Entered from Study Guide and Workbook for Starr and Taggart's Biology, 1992, Jane B. Taylor and John D. Jackson, Wadsworth Publishing
Cells and rocks are composed of the same fundamental chemical particles and types of molecules.
false
true
Green plants absorb sugar, water, and minerals from the soil. The sugar absorbed in this manner is used to do cellular work.
false
true
Instructions that result in particular developmental and maintenance patterns being followed are encoded in the ATP molecule.
false
true
Sweating is part of a homeostatic control system that keeps body temperature more or less constant in mammals.
true
false
The instructions for production of each insect developmental stage exist before eggs are produced.
true
false
Converting sunlight energy into chemical energy is an example of energy conversion.
true
false
Two or more organs whose separate functions are integrated to perform a specific task:
organ system
cell
community
ecosystem
tissue
The smallest unit of life:
cell
community
ecosystem
molecule
atom
All of the populations interacting in a given area:
community
ecosystem
organ system
biosphere
organ
A community interacting with its nonliving environment:
ecosystem
organelle
population
biosphere
( ) is the chemical process whereby some organisms are able to trap and store sunlight energy in energy rich molecules.
photosynthesis
respiration
metabolism
homeostatis
Organisms release energy from energy-rich molecules for cellular work through a chemical process known as aerobic ( ).
respiration
photosynthesis
metabolism
homeostasis
( ) refers to the cell's capacity to extract and transform energy from its environment and use energy to maintain itself, grow, and reproduce.
metabolism
photosynthesis
respiration
homeostasis
( ) is a molecule that transfers energy to other molecules.
ATP
adenosine triphosphate
glucose
fat
carbohydrate
The proposal that characteristics of organisms change through natural selection is primarily linked with the name of:
Darwin
Wallace
Lamarck
Lyell
Beagle
Multicelled consumers are classified in the kingdom:
Animalia
Monera
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Single-celled producers of considerable internal complexity are placed in the kingdom:
Protita
Animalia
Fungi
Monera
Plantae
Organism that are, for the most part, multicelled decomposers that digest their food externally and then absorb it belong to the kingdom:
Fungi
Amimalia
Protista
Monera
Plantae
The taxonomic category that includes more than one Phylum:
Kingdom
Class
Family
Genus
Species
The taxonomic category that is grouped into a Family:
Genus
Species
Phylum
Order
Kingdom
The most inclusive (largest) taxonomic category is the phylum.
false
true
There is a larger number of different species in a class than in an order.
true
false
Scientists develop only one best hypothesis as to what the solution to a problem might be.
false
true
A control group is used to evaluate possible side effects of the manipulation of the experimental group.
true
false
The last of the following steps of the scientific method is:
repeat or devise new tests (different tests might support the same hypothesis)
develop one or more hypotheses about what the solution to a problem might be
devise ways to test the accuracy of predictions drawn from the hypothesis (use of observations, models, and experiments)
think about what predictability will occur or be observed if the hypothesis is correct
if the tests do not provide the expected results, check to see what might have gone wrong
The first of the following steps of the scientific method is:
identify a probem or ask a question of nature
repeat or devise new tests (different tests might support the same hypothesis)
think about what predictability will occur or be observed if the hypothesis is correct
if the tests do not provide the exptected results, check to see what might have gone wrong
objectively report the results from tests and the conclusions drawn
Assume that you have to determine what object is inside a sealed, opaque box. Your only tools to test the contents are a bar magnet and a triple-beam balance. Which of the following is a conclusion rather than an observation?
the object is not a quarter, a half-dollar, or a silver dollar
the object is a penny
the object has two flat surfaces
the object is composed of nonmagnetic metal
the object weighs x grams
Changes in the structure or number of DNA molecules:
mutations
adaptive trait
species
genus
Monera
A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce:
adaptive
mutation
variable
evolution
A catagory including different "kinds" of organisms:
species
genus
Monera
Protista
A category including all species with perceived similarities:
genus
control group
family
Monera
The kingdom including all bacteria:
Monera
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
The kingdom including single cells of considerable complexity:
Protista
Monera
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
The capacity to make things happen, to do work:
energy
DNA
metabolism
ATP
The kingdom including mostly multicelled plants:
Plantae
Animalia
Fungi
Monera
Protista
The process cells use to extract, transform, and use energy:
metabolism
DNA
ATP
homeostasis
The group differing from the experimental group by the variable under study:
control
The process of maintaining tolerable conditions in the internal environment of organisms:
homeostasis
metabolism
mutation
variable
The need that organisms have for each other to supply energy and raw materials:
interdependency
About 12 to 24 hours after the last meal, a person's blood-sugar level normally varies from about 60 to 90 mg per 100 ml of blood, though it may attain 130 mg/100 ml after meals high in carbohydrates. That the blood-sugar level is maintained within a fairly narrow range despite uneven intake of sugar is due to the body's ability to carry out:
homeostasis
prediction
inheritance
metabolsim
As an eel migrates from saltwater to freshwater, the salt concentration in its environment decreases from as much as 35 parts of salt per 1,000 parts of seawater to less than 1 part of salt per 1,000 parts of freshwater. The eel can stay in the freshwater environment for many weeks because of its body's ability to carry out:
homeostasis
adaptation
inheritance
puberty
A boy is color-blind just as his grandfather was, even though his mother had normal vision. This situation is the result of:
inheritance
adaptation
metabolism
homeostasis
The digestion of food, the production of ATP by respiration, the construction of the body's proteins, cellular reproduction by cell division, and the contraction of a muscle are all part of:
metabolism
adaptation
inheritance
homeostasis
Which of the following does NOT involve using energy to do work?
none of the above
atoms being bound together to form molecules
the division of one cell into two cells
the digestion of food
The experimental group and control group are identical except for:
the variable under study
the number of variables studied
two variables under study
the number of experiments performed on each group
a hypothesis should NOT be accepted as valid if:
several different experiments, each without a control group, systematically eliminate each of the variables except one
the sample studied is determined to be representative of the entire group
a variety of different tools and experimental designs yield similar observations and results
other investigators can obtain similar results when they conduct the experiment under similar conditions
The principal point of evolution by natural selection is that:
it measures the difference in survival and reproduction that has occurred among individuals that differ from one another in one or more traits
even bad mutations can improve survival and reproduction of organisms in a population
evolution does not occur when some forms of traits increase in frequency and others decrease or disappear with time
individuals lacking adaptive traits make up more of the reproductive base for each new generation
The purpose of experiments is to:
test predictions
identify a problem
develop an hypothesis
provide conclusions
reject as many hypotheses as possible
The least inclusive of the taxonomic categories listed is:
