Characteristics and Variety of Life

Which of the 5 kingdoms contain multicellular organisms?

• Animals, Plants, Fungi and Protoctista
• Animals and Plants
• Animals, Plants and Fungi
• All of the kingdoms

What is the defining feature of the Bacteria kingdom?

• They decompose organic matter
• They have a cell wall
• They don't have a nucleus
• They don't have sex

Fungi are 'saprophytic' feeders. What does this mean?

• They digest dead organic matter
• They digest dead inorganic matter
• They digest dead organic matter using extracellular enzymes
• They ingest dead organisms

Which one of these is not a 'life process' that is carried out by all living things?

• Movement
• Respiration
• Sex
• Growth

What is this a picture of?

• A paramecium
• A bacteria
• An Amoeba
• A plasmodium

Where do plants get the majority of their nutrients from?

• Photosynthesis
• The soil
• Other organisms
• The seed

The underground body of a fungus is made of a network of feeding threads called hyphae. What is the correct name for this hyphae network?

• Hyphae
• Root system
• Mycelium
• Mycorrhiza

Which of these are three structures you would find in a plant cell but not an animal cell?

• Nucleus, Chloroplast, Ribosome
• Chloroplast, Cell Wall, Vacuole
• Cell Wall, Chloroplast, Mesophyll

Are viruses generally regarded as living or non-living?

• Living
• Non-living

Why are viruses generally regarded as non-living?

• They cannot replicate outside of a host cell
• They do not do respiration
• They do not excrete waste products
• All three of these answers