Onramps Biology

What do you call similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor?

• Natural Selection

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Homologous Structure

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What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive better in an environment?

• variation

• adaptation

• selection

• overproduction

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An organism that produces its own food supply from the sun is called...

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Consumer

• Mutualist

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What do you call the plant at the beginning of every food chain?

• producer

• consumer

• heterotroph

• predator

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The _____ is made up of nerves that reach into and extend from the brain and the spinal cord.

• PNS

• CNS

• Nerve cell

• Motor cell

What is the main control center of the body that contains the brain and spinal cord?

• Peripheral nervous system

• Central nervous system

• Autonomic nervous system

• Somatic nervous system

When one organism captures and feed on another.

• predation

• symbiosis

• Producer

• mutualism

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10% is the amount of energy that transfers from one trophic level to the next.

Most of it is ______

• lost as heat

• used in respiration

• excreted

• all of these

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What level of the food chain is most affected by biomagnification?

• secondary consumers

• producers

• tertiary consumers

• primary consumers

Charles Darwin made many observations on his famous voyage around the world. Which place was the most note worthy?

• North America

• Asia

• the Galapagos Islands

• North America

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