With brain size of 1400cc, lived in near east and central Asia in between 100000 to 40000 years back, dead body burial, use of caves or hides to protect their body

 

(1) Homo erectus

(2) Homo habilus

(3) Neanderthal

(4) Australopithecus

Subtopic:  Evolution Prior to Ape Man: 1 | Evolution Prior to Ape Man: 2 | Evolution Prior to Ape Man |
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Which of the following is not true about Homo sapiens?

(1) Arose in 75000- 10000 years ago

(2) Cave art developed about 18000 years ago

(3) Agriculture came around 10000 years ago

(4) Modern man's skull resembles more with adult chimpanzee than baby chimpanzee.

Subtopic:  Evolution of Homo Sapiens |
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The only evolutionary agent that produces adaptive evolutionary changes is :

(1) Nonrandom mating

(2) Mutation

(3) Genetic drift

(4) Natural selection

Subtopic:  Darwin's Theory |
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 ............... operates to eliminate intermediate phenotypes.

(1) Directional selection

(2) Disruptive selection

(3) Stabilizing selection

(4) Random chance

Subtopic:  Natural Selection |
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The selecting agent in industrial melanism was:

(1) humans

(2) toxins from smoke

(3) birds

(4) tree bark

Subtopic:  Genetic Basis of Adaptation |
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Natural selection acts on an organism’s:

(1) dominant alleles

(2) recessive, homozygous alleles

(3) phenotype

(4) combined genotype

Subtopic:  Darwin's Theory |
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At the time early life first formed on Earth, the atmosphere could best be described as:

1. oxidizing

2. reducing

3. rich in oxygen

4. low in hydrogen gas

 

Subtopic:  Cosmic Evolution |
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Which of the following statements is TRUE?

1. Prokaryotes evolved before eukaryotes.
2. Eukaryotes evolved before prokaryotes.
3. Prokaryotes and eukaryotes evolved at approximately the same time.
4. It is unclear whether prokaryotes or eukaryotes evolved first

Subtopic:  Examples of Chemical Evolution |
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Disruptive selection favors:

1. Both extreme forms of a trait
2. Intermediate forms of a trait
3. One of the extremes of a trait
4. Environmental differences

Subtopic:  Natural Selection |
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Which one of the following would cause the Hardy-Weinberg principle to be inaccurate?

1. The size of the population is very large.
2. Individuals mate with one another at random.
3. Natural selection is present.
4. There is no source of new copies of alleles from outside the population.

Subtopic:  Hardy Weinberg Law: 2 | Hardy Weinberg Law |
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