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done Lamarckism Total Questions - 16

• question_answer1)
  Germplasm theory against Lamarck's principle, was given by                      [BHU 1982; EAMCET 1998; MP PMT 1994, 96;           Manipal 2005]
  A)
             Weismann                                 done clear
  B)
             Darwin done clear
  C)
             Lamarck                                    done clear
  D)
             Hugo de Vries done clear
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• question_answer2)
  Author of "Philosophique Zoologique'' is                                                          [BHU 1982; JIPMER 1993; MP PMT 2001]
  A)
             Mendel                                      done clear
  B)
             Darwin and Wallace done clear
  C)
             Lamarck                                    done clear
  D)
             Darwin done clear
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• question_answer3)
  The scientists regarded as Neo?Lamarckist are        [AIIMS 1993]
  A)
             August Weismann and T.H. Morgan done clear
  B)
             Hardy Weinberg done clear
  C)
             Correns, Tshermak and Hugo de Vries done clear
  D)
             Kammerer and Mc Dougall done clear
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• question_answer4)
  When an organ is used it will develop and if it is not used, it weakens to become vestigial. Who could have said their theory  [BHU 1986; CPMT 1983; DPMT 1993; AFMC 2001; MP PMT 2003]
  A)
             Darwin                                      done clear
  B)
             de Vries done clear
  C)
             Lamarck done clear
  D)
             Mendel done clear
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• question_answer5)
  Lamarck's acquired characters are not inherited and have no evolutionary value. This  statement was given by
  A)
             Hugo de Vries                          done clear
  B)
             Charles Darwin done clear
  C)
             Weismann                                 done clear
  D)
             T.H. Morgan done clear
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• question_answer6)
  Persons who do hard manual work with their hands, are likely to develop                                  [DPMT 1986]
  A)
             Thick subcutaneous fat in their palms done clear
  B)
             Thick epidermis on their palms done clear
  C)
             Greater number of sweat pores in their hands done clear
  D)
             Greater quantity of melanin all over the body done clear
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• question_answer7)
  Key point to Lamarck's view about organic evolution is that every offspring [CPMT 1981, 83, 84]
  A)
             Is similar to its parents done clear
  B)
             Inherits characters acquired by the parental generation done clear
  C)
             Shows struggle for existence done clear
  D)
             Repeats phylogeny in its ontogeny done clear
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• question_answer8)
  A scientist kept 72 generations of Drosophila in darkness. Even after that the first flies had normal eyes. This disapproves the theory of                                                                      [DPMT 1985, 86]
  A)
             Natural selection                      done clear
  B)
             Acquired characters done clear
  C)
             Use and disuse                         done clear
  D)
             Synthetic theory done clear
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• question_answer9)
  Most popular example of Lamarck is
  A)
             African Giraffe                           done clear
  B)
             Snakes done clear
  C)
             Both (a) and (b)                       done clear
  D)
             Primose done clear
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• question_answer10)
  A scientist who worked on rats cut their tails upto 21 successive generations but at last he found that tail remained normal. By this experiment theory of which scientist is disapproved                                                             [CPMT 1995]
  A)
             Darwin                                      done clear
  B)
             Lamarck done clear
  C)
             Hugo de Vries                          done clear
  D)
             Mendal done clear
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• question_answer11)
  Weismann's experiment discarded the views of          [CPMT 1995]
  A)
             Lamarck                                    done clear
  B)
             Darwin done clear
  C)
             Khurana                                    done clear
  D)
             Haeckel done clear
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• question_answer12)
  Select the mismatched pair                                             [AMU  2005]
  A)
                Lamarck            ?        Species are not immutable done clear
  B)
                     Allopatric           ?        Separate by space done clear
  C)
                     Darwin finches ?        Like Galapagos done clear
  D)
                     Hugo de vries   ?        Evolution is discontinuous done clear
  E)
  (e)              Coacervates      ?        Group of organic compound that surrounded by a membrane. done clear
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• question_answer13)
  The idea of use and disuse of organs was given by                               [AFMC 2001; BVP 2004]
  A)
             Darwin                                      done clear
  B)
             Lamarck done clear
  C)
             Hugo de Vries                          done clear
  D)
             Morgan done clear
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• question_answer14)
  Lamarckian theory deals with                                                                              [MP PMT 1997; Orissa JEE 2005]
  A)
             Acquired characters                 done clear
  B)
             Germplasm done clear
  C)
             Struggle for existence               done clear
  D)
             Mutation done clear
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• question_answer15)
  Theory of inheritance of acquired characters was putforth by                              [AFMC 1997; KCET 1998; MP PMT 1995, 2001; CPMT 2000; KCET 1999]
  A)
             Lamarck                                    done clear
  B)
             Weismann done clear
  C)
             Galton                                       done clear
  D)
             de Vries done clear
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• question_answer16)
  Lamarck's theory of evolution is also called
  A)
             Theory of special creation       done clear
  B)
             Inheritance of acquired characters done clear
  C)
             Survival of the fittest done clear
  D)
             None of these done clear
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