MTTC INTEGRATED SCIENCE EXAM 2024 WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS

Graticule slide Answer - marked with grid line, useful for counting or estimating a quantity Preparing acid solutions Answer - Always add acid to 2/3 water, then add rest of water # of Animal species Answer - over 1 million species and about 30 divisions # of insects Answer - 800,000 species, half of animal kingdom Characteristics of animal kingdom Answer - muliticellular, heterotrophic, reproduce sexually, do not have cell walls or chloroplasts, can move at some stage of life, can rapidly respond to environment due to specialized tissues like nerve and muscle Heterotrophic Answer - method of getting energy by eating food that has energy releasing substances Mendel Answer - Father of genetics, experimented with pea plants to observe inherited traits McClintock Answer - Created the first genetic map for maize, demonstrated recombination, how transposition flips the switch for traits. Watson and Crick Answer - Discovered the structure of DNA double helix and helped explain how DNA replicates. Leeuwenhoek Answer - First to observe single celled organisms with homemade magnifying glass. Observed bacteria, yeast, plants and other microscopic organisms.