Heredity And Evolution

Que 1. In a quarry of sandstone, α digger found some bones below the rocks. He took them out and was about to throw them away when his fellow digger told him that this could be a fossil and they should hand it over to the museum.

Answer the following questions based on the above situation: 

(i) Which values are promoted by the fellow digger? 

(ii) What contributions are the diggers making to the scientific world? 

(iii) Imagine yourself to be the person in the museum whom the diggers approach. What would be your response to the diggers' discovery?

Ans. (i) Rational thinking, awareness, preservation of heritage. 

(ii) They provided a link which can help scientists to study the process of evolution and know more about the world in which humans did not exist. 

(iii) I would take the bones samples and send them for carbon dating to find which period they belong to.