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The basic idea of Lamarckism is the inheritance of acquired characters, which is wrong in terms of principles of…….
a) physiology                       
b) anatomy
c) genetics                            
d) embryology

c

Darwinism:


Who is regarded as the pioneer of evolutionary idea for his theory of “Origin of spececies by natural selection”?
a) Charles Darwin             
b) George Cuvier
c) Lamarck                          
d) Aristotle

a

Explanation: this theory was published in the book “ Origin of species”


Charles Darwin was a/an ……naturalist.
a) African                             
b) European
c) English                            
d) French

c

Darwin started the voyage believing in the…….
a) fixity of species              
b) special creation
c) natural selection             
d) both a and b

d

Darwin was surprised to the diversity of ………in Galapagos Islands, west of Ecuador.
a) finches                             
b) giant tortoise
c) humans                            
d) both a and b

d

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