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Assignment

A – Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. The force that initiates evolution is ______
a. Variation
b. Mutation
c. Extinction
d. Adaptation
2. ___________ is a vestigial organ
a. Intestinal villi
b. Papillae
c. Vermiform appendix
d. None of the above
3. The earliest geological time period among the following is _______
a. Cambrian
b. Permian
c. Jurassic
d. Quaternary
4. The experiment that simulated conditions thought to be present on the early earth
a. Hershey–Chase experiment
b. Geiger–Marsden experiment
c. Miller–Urey experiment
d. Schiehallion experiment
5. Example of a homologous organ
a. The arm of a human, wing of a bird
b. Wing of an insect, wing of a bird
c. Leg of a dog, leg of a spider
d. None of the above
6. Primordial soup is a set of hypothetical conditions on ancient earth first proposed
by______
a. Dmitri Ivanovsky
b. Alexander Oparin
c. Dmitry Anuchin
d. Nikolay Shatsky
7. Which condition can be explained by Lamarckism?
a. How giraffes got their long neck
b. How humans lost their tail
c. How humans became bipedal
d. All of the above
8. Observation of species on ___________ heavily inspired Darwin’s theory of
evolution.