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Which of the following statements are incorrect?
I. Microbial experiment shows that when the pre-existing advantagoeus mutations are selected they will result in the observation of new phenotypes. Over few generations, this would results in speciation

II. Neanderthal fossils represents a human relative.

III. In 1938, a fish caught in South Africa happened to be a coelacanth (lobe fins) which was thought to be extinct. These animals evolved into the first living amphibian on both land and water

IV. Lichens can be used as water pollution indicators

V. Alfred Wallace, a naturalist, who worked in Malay Archepalago (present Indonesi(a) had also came to the similar conclusion on natural selection as reached by Darwinism

The correct option is

  1. I and II  
  2. Only II  
  3. V and IV  
  4. Only IV  

The correct answer is: Only IV


    Lichens are the indicator of air pollution not of water

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