Grade 7 Pre-Living Environment Baseline Assessment

Which of the characteristics is a lion least likely to pass on to its offspring?

• fur color
• length of tail
• scars on leg
• body size

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What you see, or the physical appearance is called

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Aa
• red hair
• heterozygous
• DNA

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Complex molecule that carries genetic information that defines an organism's traits. It is stored in the nucleus.

• DNA
• protein
• RNA
• glucose nucleic acid (GNA)

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What is ecology?

• The study of living things.
• The study of animals and plants.
• The study of living and nonliving things.
• The study of how organisms interact with their environment.

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Which is NOT an abiotic factor?

• grass
• rocks
• oxygen
• water

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A biotic factor in an organism's habitiat is _________.

• something that is not alive
• something that is living or was once living
• a group of species
• a group of communities

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what needs of an organism are provided by its habitat

• organism
• population
• food, shelter, water
• species

An organism's habitat must possess all of the following except...

• food
• water
• predators
• shelter

Which of the following is the smallest unit of life that can carry out all life functions?

• the mitochondria
• the vacuoles
• the nucleus
• the cell

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