This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 10 > Science > Heredity And Evolution > Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity And Evolution – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity And Evolution Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... brings the coded message from the DNA A) RRNA. B) TRNA. C) Ribosomes. D) MRNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) MRNA. 2. All males have the genotype XY and all females have genotypes XX. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Mendel experiment with tall and staff pea plant showed that the traits may be A) Colourless. B) Dominant. C) Recessive. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both B and C. 4. Which of the following affects the process of speciation? A) Natural selection. B) Genetic drift. C) Geographical isolation. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 5. According to the concept of "survival of the fittest, " if a population of birds eats worms that they find deep under ground by using their beaks, which members of the bird population would be more fit? A) Birds that have brighter beaks. B) Birds that have flatter beaks. C) Birds that have wider beaks. D) Birds that have longer beaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birds that have longer beaks. 6. Which of these did you inherit from you parents? A) Your natural hair color. B) Your ability to read. C) Whether you have a suntan. D) The language you speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Your natural hair color. 7. The tail bone, wisdom teeth, and appendix are all parts of the human anatomy that would be considered ..... A) Fossils. B) Homologous structures. C) Vestigial structures. D) Extinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vestigial structures. 8. Arrange the following events in chronological order and choose the correct option1)last dinosaurs disappeared2)monkey like animals similar to modern lemurs evolved 3)ape like animals evolved into gibbon and orangutan 4)gorilla and chimpanzees evolved A) 1-2-3-4. B) 1-4-3-2. C) 2-1-3-4. D) 1-3-2-4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1-2-3-4. 9. Each organism has 2 alleles for a particular trait. Where do these two alleles come from? A) One from each parent. B) Both from one parent. C) Alleles do not come from parents. D) The kidney. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One from each parent. 10. Has 2 different alleles is ..... A) Phenotype. B) Heterozygous. C) Genotype. D) Homozygous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heterozygous. 11. Homologous organ have A) Same structure, different function. B) Different structure, different function. C) Same structure, same function. D) Different structure, same function. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Same structure, different function. 12. Mendelian monohybrid phenotypic ratio is: A) 3:1. B) 1:3. C) 3:3. D) 9:3:3:1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3:1. 13. If a population becomes isolated from other populations of the same species and then genetic differences start to occur, what happens? A) Fossils form. B) Speciation. C) Extinction. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speciation. 14. Pure breeding pea plants with green pods are crossed with pure breeding pea plants with yellow pods. All the F1 generation plants have green pods. Plants from the F1 generation are allowed to be interbred. What colour of pods will be observed in F2 generation plants? A) All green. B) All yellow. C) 1 green:1 yellow. D) 3 green:1 yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3 green:1 yellow. 15. About 10 thousand years ago ..... started a practices of agriculture. A) Ramapethecus. B) Australopithecus. C) Gorilla. D) Wise man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wise man. 16. Assertion (A):Mendel selected the pea plant for his experiments.Reason (R):Pea plant is cross-pollinating and has unisexual flowers. A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A. C) A is true but R is false. D) A is false but R is true. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. 17. Who observed variations in the characteristics of plants and animals on the Galapagos? A) Malthus. B) Darwin. C) Hutton. D) Lyell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darwin. 18. The term for the formation of new and distinct species over the course of evolution is ..... A) Biological species concept. B) Speciation. C) Reproductive barrier. D) Natural selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speciation. 19. Two parents have type O blood. What will the blood type of their children be? A) O. B) They can have all four types of blood. C) Either A or O. D) AB. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) O. 20. A diagram used to predict the outcomes of a genetic cross: A) Karyotype. B) Venn diagram. C) Pedigree. D) Punnett Square. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Punnett Square. 21. The wings of housefly and the wings of bat are example of A) Vestigial organs. B) Waste organ. C) Homologous organs. D) Analogous organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogous organs. 22. Codons are made of how many amino acids? A) 28. B) 20. C) 15. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 20. 23. The phenomenon that studies how new species are formed is known as A) Gene flow. B) Genetic drift. C) Speciation. D) Founder effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speciation. 24. Assertion (A):A geneticist crossed two pea plants and got 50% tall and 50% dwarf in the progeny.Reason (R):One plant was heterozygous tall and the other was dwarf. A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A. C) A is true but R is false. D) A is false but R is true. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. 25. How many pairs of non-sex chromosomes are there in humans? A) 44 pairs. B) 1 pair. C) 23 pairs. D) 22 pairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 22 pairs. 26. A fossil of an extinct dinosaur is found and the anatomy of the fossil shows similarities to that of a bird. What could this mean? A) This is purely by chance and isn't significant. B) The extinct dinosaur and modern bird share a common ancestor. C) All dinosaurs evolved into birds and that's why there aren't any dinosaurs alive today. D) Dinosaurs choose to fly, and evolved into birds to escape predation and capture food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The extinct dinosaur and modern bird share a common ancestor. 27. An organism's physical appearance of visible traits is a ..... A) Heterozygous. B) Genotype. C) Homozygous. D) Phenotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phenotype. 