Quiz About Health

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Human health is something that everyone should be well aware of and maintaining it is something we should all strive to do. My study guide is designed to prepare for my Natural Science CLEP test so may remove shortly once I'm done practicing in a few weeks. So take up the quiz below and get to practice right along with me.

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Quiz About Health

Motion is sensed by what part of the vertebrate ear?

The shape of a polypeptide or protein is

Green algae often form a multi-cellular ________ that is not differentiated into true leaf, root, or stem, and is attached to a surface by a holdfast.

Multi-cellular animals that lack both symmetry and true tissues are

Which of these lists the stages of chordate development in correct order?

Microspores are formed where in angiosperms?

Deuterostomes evolutionarily branched in two main directions: one with a radial body plan, and the other with a bilateral plan. These groups are known (respectively) as the

Which of the following pairings of a term or phrase with a group of organisms is INCORRECT?

In the geologic history of the earth, one period can be called the age of reptiles, since they were the dominant forms of animal life. This period is known as the

As part of their elemental cycles, which of the following elements can be converted (fixed) by specialized organisms from a gas in the atmosphere to a form in which it is available to other organisms?

Dispensing with the need for free water as a requirement for fertilization was an important development in the evolution of land plants. Which plant group lacks this adaptation to dry conditions?

Which statement about covalent bonds is NOT true?

When a cell is placed in a dilute solution (that is, hypotonic with respect to the inside of the cell),

Which nucleotide base is NOT contained in RNA?

The difference between competitive and noncompetitive inhibition is that

The unique properties of each amino acid are determined by its particular

A watershed is

Which one of the following statements about alleles is TRUE?

If fruit flies with straight wings (S, the normal or wild type) are crossed with flies with wrinkled wings (s), all the F1 progeny have straight wings. Predict the phenotypes of the F2 progeny and their relative proportions.

The first vertebrates were

In an ecosystem, detritivores include

In mice, there exists a gene for ear shape with two alleles: normal (T) and twisted (t). A cross has been made between two groups of mice. Both groups have the same genotype. The F1 progeny are 735 mice with normal ears and 265 mice with twisted ears. What are the genotypes of the progeny?

The complementary DNA sequence to this strand of DNA—A-T-C-C-G-T-A—would be

Karyotyping can be used to diagnose which common genetic disorder?

Homologous structures share a common evolutionary origin. An example of homology would be

The following graph:

In the pancreas, insulin

A biologist is studying the transport of a certain type of molecule into a cell. The researcher finds that transport slows when the cells are poisoned with a chemical that inhibits energy production. Under normal circumstances the molecule under study is probably transported into the cell by

The fibers in skeletal muscles are made up of many myofibrils surrounded by a membrane called

The kingdom Protista includes all of the following EXCEPT

Cell walls of chitin, sometimes with cellulose present, are characteristic of

What part of the mammalian nervous system is considered to act mainly during periods of stress, enabling a flight or fight reaction (faster heartbeat, deepened respiration, etc.)?

What part of the nervous system generally works in a fashion antagonistic to the functions of the parasympathetic nervous system, when both affect the same organ?

In what part of the nervous system are myelinated axons white and unmyelinated axons gray?

In conifer trees, the male cone is ________ than the female cone and produces __________.

A climax community is

The arthropod structures that remove nitrogenous wastes from the hemocoel are the

During the processing of mRNA from its initial form to a mature transcript, _____ are cut out and a(n) _________ is added to the 3' end and a cap at the 5' end.

Breeding activities in birds are usually initiated in response to

Why do muscles suffer fatigue?

There are ___ codons, of which _____ is (are) for start and ______ is (are) for stop.

The midpiece of a sperm contains numerous

Water and mineral nutrients are absorbed by a plant through

Monoecious plants

A niche (ecological niche)

Decomposer food chains start with

Most inherited traits are affected both by genes and environment (nature versus nurture). Give an example of a human gene that is expressed without any environmental influence—that is, the phenotype results from the expression of the gene alone and is not affected by the environment.

This marine zone in one form is found in both tropical and subtropical regions, with relatively warm and shallow water, and contains calcium carbonate structures laid down by animals. This is the _____ ______.

Most commercial fishing is done in what zone?

If fruit flies with straight wings (S, the normal or wild type) are crossed with flies with wrinkled wings (s), all the F₁ progeny have straight wings. Predict the phenotypes of the F₂ progeny and their relative proportions.

In mice, there exists a gene for ear shape with two alleles: normal (T) and twisted (t). A cross has been made between two groups of mice. Both groups have the same genotype. The F₁ progeny are 735 mice with normal ears and 265 mice with twisted ears. What are the genotypes of the progeny?

In conifer trees, the male cone is than the female cone and produces __.

During the processing of mRNA from its initial form to a mature transcript, _ are cut out and a(n) _____ is added to the 3' end and a cap at the 5' end.

There are _ codons, of which _ is (are) for start and ____ is (are) for stop.

This marine zone in one form is found in both tropical and subtropical regions, with relatively warm and shallow water, and contains calcium carbonate structures laid down by animals. This is the _ __.