Staff Nurse Entrance
Staff Nurse Entrance
1. Which one of the following sets of structures includes only analogous organs?
- Wings of butterfly, housefly and bat
- Hind legs of horse
- Hands of man, monkey and kangaroo
- Mandibles of cockroach, mosquito and honeybee
2. Which of the following set represents all vestigial structures in the human body?
- Vermiform appendix, body hair and cochlea
- Wisdom teeth, coccyx and patella
- Coccyx, vermiform appendix and muscles of ear pinna
- Body hair, muscles of ear pinna and atlas vertebra
3. The earliest animal to have been domesticated by man most likely the
- Horse
- Pig
- Dog
- Cow
4. Presence of gill slits in the embryo of all vertebrates supports the theory of
- Organic evolution
- Recapitulation
- Metamorphosis
- Biogenesis
5. Appearance of ancestral characters in the new borne, such as tail, multiple mammae, etc., are known as
- Homologous
- Analogous
- Atavistic
- Vestigial
6. Evolution is defined as
- History of race
- Development of race
- History and development of race with variations
- Progressive history of race
7. The book named “Philosophic zoologique” was published in 1809 and was written by:
- Mendel
- Darwin
- De Vries
- Lamarck
8. Penguin is a bird that lost the use of its wings by not flying. Such a statement would express the views of
- Darwin
- Wallace
- Lamarck
- Huxley
9. A scientist kept 80 generations of Drosophila in darkness, even after that the flies had normal eyes. This disapproves law of
- Natural selection
- Acquired characters
- Use and disuse
- Synthetic theory
10. Weismann cut off tails of mice generation after generation but tails neither disappeared nor shortened showing that
- Darwin was correct
- Tail is an essential organ
- Mutation theory is wrong
- Lamarckism was wrong in inheritance of acquired characters