Diversity of Life Test Review

Question 1

Multicellular organisms that are heterotrophic are classified in the kingdom

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Animalia

Question 2

Which taxon level contains organisms that are the most closely related?

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Genus

Question 3

Bacterial DNA is

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circular

Question 4

The science that specializes in naming and classifying organisms is:

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taxonomy

Question 5

WHich of the following is not a characteristic of prokaryotes?

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mitochondria

Question 6

The level of biodiversity that involves a variety surfaces for organisms to interact with is

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structural diversity

Question 7

Any group of organisms treated as a unit in a classification system is a

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taxon

Question 8

Which organism is most closely related to the ape?

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rabbit

Question 9

What activities does not contribute to habitat loss?

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None of the selections

Question 10

Eukaryotic internal membranes

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All of the choices.

Question 11

Who develoed the system of classifying organisms by assigning them a genus and species name?

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Linnaeus

Question 12

Two fish classified in the same class must also be grouped in the same

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phylum

Question 13

The Golgi apparatus is involved in

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all of the selections

Question 14

How many species are estimated to be living on Earth?

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between 10 and 50 million

Question 15

The study of the evolutionary relationships among organisms is called

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phylogeny

Question 16

Lysosomes

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All the choices.

Question 17

The current rate species extinction is

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attributed to the actions of humans

Question 18

The rough ER is so named because it has an abundance of [ ] on it.

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ribosomes

Question 19

What do we call the maintenance of internal conditions of an organism?

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homeostasis

Question 20

Unlike animal cells, plant cells have [ ] and [ ].

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chloroplasts ... cell walls

Question 21

Which domain includes organisms from more than one kingdom?

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Eukarya

Question 22

Solely from its name you can tell Rhizopus nigricans must be

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in the genus Rhizopus

Question 23

The function of the mitochondria is

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cellular respiration

Question 24

Plants differ from animals in that plants have

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chloroplasts

Question 25

Which category contains the greatest number of different kinds of organisms?

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Phylum

Question 26

Why is biodiversity valuable and desirable to humans?

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All of the slections

Question 27

Membranous compartments in a cell

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allow different processes to occur simultaneously

Question 28

Ribosomes make

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proteins

Question 29

Characteristics of living organisms include

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All selections

Question 30

This diagram which shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms is called a

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cladogram

Question 31

Which is NOT one of the characteristics of living organisms?

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to be organized

Question 32

Most organelles in a eukaryotic cell are found in the

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cytoplasm

Question 33

Which of these is a thing that promotes the liklihood of a species' continued existence?

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evolution

Question 34

Cells are small because as cell size increases, the

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volume to surface area ratio decreases

Question 35

How many derived traits do the mouse and monkey have in common?

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4

Question 36

The nucleus of a cell

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contains DNA and controls cell activities

Question 37

Eukaryotic organisms that are heterotrophic and have cell walls made of chitin are

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Fungi

Question 38

Organisms whose cells have a nucleus and organelles surrounded by membranes are called

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eukaryotes

Question 39

In classying organisms, ORDERS are grouped together to form

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classes

Question 40

Unique traits used to construct a cladogram, showing evolutionary relationships, are called

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derived traits

Diversity of Life Test Review

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Diversity of Life Test Review

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