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578 previous year questions from Evolution with answers and solutions. Numbered list, year tags, and one-tap solutions — built for serious JEE / NEET practice.

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Evolution of human appears parallel to the progressive development of brain and language skills. As such, the evolution of individual species in the sequence of their appearance is

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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R . Assertion A : Forelimbs of human and bats are homologous. Reason R : Forelim

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Which of the following is not evidence for evolution ?

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Sweet potato and potato represent a certain type of evolution. Select the correct combination of terms to explain the evolution.

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Coacervates were discovered by

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Which one is the oldest in following?

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Following are the two statements regarding the origin of life. I. The earliest organisms that appeared on the earth were non-green and presumably an aerobes. II. The first autotrop

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Variation in gene frequencies within population can occur by chance rather than by natural selection. This is reffered to as

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Which one of the following graphs correctly describes disruptive selection? When studying fitness level associated with body size?

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Appearance of antibiotic resistant bacteria is an example of

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The best description of natural selection is

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The term 'prebiotic soup' for organic water containing mixture of simple organic compounds was given by

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Which one of the following human ancestors is known as tool maker?

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Match the following Columns

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Which of the following is the most primitive ancestor of man?

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During which geological period of evolution did the greatest diversification of life occurred on the earth?

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About how long ago was the earth formed?

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A connecting link between plant and animal kingdom is

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The most recent and direct pre-historic ancestor is

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Darwins finches represent

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Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is known to be affected by gene flow, genetic drift, mutation, genetic recombination and

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Darwinism explains all the following except

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Theory of pangenesis was given by

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Which one of the following in birds, indicates their reptilian ancestry?

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Ancestor of man who first stood erect was

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The most primitive vertebrates are

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Change in the number of body parts is called

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Origin of life occurred in

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Darwin's finches are an excellent example of

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Theory of continuity of germplasm was propounded by

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The diversity in the type of beaks of finches adapted to different feeding habits on the Galapagos islands, as observed by Darwin, provides evidence for

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Age of fishes is also known as

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Human ancestors who left cave paintings were

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Connecting link between annelids and molluscs is

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The presence of diversity at the junction of territories to two different habitats is known as

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Which one of the following is not a vestigial structural in Homo sapiens?

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Which compound has very important role in prebiotic evolution?

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Which of the following provides most evident proof of evolution?

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Which of the following is not vestigial in man?

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Biological concept of species is mainly based on

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rearrange the parts P, Q, R and S to make a proper sentence. The statement (P) therefore you must listen carefully (Q) what the speaker has said (R) in order to understand (S) will

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In the following questions, a part of the sentence is italicised. Below the sentence, three possible substitutions for the italicised part are given. Choose the one which improves

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choose the alternative which is opposite in meaning to the word given in italics in the sentence. His writings have been much < i>eulogised < /i> by Indian scholars.

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Paragraph: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Journalism combines writing with news gathering and interpretation. While the journalist's

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Paragraph: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Journalism combines writing with news gathering and interpretation. While the journalist's

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There are two opposing views about origin of modern man. According to one view Homo erectus in Asia were the ancestors of modern man. A study of variations of DNA however suggested

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Which one of the following phenomena supports Darwin's concept of natural selection in organic evolution?

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de Vries gave his mutation theory on organic evolution while working on

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Which of the following is not true for a species?

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Using imprints from a plate with complete medium and carrying bacterial colonies, you can select streptomycin resistant mutants and prove that such mutations do not originate as ad

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Which one of the following experiments suggests that simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter?

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Among the human ancestors the brain size was more than 1000 cc in:

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Industrial melanism as observed in peppered moth proves that:

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Adaptive radiation refers to:

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What is common to whale, seal and shark?

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Select the correct statement from the following?

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One of the important consequences of geographical isolation is:

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Which have not left any evidences of organic evolution?

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Set which includes only analogous organs is :

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Organs which differ in origin but perform similar functions :

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'Convergent Evolution' is shown by :

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Example of analogous organs is :

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Which one of the following is not a living fossil?

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An important evidence in favour of organic evolution is the occurrence of:

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Evolutionary history of an organism is known as:

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Which of the following amino-acids was not found to be synthesized in Miller's experiment?

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Jurassic period of the mesozoic era is characterised by:

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Which one of the following experiments suggests that simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter?

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There are two opposing views about origin of modern man. According 10 one view Homo erectus in Asia were the ancestors of modern man. A study of variation of DNA however suggested

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Which one of the following phenomena supports Darwin's concept of natural selection in organic evolution?

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Which of the following is the relatively most accurate method for dating of fossils?

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At a particular locus, frequency of A allele is 0.6 and that of a is 0.4 . What would be the frequency of heterozygotes in a random mating population at equilibrium?

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Dinosaurs become extinct in

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Which one of the following is vestigeal organ of human?

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Stanley Miller performed an experiment to prove the origin of life. They took gases NH ₃ and H ₂ along with

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The following ratio is generally constant for a given species:

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What kind of evidence suggested that man is more closely related with chimpanzee than with at her hominoid apes?

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Age of fossils in the post was generally determined by radio-carbon method and other methods involve radioactive elements found the rocks. More precise methods, which were used rec

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Diversification in plant life appeared:

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Convergent evolution is illustrated by:

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In recent years, DNA sequences (nucleotide sequence) of m t DNA and Y chromosomes were considered for the study of human evolution, because:

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Which one of the following describes correctly the homologous structures?

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Random genetic drift in a population probably results from:

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In a random mating population in equilibrium, which one of the following brings about a change in gene frequency in a non-directional manner ?

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Which one of the following sequences was proposed by Darwin and Wallace for organic evolution?

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Darwin in his "Natural Selection Theory" did not believe in any role of which one of the following in organic evolution ?

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Some bacteria are able to grow in the streptomycin containing medium due to:

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In a population, unrestricted reproductive capacity is called as:

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Which of the following are homologous organs?

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Genetic drift operates in:

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According to fossils that are discovered up to present time, from which country the origin and evolution of man was started?

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In which era reptiles were dominated?

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What is the primary focus of Evolutionary Biology?

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What context is necessary to understand the changes in flora and fauna over millions of years?

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What is described as the "longest of all the construed and conjectured stories"?

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What does observing stars on a clear night sky allow us to do?

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How are stellar distances measured ?

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What does the Big Bang theory describe?

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How did the temperature of the universe change following the Big Bang?

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What was the composition of the early Earth's atmosphere?

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What caused the formation of the ozone layer?

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How long ago did Earth form?

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What was the result of the gases condensing under gravitation?

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How did the early Earth's atmosphere change over time?

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What is the concept of 'Panspermia'?

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What did early Greek thinkers believe about the origin of life?

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What did Louis Pasteur demonstrate through his experiments?

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What was the theory of spontaneous generation?

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What was the outcome of Pasteur's experiments regarding the theory of spontaneous generation?

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What did Oparin and Haldane propose about the origin of the first life forms?

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What type of atmosphere was present on early Earth ?

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What did S.L. Miller create in his laboratory experiment in 1953?

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What did Miller observe forming in his laboratory experiment?

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What did similar experiments to Miller’s reveal?

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What did the analysis of meteorite content indicate?

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What are the three connotations of the theory of special creation according to conventional religious literature?

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What conclusion did Charles Darwin reach based on his observations during the voyage on H.M.S. Beagle?

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What does the term "fitness" refer to according to Darwin?

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What is natural selection ?

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Who else, besides Darwin, came to similar conclusions about natural selection around the same time?

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