WorksheetsQuestions in biology
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 9mins
Erythropoiesis is ...
A kind of Ancient poetry from China
The process by which red blood cells are formed and are destroyed
The process by which red blood cells form
The process by which red and white blood cells form
Erythropoietin (EPO) is produced...
when oxygen levels in the blood decrease
mostly by the bone marrow but partly by the kidneys
in greater frequency as we get older
2 of the above
Which type of explanation asks about the functional role of a biological phenomenon?
mechanistic explanation
adaptive explanation
ontogenetic explanation
phylogenetic explanation
What kind of explanation is this? "The reason birds prefer the song of their own kind is because they hear the sound of their mothers while the embryo develops in the egg"
mechanistic
adaptive
ontogenetic
phylogenetic
Which two explanations are aimed at providing an account of how a biological phenomenon has emerged in time?
mechanistic and ontogenetic
Functional and phylogenetic
Ontogenetic and phylogenetic
mechanistic and phylogenetic
Which of the following scientists hypothesised that chloroplast and mitochondria were previously free roaming microbes that eventually formed an endosymbiotic relationship that led to eukaryotic cells?
Barbara McClintock
Rosalind Franklin
Elizabeth Blackburn
Lynn Margulis
The kidneys regulate red blood cell production in a negative feedback loop. Can you list any other negative feedback loops we have learned in the course so far - at different levels of biological organisation?
We have explored four different answers to questions about what is happening in biology. Can you think of any other kinds of questions we might ask?
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