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WorksheetsEvolution (2022) - Quiz 4
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Homo erectus lived in east and central Asia and used hides to protect their bodies
Agriculture came around 18000 years back
The skull of modern human resembles more closely to baby chimpanzee than to adult chimpanzee
All of these
The most apparent change during the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens is traced in
Loss of body hair
Walking upright
Shortening of the jaws
Remarkable increase in the brain size
Darwin believed that a giraffe has a long neck because
a creator designed it that way
catastyrophes eliminated short-necked forms
its ancestors stretched their necks to get food
ancestral giraffes with slightly longer necks than other got more food and left more surviving offspring
Biogenetic law as given by Haeckel states that
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny
ontogeny and phylogeny go together
there is no relationship between phylogeny and ontogeny.
Evolution of different species in a given area starting from a point and spreading to other geographical areas is known as :
Adaptive radiation
Natural selection
Migration
Divergent evolution
The neanderthals can be attributed with all of the following characteristics, except
Cranial capacity almost equivalent to modern man
Burial customs
Cave-painting
use of spears as weapon
The first human-like hominid was called
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
Dryopithecus
Persons suffering from sickle cell anaemia trait normally do not suffer from
Cholera
Malaria
High blood pressure
Hepatitis
Which of the following had the smallest brain capacity?
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
Which is the most common mechanism of genetic variation in the population of a sexually reproducing organism?
Genetic drift
Recombination
Transduction
Chromosomal aberrations
