Home
Class 12
BIOLOGY
Half-life of carbon-14 is...

Half-life of carbon-14 is

A

530 years

B

5730 years

C

1.2 billions years

D

None of these

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The correct Answer is:
B
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION

    ARIHANT NEET|Exercise Chapter exercises (Taking it together) (Assorted question of the chapter for advanced Level Practice )|102 Videos

  • EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION

    ARIHANT NEET|Exercise Chapter exercises (Medical entrances special format questions )(Statement based questions)|17 Videos

  • EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION

    ARIHANT NEET|Exercise Check point 11.2|10 Videos

  • ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

    ARIHANT NEET|Exercise Chapter exercises ( C) Medical entrances gallery (Collection of Questions Asked in NEET & in Various Medical Entrance Exams)|97 Videos

  • EVOLUTION OF HUMAN

    ARIHANT NEET|Exercise CHAPTER EXERCISES (COLLECTION OF QUESTIONS ASKED IN NEET &VARIOUS MADICAL ENTRANCE EXAMS)|23 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

A bone containing 200 g carbon-14 has beta -decay rate of 375 decay/min. Calculate the time that has elapsed since the death of the living one. Given the rate of decay for the living organism is equal to 15 decay per min per gram of carbon and half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years.

The ratio of the abundance of carbon -14 to carbon -12 in a sample of dead wood is one quarter the ratio for living wood.If the half life of carbon -14 is 5730 years, which one of the following expressions determines how many years ago the wood died?

Assertion. Half-life of a reaction is independent of the initial concentration of the reactant. Reason. Half-life of a reaction is independent of the order of reaction.

The activity of carbon-14 in a piece of ancient wood is only 12.5 % . If the half life period of carbon-14 is 5760 years, the age of the piece of wood will be

Half-life of .^(14)C is :

ARIHANT NEET-EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION-Check point 11.3
  1. Which oif the following is a term used for study of fossils

    Text Solution

    |

  2. Who is known as the father of palaentology

    Text Solution

    |

  3. Indroda dinosaur and fossil park is situated at

    Text Solution

    |

  4. The inorganic origin fossils which shows close resemblance with the fo...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. Fossis are most likely to be found in

    Text Solution

    |

  6. Half-life of carbon-14 is

    Text Solution

    |

  7. The age of fossils or dating of fossils can be best estimated by

    Text Solution

    |

  8. An 80000 years old fossil was recovered from igneous rock, then which ...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. The correct order of the geologic eras , from mst anicent to most rece...

    Text Solution

    |

  10. Extreme specialisation and extinction of great reptilies occurred in t...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. The first flowering plants appeared in

    Text Solution

    |

  12. Which animal evolved maximally in Palaeiocene epoch

    Text Solution

    |

  13. Archaeozoic era is considered as the age of

    Text Solution

    |

  14. According to geological clock one second equals

    Text Solution

    |

  15. In carboniferous period , all continents existed in the form of a sing...

    Text Solution

    |

  16. Evidence form biochemistry and physiology can be seen form

    Text Solution

    |

  17. Which of the following types of blood group are found in apes

    Text Solution

    |

  18. A difference of how many amino acids is seen between haemoglobin of pi...

    Text Solution

    |

  19. Serological tests are done using

    Text Solution

    |

  20. The final evidance of organic evolution is drawn form

    Text Solution

    |