Both plants and animals of many sorts show remarkable changes in form…
NIFT 2019 · English Language and Comprehension · 5 questions
Both plants and animals of many sorts show remarkable changes in form, structure, growth habits and even mode of reproduction, in becoming adapted to different climatic environment, types of food supply or mode of living. This divergence in response to evolution is commonly expressed by altering form and function of some part or parts of the organism, the original identity of which is clearly discernible, e.g., the creeping foot of the snail is seen in related marine pteropods to be modified into flapping organ useful for swimming and is changed into prehensile arms that bear suctorial disks in the squids and other cephalopods. The limbs of various mammals are modified according to several different modes of life - for swift running (cursorial) as in the horse and antelope, for swinging in trees (arboreal) as in the monkeys, for digging (fossorial) as in the moles and gophers, for flying (volant) as in the bats, for swimming (aquatic) as in the seals, whales and dolphins and for other adaptations. The structures or organs that show main change in connection with this adaptive divergence are commonly identified readily as homologous, in spite of great alterations. Thus, the finger and wrist bones of a bat and whale, for instance, have virtually nothing in common except that they are definitely equivalent element of the mammalian limb.
Question 1
Which is the most appropriate title for the passage, based on its content?
The author provides information that would answer which of the following questions?
(i) What factors cause change in organism?
(ii) What is the theory of evolution?
(iii) Could structurally different organs be similar in evolution?
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