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Darwin.s contemporary .--... was studying population diversity in the erstwhile East Indies.

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Darwin.s contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace was studying population diversity in the erstwhile East Indies.
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  1. Which is not a great ape?

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  2. What is the correct sequence of human evolution?

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  3. (p + q)^(2) = p^(2) + 2pq + q^(2) = 1 , represents an equation used i...

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  4. Which of the follwing is the most primitive horse ?

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  5. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck wrote a book, entitled ....... which embodied...

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  6. Charles Robert Darwin went on a voyage on board the ship ....... .

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  7. Charles Darwin was inspired by the population theory proposed by ........

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  8. Darwin.s contemporary .--... was studying population diversity in the ...

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  9. Mutation theory was proposed by:

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  10. August Weismann's ............ theory gave a thunder blow to Lamarckis...

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  11. Charles Darwin studied the diversity of a class of birds, commonly kno...

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  12. The original title of Darwin's book was ............. .

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  13. Natural selection in action was demonstrated by ........ Moth.

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  14. The effect of ....... is larger in small populations and smaller in la...

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  15. Genetic recombination occurs in cell division. Name the cell division.

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  16. Hugo de vries proposed mutation theory of evolution working on .

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  17. Breakage, exchange and rejoining of homologous chromosomal segments.

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  18. A single nucleotide substitution in the nucleotide sequence of a gene.

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  19. The collection of all genes of a population of species.

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  20. A sudden change in the genetic make up that ends up in a new expressio...

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