Practice Test

Q1) Life has originated due to: Show Answer

Q2) On one of the planet life has originated approximately same: Show Answer

Q3) The branch of zoology dealing with similarities and differences between individuals related by descent is: Show Answer

Q4) Pasteur is famous for: Show Answer

Q5) There is no life on moon as there is no: Show Answer

Q6) In the field of discovery of origin of life Miller prepared: Show Answer

Q7) Large colloidal particles containing protein with water molecules is: Show Answer

Q8) Energy source for origin of life came from: Show Answer

Q9) Which of the following were first formed? Show Answer

Q10) The first organisms were: Show Answer

Q11) Which of the scientists is associated with naturalistic theory of origin of life? Show Answer

Q12) Which is the most accepted theory of origin of life? Show Answer

Q13) Miller synthesized simple amino acids from: Show Answer

Q14) The theory of special creation envisages the role of: Show Answer

Q15) The theory of catastrophism considers one of the following as its mainstay: Show Answer

Q16) The branch of Biology dealing with study of distribution of organisms in different geographic region is: Show Answer

Q17) 'Origin of Life' hypothesis was initiated by: Show Answer

Q18) The atmosphere of the earth at the time of origin of life was: Show Answer

Q19) According to Oparin the universe was a vast dense cloud of hot gases: Show Answer

Q20) Which one of the gases was absent at the time of origin of life? Show Answer

Q21) The theory of spontaneous generation of life explains that: Show Answer

Q22) Cuvier suggested which of the following theory: Show Answer

Q23) Who is regarded as father of evolutionary concept? Show Answer

Q24) People who belived in the theory of "Spontaneous creation" assumed that: Show Answer

Q25) The principle of sterilization is based upon experiment carried by: Show Answer

Q26) The idea that in the egg of Eve or the sperm of Adam contained minute human was part of: Show Answer

Q27) The first organisms to appear on earth were more like plants because: Show Answer

Q28) Who of the following proved that life originated from simple amino acids: Show Answer

Q29) In Stanley Miller's classic experiment: Show Answer

Q30) Mitochondria contain particles made up of about 100 polypeptide molecules of several different types. The paritcles catalyze the production of acetyl Co A and carbon dioxide from pyruvate. When disassembled into the component polypeptides, no enzymatic activity is seen. These particles are examples of: Show Answer

Q31) Which of the following is not true of the microspheres studied by Sydney Fox? Show Answer

Q32) Coacervates maintained their entity with the help of: Show Answer

Q33) Nucleotides, porphyrins, polypeptides and other bio-chemicals developed non-enzymatically in early broth due to: Show Answer

Q34) First eukaryotes evolved through: Show Answer

Q35) The primitive atmosphere of earth was devoid of: Show Answer

Q36) According to cosmozoic theory, life comes on earth from other planets in space in the form of: Show Answer

Q37) The scientist related with the theory of spontaneous generation and experiments with swan-necked flasks is: Show Answer

Q38) Under certain conditions the scientists have obtained cell-like structures but not true organisation of a cell. These are referred to as: Show Answer

Q39) Theory of Pangenesis is related to: Show Answer

Q40) Anaximander believed in the origin of life through: Show Answer

Q41) Spallanzani kept boiled nutrition broth indefinitely in: Show Answer

Q42) The term protobiogenesis is used for theory of: Show Answer

Q43) The correct sequence of origin of life is: Show Answer

Q44) One of the following appeared on the earth with the coming of the plants, and was absent in the past: Show Answer

Q45) Conditions of primitive earth were recreated in the laboratory and amino acids and bases were synthesized abiotically by: Show Answer

Q46) Life cannot originate from inorganic material at present because of: Show Answer

Q47) Choose the correct sequence during the formation of chemicals on early earth: Show Answer

Q48) "Origin of life" was written by: Show Answer

Q49) Origin of life took place in / on: Show Answer

Q50) Panspermia are: Show Answer

Q51) Organic componunds first evolved on earth and required for origin of life were: Show Answer

