Kerala PSC Zoology Lecturer / Assistant Professor Recruitment Exam 2014
Question Paper (Q. Code 56/2014)
Original solved question paper of Kerala PSC Zoology Lecturer/Assistant Professor examination conducted by Kerala PSC (Kerala Public Service Commission) on 29/04/2014 (Question Paper Code 56/2014) for the appointment of Zoology Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Government Colleges of Kerala under the Directorate of Collegiate Education, Trivandrum, Kerala. Questions are in MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) format.
Part – 1 of 5 (Questions 1 – 20)
1. The naturalist who independently conceived the idea of Natural Selection along with Darwin:
a. Alfred Russell Wallace
b. Charles Lyell
c. Joseph Hooker
d. John Henslow
Ans. (a)
2. The theory proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge to explain Evolution:
a. Theory of Genetic drift
b. Theory of punctured equilibrium
c. Theory of genetic equilibrium
d. Theory of Orthogenesis
Ans. (b)
3. A system of classification based on the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of groups of organisms:
a. Phenetics
b. Phyletics
c. Cladistics
d. Phylogenetics
Ans. (c)
4. Eight kingdom classification was proposed by:
a. R.H. Whittaker
b. Carl Woese
c. Carlous Linnaeus
d. Cavalier Smith
Ans. (d)
5. Protein that was used to create the first phylogenetic tree based on molecular data:
a. Cytochrome A
b. Cytochrome B
c. Cytochrome C
d. Cytochrome D
Ans. (c)