NEET BIOLOGY

GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

EVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did Peter and Rosemary Grant study?
A
The evolution of Darwin’s finches
B
studied animal behaviors in Chimpanzees
C
observed that a mold called Penicillium killed germs
D
discovered how oxygen molecules attach to the iron atoms of hemoglobin
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Peter and Rosemary Grant have seen evolution happen over the course of just two years. The Grants study the evolution of Darwin’s finches on the Galapagos Islands. The birds have been named for Darwin, in part, because he later theorized that the 13 distinct species were all descendants of a common ancestor.

Detailed explanation-2: -Peter and Rosemary Grant are distinguished for their remarkable long-term studies demonstrating evolution in action in Galápagos finches. They have demonstrated how very rapid changes in body and beak size in response to changes in the food supply are driven by natural selection.

Detailed explanation-3: -Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists at Princeton University in New Jersey, have spent nearly four decades watching finches on Daphne Major, in the Galapagos archipelago where Darwin, too, studied finches. The birds later figured prominently in his discussions of variation and natural selection.

Detailed explanation-4: -Husband and wife researchers Peter and Rosemary Grant have studied Darwin’s finches on the Galapagos Islands for 35 years. In 1981, they noticed a particular finch fly to the island of Daphne Major.

Detailed explanation-5: -Peter and Rosemary Grant are distinguished for their remarkable long-term studies demonstrating evolution in action in Galápagos finches. They have demonstrated how very rapid changes in body and beak size in response to changes in the food supply are driven by natural selection.

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