Structure & Function Test Review

Which one of these is NOT a characteristic of a living thing?

• It responds to stimuli

• It can reproduce

• It is made of many cells

• It grows and develops

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Cells are best described as an organism's

• parents and other ancestors

• basic units of structure and function

• most important source of energy

• offspring that have not yet been born

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

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Cell theory states:

• all living things must have a cell wall

• all living things require glucose for survival

• the basic unit of life is a cell

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Which of the following shows the correct order of cellular organization from simplest to the most complex?

• Tissues, cells, organs, organ system, organism

• Cell, organs, organ system, tissues, organism

• Organism, organ system, organs, cells, tissues

• Cell, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

What characteristic do ALL living things have?

• They are made up of many parts

• They come from a cell(s)

• They reproduce sexually

• They need carbon dioxide to live

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Which one of the following statements about non-living things is CORRECT?

• They need food to grow and develop.

• They can respond to changes in their environment.

• They have offspring which are also non-living.

• They could have come from things that were once alive.

Which level of body organization do lungs represent?

• organ system

• cell

• organ

• tissue

Which of the following is NOT a premise of cell theory?

1. All cells arise from other cells.

2. All living cells require water for survival.

3. All living things are only composed of cells.

• 1 only

• 2 only

• 1 and 2

• 2 and 3

A cell that contains a chloroplast is most likely to be found in a...

• skin

• frog

• leaf

• human

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A student prepared the following list of characteristics about a cellular organelle:

1. present in animal cells
2. present in plant cells
3. the control center of the cell

Which of the following organelles is the student describing?

• cell wall

• chloroplast

• mitochondria

• nucleus

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2