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