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Name___________________
Honors Biology
Date ____________
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(Chapter 1 Review – Multiple Choice)
1. What is biology?
a. the study of animal structures d. the study of how organisms process energy
b. the study of life
e. the study of patterns of inheritance
c. the study of fossils
2. What is the appropriate term for an interacting group of individuals of a single type?
a. Species
b. population
c. ecosystem
d. community
e. habitat
3. Which series of terms is in the sequence of biological organization from the simplest to the
most complex?
a. community, population, ecosystem, habitat
d. cell, tissue, organ, population
b. tissue, organ system, organ, cell
e. molecule, tissue, cell, membrane
c.organism, ecosystem, community, population
4. Which of the following is true with regard to the relationship between ecosystems and
communities?
a. An ecosystem is a part of a community.
b. Soil is an ecosystem component; water is a community component.
c. Plants are components of an ecosystem; animals are components of a community.
d. Ecosystems include the nonliving components of an environment; communities
include only the living components of an environment.
e. Ecosystems exclude the living components of an environment; communities include
the living components of an environment.
5. The chemical energy used by most organisms for metabolism and growth ultimately comes
from _____.
a. Heat
b. the decomposition of plants c. the sun d. carbon dioxide
e. evolution
6. What would happen if an ecosystem lacked decomposers?
a. There would be more energy available to plants.
b. There would be more nutrients available to plants.
c. There would be more nutrients available to animals.
d. The ecosystem would stop functioning.
e. More energy would flow into an ecosystem.
7. Energy is incorporated into most ecosystems by _____.
a. Fungi
b. plants
c. animals
d. decomposers
e. humans
8. Actinosphenia elegans is a unicellular, photosynthetic, eukaryotic organism.
To which domain does it belong?
a. Bacteria b. Archaea
c. Eukarya
d. Plantae
e. none of the above
9. In which kingdom can multicellular photosynthetic organisms be found?
a. Monera
b. Fungi
c. Archaea
d. Plantae
e. Animalia
10. Protists can be distinguished from the plants and fungi because _____.
a. protists have prokaryotic cells and may be photosynthetic
b. protists may have chloroplasts and lack nuclei
c. protists are eukaryotic and include both unicellular organisms and multicellular algae
d. protists lack DNA
e. protists are a form of bacteria
11. ALL protists possess _____________.
a. Chloroplasts
b. cell walls
c. zygotes
d. nuclei
12. Which of the following domains is NOT prokaryotic?
a. Eukarya
b. Bacteria
c. Archaea
d. All are prokaryotic.
e. flagella
e. None are prokaryotic.
13. Eukaryotic organisms that decompose dead organisms and absorb the nutrients are
generally found in which kingdom?
a. Archaea
b. Bacteria
c. Plantae
d. Animalia
e. Fungi
14. Natural selection tends to act at which of the following levels?
a. Population
b. species
c. phylum
d. kingdom
e. class
15. A pesticide kills 99.9% of a pest population. What will be the result of the continued
application of this pesticide?
a. Every time the pesticide is applied, it will kill 99.9% of the pest population.
b. Eventually, all of the pest population will be wiped out.
c. The pest population will reach an equilibrium point at which the pesticide is 50% effective.
d. Through time, the pesticide will become less effective at killing the pest.
e. The pesticide will become resistant to the pest.
Match the prefix with its value.
____1. one-thousandth
____2. one-millionth
____3. one million
____4. one-hundredth
____5. one thousand
Match the term with its definition.
____6. biology
____7. control
____8. DNA
____9. metabolism
____10. independent variable
____11. dependent variable
____12. homeostasis
13. Write the metric base unit for:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
micro
mega
centi
kilo
milli
a. the group exposed to the same conditions except for
one independent variable
b. a molecule containing the universal genetic code
c. the study of life
d. the variable that is manipulated in an experiment
e. the responding variable in an experiment
f. living things maintaining a stable internal environment
g. the combination of chemical reactions through which
an organism builds up or breaks down materials
mass  __________________
volume  __________________
Temperature  __________________
Length/ distance  ________________
14. Show the general levels of organization of living things starting with a cell:
Cell  ________________  _________________  ________________  _____________
15. a. What is a stem cell?
b. List at least 2 sources of stem cells. How are they different from each other?
16. Which is NOT a unit of measurement in the metric system?
a) meter
b) inch
c) liter
d) milligram
17. A hypothesis
a.
can be completely proved
b.
may be disproved by a single experiment
c.
does not have to be tested to be accepted as probably correct
d.
is a proven fact
18. In a controlled experiment, the setup in which no change has been made is the
a. Variable
c) hypothesis
b. control group
d) experimental group
19. Tiny cells are usually measured in
a) millimeters
b )microns
c) inches
d) microliters
20. Cells in multicellular organisms have many different sizes and shapes.
These differences in cells are part of cell specialization. Cell specialization allows cells to
a. reproduce.
c. respond to their environment.
b. perform different functions.
d. be less complex.
Multiple Choice – Chapter 1
1. All organisms have which of the following in common?
a. They exhibit complex organization.
b. They store genetic information in DNA molecules.
c. They reproduce.
2. Biologists group living things into ____ domains.
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d.5
d. They utilize energy
e. All of the above.
e. 6
3. A bacterium and an amoeba are placed in different domains because
a. a bacterium is single-celled
d. a bacterial cell is much simpler
b. an amoeba is photosynthetic
e. an amoeba is single-celled
c. an amoeba can move
4. All of the organisms in Kingdom _____ are photosynthetic
a. Animalia
b. Protista
c. Plantae
d. Fungi
e. more than 1 of the above
5. At the most fundamental level in life’s hierarchy, all living things contain the same basic kinds of
a. cells
b. organs
c. molecules
d. tissues
e. systems
6. An educated guess posed as a tentative explanation is called a
a. theory
b. control
c. variable
d. prediction
e. hypothesis
7. The information in ____ underlies all of the properties that distinguish life from nonlife.
a. carbon
b. DNA
c. proteins
d. populations
e. nutrients
8. There are many interdependencies in an ecosystem. Prokaryotes and fungi play an important role in the
ecosystem primarily because they
a. cause disease that keep populations in check.
d. are responsible for producing energy.
b. trap water, which is then used by other organisms.
e. decompose the remains of dead organisms.
c. perform photosynthesis to make food for other species.
9. A crop scientist noted that over a period of 10 years, a beetle species that feeds on rice gradually became
resistant to insecticide. Which of the following best explains this in terms of natural selection?
a. The insecticide mutated the beetles exposed to the biggest doses.
b. Some beetles learned to tolerate the insecticide and passed this ability to their offspring.
c. Beetles learned to avoid the spray and passed this knowledge to their offspring.
d. The insecticide caused the beetles to reproduce more quickly than normal.
e. Those beetles with natural resistance to the insecticide had the most offspring.
10. Researchers testing new drugs usually give the drug to one group of people and give placebos (“sugar
pills”) to another group. The group receiving the sugar pills
a. constitutes the experimental group.
b. is needed so that the test will be repeated enough times.
c. is the control group.
d. is a backup in case some of the people getting the drug drop out of the test.
e. is the experimental group.
11. _________ has characteristics that result from the organization of its component _________.
a. A population….ecosystems
d. An organism…. organ systems
b. A tissue….. organs
e. A molecule….cells
c. A cell…. tissues
12. A rain forest primate called an aye-aye has a long middle finger that it uses to probe for insects in cracks
and crevices in tree bark. This connection between structure and function developed gradually as a
result of
a.
Reproduction
d. DNA replication
b.
population growth
e. Energy exchange
c.
natural selection