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1
What is a habitat?
RNA
A place where a species lives
DNA
Air
2
What form of reproduction produces identical offspring?
asexual
Single celled
Human
Sexual
3
True or False: Humans go through the process of photosynthesis.
False
True
4
What is DNA?
Building blocks of life
Genetic code
A cell
A part of plants
5
Which is a Scientific Attitude?
Hunger
Close-minded
Open-mindedness
Angryness
6
The _____ a cell becomes, the _____ demand the cell place on DNA
Larger, more
Larger, less
Smaller, more
Smaller, less
7
Which of the following is not a statement of the cell theory?
Cells are not real
New cells are produced from existing cells
All living things are made up of cells
Cells are basic units of structure/function in living things
8
Which one does not belong?
Solution-evenly distributed
Solute-dissolved substance
Solvent-substance in which the solution dissolves
Suspensions- mixture of water and non dissolved particles
9
________ is the diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane
Osmosis
Homeostasis
Diffusion
Facilitated diffusion
10
Pink plant is crossed with white plant. chance that seed from this produce a red plant?
1/4
0
1
1/2
11
What colors were Mendel’s peas?
Blue and Yellow.
Tan and Green
Yellow and Green
Green and Brown
12
The build of lactic acid in muscle cells results in?
Cellular respiration
Krebs cycle
Fermantion
Oxygen debt
13
What is an ionic bond?
bond when 1+ electrons transferred from 1 atom to another
When two atoms share four electrons
Positively and negatively charged atoms
When two atoms share two electrons
14
The study of whole genomes, including genes and their functions
Biology
Genomics
Zoology
Peanut Butter
15
Which is a goal of science?
Explain things in the world
To confuse people
To make life hard
To make life hard
16
__________ is used to start a reaction.
Activation Energy
Starting energy
Kinetic energy
Light energy
17
True or false: Each tRNA is complementary to one mRNA codon
True
False
18
A normal human diploid zygote contains?
23 chromosomes
44 chromosomes
XXY chromosomes
46 chromosomes
19
What is the photic zone?
Ocean
Area where photosynthesis can happen
A dark wet cave
Outer Space
20
What is data?
Numbers
Answers
A science date
Recorded information
21
How much energy is in a gram of glucose?
1 calorie
4 Calorie
1 Calorie
4 calorie
22
Fermentation takes place in the absence of oxygen, said to be?
Aerobic
Anaerobic
Cyclic
oxygen-rich
23
The most common type of microscope today is _______.
Scanning probe microscope
X-ray microscope
Electron Microscope
Compound Light Microscope
24
What is the Scientific Theory?
Sharing data
Enable scientists to make accurate prediction
Life
Open-mindedness and creativity
25
The first organisms to repopulate an area affected from volcanic eruption are called?
Climax species
Keystone species
Primary producers
Pioneer species
26
_________ is/are involved in the regulation of eukaryotic genes
Exons (choose this one)
Pizza
Introns
TATA boxes
27
Meiosis and Mitosis are different…
False
True
28
What is Matix?
Innermost compartment of the Mitochondrion
A part of a cell
A cake
A part of DNA
29
How many nitrogenous bases does DNA have?
2
4
3
5
30
The process that releases energy from food to make oxygen?
photosynthesis
ATP synthase
Cellular respiration
Synthesis
31
What is a canopy?
Climate
Type of cancer
A drug
Trees that are dense and leafy
32
What are Wetlands?
The North Pole
Deserts
Deep sea
Swamp like areas
33
Which term describes a group of different species that live together in a defined area?
A community
A biosphere.
A population.
An ecosystem
34
Which is a predator?
Leopard
Lion
Zebra
Hyenas
35
All of Earth exists in..
A biome
Ecology
An ecosystem
The biosphere
36
Which of the following organisms is a decomposer?
A plant
Bacteria
A bird.
A fox.
37
True or False: Mutations are not heritable changes in genetic information
False
True
38
The leaves of a plant appear green because Chlorophyll…
Absorbs green light
Reflects blue light
Reflects green light
Absorbs blue light
39
What is used on the pH scale?
Solvent
Buffer
Base
Acid
40
In eukaryotes the Kreb cycle takes place within the?
H+ ions across the inner mitochondrial
Glucose to pyruvic acid
acetyl-CoA to citric acid
Glucose
41
What is a hypothesis?
Observation
A dog
Educated guess
A guess
42
Animals that that live near or in the ocean are called?
Plankton
Benthos
Mangroves
Parasites
43
_______ is programmed cell death.
Cell Growth
Cancer
Apoptosis
Tumour
44
Which of the following is not an organelle of a cell?
Endoplasmic reticulum
Lysosomes
Centrioles
Lettuce
45
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
Mitochondria
Nucleus
Cytoplasm
Vacuoles
46
The light-independent reactions of photosynthesis are also known as…
Carbon Cycle
ATP Cycle
Calvin Cycle
Sugar Cycle.
