Download Grade 11 University Biology – Unit 1 Diversity of

Grade 11 University Biology – Unit 1 Diversity of Living Things
Practice Test – Multiple Choice
Knowledge and Understanding
1. Which Kingdom contains mostly unicellular, eukaryotic organisms?
a. Eubacteria
b. Plantae
c. Protista
d. Fungi
e. Animalia
2.
Which two organisms are most closely related?
a. Organisms in the same Genus but different Species
b. Organisms in the same Phylum and different Class
c. Organisms in the same Family and different Genus
d. Organisms in the same Kingdom and different Phylum
e. Organisms in the same Class and different Order
3.
While viewing some pond water with a microscope, you see a unicellular organism with a flagella but lacking
a membrane-bound nucleus. What Kingdom would you place this organism?
a. Eubacteria
b. Plantae
c. Protista
d. Fungi
e. Animalia
4.
What is the importance of genetic diversity?
a. Increased resistance to disease
b. Increased chance of survival as climate changes
c. Increased ability to compete with invasive species
d. Increased resistance to drought
e. All of the above
5.
What characteristic best describes organisms in the Plantae Kingdom
a. Possess a cell wall
b. Reproduce sexually
c. Lack mobility
d. Eukaryotic cells
e. All of the above
6.
Which of the following best describes a mutualistic symbiotic relationship?
a. One organism benefits while the other organism is not harmed
b. One organism benefits while the other organism is harmed
c. Both organisms benefit
d. One organism eats the other organism
7.
What is wrong with the way this species name has been written? Acer Canadiens
a. It should not be italicized
b. It should be underlined
c. Acer should not be capitalized
d. Canadiens should not be capitalized
e. Neither Acer or Canadiens should be capitalized
8.
Which of the following is the simplest form of life?
a. Virus
b. Eubacteria
c. Protista
d. Fungi
e. Plantae
9.
The common name for an angiosperm is...
a. Flowering Plants
b. Evergreen
c. Annual Plant
d. Mosses
e. None of the above
10. What is “the replication process in viruses in which the viral DNA order the host cell’s nucleus to stop making
the cell’s DNA and to replicate the viral DNA?”
a. Capsid
b. Lytic Cycle
c. Lysogenetic Cycle
d. Prion
11. When bacteria reproduce by conjugation....
a. DNA from one bacterium may be transferred to a second bacterium
b. DNA replicates and is distributed equally between two new cells
c. Two daughter bacterium cells form from the parent cell
d. A mutation occurs
e. Two haploid cells fuse to form a diploid cell
12. What is a species?
a. The fifth highest rank in the hierarchical classification scheme that identifies organisms
b. A group of individuals of the same species in a specific area at a specific time
c. A group of organisms that can interbreed in nature and produce fertile offspring
d. An organism that cannot makes its own food and gets its nutrients and energy from consuming
other organisms
13. Part of the life cycles of many bacteria, plants, algae, fungi and some protozoa, this is a reproductive
structure that is adapted for dispersal and surviving for extended periods of time in unfavorable conditions.
What is it?
a. Seed
b. Spore
c. Zygote
d. Hyphae
e. Saprobial
14. Theory that explains how eukaryotic cells evolved from the symbiotic relationship between two or more
prokaryotic cells. In this theory, one cell engulfs a different type of cell. However, the engulfed cell survives
and becomes part of the internal functioning of the engulfing cell. What is the name of the theory?
a. Commensalism
b. Endosymbiosis
c. Multiple Fission
d. Mutualism
e. Retrovirus
15. What is the term used to describe “an organism that captures energy from sunlight to produce its own
energy-yielding food?
a. Autotroph
b. Heterotroph
c. Consumer
d. Decomposer
16. What Domain of organism has Chitin in its cell walls?
a. Archaeabacteria
b. Protista
c. Plantae
d. Fungi
17. Which “species concept” focuses on the ability of organisms to interbreed in nature and produce viable,
fertile offspring?
a. Morphological species concept
b. Biological species concept
c. Phylogenetic species concept
d. Taxonomic species concept
e. Hierarchical species concept
18. Which animal does not have a backbone?
a. Invertebrate
b. Vertebrate
c. Autotroph
d. Parameciua
19. Which of the following shapes is not a shape of a Eubacteria?
a. Cocci
b. Rod
c. Spiral
d. Square
21. Which statement is true for prokaryotic cells
a. DNA is in a membrane-bound nucleus
b. Mitochondria is present
c. Most forms are mutlicellular
d. Cell division occurs by mitosis and meiosis
e. The genome is made of a single chromosome
22. Methanogenesis occurs in environments lacking which substance?
a. Carbon dioxide
b. Carbon monoxide
c. Methane
d. Nitrogen
e. Oxygen
23. Algae belong to which Kingdom?
a. Plantae
b. Animalia
c. Fungi
d. Protista
e. Archaea
24. In vascular plants, xylem allows for which process?
a. Transport of large molecules like sugar from the roots
b. Transport of water and minerals from root systems
c. Gas exchange that occurs in the leaves
d. Absorption of sunlight to help with photosynthesis
e. Storage of food in the form of glycogen
25. Which organisms are prokaryotes?
a. Archaea, protists
b. Bacteria, protists
c. Protists, plants
d. Archaea, bacteria
e. Fungi, protists
26. Which statement about viruses is true?
a. They contain only RNA
b. They replicate only in eukaryotic cells
c. They cannot replicate independently outside of a living cell
d. They cause disease but only in humans
e. They contain membrane-bound organelles
27. In the lytic cycle of a virus, where does replication occur?
a. In the virus capsid
b. In the viral DNA
c. In the DNA of the host cell
d. In the cytoplasm of the host cell
e. IN the proteins of the host cell
28. What substance are prions composed of?
a. Carbohydrates
b. Lipids
c. Proteins
d. DNA
e. Triglyerides
29. Where would you find a halophilic Archaeabacteria?
a. Sea water with high salt concentrations
b. Deep water sea vents with hot temperatures
c. Craters of volcanoes
d. Sediment of landfills
e. Inside you
30. By which process do cynobacteria obtain energy?
a. Decomposition
b. Methanogenesis
c. Parasitism
d. Chemosynthesis
e. Photosynthesis
31. Which process involves the exchange of genetic material?
a. Binary Fission
b. Conjugation
c. Meiosis
d. Mitosis
e. Regeneration
f. None of the above
32. Which organelle provides the strongest evidence in support of the endosymbiosis theory?
a. Cell wall
b. Nucelus
c. Ribosomes
d. Chloroplasts
e. Cell membrane
33. The phylogentic species concept is based on which evidence?
a. Body shape and size of organisms
b. Evolutionary history of organisms
c. Ability of organisms to interbreed
d. Structural function of organisms
e. Existing population of a species