Section 1

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Organs are composed of tissues, which are composed of cells. This is an example of which characteristic of life?

• Living things grow and develop.

• Living things respond to stimuli.

• Living things maintain themselves by homeostasis.

• Living things have levels of hierarchical organization.

• Living things are adapted to the environment.

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. The smallest structural and functional unit in a multicellular organism is a(n)

• cell.

• tissue.

• organ.

• organ system.

• organism.

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Which level of biological organization is composed of several tissues?

• organism

• organ system

• organ

• cell

• molecules

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Which sequence correctly lists the different levels of biological organization, from the smallest and simplest to the largest and most complex?

• cells-organs-tissues-organ systems-organism

• cells-tissues-organ systems-organs-organism

• tissues-cells-organs-organ systems-organism

• tissues-organs-organ systems-organism-cells

• cells-tissues-organs-organ systems-organism

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Which sequence of classification categories is in the proper order from least to most inclusive?

• genus, class, kingdom, domain, order, phylum, species, family

• domain, class, genus, family, species, order, phylum, kingdom

• species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain

• genus, species, order, class, family, kingdom, domain, phylum

• species, genus, family, class, order, phylum, kingdom, domain

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the correct format for the binomial name of a manatee?

• Trichechus Manatus

• trichechus manatus

• TRICHECHUS manatus

• Trichechus manatus

• trichechus Manatus

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Corn belongs to the kingdom

• Plantae.

• Animalia.

• Fungi.

• Protista.

• Archaea.

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. The three major domains of life are

• plantae, animalia, and archaea.

• bacteria, fungi, and eukaryotes.

• eukarya, prokarya, and animalia.

• archaea, bacteria, and eukarya.

• eukarya, prokarya, and fungi.

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. A multicellular, photosynthetic organism with complex, specialized cells and tissues would most likely be assigned to

• kingdom Animalia.

• kingdom Fungi.

• domain Archaea.

• kingdom Protista.

• kingdom Plantae.

Multiple Choice - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. An informed statement that can be tested in a manner suited to the processes of science is known as a

• hypothesis.

• phenomenon.

• control.

• variable.

• theory.