Evolution is a Class 12 Biology chapter that carries about 2.8% of the Biology questions in NEET. Practise it with 50 questions covering 5 topics, each with an explanation.
Sets of 15 questions that adapt to your level, with an explanation for every answer.
Across the 13 previous year papers, Evolution had 35 questions, about 2.7 a year. The most in one paper was 4, in NEET 2019.
| Paper | Questions from this chapter |
|---|---|
| NEET 2026 | 4 |
| NEET 2025 | 2 |
| NEET 2024 | 4 |
| NEET 2023 | 1 |
| NEET 2022 | 2 |
| NEET 2021 | 2 |
| NEET 2020 | 4 |
| NEET 2019 | 4 |
| NEET 2018 | 3 |
| NEET 2017 | 1 |
| NEET 2016 | 3 |
| Re-AIPMT 2015 | 2 |
| AIPMT 2014 | 3 |
8 questions from the practice bank, spread across the chapter's topics. The full set is in the app.
The forelimbs of humans, whales, and bats, though used for different functions, share a similar basic structure. This is an example of:
Answer: B. homologous organs
Why: Homologous organs have the same basic structure and common evolutionary origin but may perform different functions, indicating divergent evolution from a common ancestor.
The potato and the sweet potato, which show different structures with the same function (storage), are examples of:
Answer: C. analogous structures, with the stem tuber and root tuber respectively
Why: The potato is a stem modification, and the sweet potato is a root.
Darwin's finches in the Galápagos Islands, with beaks adapted to different foods, are an example of:
Answer: B. adaptive radiation
Why: A single ancestral stock gave rise to many species adapted to different niches.
The first vertebrates to move to land, which evolved from the fish-like ancestors with fleshy fins, were the:
Answer: C. amphibians
Why: The coelacanth was once thought to be extinct.
The increase in the proportion of dark-coloured peppered moths in industrial England is an example of:
Answer: B. natural selection
Why: Dark moths were better camouflaged on soot-covered trees and so escaped predators.
The Hardy-Weinberg principle states that allele frequencies in a population remain constant across generations:
Answer: B. only in the absence of evolutionary influences like mutation, selection and migration
Why: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium holds only when no mutation, selection, migration, genetic drift, or non-random mating is acting on the population.
Alfred Wallace independently came to a conclusion similar to Darwin's after working in:
Answer: D. the Malay Archipelago
Why: They presented their ideas jointly in 1858.
In the Miller–Urey experiment, the gases used in the flask were:
Answer: C. methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapour at 800 °C with electric discharge
Why: The product included amino acids.
Evolution carries about 2.8% of the Biology questions in NEET. Across the 13 previous year papers on NeetVictory it appeared 35 times, about 2.7 questions a year.
Evolution is a Class 12 Biology chapter in the NCERT syllabus.
NeetVictory has 50 practice questions on Evolution, each with an explanation, in sets of 15 that adapt to your level. This page shows a free sample.
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