TEST BANK
Campbell Biology, Canadian Edition
Lisa Urry, Michael Cain, Steven Wasserman, Peter Minorsky, Rebecca Orr, Fiona Rawle, Dion Durnford, Christopher Moyes, & Kevin Scott
4th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Introduction: Evolution, the Themes of Biology, and Scientific Inquiry 1
Chapter 02 The Chemical Context of Life 29
Chapter 03 Water and Life 65
Chapter 04 Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life 102
Chapter 05 The Structure and Function of Large Biological Molecules 134
Chapter 06 A Tour of the Cell 173
Chapter 07 Membrane Structure and Function 211
Chapter 08 An Introduction to Metabolism 244
Chapter 09 Cellular Respiration and Fermentation 280
Chapter 10 Photosynthesis 323
Chapter 11 Cell Communication 355
Chapter 12 The Cell Cycle 382
Chapter 13 Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles 416
Chapter 14 Mendel and the Gene Idea 447
Chapter 15 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance 482
Chapter 16 The Molecular Basis of Inheritance 511
Chapter 17 From Gene to Protein 539
Chapter 18 Regulation of Gene Expression 576
Chapter 19 Viruses 611
Chapter 20 DNA Tools and Biotechnology 637
Chapter 21 Genomes and Their Evolution 665
Chapter 22 Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life 686
Chapter 23 The Evolution of Populations 711
Chapter 24 The Origin of Species 746
Chapter 25 The History of Life on Earth 776
Chapter 26 Phylogeny and the Tree of Life 810
Chapter 27 Bacteria and Archaea 844
Chapter 28 Protists 881
Chapter 29 Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land 908
Chapter 30 Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants 939
Chapter 31 Fungi 980
Chapter 32 An Overview of Animal Diversity 1017
Chapter 33 An Introduction to Invertebrates 1051
Chapter 34 The Origin and Evolution of Vertebrates 1089
Chapter 35 Plant Structure, Growth, and Development 1128
Chapter 36 Resource Acquisition and Transport in Vascular Plants 1153
Chapter 37 Soil and Plant Nutrition 1182
Chapter 38 Angiosperm Reproduction and Biotechnology 1212
Chapter 39 Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals 1241
Chapter 40 Basic Principles of Animal Form and Function 1281
Chapter 41 Animal Nutrition 1311
,Chapter 42 Circulation and Gas Exchange 1340
Chapter 43 The Immune System 1375
Chapter 44 Osmoregulation and Excretion 1414
Chapter 45 Hormones and the Endocrine System 1443
Chapter 46 Animal Reproduction 1471
Chapter 47 Animal Development 1502
Chapter 48 Neurons, Synapses, and Signalling 1530
Chapter 49 Nervous Systems 1559
Chapter 50 Sensory and Motor Mechanisms 1584
Chapter 51 Animal Behaviour 1618
Chapter 52 An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere 1650
Chapter 53 Population Ecology 1682
Chapter 54 Community Ecology 1720
Chapter 55 Ecosystems and Restoration Ecology 1751
Chapter 56 Conservation Biology and Global Change 1782
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
Campbell Biology, 4Ce (Urry, et al.)
Chapter 1 Introduction: Evolution and Themes of Biology
1) What is a localized group of organisms that belong to the same species called?
A) biosystem
B) community
C) population
D) ecosystem
E) family
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
2) Organisms interact with their environments, exchanging matter and energy. For example,
what do plant chloroplasts convert the energy of sunlight into?
A) the energy of motion
B) carbon dioxide and water
C) the chemical energy of chemical bonds
D) oxygen
E) kinetic energy
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
3) What does the main source of energy for producers in an ecosystem come from?
A) solar energy
B) other animals as a food source
C) the atmosphere
D) plants
E) water
Answer: A
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
4) Which of the following types of cells utilize deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as their genetic
material but do not have their DNA encased within a nucleus?
A) animal
B) plant
C) archaea
D) fungi
E) protists
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
5) To understand the chemical basis of inheritance, we must understand the molecular structure
of DNA. This is an example of the application of which concept to the study of biology?
A) evolution
B) emergent properties
C) reductionism
D) the cell theory
E) feedback regulation
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
6) Once labour begins in childbirth, contractions increase in intensity and frequency until
delivery. The increasing labour contractions of childbirth are an example of which type of
regulation?
A) a bioinformatic system
B) positive feedback
C) negative feedback
D) feedback inhibition
E) enzymatic catalysis
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
7) When the body's blood glucose level rises, the pancreas secretes insulin and, as a result, the
blood glucose level declines. When the blood glucose level is low, the pancreas secretes
glucagon and, as a result, the blood glucose level rises. What is this regulation of the blood
glucose level the result of?
A) catalytic feedback
B) positive feedback
C) negative feedback
D) bioinformatic regulation
E) protein-protein interactions
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
8) Which technology can analyze many biological samples very rapidly?
