Samacheer Kalvi Class12 Bio Zoology Evolution Questions - 1

Question: 1

Who proposed the Germplasm theory?

(A) August Weismann

(B) Analysis of bones

(C) Darwin

(D) Lamarck

Question: 2

The golden age of reptiles was

(A) Proteroic era

(B) Mesozoic era

(C) Cenozoic era

(D) Paleozoic era

Question: 3

Placental mammals develop during

(A) Paleocene

(B) Pliocene

(C) Eocene

(D) Oligocene

Question: 4

Who propounded the theory of recapitulation?

(A) Ernst Von Haeckel

(B) Charles Darwin

(C) Thomas Huxley

(D) Oparin

Question: 5

Witnesses for evolution are found in

(A) Fossils

(B) Desert

(C) Rocks

(D) Ocean beds

Question: 6

Atavism refers to

(A) Inheritance of characters not shown by parents

(B) Criss-cross inheritance

(C) Inheritance of triat by father

(D) Inheritance of triat by mother

Question: 7

Who published the book Origin of species by Natural Selection in 1859?

(A) Charles Darwin

(B) Weismann

(C) Lamarck

(D) Hugo de Vries