Growth & Development of Organisms LESSON

Growth & Development of Organisms LESSON

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Multiple Choice

Sexual reproduction produces offspring (babies) that are different from their parents

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

When living things reproduce asexually, what is true about their offspring?

• The offspring will get 25% of their genes from their mother and 75% from their father

• The offspring will get all of their genes from only one parent

• The offspring will get half their genes from the mother and half from the father

• The offspring will get 75% of their genes from their mother and 25% from their father

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is TRUE about both asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction?

• Both require two parents

• Both make offspring with genes different from the parents

• Both require only one parent

• Both produce new living things

Multiple Choice

Which of the following behaviors could be an example of courtship behavior in penguins and used to attract another mate?

• The male bringing a pebble to the female in order to build a nest together.

• The mother using her body to provide shelter for her babies to stay warm.

• The mother laying more than one egg.

• The mother traveling to a warmer climate in order to lay her eggs.

Multiple Choice

What is the advantage of certain male frogs making loud noises while the females listen during the springtime?

• The loud noises help the frog to prepare for metamorphosis.

• The loud noises work to frighten potential predators.

• The loud noises help increase the frog’s chances of mating.

Multiple Choice

Which behavior increases a bird’s chances of reproducing?

• Having dull colored feathers

• Sitting on a nest to warm the eggs

• Performing a mating dance

• Migrating to warmer climates

Multiple Choice

Migrating to warmer climates

• A robin sings a song to attract a mate

• Sea turtle eggs hatch in the sand and the young navigate their way to the sea

• Meerkats show their young how to safely remove a scorpion stinger

• A queen bee mates with male drones in a colony

Multiple Choice

Plants help bees by providing nectar that the bees use for food. Bees help plants by

• pollinating the flowers of plants while looking for nectar

• protecting the plants from animals

• carrying the seeds of plants to new places to grow

• bringing water to the plants

Multiple Choice

A plant that has traits identical to the parent plant provides evidence that the plant

• resulted from sexual reproduction.

• resulted from asexual reproduction.

• will develop many seeds.

• will have large leaves.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of parental care?

• A robin sings a song to attract a mate

• Sea turtle eggs hatch in the sand and the young navigate their way to the sea

• Meerkats show their young how to safely remove a scorpion stinger

• A queen bee mates with male drones in a colony

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of courtship behavior?

• The Bowerbird decorating his nest with colorful objects

• Headbutting between male deer to compete for females

• The firefly illuminating its abdomen in search of a mate at night

• All of these are correct.

Multiple Choice

Flowering plants have many structures for reproduction. Which structure would be considered a male part of the plant?

• the anther

• the stigma

• the style

• the egg

Multiple Choice

Many plants have seeds inside of sweet smelling and tasting fruits (like apples and oranges). How does this help plants reproduce?

• The fruit provides energy to the animals

• The sweet smell and taste get animals to eat the fruit, which spreads the seeds to new places to grow

• The sweet smell makes it more difficult for animals to find to find the fruit

• The sweet taste makes it so animals would not want to eat the fruit

Multiple Choice

Two lion cubs are identical twins. One lion cub does not eat sufficiently and remains quite small. The other grows quickly and becomes large fast. Which influences affect the cubs’ growth?

• Solely the resources in their environment

• Solely their genetic inheritance

• Both environmental and genetic influences affect their growth.

• Neither environmental nor genetic factors affect their growth.

Multiple Choice

Which environmental issue might affect the growth of flowers planted near a house?

• The color of the flower’s petals

• Quality of the soil

• The flower’s genetic structure

• Time of day the flowers were planted