Human Biology Practice Questions Set 1: Chapters 1-3

Which of the following is the best description of biology?

• The study of animal structures

• The study of living things

• The study of fossils

• The study of how organisms process energy

• The study of patterns of inheritance

In the levels of biological organization below, choose the level that refers to groups of interacting individuals of one species.

• Community

• Cells

• Populations

• Ecosystems

• None of the above

Humans are members of the ________.

• Domain eukarya

• Domain archaea

• Domain bacteria

• Kingdom plantae

• Fungi

What is the information molecule found in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells?

• Protein

• DNA

• The ecosystem

• Lipids

• Mutation

Evolution by natural selection was first put forth by ____________.

• McClintock

• Watson

• Beadle

• Darwin

• Crick

Science is capable of ____________.

• determining the metaphysical causes for physical phenomena

• studying phenomena that cannot be observed and measured directly

• making value judgments

• addressing questions of ethical dilemmas

• measuring and reporting naturally occurring processes

The process by which living organisms maintain a fairly constant internal environment despite changes in the external environment is known as ____________.

• homeostasis

• evolution

• chemistry

• metabolism

• biology

A hypothesis must be testable to be scientifically valid. Being testable means that ____________.

• There is no way the hypothesis could be wrong

• A controlled experiment should support the hypothesis

• Everyone must agree that the hypothesis is correct

• The hypothesis has been proven wrong

• None of the above, because science is based on personal opinion

A theory is ____________.

• A poorly supported idea that has little backing but might be correct

• A well-supported explanation that explains broad concepts

• The same thing as a hypothesis

• Not correct unless it is several years old

• None of the above.

The biological study of the parts of living things is the science of ____________.

• Evolution

• Physiology

• Biochemistry

• Anatomy

• Genetics