Q52) Louis Pasteur is known for: Show Answer

Q53) Which of the age of prokaryotic microbes? Show Answer

Q54) Who said the "life originated from simple amino acids": Show Answer

Q55) Stanley Lloyd Miller conducted an experiment to demontrate that simple organic molecules like amino acids could be produced if an electric discharge is passed through a mixture of such gases as might have been present in the atmospere of the early earth. The gaseous mixture used in the experiment comprised: Show Answer

Q56) Who said that organisms develop from pre-existing organisms? Show Answer

Q57) Russian scientist who proposed the theory of origin of life was: Show Answer

Q58) Origin of life occurred in: Show Answer

Q59) Most important compounds for origin of life was: Show Answer

Q60) Earth originated in the past: Show Answer

Q61) Who demonstrated that life comes from life with the help of flask with boiled froth? Show Answer

Q62) Who did an experiment to prove that "organic compounds were the basis of life"? Show Answer

Q63) Protobiogenesis occurred: Show Answer

Q64) Possible early source of energy was: Show Answer

Q65) One of the greatest advocates of the theory of special creation was: Show Answer

Q66) Theory of spontaneous generation was supported by: Show Answer

Q67) Most advanced theory of origin of life is that of: Show Answer

Q68) First life on earth was: Show Answer

Q69) On the primitive earth, polymers such as proteins and nucleic acids in aqueous suspension formed the spherical aggregates, they are called: Show Answer

Q70) Early atmosphere contained methane and other hydrocarbons. They have now been replaced by: Show Answer

Q71) Coacervates were experimentally produced by: Show Answer

Q72) According to Oparin, which one of the following was not present in the primitive atmosphere of earth? Show Answer

Q73) Which one of following experiments suggests that simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter? Show Answer

Q74) Theory of special creation was supported by: Show Answer

Q75) Oparin-Haldane theory of origin of life states that: Show Answer

Q76) Miller conducted his experiment in an apparatus containing methane, ammonia and hydrogen in the ratio of: Show Answer

Q77) Which one of the following amino acid was not found to be synthesized in Miller's experiment? Show Answer

Q78) Abiogenesis means Show Answer

Q79) Which of the following experiments suggests that simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter? Show Answer

Q80) Select the correct statement -
I. Swan-necked flask experiment was done by Louis Pasteur.
II. The early belief of the spontaneous origin of life was disproved by Louis Pasteur.
III. Louis Pasteur is famous for germ theory of disease develop from per-existing.
IV. The idea that life originates from pre-existing life is referred as biogenesis theory.
V. Father Suarez was one of the greatest advocates of theory of special creation.
VI. Cosmozoic theory of the origin of life was proposed by Richter.
VII. The founder of 'theory of catastrophism' is Georges Cuvier. Show Answer

Q81) About how long ago was the Earth formed Show Answer

Q82) The theory which explains the origin of life and is based upon experiments is Show Answer

Q83) Oparin's theory of 'Origin of life' is based on Show Answer

Q84) Chemical theory of origin of life was given by Show Answer

Q85) According to Oparin, which one of the following was not present in the primitive atmosphere of the Earth? Show Answer

Q86) Which one is the present today but was absent about 3 to 5 million years ago? Show Answer

Q87) The basic components of atmosphere of primitive Earth were Show Answer

Q88) There is no life on Moon due to the absence of Show Answer

Q89) Life originated in the era Show Answer

Q90) One of the possible early sources of energy was/were Show Answer

Q91) Which compound has a very important role in prebiotic evolution? Show Answer

Q92) The primitive Earth conditions were experimentally shown by Show Answer

Q93) Stanley Miller proposed origin of lief by Show Answer

Q94) The first experiment on chemical evolution and origin of life was carried out by Show Answer

Q95) Finding of Millers experiment on origin of life has provided evidence for Show Answer

Q96) Which of the following is formed in Stanley Millers classic experiment? Show Answer

Q97) Which one of the following amino acids was not found to be synthesized in Miller's experiment? Show Answer

Q98) Who performed an experiment to prove that organic compounds were the basis of life? Show Answer

Q99) Origin of life as a result of chemical evolution was properly explained by Show Answer