47
Organisms that have two identical alleles for a particular trait are said to be…
Dominant
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Hybrid
48
Which base pairs are correct
A=T
A=C
G=C
G=A
49
What are photosystems?
Clusters of chlorophyll and proteins
Not this one…
50
The physical characteristics of an organism are called its…
Genotype
Heredity
Genetics
Phenotype
51
Malaria is a disease caused by a?
Parasite carried by mosquitoes
Defect in red blood cells
Bacterium found in water
Gene mutation
52
In cancer cells, cells ____________.
Die rapidly
Apoptosis
Don’t change
Can’t stop dividing
53
Carries instructions for polypeptide synthesis from nucleus to ribosomes in the cytoplasm
Pickles
Ribosomal RNA
Transfer RNA
Messenger RNA
54
Different forms of a gene are called…
Recessive Factors
Hybrids.
Alleles
Dominant Factors
55
Primary producers are organisms that…
Obtain energy by eating only plants
Use energy from the sun to make their own food
Rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply.
Consume plant and animal remains and other dead matter.
56
As a result from Mitosis, each new daughter cell, has ______ set(s) of chromosomes
A different
2
An identical
no
57
A technique used to separate and analyze the differently sized fragments
Gel science
Reading DNA
Gel electrophoresis
Reading DNA
58
How do substrates affect enzyme-catalyzed reactions?
Substrates are reactants
Enzymes are reactants
Enzymes are products
Substrates are products
59
What does DNA stand for?
Cells
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Acid
Dogs are Not Animals
60
Two or more different atoms are combined in definite portions in any:
Symbol
Element
Isotope
Compound
61
__________ is the longest phase in the cell cycle
Interphase
S phase
G2 phase
G1 phase
62
What is nondisjunction?
Blood cells
Cancer
Chromosomes fail to separate
Plant cells
63
What is primary succession?
Someone winning
Plants taking over an area w/o remnants of an oldercommunity
DNA
Someone one leaving
64
Cell division results in _____ new daughter cells
5
7
4
2
65
become specialized for particular tasks/communicate with one another to maintain homeostasis
All organisms
No Organisms
Multi-cellular Organisms
Single cell organisms
66
What is meiosis?
A car
Medical disorder
Chromosomes separate
Cancer
67
Start codon
CAC
GAU
GUA
AUG
68
What happens during Cell differentiation?
Nothing happens
Cells differentiate into many types of cells
Cells grow
Cells die
69
The probability of flipping a coin twice and getting two heads is…
1
3
1/4
1/2
70
Carries amino acids to the ribosome and matches them to the coded mRNA message
Messenger RNA
Trees
Ribosomal RNA
Transfer RNA
71
Chemosynthesis is the process which chemical energy is used to produce carbohydrates.
True
False
72
What is a niche?
Range of physical and biological
Bio textbook
A drug
Scientists
73
Why does the yeast make the bread raise?
Lactic acid fermentation
Cellular respiration
Alcoholic fermentation
Yeast mitosis
74
When a candle burns, energy is released in the form of…
Electricity and Motion
Light and heat
The chemical substance ATP
Carbon Dioxide and Water
75
Proteins are the polymers of what molecule?
Amino acids
monosaccharides
Nucleotides
Lipids
76
Different forms of a gene are called…
Hybrids
Recessive Factors
Alleles
Dominant Factors
77
What researcher(s) used radio-active makes to show DNA?
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
Frederick Griffith
Oswald Avery
James Watson and Francis Crick
78
What did Darwin discover?
the Tourtosies were all different
Finches had different types of feet and beaks
The tourtosie could go for long periods of time without food
The peony plant
79
Which of the following is not a part of an atom:
Proton
Introns
Neutron
Electron
80
Rain forest, the dense covering formed by the leaf tops of tall trees is called?
tagia
Niche
Canopy
Understory
81
What is microclimates?
Atmosphere
Greenhouse gases
Water
Small environmental conditions
82
Which of the following is an autotroph?
Plants
Mushrooms
Leopards
Deer
83
The unspecialized cells from which differentiated cells develop are known as __________.
Stem cells
Apples
Pluripotent Cells
Blastocyst
84
True or false: The tips of eukaryotic chromosome are telomeres
True
False
85
Is there evidence to man once having a tail?
yes
no
86
Hox genes that are similar come from the same ancestor
True
False
87
Relationship where one organism is helped and another organism is neither helped/hurt is called
Parasitism
Succession
Competition
mutualism
88
What is NAD+?
Carbon
Water
Oxygen
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
89
_________ cells are cells that enclose their DNA in nuclei.
Prokaryotes
Eukaryotes
90
Which of the following does not belong?
