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Session 2

EVOLUTION

Evolution:
Evolution is the gradual change occurring in living organisms over a long
duration
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Formation of new species due to changes in specific characters of several
generations of living organisms as a response to natural selection, is called as
evolution
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In due course of time, unicellular organism was formed
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All those changes were slow and gradual
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Changes and
development in living organisms had been all round and multi-dimensional and
this led to evolution of different types of organisms
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Progressive development of plants
and animals from the ancestors having different structural and functional
organization is called evolution
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Morphological Evidences :
Various similarities like structure of mouth, position of eyes, structure of nostrils
and ear pinnae and thickly distributed hairs on body are seen in animals
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occur in case of plants
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Similarly, use of each of those structures is different in respective animals
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This similarity indicates that those animals may have common ancestor
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There are total 6 evidences of
evolution
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Fill in the blanks:
a) The proof for the fact that protein synthesis occurs through _____ was given
by George Beadle and Edward Tatum
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Answer the following questions:
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