Staar Biology Practice Assessment

What is any individual living thing called?

• cell

• organism

• biosphere

• biodiversity

What is the term for an organism whose genes have been altered or contain genes from more than one species?

• adaptation

• transmutated

• transgenic

• evolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-5

What is the study and manipulation of DNA at a molecular level?

• genomics

• biology

• moleculology

• molecular genetics

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-5

What is evolution?

• an inherited trait that gives an advantage to the organism and is passed on to future generations

• the change in living things over time

• all of the chemical processes that build up or break down materials

• any individual living thing

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is the variety of life within an area called?

• adaptation

• biology

• biosphere

• biodiversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What describes an inherited trait that gives an advantage to the organism and is passed on to future generations?

• evolution

• molecular genetics

• adaptation

• species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is the definition of a species?

• the name for all living things on earth and the places they are found

• an organized group of of related parts that interact to form a whole

• a type of living thing that can reproduce by interbreeding among themselves

• any individual living thing

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

All of the chemical processes that build up or break down materials is known as _____________.

• metabolism

• molecular genetics

• homeostasis

• biotechnology

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NGSS.HS-LS1-7

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

What is genomics?

• the study and manipulation of DNA at a molecular level

• the study of all living things

• observations and measurements recorded during an experiment

• the study of the entire sequence of DNA of an organism

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What is the name for all living things on earth and the places they are found?

• biosphere

• biology

• system

• homeostasis