TEST BANK
Biology: Science for Life with Physiology
By Colleen Belk, Virginia Borden Maier
LU
XE
LI
BR
AR
Y
, TABLE OF CONTENT
Can Science Cure the Common Cold?
UNIT 1: CHEMISTRY AND CELLS
Science Fiction, Bad Science, and Pseudoscience
Is It Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Performance and Health?
Body Weight and Health
Life in the Greenhouse
UNIT 2: GENETICS
Cancer
Fertility
LU
Does Testing Save Lives
Biology of Wrongful Convictions
Genetically Modified Organisms
UNIT 3: EVOLUTION
Where Did We Come From
XE
An Evolving Enemy
Understanding Race
The Greatest Species on Earth?
UNIT 4: ECOLOGY
Is the Human Population Too Large?
LI
Conserving Biodiversity
The Human Footprint
UNIT 5: ANIMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
BR
Organ Donation
Binge Drinking
Clearing the Air
Vaccination: Protection and Prevention or Peril?
Human Sex Diffrences
AR
Toxic Stress
Study Drugs: Brain Boost or Brain Drain?
UNIT 6: PLANT BIOLOGY
Feeding the World
Growing a Green Thumb
Y
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Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, 5e (Belk)
Chapter 1 C a n Science Cure the Common Cold? Introduction to the Scientific Method
1) Why is the scientific method used?
A) to answer specific questions about the natural world
B) to determine absolute truth
C) to distinguish good from evil
D) to establish moral codes
Answer: A
Section: 1.1
LU
Skill: Knowledge (Remember)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
2) Which feature is necessary for a scientific hypothesis?
A) It is able to be proven true.
B) It is falsifiable.
XE
C) It is a theory about something.
D) It is not based on observations.
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
LI
3) Which of the following is an appropriate scientific hypothesis?
A) Bad people catch more colds than good people.
B) Cold viruses should be allowed to reproduce just like anything else.
BR
C) It is unethical to go to school when you have a cold.
D) People catch colds because of exposure to cold temperature.
Answer: D
Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
AR
4) What is a scientific theory?
A) an explanation supported by large amounts of experimental evidence
B) an explanation that cannot be modified with new experimental evidence
C) little more than one person's educated guess
D) any testable explanation for a question or problem
Answer: A
Y
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge (Remember)
Learning Outcome: 1.2
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5) Deductive reasoning is used to make based on a hypothesis.
A) correlations
B) data
C) predictions
D) statistical tests
Answer: C
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
LU
6) Which hypothesis was tested by Warren and Marshall during their research involving
Helicobacter pylori bacteria and stomach ulcers?
A) Eating spicy food increases populations of H. pylori in the stomachs of people susceptible to
ulcers.
B) The cause of many stomach ulcers is the bacterium H. pylori, not spicy food.
C) Stomach acid production is decreased by H. pylori bacteria in the stomachs of people with
XE
ulcers.
D) Acute stomach pain is often caused by H. pylori bacteria, not ulcers.
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
LI
7) Which microbiologists contributed to the germ theory of disease?
A) Warren and Marshall
B) Pasteur and Koch
BR
C) Watson and Crick
D) Jacob and Monod
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.2
AR
8) Which statement would be correct if an inductively reasoned hypothesis makes sense, based
on all available and historical observations?
A) The hypothesis must be true.
B) The hypothesis cannot possibly be true.
C) The hypothesis must be tested.
Y
D) Experimentation is not necessary.
Answer: C
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application (Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.4
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Biology: Science for Life with Physiology
By Colleen Belk, Virginia Borden Maier
LU
XE
LI
BR
AR
Y
, TABLE OF CONTENT
Can Science Cure the Common Cold?
UNIT 1: CHEMISTRY AND CELLS
Science Fiction, Bad Science, and Pseudoscience
Is It Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Performance and Health?
Body Weight and Health
Life in the Greenhouse
UNIT 2: GENETICS
Cancer
Fertility
LU
Does Testing Save Lives
Biology of Wrongful Convictions
Genetically Modified Organisms
UNIT 3: EVOLUTION
Where Did We Come From
XE
An Evolving Enemy
Understanding Race
The Greatest Species on Earth?
UNIT 4: ECOLOGY
Is the Human Population Too Large?
LI
Conserving Biodiversity
The Human Footprint
UNIT 5: ANIMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
BR
Organ Donation
Binge Drinking
Clearing the Air
Vaccination: Protection and Prevention or Peril?
Human Sex Diffrences
AR
Toxic Stress
Study Drugs: Brain Boost or Brain Drain?
UNIT 6: PLANT BIOLOGY
Feeding the World
Growing a Green Thumb
Y
, KJHGFDSA
Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, 5e (Belk)
Chapter 1 C a n Science Cure the Common Cold? Introduction to the Scientific Method
1) Why is the scientific method used?
A) to answer specific questions about the natural world
B) to determine absolute truth
C) to distinguish good from evil
D) to establish moral codes
Answer: A
Section: 1.1
LU
Skill: Knowledge (Remember)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
2) Which feature is necessary for a scientific hypothesis?
A) It is able to be proven true.
B) It is falsifiable.
XE
C) It is a theory about something.
D) It is not based on observations.
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
LI
3) Which of the following is an appropriate scientific hypothesis?
A) Bad people catch more colds than good people.
B) Cold viruses should be allowed to reproduce just like anything else.
BR
C) It is unethical to go to school when you have a cold.
D) People catch colds because of exposure to cold temperature.
Answer: D
Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
AR
4) What is a scientific theory?
A) an explanation supported by large amounts of experimental evidence
B) an explanation that cannot be modified with new experimental evidence
C) little more than one person's educated guess
D) any testable explanation for a question or problem
Answer: A
Y
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge (Remember)
Learning Outcome: 1.2
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5) Deductive reasoning is used to make based on a hypothesis.
A) correlations
B) data
C) predictions
D) statistical tests
Answer: C
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
LU
6) Which hypothesis was tested by Warren and Marshall during their research involving
Helicobacter pylori bacteria and stomach ulcers?
A) Eating spicy food increases populations of H. pylori in the stomachs of people susceptible to
ulcers.
B) The cause of many stomach ulcers is the bacterium H. pylori, not spicy food.
C) Stomach acid production is decreased by H. pylori bacteria in the stomachs of people with
XE
ulcers.
D) Acute stomach pain is often caused by H. pylori bacteria, not ulcers.
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
LI
7) Which microbiologists contributed to the germ theory of disease?
A) Warren and Marshall
B) Pasteur and Koch
BR
C) Watson and Crick
D) Jacob and Monod
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.2
AR
8) Which statement would be correct if an inductively reasoned hypothesis makes sense, based
on all available and historical observations?
A) The hypothesis must be true.
B) The hypothesis cannot possibly be true.
C) The hypothesis must be tested.
Y
D) Experimentation is not necessary.
Answer: C
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application (Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.4
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