Milestones Review: Evolution & Organisms

Question 1

What processes require the chloroplasts and mitochondria to interact with one another?

Accepted Answer

photosynthesis and respiration

Question 2

What is the function of organelle number 4 in the diagram?

Accepted Answer

make proteins

Question 3

Into what two categories were all living things originally divided by Aristotle?

Accepted Answer

plants and animals

Question 4

According to the diagram, which two organisms are most closely related?

Accepted Answer

human and rhesus monkey

Question 5

What are the most basic building blocks of all organisms?

Accepted Answer

cells

Question 6

A microscopic, single celled organism with no membrane bound nucleus would be in which kingdoms

Accepted Answer

Archaebacteria and Eubacteria

Question 7

In the above diagram of a plant cell, what is the name of structure 4?

Accepted Answer

cell wall

Question 8

What is the name of structure 1 in the diagram?

Accepted Answer

vacuole

Question 9

An abiotic factor affecting the roots of a tree would be

Accepted Answer

moisture

Question 10

What type of evidence evidence is the most convincing that two organisms are related?

Accepted Answer

DNA

Question 11

When scientists use the age of rocks to determine the age of fossils it is called

Accepted Answer

relative dating

Question 12

Which scientist first proposed the evolutionary theory of natural selection?

Accepted Answer

Charles Darwin

Question 13

Which of the following biological processes occurs in a cell's mitochondria?

Accepted Answer

oxidative respiration

Question 14

In the above diagram of an animal cell, what is the function of organelle 3?

Accepted Answer

To collect, package, and distribute molecules

Question 15

The forelimbs of the organisms in the diagram that evolved from a common ancestor are

Accepted Answer

homologous

Question 16

In the diagram of an animal cell, what is the function of organelle 2?

Accepted Answer

cellular respiration

Question 17

Viruses are not living organisms because they cannot repoduce outside a host and do not contain

Accepted Answer

Cells

Question 18

To which of the following kingdoms does the simplest eukaryotic organism belong?

Accepted Answer

protists

Question 19

Which of the following is present in both prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells?

Accepted Answer

ribosomes

Question 20

What are the three domains used to classify organisms?

Accepted Answer

bacteria, archaea, and eukarya

Question 21

The cell pictured most likely came from which of the following organisms?

Accepted Answer

human

Question 22

In the above diagram of a plant cell, what is the name of structure 2?

Accepted Answer

chloroplast

Question 23

Viewed under a microscope, which cell structure would best indicate the organism is a plant?

Accepted Answer

central vacuole

Question 24

Most organisms found in the Archaebacteria kingdom obtain energy and nutrients through...

Accepted Answer

chemosynthesis

Question 25

The human appendix, showing human evolution from plant-eating ancestors,is what type structure?

Accepted Answer

vestigial

Question 26

What is the name of structure 1 in the diagram?

Accepted Answer

endoplasmic reticulum

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