ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE

Biogenetic law states that ______________

• Ontogeny and phylogeny go together

• Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

• Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny

• There is no relationship between

  phylogeny and ontogeny

The ‘use and disuse theory’ was proposed

by ______________.

• Charles Darwin

• Ernst Haeckel

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Gregor Mendel

Paleontologists deal with

• Embryological evidences

• Fossil evidences

• Vestigial organ evidences

• All the above

The best way of direct dating fossils of

recent origin is by

• Radio-carbon method

• Uranium lead method

• Potassium-argon method

• Both (a) and (c)

The term Ethnobotany was coined by

• Khorana

• J.W. Harsbberger

• Ronald Ross

• Hugo de Vries

The characters developed by the animals

during their life time, in response to

the environmental changes are called

______________.

The degenerated and non-functional

organs found in an organism are called

______________.

The forelimbs of bat and human are

examples of ______________ organs.

The theory of natural selection for

evolution was proposed by ____________.

The use and disuse theory of organs’ was

postulated by Charles Darwin.

• True

• False