Natural selection is based on certain observations which are factual and include all the following except:
1. Natural resources are limited.
2. Populations go on increasing in size as they have unlimited fertility.
3. No two individuals are alike in a population.
4. Most of variations are inherited
 

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Hugo deVries brought forth the idea of mutations while working on:
1. Evening primrose
2. Fruit fly
3. Coenorhabditis elegans
4. Maize
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Disturbance in genetic equilibrium, or Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, is interpreted as resulting in:
1. adaptive radiation
2. evolution
3. saltation
4. speciation
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Five factors are known to affect Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Which of the following is not one of them?
1. gene migration or gene flow
2. genetic drift
3. mutation
4. random mating
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A process in which heritable variations enabling better survival are enabled to reproduce and leave greater
number of progeny is called as:
1. Evolution
2. Natural selection
3. Speciation
4. Gene flow
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Which of the following periods in geological time scale is not included in the Palaeozoic era?
1. Silurian
2. Cretaceous
3. Devonian
4. Carboniferous
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In 1938, a fish caught in South Africa which was thought to be extinct, was a:
1. Jawless fish 2. Armoured fish
3. Lobe finned fish 4. Ray finned fish
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If we say that the embryos of reptiles, birds, and mammals look very similar during their early stages of development, this would suggest that these organisms:
1. have stopped evolving  
2. have a common ancestor
3. live in the same types of environments
4. will get extinct if the environment changes
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Over time, all the following characters in the lineage of horse have shown an increasing trend except:
1. digit number
2. body size
3. tooth length
4. tooth size
 
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Consider the given two statements:
Assertion: The presence of gill slits and a tail in the early stages of development of an embryo indicates that it can develop only as a fish.
Reason: Embryos pass through the adult stages of other animals.
 
1. Both Assertion and Reason are true but the Reason does not correctly explain the Assertion.
2. Both Assertion and Reason are true and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
3. Assertion is false and Reason is also false.
4. Assertion is true but Reason is false.
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