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Questions : Which of the following group of animals maintains high and constant body temperature such as mammals ?

(a) Birds

(b) Reptiles

(c) Amphibians

(d) Fishes

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

Animals which maintain high and constant body temperature are called warm blooded animals. They are also called homeothermic animals. Birds are the first vertebrate to have warm blood. They are homeothermous.

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Question : 1

In case of incomplete dominance the monohybrid ratio of phenotypes in F2 generation is

a) 3 : 1 : 1

b) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1

c) 1 : 2 : 1

d) 2 : 3 : 1

Answer: (c)

Question : 2

Consider the following statements :

  1. Allosomes, are chromosome which are responsible for determination of sex, e.g., X and Y-chromosomes.
  2. Autosomes, are chromosomes, which determine the somatic characters.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are true?

a) 1 and 2

b) 2 only

c) 1 only

d) None

Answer: (a)

Autosomes determine somatic characters and are present in humans as 21 pairs while sex chromosomes or allosomes are X and Y chromosomes are present as 2 pairs.

Question : 3

Fossils are

a) Remains of plants and animals that are still surviving

b) Remains of deadly plants and animals that are extinct

c) Both (a) & (b) 

d) None of the above

Answer: (c)

Question : 4

Modern man evolved from

a) Neanderthal man

b) Java man

c) Peking man

d) cro-magnon man

Answer: (d)

Question : 5

Which one of the following pairs of nitrogenous bases of nucleic acids, is wrongly matched with the category mentioned against it?

a) Uracil, Cytosine - Pyrimidines

b) Guanine, Adenine - Purines

c) Thymine, Uracil - Pyrimidines

d) Adenine, Thymine - Purines

Answer: (d)

Purine is an organic nitrogenous base sparingly soluble in water, that gives rise to a group of biologically important derivatives, notably adenine and guanine, which occur in nucleotides and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA).

Question : 6

Match List-I with List-II :

List-I List-II
A. Theory of mutation 1. Beadle and Tatum
B. Theory of evolution 2. Jacob and Monod
C. One gene one enzyme hypothesis 3. Darwin
D. Operon concept 4. Hugo De Vries
Select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists: (A) (B) (C) (D)

a) 4 3 2 1

b) 3 4 1 2

c) 4 3 1 2

d) 3 4 2 1

Answer: (c)

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