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Bio 211
Dr. Deitloff
09/22/13
1. Which is not a characteristic of a hypothesis?
a. It is falsifiable.
b. It is testable.
c. It is a prediction.
d. It is always correct.
2.
Which describes a Theory?
a. It is a fact accepted by scientists.
b. It can never be proven true.
c. It is not supported well by evidence.
d. A Phylogenetic tree is a theory.
3. Which is not true of phylogenetic trees?
a. They include both living and extinct species.
b. It is a hypothesis about evolutionary relationships.
c. It includes clades.
d. It is always a correct representation of organism relationships.
4. Which is correct representation of genus species?
a. Canis Familiaris
b. Canis familiaris
c. Canis familiaris
d. Canis Familiaris
5. Which is not true?
a. A sporophyte produces spores.
b. Spores grow into a sporophyte.
c. A Gametophyte produces gametes.
d. Spores grow into a gametophyte
6. What is not a derived trait of a land plant?
a. A localized region of cell division called the apical meristem.
b. Sporangia that grow from spores and Gametangia that grow from gametes
c. A reproductive cycle that includes alteration of generations.
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d. A dependent embryo.
7. Which is not a characteristic of vascular plants?
a. A life cycle with a dominant gametophyte
b. Tissues for support and transport
c. Adaptations to protect against desiccation
d. Roots, Stems and Leaves
8. In Pteridophytes______
a. The sporophyte is miniaturized.
b. The Sporophyte is within the gametophyte.
c. The Gametophyte is dependent.
d. The sporophyte and gametophyte are independent of each other.
9. The field of biology that is concerned with the describing, naming, and classifying living
and extinct organisms and viruses.
a. Systematics
b. Ontogeny
c. Taxonomy
d. Phylogeny
10. The evolutionary history of a species is it’s what?
a. Systematics
b. Ontogeny
c. Taxonomy
d. Phylogeny
11. Which order of hierarchical groups is correct?
a. Kingdom, Phylum, Order, Class, Family, Genus, Species
b. Genus, Family, Genus, Phylum, Order, Kingdom, Species
c. Phylum, Kingdom, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
d. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
12. A common ancestral species and its entire descendant species from a phylogenetic tree is
called a ____.
a. Clade
b. Family
c. Ancestors
d. Node
13. Which domain has membrane lipids with ether linkages that help resist damage by heat and
extreme conditions?
a. Archaea
b. Bacteria
c. Bryophytes
d. Protists
14. Which of the following is an Archaea that thrives in salty environments?
a. Hyperthermophiles
b. Cyanobacteria
c. Halophiles
d. Protezoa
15. What produced earth’s first oxygen rich atmosphere?
a. Hyperthermophiles
b. Cyanobacteria
c. Halophiles
d. Protezoa
16. Bacteria and Archaea reproduce asexually by a process known as what?
a. Phagocytosis
b. Binary Fisson
c. Pili
d. Cilia
17. Protists can be labeled according to the type of habitats in which they live. Which are the
Protists that are swimming or floating and the basis of the food chain?
a. Phytoplankton
b. Periphyton
c. Pseudopodia
d. Pilli
18. Which Protists are in the eukaryotic supergroup land plants?
a. Green Algae
b. Red Algae
c. Red and Green Algae
d. Dinoflagellates
19. Charophyceans share several key traits with land plants, which is not true?
a. Both share a distinctive type of cytokinesis
b. Both have intercellular connections known as plasmodesmata
c. Both reproduce by means of an egg and sperm
d. Both have specialized structures that generate, protect, and disperse reproductive
cells
20. In alternation of generations the plant cycles through a multicellular haploid ________ stage
that produces _______, and a multicellular diploid ________ stage that produces ______.
a. Sporophyte, spores, gametophyte, gametes
b. Gametophyte, gametes, sporophyte, spores
c. Spore, sporophyte, gamete, gametophyte
d. Spore, gametes, sporophyte, gametophyte
21. In alternation of generation the haploid sperm cell and the haploid egg cell are _____ to
produce the diploid zygote that develops into multicelluar diploid sporophyte stage through the
process of _____.
a. Fertilized, meiosis
b. Pollinated, mitosis
c. Fertilized, mitosis
d. Pollinated, meiosis
22. Haploid cells are produced in the ____ by the process of meiosis.
a. Sporangium
b. Embryo
c. Fetus
d. Liverwort
23. This vascular tissue transports water and minerals
a. Xylum
b. Phloem
c. Move’em
d. Cilia
24. In all vascular plants the sporophyte is _____ compared to the gametophyte.
a. Dominant
b. Dependent
c. Similar
d. Recessive
25. A waxy cuticle is an adaptation that
a. Assists water loss
b. Helps to prevent water loss
c. Produces toxins to deter insects
d. Serves no purpose
26. A seed plant that has flowers, produces seeds enclosed in fruits, and has an endosperm.
a. Angiosperm
b. Gymnosperm
c. Pteridophyte
d. Lycophyte
27. Part of a leaf that can close and open to help assist the entrance of water or prevent the
evaporation of water from cells that make up the leaf.
