Campbell Essential Biology With Physiology, 7th Ed
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Eric J. Simon, Jean L. Dickey, Jane B. Reece,
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Biology Today
Multiple-Choice Questions
1) In what way(s) is the science of biology influencing and changing our culture?
A) by helping us understand the relevance of evolution to human health
B) by revealing how mutations in genes can lead to disease
C) by providing new tools for forensic investigations
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
2) What is biology?
A) the scientific study of life
B) the scientific study of the environment
C) the scientific study of DNA
D) the scientific study of ecosystems
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
3) Which of the following is not a property of life?
A) Populations of organisms rarely change over time.
B) Living things exhibit complex but ordered organization.
C) Organisms take in energy and use it to perform all of life's activities.
D) Organisms reproduce their own kind.
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
4) What are the two main processes that ecosystems depend upon?
A) speciation and evolution
B) nutrient recycling and energy flow
C) decomposition and nutrient recycling
D) sunlight and photosynthesis
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
5) Which of the following is not recycled but is lost from ecosystems?
A) nitrogen
B) energy
C) magnesium
D) carbon
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
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,Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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,6) Which of the following is a producer?
A) oak tree
B) earthworm
C) sun
D) cat
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
7) Humans are .
A) producers
B) producers and consumers
C) consumers
D) producers and decomposers
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
8) Which of the following structures can perform all the activities required for life?
A) DNA molecules
B) cells
C) organelles
D) nuclei
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
9) Relative to prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells are usually .
A) larger and more complex
B) smaller and simpler
C) larger and equally complex
D) smaller and more complex
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
10) Humans are composed of cells.
A) bacterial
B) eukaryotic
C) plant
D) prokaryotic
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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,11) What name is given to the functional compartments of a cell?
A) genomes
B) nuclei
C) genes
D) organelles
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
12) The DNA of a eukaryotic cell is found within the .
A) archaea
B) nucleus
C) prokaryotic cell
D) insulin
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
13) What are eukaryotic genes composed of?
A) RNA
B) organelles
C) RNA and DNA
D) DNA
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
14) What is a gene?
A) a type of eukaryotic cell
B) an organelle that houses DNA
C) a type of prokaryotic cell
D) a unit of inheritance
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
15) The human genome consists of about chemical letters.
A) 300,000
B) 1 million
C) 3 billion
D) 300 billion
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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,16) More than half of all known species are .
A) plants
B) insects
C) bacteria
D) vertebrates
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
17) Taxonomy is the .
A) study of cells
B) naming and classifying of species
C) study of organisms and their interaction with the environment
D) study of genes
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
18) How does taxonomy assist biologists?
A) by providing easily remembered scientific names for organisms
B) by categorizing diverse items into smaller and smaller numbers of groups
C) by reducing life to its smallest common denominator, the cell
D) all of the above
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
19) Which domain(s) consist(s) of prokaryotic cells?
A) Bacteria only
B) Eukarya only
C) Archaea and Eukarya
D) Bacteria and Archaea
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
20) Which kingdom of Eukarya consists primarily of unicellular organisms?
A) Plantae
B) Bacteria
C) Fungi
D) Protista
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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,21) A newly discovered multicellular organism obtains food by digesting dead organisms. Such an
organism is most likely a member of the kingdom .
A) Plantae
B) Fungi
C) Protista
D) Animalia
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Application/Analysis
22) Members of the kingdom Plantae differ from members of the other kingdoms of Eukarya in that
most members of the kingdom Plantae .
A) are decomposers
B) are unicellular
C) are consumers
D) produce their own food
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1 The Scope of Life
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
23) The branch of biology that explains both the diversity and the unity of life is .
A) evolution
B) microbiology
C) taxonomy
D) genetics
Answer: A
Topic: 1.2 Evolution: Biology's Unifying Theme
Skill: Application/Analysis
24) Which of these is most closely associated with Darwin?
A) energy flow
B) ecosystem structure
C) the three domains of life
D) natural selection
Answer: D
Topic: 1.2 Evolution: Biology's Unifying Theme
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
25) Which of these is required for natural selection to occur?
A) inheritance
B) unequal reproductive success
C) individual variation
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Topic: 1.2 Evolution: Biology's Unifying Theme
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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, 26) Unequal reproductive success .
A) can lead to a population being less well adapted to its environment
B) increases variation
C) does not affect the frequency of expression of traits in succeeding generations of a population
D) can lead to natural selection
Answer: D
Topic: 1.2 Evolution: Biology's Unifying Theme
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
27) What does adaptation mean in a biological context?
A) the way an individual's body adjusts to its environment
B) the accumulation of favorable variations in a population over time
C) the ability of organisms to alter their appearance under changing environmental conditions
D) all of the above
Answer: B
Topic: 1.2 Evolution: Biology's Unifying Theme
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
28) What accounts for the different breeds of domesticated dogs?
A) overproduction
B) natural selection
C) competition
D) artificial selection
Answer: D
Topic: 1.2 Evolution: Biology's Unifying Theme
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
29) Over a span of two decades, scientists measured changes in the beak size of a population of
Galápagos ground finches. This .
A) provided evidence of natural selection in action
B) is an example of artificial selection
C) is an example of overproduction
D) led Darwin to his theory of evolution through natural selection
Answer: A
Topic: 1.2 Evolution: Biology's Unifying Theme
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
30) Science is .
A) the inquiry-based effort to describe and explain nature
B) the search for truth
C) an organized set of principles for how to ethically and morally behave
D) all of the above
Answer: A
Topic: 1.3 The Process of Science
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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