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Making Connections Pretest
1. An individual eats a hamburger. Which two
systems must interact to transfer the nutrients in
the hamburger to human muscle tissue?
(1) respiratory and excretory
(2) digestive and immune
(3) digestive and circulatory
(4) circulatory and respiratory
2. An ameba, a one-celled organism, can move,
ingest, and transport materials within the cell,
because it has
(1) organs (2) organelles (3) tissues (4) systems
3. Structures in an animal cell are represented in
the diagram below
6. The energy released when sugar molecules are
broken down is stored in
(1) minerals
(3) DNA
(2) ATP
(4) wastes
7. Which molecule can diffuse (move through) from
the digestive tract into the human bloodstream
without first being digested?
(1) protein
(3) fat
(2) starch
(4) glucose
8. Which body system is correctly paired with its
function?
(1) excretory—produces antibodies to fight
disease-causing organisms
(2) digestive—produces hormones for storage and
insulation
(3) circulatory—transports materials for energy
release in body cells
(4) respiratory—collects waste material for
digestion
9. Animals eat and digest food to obtain the energy
Which row in the chart correctly identifies the
functions of structures A, B, and C?
Row
(1)
Structure A
waste removal
(2)
Information
storage
(3)
Protein
synthesis
Cell
communication
(4)
Structure B
Extract
energy
from
nutrients
Transport
of
materials
Storage of
wastes
Transport
of
materials
Structure C
Protein
synthesis
Storage of
liquids
Reproduction
Waste
materials
4. During the process of cellular respiration, energy
is released from
(1) carbon dioxide
(3) water molecules
(2) oxygen atoms
(4) chemical bonds
5. In order for the muscle fatigue to end, the
muscle cells must be provided with
(1) oxygen
(3) carbon dioxide
(2) nitrogen
(4) amino acids
available for life activities. Discuss energy use in
animals. In your discussion, be sure to:
• identify the type of protein molecules used to
digest food
• identify the organelle where energy from
nutrients is released
• state one inference that can be made concerning
a cell that has many of these organelles
10. Autotrophs might survive when heterotrophs
cannot, because autotrophs are able to
(1) reproduce asexually
(2) become dormant
(3) exist without respiration
(4) make their own food
11. The inability of an organism to produce certain
proteins can occur when an organism is lacking an
enzyme needed to combine
(1) oxygen molecules
(3) amino acids
(2) simple sugars
(4) biological catalysts
12. The diagram below represents a specialized cell
located in the root of a plant. The arrows in the
diagram indicate the movement of molecules of
oxygen and water into the cell.
17. The diagram below represents two processes that
occur in organisms. A characteristic represented by X
is common to both of these processes.
A characteristic that the two processes have in
common is that each process
(1) uses ATP
(3) uses oxygen
(2) requires enzymes (4) moves molecules
Which row in the chart below correctly identifies the
process responsible for the movement of each type of
molecule represented in the diagram?
18. The molecules represented in the diagram below
can interact to cause a biochemical process to occur.
Molecule A and molecule B most likely represent
(1) a nerve signal and a gene
(2) a receptor and a hormone
(3) a chromosome and an antigen
(4) a starch and an amino acid
13. Materials are transported within a single-celled
organism by the
(1) nucleus
(3) mitochondrion
(2) cytoplasm
(4) ribosome
14. Which observation could lead to the conclusion
that an object is nonliving?
(1) It passes on hereditary information only through
asexual reproduction.
(2) It carries out synthesis.
(3) It cannot perform metabolic processes.
(4) It is composed of a cell, but does not have tissues.
19. The cytoplasm in a single-celled organism and the
circulatory system in a human both
(1) break down molecules into smaller components
(2) release energy to be used by the organism
(3) transport substances throughout the organism
(4) distribute blood to all of the parts of the organism
Base your answers to questions 20 and 21 on the
information below and on your knowledge of biology.
Three students took their pulse rates in beats per
minute (bpm) while sitting in class.
The results are shown in the data table below.
15. Which sequence best represents increasing
complexity?
(1) tissues → cells → organelles → organs
(2) cells → organelles → organs → organism
(3) organelles → cells → tissues → organs
(4) organism → cells → tissues → organelles
16. Which process uses energy to combine inorganic
molecules to synthesize organic molecules?
(1) respiration
(3) photosynthesis
(2) digestion
(4) decomposition
20. State one reason why the pulse rates were not the
same for all three students, even though they were all
resting at the time.
21. What is the average pulse rate, in bpm, for this
group of students?
_____________bpm