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Osa Interactive Science Spring Semester

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do botanists study?

a)

Plants

b)

animals

2.

What do Ornithologists study?

a)

Birds

b)

Fish

c)

Reptiles

3.

What do Entomologists study?

a)

Insects

b)

Birds

c)

Fish

4.

What do Taxonomists study?

a)

Classifying

b)

Wearher

c)

Space

d)

Humans

5.

What do Geneticists study?

a)

Heredity

b)

Plants

c)

Rocks

6.

What do Biologist study?

a)

Life

b)

animals

c)

rocks

d)

dinosaurs

7.

What do Mycologists study?

a)

Fungi

b)

Plants

c)

Microbes

8.

What do Lepidopterists study?

a)

Butterflies

b)

Heredity

c)

Plants

9.

Who created one of the first modern telescopes, and successfully proved the Earth revolves around the Sun?

a)

Ernest Rutherford

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

James Clerk Maxwell

d)

Gregor Mendel

10.

Gregor Mendel's experiments established many of the rules of heredity. Which plant did he predominantly use?

a)

Peas

b)

Beans

c)

Broccoli

d)

Potatos

11.

Who is this?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Nicolaus Copernicus

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

12.

Who discovered gravity?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Sir Isaac Newton

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Aristotle

13.

(May 9, 1989 - ) She is an american scientist and professor who investigates computational methods for images and led the first visualization of a black hole using the Event Horizon telescope. The National Science Foundation uncovered the at no other time seen picture on April 10, 2019.

a)

Katie Bouman

b)

Ada Lovelace

c)

Mary Anning

d)

Marie Curie

14.

What is a trait?

a)

A type of organelle found within a cell.

b)

Our talents that make us behave the way we do

c)

Traits are the physical things that make us look the way we do, they may influence how we behave, and also our talents, abilities, and disease risks.

d)

Inheritable talents that are passed on in our families

15.

Which trait can be influenced by both our DNA and our environment?

a)

Having six fingers

b)

Freckles

c)

How tall we are

d)

The colors of our eyes

16.

What are chromosomes?

a)

They are packages of DNA found inside the nucleus of our cells

b)

They are X shaped threads made of ribosomes

c)

They are the inherited traits we recieve from our parents

d)

They are types of alleles found in the mitochondria of a cell

17.

What is a gene?

a)

An entire chromosome.

b)

A small part of DNA found in a chromosome that codes for a protein.

c)

Things that are sometimes refered to as XX and XY inside of our cell membranes

d)

One of the 23 chromosomes we get from each parent.

18.

The chemicals found in DNA are referred to as bases that are represented by the letters

a)

QRTP

b)

ABCD

c)

DTPG

d)

ACTG

19.

Which trait will not likely be influenced by the environment?

a)

Height

b)

Ability to play basketball

c)

How good we are at math

d)

Our Eye Color

20.

Pigeons have Chromosomes.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

What makes one persons DNA different from someone elses?

a)

The amount of pairs of bases on the strand of DNA.

b)

The order of the bases of ATCG

c)

The amount of mutations found in the DNA

d)

The type of chemicals it's made out of.

22.

What is a mutation?

a)

A mistake that happens when our cells code for a type of base.

b)

A genetic defect caused by our genes that always leads to cancer

c)

Another way to name the proteins that make up a strand of DNA

d)

What happens to the chromosomes when our cells are ready to reproduce.

23.

Our genes are ______ % the same when compared to another human

a)

99

b)

99.9

c)

50-60

d)

80

24.

Select the living organism that has DNA

a)

Pigeons

b)

Humans

c)

Trees

d)

All the other answers