Biology STAAR

What phase is this cell in?

• Mitosis

• Cytokinesis

• Prophase

• Telophase

In mitosis, the two resulting cells are

• different from the starting cell and identical to each other.

• different from the starting cell and different from each other.

• identical to the starting cell and different from each other.

• identical to the starting cell and identical to each other.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What is a change in an organism that allows for it to survive in its environment?

• homologous

• vestigial

• variation

• adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

What are the three main parts of a nucleotide?

• carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen

• phosphate, sugar, and nitrogen base

• phosphate, sulfate, and nitrate

• adenine, thymine, and uracil

What is the order of succession shown in this figure?

• A, B, C, D

• B, A, D, C

• C, D, A, B

• D, A, B, C

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the name given to lichen or algae after a primary succession?

• pioneer species

• volunteer species

• founder species

• conqueror species

Put the following stages of mitosis in order: anaphase, prophase, metaphase, and telophase. 

• prophase, metaphase, telophase, anaphase

• prophase, anaphase, metaphase, telophase

• prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase

• prophase, telophase, metaphase, anaphase

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Aa

• red hair

• heterozygous genes

• mutated DNA

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

G = green, g = yellow
The genotype for a yellow plant is...

• GG

• Gg

• gg

• all of the choices result in yellow

Natural selection is

• survival of the fittest

• humans change

• two species are the same

• more animals survive

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4