Assignment-1

Chapter: Heredity & Evolution

Topic: Evolution
Q1) Define the following. (1 mark each)
1) Fossils
2) Connecting links
3) Vestigial organs
4) Evolution

Q2) Answer the following questions (1 mark each)

1) What is speciation?
2) Define the vestigial organ shown in the following figure-

3) Define the evidence of evolution shown in the following figure-

4) Which genetic disorders are caused by mutation?

5) Which theory about origin and evolution of life has been accepted
today?
6) What do you mean by ‘ancestry of acquired characters’?
 7) Which development before the ape-like animals to stand in erect
posture?
8) Which ape is considered as the first record of Human like animals?

Q3) Give reasons ( 2 mark each)

1) Morphological evidences suggest that dog sheep and wolf have a common
origin
2) Duck-billed platypus is called as connecting link between mammals and
reptiles.
3) Some of the characters of parents are seen in their offspring.
4) Peripatus is said to be the connecting link between annelida and arthropoda.
5) Vertebrates have slowly originated from invertebrates.

Q4) Answer the following. (2 marks each)

1) Observe the following figure and explain the concept.

2) Complete the flowchart

3) Write the objections of Darwin’s Theory.
4) Why was Lamarck’s theory disapproved
5) What is meant by species and speciation?

6) Write the names of the Eras in the following figure.

Q5) Answer the following. (3 marks each)

1) Write a short note: Embryological evidences
2) Explain – Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection
3) Observe the given images and answer the following questions-

a. Which evolutionary evidence does it indicate?

b. What does it prove?
c. State another example of evolutionary evidence
4) Which evidence of evolution is shown in the given picture? Explain the
importance of this evidence.
 5) Observe the following images and answer the questions.

a. Which evolutionary evidences are indicated in the given picture?

b. How are they formed?
c. Which method is used to measure their age or their time?

6) What is carbon dating ?

7) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

( Cro-Magnon, brain, fire, agriculture, Homo sapiens, wise man )
Evolution of upright man continued in the direction of developing its ____ fir
period of about 1 lakh years and meanwhile it discovered the ____. Brain of a 50
thousand year old man had been sufficiently evolved to the extent that it could be
considered as a member of the class ______( Homo sapiens) . Neanderthal man
can be considered as the first example of______. The_____ man evolved about
50 thousand years ago and afterwards, this evolution had been faster than the
earlier. About 10 thousand years ago, wise-man started to practice_____ . It started
to rear the cattle-herds and established the cities. Cultural development took place