Top 150+ Solved Evolution MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The experiment to show the production of mice in 21 days from a dirty shirt placed in contact with kernels of wheat was carried out by ______.
a. Francesco Redi
b. Jean Baptiste Van Helmont
c. Aristotle
d. Louis Pasteur
Q. The first formed organism (riboorganism) used only ................. for catalyzing reactions.
a. DNA
b. amino acids
c. fatty acids
d. RNA
Q. Anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria appeared on the earth about ______.
a. 500 million years ago
b. 1500 million years ago
c. 2500 million years ago
d. 3500 million years ago
Q. The primitive cell-like colloidal particles capable of growth and division were ______.
a. prokaryote
b. coacervates
c. eobionts
d. chemoautotrophs
Q. The stage for the evolution of autotrophs was set with the evolution of ______.
a. RNA
b. DNA
c. ozone
d. chlorophyll
Q. The doctrine of evolution is concerned with ______.
a. gradual change
b. abiogenesis
c. biogenesis
d. none of the above
Q. The era called ‘age of prokaryotic microbes’ is ______.
a. archaezoic
b. precambrian
c. phaenerozoic
d. proterizoic
Q. The determine which molecules might have formed spontaneously on early earth, Stanley Miller used an apparatus with an atmosphere containing ______.
a. oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen
b. oxygen, hydrogen, ammonia and water vapour
c. oxygen, hydrogen and methane
d. hydrogen, ammonia, methane and water vapour
Q. The utilization of elements and compounds in nature generation theory because ______.
a. life cycle
b. cyclic pathway
c. material cycles
d. recycling
Q. What is ethnobotany ?
a. Relationship between primitive plants and people
b. Study to soil
c. Cultivation of flower yielding plants
d. Use of plants and their parts
Q. The first photoautotroph organisms were ______.
a. bryophyte
b. algae
c. cyanobacteria
d. bacteria
Q. Who performed this famous experiment to prove origin of life ?
a. Oparin and Haldane
b. Spallanzani and Pasteur
c. Urey and Miller
d. Fox and Pasteur
Q. What was the mixture of gases used in chamber marked A ?
a. Methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2), and water (H2O)
b. Oxygen (O2), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2), and water (H2O)
c. Oxygen (O2), ozone (O3), hydrogen (H2), and water (H2O)
d. all above