a. Channel
b. Stomata
c. Cuticle
d. Lignin
28. Megaspores produce _____ gametophytes
a. Male
b. Female
c. Bisexual
d. Changing
29. Which of these is not something that characterizes an organism as alive?
a. Ability to reproduce
b. Use energy/metabolism
c. Homeostasis
d. Growth and development
e. All of the above are characteristics of a living organism
30. Which one of these is not a domain?
a. Bacteria
b. Anamilia
c. Protista
d. Archaea
e. Both B & C
31. ________ is a change in frequency of genes in a natural population
a. Mutations
b. Descent with Modification
c. Evolution
d. Adaptation
32. __________ is/are the ultimate source of variation
a. Evolution
b. Mutations
c. Adaptation
d. Natural Selection
33. Which was not a point made by Charles Darwin?
a. An explanation for the duality of unity and diversity
b. Descent with Modification
c. Natural Selection
d. Humans evolved from apes
34. Which is not a characteristic of bacteria?
a. They are the smallest cells
b. They are simple organisms with less complexity than eukaryotes
c. They are diverse
d. They are the earth’s oldest organisms
35. What resulted in the transfer of mitochondria, plastids, and many genes from bacteria to
eukaryotes?
a. Endosymbiosis
b. Horizontal gene transfer
c. Mitosis
d. Binary Fission
36. Which is not a type of Proteobacteria?
a. Rhizobium
b. Agrobacteria
c. Vibrio Choleral
d. Cyanobacteria
37. The supergroup protist belongs within which domain?
a. Archaea
b. Bacteria
c. Eukarya
d. Protista
38. Which of these are photoautotrophic?
a. Protozoa
b. Algae
c. Mitochondria
d. Proteobacteria
39. Metamonad is parasitic within animals, has a feeding groove, and 2 equal-sized nuclei. It
belongs to which protist supergroup?
a. Excavata
b. Diatom
c. Rhizobium
d. Alveolata
40. This protist is known for its biolumenesce, cilia, and saclike membraneous vesicus, and is a
member of the supergroup Alveolata
a. Metamonad
b. Radiolaran
c. Diatom
d. Dinoflagelattes
41. ___________________ are the closest relatives to animals, while ____________________
are the closest relatives to land plants
a. Choanoflagellates, cyanobacteria
b. Mitochondira, cyanobacteria
c. Choanoflagellates, charopyceans
d. Cyanobacteria, charopyceans
42. Apical meristem can differentiate into different types of cells. Where are these located?
a. Inside the stem
b. On the surface of the leaves
c. At the tips of the roots and shoots
d. Inside the endosperm
43. Which one of these is not part of the alteration of generations cycle?
a. Haploid zygote
b. Diploid Sporophyte
c. Haploid gamete
d. Multicellular cells
44. Which of these is not a Bryophyte?
a. Liverwort
b. Moss
c. Hornwort
d. Pteridophyte
45. Spores are produced by ________________
a. Mitosis
b. Meiosis
c. Binary Fission
d. Conjugation
46. Which is not true about gymnosperms?
a. They are vascular plants
b. They are known as “naked seeds”
c. They are gametophyte dominant
d. They lack an endosperm
47. What is the male gametophyte in a gymnosperm?
a. Pine cone
b. Spore
c. Pollen Cone
d. Pollen grain
48. The zygote in an angiosperm life cycle produces a(n) ______________
a.
Embryo
b.
Sporophyte
c.
Megasporangium
d.
Microspore
49. Which of these is not a parasitic fungi?
a. Fusarium
b. Hemileia Vastatrix
c. Fosty pod
d. Penicllin
50. Which of these is necessary for a plant disease to develop
a. Pathogen
b. Host
c. Favorable environment
d. All of the above
True or False:
1. Adaptations involve changes in individual organisms rather than populations: True False
2. Newton’s law of gravity describes how gravitational force is transmitted:
True False
3. Theories never become laws: True False
4. Phylogenetic trees are a way to represents facts that have been discovered about
evolutionary history: True False
5. The theory of evolution was once thought to be a tree of life, but now is thought of as the
web of life due to horizontal gene transfer: True False