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According to the hypothesis of endosymbiosis, which of the following eukaryotic organelle/s was/were produced by mutual invasion of prokaryotic cells?
a) Golgi bodies    
b) mitochondria
c) chloroplast                       
d) both b and c

d

According to endosymbiosis model, ancestral …….were small heterotrophs capable of using oxygen to perform cellular respiration?
a) Golgi bodies    
b) mitochondria
c) chloroplasts                     
d) both b and c

b

Explanation: and thereby create useful energy


According to endosymbiosis model, ancestral ……., which are thought to be small photosynthetic cynobacteria?
a) Golgi bodies    
b) mitochondria
c) chloroplasts    
d) both b and c

c

Lamarckism:


The earliest theory of organic evolution was put forwarded by……..
a) Charles Darwin               
b) George Cuvier
c) Jean B. de Lamarck     
d) Aristotle

c

Explanation: he was first French soldier, then botanist and finally a zoologist


Lamarck gave explanation of evolution based on the ………
a) natural selection             
b) special creation
c) inheritance of acquired character
d) genes and environment

c

Explanation: i.e. use and disuse of an organ


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