EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION

TESTMARKS-14½

What is doctrine of evolution?

1 1

What is homology?

2 1

Describe homology with respect to fore limb in animals.

3 2

Give examples of homology in plants.

4 1½

What are analogous organs?

5 1

Which animals show analogy in body shape?

6 1

Name two vestigial organs in humans.

7 1

Name two vestigial organs in animals.

8 1

What is atavism?

9 1

What is palentology?

10 1

What are fossils?

11 1

What is petrifaction?

12 1

Test contd…. Marks- 14½

Extra time

Differentiate between casts and moulds.

13 1

Differentiate between compression and impression.

14 1

What are pseudofossils?

15 1

Differentiate between missing link and connecting link.

16 1

Give examples of missing link and connecting link.

17 2

Give two reptilian and two avian characters of Archaeopteryx

18 2

The missing link between fern and gymnosperms is ________

19 ½

The vestigial nictitating membrane in humans is called as _____________

20 ½

Seymorians are a link between ___________ and ____________

21 1

The evolutionary history of horses was given by ___________

22 ½

Ruminant horse is called ____________ and the modern horse is called _____________

23 1

What do you mean by evolutionary trends?

24 1

List two progressive and two retrogressive trends seen during the evolution of horses.

25 2

Test contd… Marks 10

Extra time

Give two temporary embryonic structures that can be evidences for evolution.

26 1

Give the contribution of Von Baer and Ernest Hackel.

27 1

Continental drift was described by ___________ he said all the continents formed a single land mass called _____________

28 1

As time progressed the single land mass was divided into ________ and _______________

29 1

State one biochemical evidence of evolution.

30 1

Differentiate between convergent and divergent evolution.

31 1

Geological time scale was developed by ________

32 ½

The fossil of Archaeopteryx was obtained by ________

33 ½

What is adaptive radiation?

34 1

The first era is ____________ and the era of cradle of life is _______________

35 1

The era of reptiles is ______________ and the present era is ______________

36 1

Extra time