This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 10 > Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity And Evolution – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 Science Chapter 9 Heredity And Evolution Quiz 13 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is the connecting link between Annelida and Arthropoda? A) Reptiles. B) Birds. C) Peripatus. D) Dinosaurs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peripatus. 2. "Survival of the Fittest" describes which theory A) Natural selection. B) Gravity. C) Heredity. D) String theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural selection. 3. The preserved fossil of Archeopteryx show that: A) It was a bird. B) It was a flying reptile. C) Birds have evolved from reptiles. D) Reptiles have evolved from birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birds have evolved from reptiles. 4. Connecting links suggests that amphibians are evolved from A) Mammals. B) Reptiles. C) Fishes. D) Aves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fishes. 5. When the fossil of the organism is found in the upper surfaces of earth it implies that: A) The extinction of organism has occurred thousands of years ago. B) The extinction of organism has occurred recently. C) The presence of fossils in the layers of earth is not related to earth. D) The time of extinction can not be determined. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The extinction of organism has occurred recently. 6. Who among the following first coined the term "Genetics" ? A) Wilhelm Johannsen. B) Gregor Mendel. C) William Bateson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Bateson. 7. During Mendel experiment traits from which parent were expressed? A) Half traits of both the parents. B) Only one of the parental traits. C) All traits from both the parents. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Only one of the parental traits. 8. Which of the following is an example of genetic variation? A) One person has a scar but his friend doesn't. B) One person is older than the other. C) Reeta eats meat but her sister Geeta is a vegetarian. D) Two children from same parent have different eye color. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two children from same parent have different eye color. 9. Where was the first member of the human race Homo sapiens discovered? A) America. B) Africa. C) Asia. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Africa. 10. ..... brings the coded message from the DNA A) MRNA. B) TRNA. C) RRNA. D) Ribosomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MRNA. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. 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 flatter beaks. B) Birds that have longer beaks. C) Birds that have wider beaks. D) Birds that have brighter beaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birds that have longer beaks. 15. Which of these did you inherit from you parents? A) Your ability to read. B) Your natural hair color. C) The language you speak. D) Whether you have a suntan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Your natural hair color. 16. The tail bone, wisdom teeth, and appendix are all parts of the human anatomy that would be considered ..... A) Homologous structures. B) Vestigial structures. C) Fossils. D) Extinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vestigial structures. 17. 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) 2-1-3-4. C) 1-4-3-2. D) 1-3-2-4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1-2-3-4. 18. 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. 19. Has 2 different alleles is ..... A) Genotype. B) Phenotype. C) Homozygous. D) Heterozygous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heterozygous. 20. Homologous organ have A) Same structure, same function. B) Different structure, different function. C) Same structure, different function. D) Different structure, same function. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Same structure, different function. 21. Mendelian monohybrid phenotypic ratio is: A) 1:3. B) 3:1. C) 9:3:3:1. D) 3:3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3:1. 22. If a population becomes isolated from other populations of the same species and then genetic differences start to occur, what happens? A) Competition. B) Extinction. C) Speciation. D) Fossils form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speciation. 23. 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. 24. About 10 thousand years ago ..... started a practices of agriculture. A) Gorilla. B) Wise man. C) Ramapethecus. D) Australopithecus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wise man. 25. 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. 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