Question

Match the correct set.
Column I Column II
1. Old world monkeys A. Tree shrews, the ancestors of primates
2. New world monkeys B. Wide nostrils and prehensile tail
3. Prosimians C. Narrow nostrils and non-prehensile tail
4. Simians D. Monkeys and apes

• A. A- 2, B- 3, C- 1, D- 4
• B. A- 3, B- 2, C- 1, D- 4
• C. A- 2, B- 1, C- 3, D- 4
• D. A- 1, B- 3, C- 2, D- 4

Answer 1

The correct option is B A- 3, B- 2, C- 1, D- 4

Old World monkeys are medium to large in size and range from arboreal forms, such as the colobus monkeys, to fully terrestrial forms, such as the baboons. The smallest is the talapoin, with a head and body 3437 cm in length and weighing between 0.7 and 1.3 kilograms, while the largest is the male mandrill at around 70 cm in length and weighing up to 50 kilograms. They have narrow nostrils and non prehensile tail. The noses of New World monkeys are flatter than the narrow noses of the Old World monkeys, and have side-facing nostrils. New World monkeys are the only monkeys with prehensile tails in comparison with the shorter, non-grasping tails of the anthropoids of the Old World. They have wide nostrils. Prosimians are a type of primate that includes all living and extinct strepsirrhines (lemurs, lorisoids, and adapiforms) as well as the Haplorhine tarsiers and their extinct relatives, the omomyiforms. They are considered to have characteristics that are more "primitive" (ancestral or plesiomorphic) than those of simians. They are tree shrews, the ancestors of primates. The simians (infraorder Simiiformes, Anthropoidea) are the "higher primates" familiar to most people, the Old World monkeys and apes, including humans, (together being the catarrhines), and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines.

Therefore, the correct answer is option B.