A) bioinformatics
B) schematic biology
C) proteomics
D) genomics
E) evolution
Answer: A
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
9) Prokaryotes are classified as belonging to two different domains. What are the domains?
A) Bacteria and Eukarya
B) Archaea and Monera
C) Eukarya and Monera
D) Bacteria and Protista
E) Bacteria and Archaea
Answer: E
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
10) Global warming, as demonstrated by observations such as melting of glaciers, increasing
CO2 levels, and increasing average ambient temperatures, has already had many effects on living
organisms. Which of the following might best offer a solution to this problem?
A) Continue to measure these and other parameters of the problem.
B) Increase the abilities of animals to migrate to more suitable habitats.
C) Do nothing; nature will attain its own balance.
D) Limit the burning of fossil fuels and regulate our loss of forested areas.
E) Recycle as much as possible.
Answer: D
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Synthesis/Evaluation
11) A water sample from a hot thermal vent contained a single-celled organism that lacked a
nucleus. What is its most likely classification?
A) Eukarya
B) Archaea
C) Animalia
D) Protista
E) Fungi
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
12) A filamentous organism has been isolated from decomposing organic matter. This organism
has organelles and a cell wall but no chloroplasts. How would you classify this organism?
A) domain Bacteria, kingdom Prokaryota
B) domain Archaea, kingdom Bacteria
C) domain Eukarya, kingdom Plantae
D) domain Eukarya, kingdom Protista
E) domain Eukarya, kingdom Fungi
Answer: E
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
13) Which of these provides evidence of the common ancestry of all life?
A) ubiquitous use of catalysts by living systems
B) near universality of the genetic code
C) structure of the nucleus
D) structure of cilia
E) structure of chloroplasts
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
14) Which of the following is true of natural selection?
A) It requires genetic variation.
B) It results in descent with modification.
C) It involves differential reproductive success.
D) It results in descent with modification and involves differential reproductive success.
E) It requires genetic variation, results in descent with modification, and involves differential
reproductive success.
Answer: E
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
15) Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism for descent with modification that stated that
organisms of a particular species are adapted to their environment when they possess which of
the following?
A) non-inheritable traits that enhance their survival in the local environment
B) non-inheritable traits that enhance their reproductive success in the local environment
C) non-inheritable traits that enhance their survival and reproductive success in the local
environment
D) inheritable traits that enhance their survival and reproductive success in the local environment
E) inheritable traits that decrease their survival and reproductive success in the local environment
Answer: D
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
16) Which of these individuals is likely to be most successful in an evolutionary sense?
A) a reproductively sterile individual who never falls ill
B) an organism that dies after five days of life but leaves 10 offspring, all of whom survive to
reproduce
C) a male who mates with 20 females and fathers one offspring
D) an organism that lives 100 years and leaves two offspring, both of whom survive to reproduce
E) a female who mates with 20 males and produces one offspring that lives to reproduce
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
17) In a hypothetical world, every 50 years people over 6 feet tall are eliminated from the
population before they reproduce. Based on your knowledge of natural selection, what would
you predict about how the average height of the human population will change over time?
A) Average height will remain unchanged.
B) Average height will gradually decline.
C) Average height will rapidly decline.
D) Average height will gradually increase.
E) Average height will rapidly increase.
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
18) Through time, the lineage that led to modern whales shows a change from four-limbed land
animals to aquatic animals with two limbs that function as flippers. Which of the following
explains this change?
A) natural philosophy
B) creationism
C) the hierarchy of the biological organization of life
D) natural selection
E) feedback inhibition
Answer: D
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
19) Which of the following statements is true?
A) A kingdom can include several subgroups known as domains.
B) All eukarya belong to one domain.
C) All prokaryotes belong to one domain.
D) The importance of fungi has led scientists to make them the whole of one domain.
E) Only organisms that produce their own food belong to one of the domains.
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
20) What is the name of the process by which the information in a gene directs the synthesis of a
protein?
A) gene expression
B) replication
C) post translation modification
D) cloning
E) transcription
Answer: A
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
21) Why is Darwin considered original in his thinking?
A) He provided examples of organisms that had evolved over time.
B) He demonstrated that evolution is continuing to occur now.
C) He described the relationship between genes and evolution.
D) He proposed the mechanism that explained how evolution takes place.
E) He observed that organisms produce large numbers of offspring.
Answer: D
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
22) Darwin's finches, collected from the Galápagos Islands, illustrate which of the following?
A) mutation frequency
B) ancestors from different regions
C) adaptive radiation
D) vestigial anatomic structures
E) the accuracy of the fossil record
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
23) When your body temperature rises on a hot day, the neural and hormonal mechanisms
activate sweating. Evaporation of sweat leads to cooling of the body surface. What is this is an
example of?
