HONORS BIOLOGY CHAPTER 01 PRACTICE TEST
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) Life is organized in a hierarchical fashion. Which of the following sequences correctly lists that
hierarchy as it increases in complexity?
A) molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population, community, ecosystem
B) ecosystem, population, organ system, cell, community, molecule, organ, organism, tissue
C) ecosystem, molecule, cell, tissue, organism, organ system, organ, community
D) organism, organ system, tissue, population, organ, community, cell, ecosystem, molecule
E) cell, molecule, organ system, organ, population, tissue, organism, ecosystem, community
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2) What is the difference between a tissue and an organ system?
A) Tissues are not considered to be living; organ systems are considered to be living.
B) A tissue cannot exist unless it is a component of an organ system, whereas an organ system
can exist independently of tissues.
C) Tissues are not composed of cells; organ systems are composed of cells.
D) An organ system includes tissues.
E) The tissue level of organization is more inclusive than the organ system level.
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3) The tree in your backyard is home to two cardinals, a colony of ants, a wasp's nest, two squirrels,
and millions of bacteria. Together, all of these organisms represent
A) a species.
B) a community.
C) the biosphere.
D) a population.
E) an ecosystem.
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4) Which of the following statements about ecosystems is false?
A) Plants and other photosynthetic organisms are producers in ecosystems.
B) The "web of relationships" within an ecosystem includes the nonliving components of the
environment.
C) In the process of energy conversions within an ecosystem, energy is eventually converted to
heat.
D) Chemical nutrients cycle within an ecosystem's structural web.
E) Bacteria and fungi recycle energy within an ecosystem.
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5) The ultimate source of energy flowing into nearly all ecosystems is
A) wind.
B) radioactivity.
C) electricity.
D) geothermal vents.
E) sunlight.
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6) Your instructor asks you to look into your microscope to see a prokaryotic cell. You will be looking
for a cell that
A) makes up most of the tissues of your body.
B) does not use DNA to code genetic information.
C) is much larger than most cells in your body.
D) has a membrane.
E) has a nucleus.
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7) Which of the following statements regarding a common cellular activity is false?
A) Cells respond to the environment.
B) New cells are derived from cellular components like organelles.
C) Cells develop and maintain complex organization.
D) Cells take in and use energy.
E) Cells regulate their internal environment.
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8) Which of the following statements about genetics is true?
A) Differences among organisms reflect different nucleotide sequences in their DNA.
B) Each organism has its own unique DNA code.
C) Genes are proteins that produce DNA.
D) Each DNA molecule is a single strand of nucleotides.
E) DNA relies upon five different building blocks as the alphabet of inheritance.
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9) Which of the following statements about the properties of life is false?
A) All organisms have the ability to take in energy and use it.
B) All organisms have the ability to reproduce.
C) All organisms have the ability to respond to stimuli from the environment.
D) All organisms have a complex organization.
E) All organisms have the ability to maintain a constant internal temperature.
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10) Which of the following statements about living systems is false?
A) Living systems respond to changes in the environment.
B) Living systems encode their genetic information in DNA.
C) Living systems maintain a relatively consistent internal environment.
D) Living systems grow and develop.
E) Living systems are composed of two or more cells.
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11) Organisms that are prokaryotes are in the domains
A) Archaea and Plantae.
B) Bacteria and Archaea.
C) Eukarya and Archaea.
D) Fungi and Bacteria.
E) Plantae and Animalia.
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12) What feature is common to prokaryotes, fungi, and plants?
A) cell walls
B) membership in the kingdom Monera
C) single cells
D) a nucleus
E) photosynthesis
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13) Which of the following is a kingdom within the domain Eukarya?
A) Monera
B) Bacteria
C) Archaea
D) Viruses
E) Fungi
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14) Members of the kingdom Fungi
A) use photosynthesis to produce their own food.
B) include the mushrooms.
C) include the yeasts.
D) include the mushrooms and yeasts, and decompose the remains of dead organisms and
absorb nutrients from the leftovers.
E) decompose the remains of dead organisms and absorb nutrients from the leftovers.
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15) A scientist examining a group of cells under the microscope notices the presence of nuclei within
these cells. Chemical tests reveal that each cell is surrounded by a wall composed of cellulose.
