ZOO503 Past Papers by Amaan Khan

VU Medical Zone · Z00-503 All past papers · Objective

1. The investigation of thermal maturation is now a routine petroleum exploration technique
2. The words science come From Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge”
3. Turbidity and light penetration are INVERSLY proportional to each other.
4. The fossil record is rarely complete
5. The Paleontology Word Originates from Greek “palaios-old”, “ontos-creature" “logos-study"
6. The Earth today can be divided into six main provinces.
7. Evolution takes place both within Species lineages at the time of speciation =(both)
8. Transformation of rocks leads to destroying the fossil
9. Identification of fossils species is done according to their, none of the given options.
10. Humans are more closely related to chimpanzees.
11. The principle of cross-cutting relationships: “If a body or discontinuity cuts across astratum, it must have formed after that stratum”.
12. Aristotle said that “All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal.”
13. Precise biotic and morphological changes along phylogenetic lineages. The Work of John Phillips.
14. Skeletons that are made from several parts may become disarticulated separated into components parts
15. Paleontologists should be careful when they attempt to reconstruct a whole plant or animal, and try to understand its biomechanics, when they have just a few bones or bits of twigs
16. Charles Lyell was an antiprogressionist
17. Charles Darwin “imperfection of the geological record”
18. “Noah’s arks”. Example of The transit of India from Gondwana to Asia
19. Important factor in driving evolutionary change Climate.
20. Each population, or set of populations, would start out with a different gene pool.
21. Right order of The -Conenoses is biocoenosis, > thanetocoenosisv> Taphocoenosis.
22. Cuvier is father of comparative anatomy.
23. Best amount of fossils that are present at sediment water interface. both (Infaunal organisms

Epifaunal organisms)

24. Soil rich in calcium carbonate) and evaporates dry, arid climate
25. A succession of contiguous formations with common characteristics is called a group
26. Incomplete remains of Neandertal man in 1856.
27. Condition that are necessary for survival of hard part in the sediments. Chemical condition.
28. Fossils Form can tell us about (All of these).
29. Paleontology lies on the border between Biology and Geology.
30. Wing of bird related to term ANALOGY.
31. The remains of the activity of ancient organisms, such as burrows and tracks. Trace fossils.
32. Shelled organism lived in fresh water have high calcification than marine water.
33. Human baby tail and excessive hairs related to term atvasims.
34. Population growth and resources availability are inversely to each other
35. Life on earth is 4 billion years.
36. The Spirallians are morphologically diversed clade of protostome animals including all of the following except……..Cnidarians
37. life was mainly affected by …..…..predation
38. Amphibians and reptiles evolved in …..Triassic
39. Lucy fossil old myb…. 3.2 million years
40. Reptilian ancestors of mammals had… synapsid skull
41. The most advance mollusks are…………..Cephalopods
42. Amniotes radiated in…………………..Late carboniferous
43. In early corocodilian were most diverse………………..Jurassic and Cretaceous
44. Crocodile radiate in…..jurassic
45. First fossil evidence of bipedalism…………. Australopithecus afarensis
46. Crocodile more diverse… Jurassic and cretaceous
47. Oldest known bird found in……….Upper Jurassic sediments
48. The oldest human was found is approximately lived _____ago………….6Mya
49. German paleontologist ------------------ established a classification of trace fossil based on behavior ………..Adolf Seilacher
50. ………..are the observation of the appearance and disappearance of species……..Patterns
51. Which Scientist translated Cuvier’s idea into English in 1813………….Robert Jameson
52. ………..argues that all areas connected by one of these tracks had originally formed a single, continuous are that was inhabited by group concerned ………Panbiogeography
53. Briggs used pathogen of endamicity of coastal faunas to identify location where there appears to be a zone of unusually rapid faunal change and then used this to distinguish -----------------

