducted experiment on evolution to prove biochemical origin of life?
- Theory of spontaneous generation or abiogenesis was first disproved by
- The first life on earth consists of
- ‘Every cell of the body contributes gemmules to the germ cells and so shares in the transmission of inherited characters’, this...
- Cosmozoic theory was proposed by
- Origin of life occurred in
- Synthesis of amino acids to prove that amino acids were formed in primitive ocean was experimentally proved by
- Which one of the following is incorrect about the characteristics of protobionts (coacervates and microspheres) as envisaged in...
- The abiogenesis occurred about how many billion years ago?
- First cell produced on earth is
- In the origin of life, microspheres are most primitive protobiont, which have a membrane of
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