Science Quiz 84: Quiz on Evolution 2

Science Quiz 84: Quiz on Evolution 2

Another set of question based on evolution. 

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1. Who wrote Philosophie zoologique ... ("Zoological Philosophy, or Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals")?

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Francis Galton
William Bateson
Charles Darwin

2. This Danish botanist and geneticist is best known for coining the terms phenotype and genotype. He was the one who introduced the term "gene" . Who is he?

Charles Darwin
Francis Galton
William Bateson
Wilhelm Johannsen

3. Who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity?

Gregor Mendel
William Bateson
Charles Darwin
Lord Kelvin

4. Who proposed first the super continent Gondwana in 1861?

Charles Darwin
Georges Lemaitre
Copernicus
Eduard Suess

5. Any biological species that defines a trait or characteristic of the environment is called

Index species
Indicator species
Keystone Species
Umbrella species

6. Any kind of living organisms that is not native to an ecosystem and causes harm to the ecosystem is called

Introduced species
Keystone species
Invasive species
Foundation species

7. Agnatha is a class of fish containing both present and extinct species. What to they lack?

Mouth
Gills
Fins
Jaws

8. Who among the following was the first to give a biological definition of the term "species"?

Charles Darwin
John Ray
Carl Linnaues
Lamarck

9. Some species are described as playing a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community, affecting many other organisms in an ecosystem and helping to determine the types and numbers of various other species in the community. These species are called

Keystone Species
Index Species
Endangered Species
Critical species

10. Mukurthi National Park was created to protect which one of the following keystone species?

Snow Leopard
Nilgir Tahr
Asiatic Lion
Great Indian bustard

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