Biology Final

Exam 1  

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Life is organized in a hierarchial fashion. Which one of the following sequences illustrates that hierarchy as it increases in complexity?
Molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population, community, ecosystem
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 community
The ultimate source of energy flowing into nearly all ecosystems is
Sunlight
A consumer eating a producer represents
A transfer of chemical nutrients and energy.
Your instructor asks you to look into your microscope to see a prokaryotic cell. You will be looking for a cell that
Has a membrane
Which of the folloing is/are properties of life?
All of the above -the ability to take in energy and use it, the ability to reproduce, the ability to respond to stimuli from the enviornment, a complex organization
Which of the folloing statements is correct?
Differences among organisms reflect different nucleotide sequences in their DNA.
Organisms that are not prokaryotes are in the domain
Eukarya
Which one of the following is a kingdom within the Domain Eukarya?
Fungi
Members of the Kingdom Animalia
Are composed of cells that lack a cell wall.
Organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae
Are photosynthetic and contain cells that are surrounded by cell walls.
Which one of the following statements is true of the Domain Bacteria?
All backteria lack a nucleus.
Evolution by natural selection relies upon
All the choices are correct. - a struggle for existence, heritable variation, individual variation,overproduction of offspring.
An antibiotic kills 99.9% of a bacterial population. You would expect the next generation of bacteria
To be more resistant to that antibiotic
A hypothesis is
A tentative answer to some question