Hypertonic- “above strength”
Isotonic- “same strength”
Aquaporins “water channel proteins”
Hypotonic- “below strength”
91
project’s goal to sequence all 3 billion base pairs of human DNA/identifying all human genes
Chromosome Project
Genome Project
Human genome Project
Grinko Project
92
Who Should have credited for discovering DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
Donald Trump
Frederick Griffith
Thomas Franklin
93
Evaporation is in the..
Carbon Cycle
Grinko Cycle
Food Cycle
Water cycle
94
In Mitosis, each daughter cell receives one complete set of chromosomes…
True
False
95
What is cohesion?
An attraction between molecules of different substances
An attraction between molecules of the same substance
A polar molecule
A bond between hydrogen and water
96
Gives cell membranes flexible structure that forms strong barrier between cell and surroundings
Lipid bilayer
Nucleus
Cell wall
Cell membrane
97
Enzymes __________ chemical reactions that take place in in cells.
Slow down
Cancel
Speed Up
Don't affect
98
The movement of materials across the cell membrane without using cellular energy is called ...
Transportation
Active Transport
Passive Transport
Diffusion
99
In addition to light and Chlorophyll, photosynthesis requires…
Water and Sugars
Water and Carbon Dioxide
Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide
Water and Oxygen
100
The series of steps in which a large fish eats a small fish that has eaten algae is a..
Food web.
Food chain
Pyramid of Biomass
Pyramid of numbers
101
A gene map shows…
The number of possible alleles for a gene.
The relative locations of genes on a chromosome
How crossing-over occurs
Where chromosomes are in a cell
102
Are genes affected by the environment?
No
yes
103
Photosynthesis happens in the..
Chloroplasts
Nucleus
Mitochondria
Golgi Apparatas
104
Which of the following is not a point mutation:
Choose this one
Substitution
Insertion
Deletion
105
True or False: Photosynthesis uses CO2 from the atmosphere
True
False
106
One strain of bacterium is changed into another strain is called?
Duplication
Replication
Transcription
Transformation
107
Genetic Code is read ________ letter(s) at a time.
3
5
1
4
108
What is the relationship between science and society?
Limitations
Develop technology
Plants and animals
Nothing
109
A situation in which a gene has more than two alleles is known as…
Polygenic dominance
Codominance
Multiple alleles
Complete dominance
110
The end result in photosynthesis is…
Oxygen and glucose
Potatoes and Tomatoes
Oxygen and Lactose
Carbon Dioxide and glucose
111
A chart that traces the inheritance of a trait in a family is called?
Autosome
Karyotype
Pedigree
Genome
112
What are biomes?
Plant and Animal Factors
Soil Type
Space
Climate Factors
113
What is a predator?
An animal that preys on others
An animal that eats vegetables
114
What is climate?
Temp.
Average weather in an area over a period of time
Thunderstorms
Rainy weather
115
A nucleotide does NOT contain
A 5-carbon sugar
Nitrogen base
Amino acid
phosphate
116
Example of a trait that is determined by multiple alleles is?
ABO blood group
Colorbiness
Down syndrome
Cystic fibrosis
117
What is homeostasis?
The way your body balances itself
Cancer
DNA
A thing that destroys the body
118
A punnett square is used to determine the…
Probable outcome of a cross
Result of meiosis
Result of incomplete dominance
Actual outcome of a cross
119
________ join together to form polymers.
nucleotides
Lipids
monomers
Monosaccharides
120
What is Biology?
Study of rocks
Study of life
Study of space
Study of fish
121
Hox genes determine an animal’s ______________.
Shape
Legs
Color
Size
122
Which of the following is the correct in the levels of Organization?
Organs -> Organ System -> Tissue
Organs -> tissue -> organ system
Tissue-> organs -> Organ System
Organ system -> Tissue -> organs
123
What is weather?
Day to day conditions of Earth’s atmosphere
Greenhouse gases
Thunder
Sunlight
124
Which of the following is not a phase of Mitosis?
Phrophase
Metaphase
Centriole
Telophase
125
Cells use the energy available in food to make energy are called?
ADP
Water
ATP
Sugar
126
Genes mutations that involve changes in one or a few nucleotides are known as
Frameshift mutations
Deletion
Point mutations
Insertion
127
Forms an important part of both subunits of the ribosome
Messenger RNA
Ribosomal RNA
Chickens
Transfer RNA
128
To maintain homeostasis, unicellular organisms __________ to respond to the environment
Decay
grow
Stay the same
live
129
Bacteriophages are?
A form of bacteria
Coils of DNA
Enzymes
Viruses
130
Cells that can develop into any of the body’s cell types
Blastocyst
Totipotent
Pluripotent
Multipotent
131
________ is a protein needed to regulate the cell cycle.
Tumor
Cyclin
Peanut Butter
Amino acids
132
A biotic factor is any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact
True
False
133
True or False: Heterotrophs make there own food
True
False
