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# this is a comment is a Q&A file
.Terran Biology
#This first number is the number of questions:
40
#now are the questions
#1
M:2 3
<
What is the science of Biology?
>
1. the study of animals.
2. a challenge to understand life.
3. the study of evolution.
#2
M:4 4
<
How many cells make up the human body?
>
1. 100,000 ( 1x10e5 ).
2. 100,000,000 ( 1x10e8 ).
3. 100,000,000,000 ( 1x10e11 ).
4. 100,000,000,000,000 ( 1x10e14 ).
#3
M:1 3
<
What is the most important crop in Asia
>
1. rice.
2. cabbage.
3. wheat.
#4
T:Darwin
<
Who first conceived the theory of
evolution based on the concept of
natural selection(survival of the
fittest)?
>
#5
M:3 5
<
How old is the universe?
>
1. 2000 years old.
2. one hundred million years old.
3. 15 billion years old.
4. 1 trillion years old.
5. 1 quadrillion years old.
#6
M:2 4
<
About how many galaxies are there in
the universe?
>
1. about 20.
2. over 1x10e9 (over 1 billion).
3. over 1000.
4. no one has any idea at all.
#7
M:4 4
<
What is/are the basic building blocks
of the atom?
>
1. protons.
2. electrons.
3. neutrons.
4. all of the above.
#8
M:3 3
<
What is the smallest atom?
>
1. oxygen.
2. nitrogen.
3. hydrogen.
4. helium.
5. neon.
#9
Y:Y
<
Are proteins really just a long string
of Amino acids?
>
#10
M:3 3
<
How many protons are there in a water
molecule (H20)?
>
1. (1 x 2) + 14 = 16 protons.
2. (2 x 2) + 13 = 17 protons.
3. (1 x 2) + 16 = 18 protons.
#11
M:3 4
<
What's the diameter of a hydrogen atom?
>
1. one micrometer (0.000001 meters).
2. one millimeter (0.001 meters).
3. one nanometer (0.000000001 meters).
4. about that diameter of a human hair.
#12
M:1 3
<
What famous molecule contains the
'blueprint' of life?
>
1. DNA.
2. glucose.
3. fructose.
#13
M:2 4
<
How old is the planet earth?
>
1. 25 million years old.
2. about 5.5 billion years old.
3. 25 billion years old.
4. no one really knows for sure.
#14
M:4 5
<
How many years ago did life first form?
>
1. 5000 years.
2. 50,000 years.
3. 50 million years.
4. 3.5 billion years.
5. 10 billion years.
#15
M:2 4
<
How long did bacteria live on the
Earth before other life evolved?
>
1. 100 million years.
2. 2 billion years.
3. 3 billion years.
4. other life came along right away.
#16
M:2 3
<
Some single-celled organisms have
'cilia' (hair-like stuff that grows
on the outside of the cell).
What is the purpose of cilia?
>
1. to fend off predators.
2. to move it around (like legs).
3. to catch food.
#17
M:2 3
<
Where is the DNA in a cell?
>
1. inside the ribosomes.
2. inside the nucleus.
3. floating in the cell membrane.
#18
Y:Y
<
Are plant cells much different than
animal cells?
>
#19
M:2 4
<
Human DNA is broken into smaller
units called:
>
1. ribosomes.
2. chromosomes.
3. RNA.
4. Chloroplasts.
#20
Y:N
<
Is water free to enter and leave a
cell through the cell membrane any
time it wants?
>
#21
M:1 4
<
What is Energy?
>
1. the capacity to do work.
2. heat only.
3. extra atoms.
4. light only.
#22
M:2 3
<
What is kinetic energy?
>
1. stored energy.
2. the energy of motion.
3. both of these.
#23
M:1 3
<
What is potential energy?
>
1. stored energy.
2. the energy of motion.
3. both of these.
#24
M:4 4
<
where does most of the earth's energy
come from?
>
1. oil.
2. the ocean.
3. the wind.
4. the sun.
#25
Y:Y
<
Can energy be created or destroyed?
>
#26
T:heat
<
What's the least useful form of energy?
>
#27
M:2 3
<
What's the most famous energy molecule?
>
1. deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
2. adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
3. glucose.
#28
M:3 4
<
What type of organism uses light energy
more than any other?
>
1. mammals.
2. fungi.
3. plants.
4. bacteria.
#29
M:3 3
<
How do most plants make ATP for energy?
>
1. decarboxylation.
2. oxidation.
3. photosynthesis.
#30
M:2 4
<
Light is just a visible wavelength of
the same waves that make up
radio waves and X-rays. What is the
range of wavelengths for visible
light?
>
1. 0.001 nanometers to 1 nanometer.
2. 380 nanometers to 750 nanometers.
3. 1000 nanometers to 0.01 centimeters.
4. 0.01 centimeters to 100 meters.
#31
M:1 3
<
Oxygen has been created over the last
3.5 billion years through the process of
photosynthesis. What percent of the air
is now oxygen?
>
1. 20%
2. 99%
3. 100%
#32
M:3 3
<
What is light?
>
1. an electron in a very excited state.
2. a fast moving neutron particle.
3. a zero mass particle called a photon.
#33
M:1 5
<
Genes are the blocks that make up
chromosomes. What does a gene do?
>
1. genes are a blueprint of your body.
2. genes tell a cell how to divide.
3. genes are what cells eat.
4. genes are part of the cell membrane.
5. makes a nice buttock.
#34
M:4 4
<
How many type of chromosomes do all
humans have?
>
1. 12,000.
2. 1000.
3. 23.
4. 46.
#35
M:1 3
<
Down syndrome is a disease that occurs
in one of every how many children?
>
1. 750.
2. 7500.
3. 75,000.
#36
M:2 4
<
An albino is a person who is born
without the pigment called melanin.
One of every how many children is born
an albino?
>
1. 100.
2. 17,000.
3. 100,000.
4. about 1 million.
#37
Y:Y
<
Chromosomes are extremely important
parts of our bodies. Having an extra
one or missing one is often fatal.
Can tests be done on babies before
they are born to determine whether
they have an extra or missing
chromosome?
>
#38
M:4 4
<
If you stretched all the DNA in a single
human cell out end to end it would be about
6 feet long. If you took all the DNA in
a person's body and stretched it end to
end it would be how long?
>
1. about 10 miles of DNA.
2. about 1 million miles of DNA.
3. about 100 million miles of DNA.
4 over 100 billion miles of DNA.
#39
Y:Y
<
Cancer is caused when a normal cell
can not STOP reproducing. A bunch of
cancer cells are called a tumor which
grows larger and larger over time. Can
cancer be removed from the body?
>
#40
Y:Y
<
Genetic mutation occurs when genes are
cut from chromosomes and placed in
other chromosomes. Does this technology
mean we can alter the appearance of
people, plants or animals?
>