zoogeographical regions

54. Brigg distinguish _______ zoogeographical regions……….23
55. The sum of all niche requirements under ideal conditions when the species is given unimpeded access to resources is called…………..Fundamental Niche
56. ____noted that the range boundaries of Amazonia birds seemed to coincide with the patterns of river……………Alfred Wallace
57. Geological study of New Caledonia show that the Island was submerged for long period in the Paleocene………..Eocene so that Island was not available for colonization until about………37 mya
58. The ancestors of mammoths and modern Asian elephant probably evolved in………Africa
59. During the early Devonian 380mya the fossil record suggest that all the early amphibians and reptile groups evolved in the continents called……..Euramerica
60. All of the following part of Gondwana Except………..North America
61. Many studies have demonstrated that the richness of the species particularly plant increases with --- ---Altitude
62. Evolution a process by which new species are generated it essentially involve………Genetic

Variation and Subsequent selection

63. The trade winds found in the both northern and southern hemisphere meet in the region of equators this is known as…………..Intertropical Convergence zone (ITCZ)
64. ______ is a term sometimes used to describe waves of biological invasions that has occurred in the wake of human invasions by either accidental, transport or deliberate introduction

………….Ecological Imperialism

65. When two species are attempting to tap a resource in the same way and when that resource in short supply the two are said to be in………….Competition
66. The theory of Island biogeography published in………..1967
67. All of the following are included in ecological biogeography except………Altitude
68. In terms of diversification of life during the early Cambrian _____ was an important part of an ecosystem………Predation
69. The focus of human evolution was in……….Africa
70. The reptile ancestors of the mammals are……..Synapsid
71. Chondricthyans is fish……………Cartilaginous
72. ______is a term sometimes used to describe the wave of biological invasion that has occurred……..Ecological imperialism
73. Biogeography is an integrative field of inquiry that unites concept and information from solving branches of science except………..Any option except these (Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Geology, Physical Geography).
74. Biology of ocean……marine biology
75. ______in on origin of species where devoted to geographical distributions……….Two

Chapters

76. The oldest substantial skeleton of praeanthropus afarensis lived approximately ----------- ago……….3.2 Mya
77. Early vertebrate skeletion………… cartilage
78. Certain species play key roles in the ecosystem, and when they are lost there is a sudden drop in the capacity of the ecosystem to function…..Rivert hypthosis
79. Paleontology Originate from Greek word “Ontos” which means……Creature
80. Today Extenction….. 6th
81. Archaeopetyx is true missing link between…….Dinosaurs and Birds
82. Trilobites dominated assemblages in England and Wales area were described by…….William Smith
83. Fossils in Fold belts are, except……….In Excellent Shape
84. Where an organism live matters in which of the filters is preservation of the complete fossil record…………Ecological Filters
85. In Climate change in life history of earth has oscillated at least ----------- between icehouse and greenhouse conditions……..5 times
86. Scala Naturae is ------------The Ladder of life
87. When local ecological conditions affect the form of an organism during its life time and consequently fossil is called ………..Ecophenotypic Effects
88. Rohde and Muller (2005) argued that there is____ periodicity in mass extinctions …….62 myr
89. Modification of the Oparin_____Haldane biochemical model is……Hydrothermal Model
90. ___Biomarker indicates that eukaryotes were present around at least 2.7 Ga Lipid
91. Chromistans Includes all of the following, except……..Protozoa
92. The Parazoan body plan is seen in……….Sponges
93. Fossils Lagerstattan are assemblages of……….inadequate Preserved soft bodied
94. The Spirallians are morphologically diversed clade of protostome animals including all of the following except……Cinideria
95. The most advanced mollusks are ………..Cephalopods
96. The “Belly footed” Mollusks are………Gastropods
97. The acme of the group Gastropoda with the radiation of the siphonal carnivorous neogastropods was in …….Cenozoic
98. Chelicerates are diversed and heterogeneous which includes….All of the above (Mites, Scorpions,

Spiders)

99. Trilobites dominated assemblages in England and Wales area were described by William Smith