Q100) Miller synthesized simple amino acids from one of the following mixtures in an experiment Show Answer

Q101) The presence of salts (NaCl and others) in the animal body fluids gives an inference that life originated in the Show Answer

Q102) Droplet of phospholipid molecules formed in a liquid environment is called Show Answer

Q103) On the primitive Earth, polymers such as proteins and nucleic acids in aqueous suspension formed the spherical aggregates. These are called Show Answer

Q104) Which of the following evolved first? Show Answer

Q105) Coacervates are Show Answer

Q106) The simple organic compounds that may have first evolved in the direction of origin of life on the Earth must have been Show Answer

Q107) The correct sequence of the substances appeared during the course of origin of life on earth was Show Answer

Q108) It is believed that the organisms first inhabited Earth's surface were Show Answer

Q109) Organisms which obtain energy by the oxidation of reduced inorganic compounds are called Show Answer

Q110) Mark the correct statement in the following Show Answer

Q111) Which was first photosynthetic organism? Show Answer

Q112) The oldest eukaryotic fossil is Show Answer

Q113) Coacervates belong to the category of Show Answer

Q114) Select the wrong pair Show Answer

Q115) The most primitive cell-like chemical aggregates capable of growth and division were Show Answer

Q116) Which one of the following is incorrect about the characteristic of protobionts (coacervates and microspheres) as envisaged in abiogenic origin of life? Show Answer

Q117) First Homonids are: Show Answer

Q118) Who was the first civilized man? Show Answer

Q119) The first human fossil probably belonged to: Show Answer

Q120) Age if mammals is known as: Show Answer

Q121) The direct ancestral race of modern man was possibly: Show Answer

Q122) Which of the following is not in the direction of evolution of human species? Show Answer

Q123) Which one of the following eras in geological time scale corresponding to the Person when life has not originated upon earth? Show Answer

Q124) Among primates listed below which one is the closest relative of modern man: Show Answer

Q125) The Java man is considered to have existed in: Show Answer

Q126) Neanderthal man: Show Answer

Q127) Ancestor of man who first stood erect was: Show Answer

Q128) Which of the following is true for Homo sapiens? Show Answer

Q129) The skull of Pithecanthropus erectus was found in: Show Answer

Q130) The pre-historic ancestor of man which existed during the pleistocene era is: Show Answer

Q131) Most recent fossil is of: Show Answer

Q132) Name of the fossil man of Shivalik hills is: Show Answer

Q133) The recent ancestors of modern man were: Show Answer

Q134) Homo erectus is the zoological name of: Show Answer

Q135) The earliest site where human civilization and crop cultivation started was presumably: Show Answer

Q136) Cromagnon man was: Show Answer

Q137) Which one of the fossil men stood first? Show Answer

Q138) Neanderthal man differs from modern man in: Show Answer

Q139) Which of these is considered a trend in primate evolution? Show Answer

Q140) Which primate existed in the first half of eocene epoch (53-58 million years ago)? Show Answer

Q141) Which of these prosimians now found only on the island of Madagascar? Show Answer

Q142) Immortality of soul hypothesis has given rise to discovery of: Show Answer

Q143) Present age is known as: Show Answer

Q144) Who discovered the use of the weapon and tools first? Show Answer

Q145) Cannibalism is found in: Show Answer

Q146) The cranial capactiy of Java ape-man was about: Show Answer

Q147) First fossil of African ape-man was discovered by: Show Answer

Q148) Which of the fossil men given below was expert in making tools, weapons, paintings etc? Show Answer

Q149) The cranial capacity was the largest in one of the following fossil of man: Show Answer

Q150) Continents where most of the primitive men have been discovered: Show Answer

Q151) Which of the following factors is considered best in the evolution of man? Show Answer

Q152) Pithecanthropus erectus fossil was found in: Show Answer

Q153) The cranial capacity is nearly 1000 cc of: Show Answer

Q154) The man who used stones for first time was: Show Answer

Q155) Which of the following is not a characteristic of apes? Show Answer

Q156) Which of the following is not an anatomical changes from ape to Homo sapiens? Show Answer

