Quiz  /  NEET MCQ on Lamarckism

  • 1. 
    This is an example of industrial melanism is

  • Mutation
  • Neo Darwinism
  • Neo Lamarckism
  • Natural selection

  • 2. 
    Most likely, people who perform tough manual work can develop

  • thick epidermis on their palms
  • thick subcutaneous fat in their palms
  • greater quantity of melanin all over the body
  • greater number of sweat pores in their hands

  • 3. 
    In Lamarck’s view, the key of organic evolution is that each progeny

  • shows struggle for existence
  • characters acquired by parental generation are inherited
  • is similar to its parents
  • phylogeny is repeated in its ontogeny

  • 4. 
    72 generations of Drosophila were kept in darkness by a scientist Despite that, the first flies possessed eyes that were normal This disapproves the theory of

  • Acquired characters
  • Synthetic theory
  • Natural selection
  • use and disuse

  • 5. 
    This is a most popular example of Lamarck

  • Primrose
  • Snakes
  • African Giraffe
  • Both and

  • 6. 
    The idea of use and disuse of organs was given by

  • Lamarck
  • Morgan
  • Darwin
  • Hugo de Vries

  • 7. 
    Acquired characteristics of Lamarck are not inherited and have an evolutionary value Who gave this statement?

  • Weismann
  • Hugo de Vries
  • TH Morgan
  • Charles Darwin

  • 8. 
    Who stated this theory – organ in use will develop and if not used will weaken to turn vestigial

  • Mendel
  • De Vries
  • Darwin
  • Lamarck

  • 9. 
    Scientists regarded as Neo Lamarckists are

  • Correns, Hugo de Vries and Tschermak
  • August Weismann and T.H Morgan
  • Hardy Weinberg
  • Kammerer and Mc Dougall

  • 10. 
    Germplasm theory against Lamarck’s principle was put forward by

  • Darwin
  • Lamarck
  • Weismann
  • Hugo de Vries
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