Name______Date ______
Honors Biology
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Topics covered on Chapter 1 Assessment:
-Life’s levels of organization – page 2
-Living organisms and their environments for interconnecting web – page 3
-Prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic – page 4 (do not worry about emergent properties or systems)
-The unity of life – characteristics of life – page 4 and 5
-Life Processes – notebook only
-Evolution explains the unity and diversity of life – page 8
Practice Questions:
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. All organisms have which of the following in common?
a. They exhibit complex organization d. They reproduce.
b. They store genetic information in DNA molecules. e. All of the above.
c. They utilize energy
3. 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
4. Biologists group living things into ___ domains.
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 6 e. about 10
5. 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
6. 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.
7. A bacterium and an amoeba are placed in different domains because
a. A bacterium is a single-celled. d. a bacterial cell is prokaryotic.
b. An amoeba is photosynthetic. e. an amoeba is single-celled
c. An amoeba can move.
8. 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
9. Natural selection tends to act at which of the following levels?
a. Population b. species c. phylum d. kingdom e. class
10. At the most fundamental level in life’s hierarchy, all living things contain the same basic
a. cells b. organs c. molecules d. tissues e. systems
11. The information in ____ underlies all of the properties that distinguish life from nonlife.
a. carbon b. DNA c. proteins d. populations e. nutrients
12. Describe the difference between REGULATION and METABOLISM. Give an example of each.
13. Show the general levels of organizationtion of living things starting with a cell:
Cell à ______à ______à ______à ______
14. What is a stem cell?
15. 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.
16. ______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
17. 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
18. What would happen if a 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 to animals.
d. The ecosystem would stop functioning.
e. More energy would flow into the ecosystem.
19. Actinosphenia elegans is a unicellular, photosynthetic organism with a nucleus.
To which domain does it belong?
a. Bacteria b. Archaea c. Eukarya d. Protist e. Can not be determined
20. Be sure to review your worksheets for practice application questions involving the life processes!