These cells must come from an organism that is a member of the kingdom
A) Fungi.
B) Protista.
C) Animalia.
D) Monera.
E) Plantae.
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16) An antibiotic kills 99.9% of a bacterial population. You would expect the next generation of bacteria
A) to be more resistant to that antibiotic.
B) to be less virulent than the previous population.
C) to die out due to the drastic decrease in population size.
D) to be more contagious than the prior generation.
E) to be just as susceptible to that antibiotic as was the previous generation.
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17) Which of the following statements about evolution is true?
A) Organisms evolve structures in response to needs.
B) Evolution is deliberate and purposeful.
C) Individuals evolve within the span of their own lifetimes.
D) Evolution is directional.
E) Evolution is a passive process.
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18) Consider the following statement: "If all vertebrates have backbones, and turtles are vertebrates,
then turtles have backbones." This statement is an example of
A) discovery science logic.
B) inductive reasoning.
C) rationalization.
D) a hypothesis.
E) deductive reasoning.
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19) A hypothesis is
A) the same as a theory.
B) a tentative answer to some question.
C) a widely accepted theory that is broad in scope and supported by a large body of evidence.
D) a widely accepted idea about a phenomenon.
E) an explanatory idea that is broad in scope and supported by a large body of evidence.
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20) A theory is
A) a belief that has been accepted by all scientists as fact.
B) a description of a belief that invokes the supernatural.
C) a concept in the early stages that still needs to be tested.
D) an explanation of an idea that is broad in scope with multiple lines of evidence.
E) an idea that has been proven.
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21) To be scientifically valid, a hypothesis must be
A) testable and falsifiable.
B) based on faith.
C) phrased as a question.
D) controlled.
E) reasonable.
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22) A scientist performs a controlled experiment. This means that
A) the experiment proceeds at a slow pace to guarantee that the scientist can carefully observe all
reactions and process all experimental data.
B) the experiment is repeated many times to ensure that the results are accurate.
C) two experiments are conducted, one differing from the other by only a single variable.
D) one experiment is performed, but the scientist controls the variables.
E) two experiments are conducted, one differing from the other by two or more variables.
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23) Which of the following best represents an example of technology?
A) sequencing the human genome
B) figuring out what mountain gorillas eat
C) testing for genetic diseases
D) identifying the cause of a new contagious disease
E) comparing the structure of a human and gorilla arm
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24) As the environment changes,
A) natural selection adapts populations to their environment.
B) populations change with a purpose.
C) new species will evolve by combining traits from several preexisting species.
D) populations will become extinct.
E) individuals develop new traits to adapt to the environment.
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Which level in the hierarchy shown is a community?
A) level B
B) level C
C) level E
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D) level A
E) level D
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Which of the following organisms belongs to the group represented in Box 1?
A) earthworm
B) tree
C) decomposing bacteria
D) giraffe
E) leopard
After reading the following paragraph, answer the question(s) below.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) set up a study to determine whether large doses of vitamin C would shorten the
length of time it takes to recover from a cold. Three thousand volunteers were split into two groups. For two weeks, members
of Group A took 3,000 mg of vitamin C daily. Group B received 3,000 mg of a placebo. At the end of the two-week period, the
researchers inserted live cold viruses directly into the noses of all the volunteers. The volunteers in both Group A and B
continued to take their daily pills. All the volunteers got colds, and there was no significant difference in the length of time
the colds lasted.
27) Which was the experimental group?
A) Group A only
B) Group B only
C) all 3,000 volunteers
D) half of Group A and half of group B
E) the researchers that inserted the cold virus
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28) To have confidence that the results of the experiment were valid, you'd also want to know
A) whether the volunteers exercised daily.
B) what the volunteers ate during the experiment.
C) whether the volunteers all worked for the same company.
D) whether any volunteers had colds at the start of the experiment.
E) the genders of the volunteers.
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Answer Key
Testname: HNR BIO CHAPTER 01 PRACTICE TEST
1) A
2) D
3) B
4) E
5) E
6) D
7) B
8) A
9) E
10) E
11) B
12) A
13) E
14) D
15) E
16) A
17) E
18) E
19) B
20) D
21) A
22) C
23) C
24) A
25) B
26) B
27) A
28) D
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