Q157) Early True Man was: Show Answer

Q158) Dog was domesticated by: Show Answer

Q159) The name of Mio-Pliocene apes is: Show Answer

Q160) The maximum size of modern brain is: Show Answer

Q161) The name of the earliest human ancestor from India is: Show Answer

Q162) The latest ancestal race of modren man was possibly: Show Answer

Q163) Dryopithecus was: Show Answer

Q164) The earliest man-like primate was: Show Answer

Q165) Fossils of so called 'Java Man' and 'Peking Man' belong to: Show Answer

Q166) Anthropoid apes were ancestors of: Show Answer

Q167) The brain of Australopithecus measure? Show Answer

Q168) Possession of chile-like traits by an adult man is called? Show Answer

Q169) The first fossils of prehistoric man were discovered by: Show Answer

Q170) Coloured rock-paintings were presumably first made by: Show Answer

Q171) The earliest man who used tools was: Show Answer

Q172) The characteristic of modern man was: Show Answer

Q173) First evidence of ceremonial burial of dead have been found with fossils of: Show Answer

Q174) Loss of pigmentation, slender body and reduced apendages, absence of visual organs are adaptations in: Show Answer

Q175) Modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens began spreading all over the globe some: Show Answer

Q176) According to the geological chronology, man belongs to which era? Show Answer

Q177) "Piltdown man" was: Show Answer

Q178) A pertinent example where the study of human traits has helped in understanding evolution is: Show Answer

Q179) DNA matching has shown human being to be nearest to: Show Answer

Q180) Orthognathous face occurs in: Show Answer

Q181) Simian gap is: Show Answer

Q182) The earliest man-like primate and oldest of man's anecstors which is on direct line of human evolution is: Show Answer

Q183) The fossils of first known ape is: Show Answer

Q184) Which of the following is the fossil of first man-ape? Show Answer

Q185) Who said that the human body is a walking museum of antiquities? Show Answer

Q186) Who wrote the first book on human origin? Show Answer

Q187) Outwardly directed widely separated nostrils occur in: Show Answer

Q188) Fire was first used for protection and cooking by: Show Answer

Q189) The feature not in the direction of the evolution of human species is: Show Answer

Q190) Dryopithecus occurred: Show Answer

Q191) What is the brain size of man? Show Answer

Q192) Dubois in 1891 found the fossil of Java ape man. It is: Show Answer

Q193) The smallest cranial capacity is that of the: Show Answer

Q194) Cranial capacity was highest in: Show Answer

Q195) Which of the following fossil man possessed a cranial capacity almost equal to that of modern man? Show Answer

Q196) Which of the following is correct? Show Answer

Q197) The age of the fossil of Dryopithecus on the geological time scale is: Show Answer

Q198) The nearest prehistoric ancestor of present man may be: Show Answer

Q199) Homo sapiens evolved during: Show Answer

Q200) Which of the following is closest relative of man? Show Answer

Q201) Which of the following is correct order of the evolutionary history of man? Show Answer

Q202) In recent years, DNA sequences of mt-DNA and Y-chromosomes were considered for study of human evolution, because they: Show Answer

Q203) Which of the following was the transitional stage between apes and humans: Show Answer

Q204) Highest cranial capacity is found in: Show Answer

Q205) What evidence suggest that chimpanzee is more closely related to human than other hominid species? Show Answer

Q206) Cranial cavity of Australopithecus was: Show Answer

Q207) Taung baby is: Show Answer

Q208) Which one of the following ape is found in India: Show Answer

Q209) Most primary homonid appeared was: Show Answer

Q210) 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 African origin of modern man. What kind of observation of DNA variation could suggest this? Show Answer

Q211) The last common ancestor between the African apes and hominids lived during ...... Epoch: Show Answer

Q212) Which of the following used fire for cooking and warmth: Show Answer

Q213) The cranial capacity of Neanderthal man was about: Show Answer

Q214) What is correct sequence of human evolution: Show Answer

Q215) Among the human ancestors the brain size was more than 1000 CC in: Show Answer

Q216) What was the most significant trend in the evolution of modern man (Homo sapiens) from his ancestors? Show Answer