28. The concept of use or disuse of organs was given by A) Darwin. B) Lamarck. C) Jacob and monad. D) Hugo de Vries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lamarck. 29. Carbon dating is a method used in which process? A) Paleontological evidence. B) Anatomical evidences. C) Vestigial organs. D) Embryology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paleontological evidence. 30. The genetic code can help you translate mRNA into ..... ? A) Fatty acids. B) Nucleotides. C) Glucose. D) Amino acids. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amino acids. 31. In which of the following organisms sex is determined by the temperature at which fertilized eggs are kept? A) Reptiles. B) Humans. C) Birds. D) Amphibians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reptiles. 32. A new form of plant resulting from a cross (or breeding) of different varieties of a plant is known as A) Hybrid. B) Monohybrid. C) Gametes. D) Transmission. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hybrid. 33. The appendix is useful in ruminants in digestion of which of this compounds? A) Fats. B) Cellulose. C) Glycogen. D) Proteins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cellulose. 34. A cross in which two contrasting characters are studied is called ..... A) Two hybrid cross. B) Monohybrid cross. C) Dihybrid cross. D) Bihybrid cross. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dihybrid cross. 35. Colour blindness is a recessive X-linked disorder in which human beings are unable to distinguish red and green colours.Akshay is colour blind. What is the chance of his son inheriting colour blindness from him? A) 0.5. B) 0. C) 1. D) Can not be determined. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0. 36. The transfer of various characters from parent to child is called ..... A) Heredity. B) Trait. C) Evolution. D) Variations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heredity. 37. Which of the following statement is not true with respect to variation? A) All variations in the species have equal chance of survival. B) Change in genetic composition results in variation. C) Selection of variants by environmental factors forms the basis of evolutionary processes. D) Variation is minimum in asexual reproduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All variations in the species have equal chance of survival. 38. Dominant or recessive?tt A) Dominant. B) Recessive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recessive. 39. Human baby will be a female if its 23rd chromosome pair is A) XY. B) SHAH. C) YY. D) XX. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) XX. 40. . Which of these is a pair of an analogous organ? A) Wings of a pigeon and a bat. B) Forelimbs of a frog and a bird. C) Forelimbs of a rabbit and a lizard. D) Leaves of a pitcher plant and a Venus fly trap. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wings of a pigeon and a bat. 41. Heredity is defined as A) Branch of science deals with heredity and evolution. B) Different character appeared in offsprings. C) Transfer from character from one generation to another generation. D) Structure and functional unit of DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transfer from character from one generation to another generation. 42. What is the genotype of a pure tall plant? A) TT. B) Tt. C) Tt. D) Tall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TT. 43. A student wants to collect homologous organs for his project. Which of the following pair should he select for his project? A) Potato and sweet potato. B) Ginger and turmeric. C) Onion and ginger. D) Radish and ginger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ginger and turmeric. 44. If one strand of DNA has the sequence TTACCG, the sequence of the other strand of the same molecule will be A) TTACCG. B) Aatggc. C) Aatggg. D) ACGGC. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aatggc. 45. Populations of species which do not adapt to their environment can eventually become ..... A) Extinct. B) Stronger. C) Humans. D) Angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extinct. 46. Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring. A) Extinction. B) Artifical Selection. C) Evolution. D) Natural Selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural Selection. 47. DNA is found in the nucleus of the cell A) True. B) False. C) Sometimes true sometimes false. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 48. In a dihybrid cross, how many boxes does the punnet square need to have? A) 16. B) 8. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 16. 49. When Mendel crossed pure bred tall and short pea plants, in the F1 generation he obseved A) Only short plants. B) All tall plants. C) Intermediate heighted plants. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All tall plants. 50. What is the study of organisms at the early stages of development? A) DNA studies. B) Embryology. C) Extinction. D) Fossil record. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Embryology. 51. As per the message on mRNA, amino acids are supplied by tRNA this is called as ..... A) Translocation. B) Translation. C) Transcription. D) Transportation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Translation. 52. Who discovered the triplet codon for 20 amino acids. A) Dr. Har Govind Khurana. B) Albert Einstein. C) Marie Curie. D) Charles Darwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dr. Har Govind Khurana. 53. Evolution explains the origin of ..... A) Species. B) Genes. C) Life. D) Cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Species. 54. The emergence of new rivers or streams is a type of ..... isolation. A) Temporal. B) Behavioral. C) Geographic. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geographic. 55. The gradual change occurring in living organisms over a long duration is called as? A) Development. B) Expansion. C) Growth. D) Evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evolution. 56. Exchange of genetic material takes place in: A) Budding. B) Sexual reproduction. C) Asexual reproduction. D) Vegetative reproduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sexual reproduction. 57. Hugo de Vries introduced the concept of sudden change in genes known as A) Transcription. B) Evolution. C) Heredity. D) Mutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutation. 58. Dominant alleles are represented with a: A) Lower case letter. B) Shape. C) Symbol. D) Capital letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Capital letter. 59. The visible charactersstics in an organism are known as A) Genotype. B) Phenotype. C) Stereotype. D) Prototype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phenotype. 60. Evolution means that organisms changed "by chance" A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. 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