Introduction to Biology

Which is the BEST description of biology?

• the study of humans and animals
• the study of life and living things
• the study of health care
• the study of humans, plants, and animals

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What are the basic building blocks of life?

• Atoms
• Cells
• Tissues
• Organs

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What is a producer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.
• Organism that eat other organisms for energy
• Organism that eat other dead organisms

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Which structure is found in plant cells and not in animal cells?

• cell wall
• centriole
• nucleus
• cytoplasm

What is a consumer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.
• Organism that eat other organisms for energy
• Organism that eat other dead organisms

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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What characteristic would a child not inherit from parents?

• freckles
• eye color
• hair style
• dimples

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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The first step in the scientific method is to 

• form a hypothesis
• ask a question
• state the conclusion
• conduct an experiment

The factors in an experiment that can be changed. 

• variables
• quantitative data
• hypothesis
• steps