Biology Chapter 1
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This quiz will cover chapters one and two of the cammbell biology textbook that is used at the University of Houston.
- 1.What is reductionism?
- A.
Examines the parts that make up complex form in order to understand how it functions
- B.
Depends upon arrangements and interactions of components at each level
- C.
Examines the features of a whole system through the use of models
- D.
All of the above
- E.
None of the above
- 2.What are emergent properties?
- A.
Examines the parts that make up complex form in order to understand how it functions
- B.
Examines the features of a whole system through the use of models
- C.
Depends upon arrangements and interactions of components at each level
- 3.What are the levels of biological organization? (in plural tense and in order of highest to lowest)
- 4.What is systems biology?
- 5.Organisms possess ___ processes to exhange matter and energy within its environment
- 6.___ break down dead organic material and release nutrients back into the environment
- 7.Biological structures correlate to their____.
- 8.Eukaryotic cells have:
- A.
DNA in a nucleus
- B.
None of the above
- C.
Multiple organelles
- D.
Larger size
- E.
All of the above
- 9.Eukaryotic cells have:
- A.
50x smaller
- B.
No organelles
- C.
DNA free in cytoplasm
- D.
All of the above
- E.
None of the above
- 10.DNA contains the information, organized into __ that determines and controls all functions of an organism
- 11.DNA is
- 12.Different RNA molecules serve to ________________________________________________
- 13.Transcription is the process that_________________________
- 14.Translation________________
- 15.What are the nucleotides? (in alphabetical order)
- 16.Homeostatis
- 17.Negative feedback:
- 18.Positive feedback
- 19.Diversity and unity of life are explained by
- 20.Some organisms share the same skeletal features( ___), yet have uniques differences, (___), that suit each to its environment(___).
- 21.Definition of mutations
- 22.Adaptions arise from
- 23.What are the three domains?
- 24.What are the 6 kingdoms?
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