A) positive feedback regulation
B) negative feedback regulation
C) chemical cycling
D) emergent properties
E) chemical regulation
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
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Campbell Biology, Canadian Edition
Lisa Urry, Michael Cain, Steven Wasserman, Peter Minorsky, Rebecca Orr, Fiona Rawle, Dion Durnford, Christopher Moyes, & Kevin Scott
4th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Introduction: Evolution, the Themes of Biology, and Scientific Inquiry 1
Chapter 02 The Chemical Context of Life 29
Chapter 03 Water and Life 65
Chapter 04 Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life 102
Chapter 05 The Structure and Function of Large Biological Molecules 134
Chapter 06 A Tour of the Cell 173
Chapter 07 Membrane Structure and Function 211
Chapter 08 An Introduction to Metabolism 244
Chapter 09 Cellular Respiration and Fermentation 280
Chapter 10 Photosynthesis 323
Chapter 11 Cell Communication 355
Chapter 12 The Cell Cycle 382
Chapter 13 Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles 416
Chapter 14 Mendel and the Gene Idea 447
Chapter 15 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance 482
Chapter 16 The Molecular Basis of Inheritance 511
Chapter 17 From Gene to Protein 539
Chapter 18 Regulation of Gene Expression 576
Chapter 19 Viruses 611
Chapter 20 DNA Tools and Biotechnology 637
Chapter 21 Genomes and Their Evolution 665
Chapter 22 Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life 686
Chapter 23 The Evolution of Populations 711
Chapter 24 The Origin of Species 746
Chapter 25 The History of Life on Earth 776
Chapter 26 Phylogeny and the Tree of Life 810
Chapter 27 Bacteria and Archaea 844
Chapter 28 Protists 881
Chapter 29 Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land 908
Chapter 30 Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants 939
Chapter 31 Fungi 980
Chapter 32 An Overview of Animal Diversity 1017
Chapter 33 An Introduction to Invertebrates 1051
Chapter 34 The Origin and Evolution of Vertebrates 1089
Chapter 35 Plant Structure, Growth, and Development 1128
Chapter 36 Resource Acquisition and Transport in Vascular Plants 1153
Chapter 37 Soil and Plant Nutrition 1182
Chapter 38 Angiosperm Reproduction and Biotechnology 1212
Chapter 39 Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals 1241
Chapter 40 Basic Principles of Animal Form and Function 1281
Chapter 41 Animal Nutrition 1311
,Chapter 42 Circulation and Gas Exchange 1340
Chapter 43 The Immune System 1375
Chapter 44 Osmoregulation and Excretion 1414
Chapter 45 Hormones and the Endocrine System 1443
Chapter 46 Animal Reproduction 1471
Chapter 47 Animal Development 1502
Chapter 48 Neurons, Synapses, and Signalling 1530
Chapter 49 Nervous Systems 1559
Chapter 50 Sensory and Motor Mechanisms 1584
Chapter 51 Animal Behaviour 1618
Chapter 52 An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere 1650
Chapter 53 Population Ecology 1682
Chapter 54 Community Ecology 1720
Chapter 55 Ecosystems and Restoration Ecology 1751
Chapter 56 Conservation Biology and Global Change 1782
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
Campbell Biology, 4Ce (Urry, et al.)
Chapter 1 Introduction: Evolution and Themes of Biology
1) What is a localized group of organisms that belong to the same species called?
A) biosystem
B) community
C) population
D) ecosystem
E) family
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
2) Organisms interact with their environments, exchanging matter and energy. For example,
what do plant chloroplasts convert the energy of sunlight into?
A) the energy of motion
B) carbon dioxide and water
C) the chemical energy of chemical bonds
D) oxygen
E) kinetic energy
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
3) What does the main source of energy for producers in an ecosystem come from?
A) solar energy
B) other animals as a food source
C) the atmosphere
D) plants
E) water
Answer: A
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
4) Which of the following types of cells utilize deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as their genetic
material but do not have their DNA encased within a nucleus?
A) animal
B) plant
C) archaea
D) fungi
E) protists
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
5) To understand the chemical basis of inheritance, we must understand the molecular structure
of DNA. This is an example of the application of which concept to the study of biology?
A) evolution
B) emergent properties
C) reductionism
D) the cell theory
E) feedback regulation
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
6) Once labour begins in childbirth, contractions increase in intensity and frequency until
delivery. The increasing labour contractions of childbirth are an example of which type of
regulation?
A) a bioinformatic system
B) positive feedback
C) negative feedback
D) feedback inhibition
E) enzymatic catalysis
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
7) When the body's blood glucose level rises, the pancreas secretes insulin and, as a result, the
blood glucose level declines. When the blood glucose level is low, the pancreas secretes
glucagon and, as a result, the blood glucose level rises. What is this regulation of the blood
glucose level the result of?
A) catalytic feedback
B) positive feedback
C) negative feedback
D) bioinformatic regulation
E) protein-protein interactions
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
8) Which technology can analyze many biological samples very rapidly?
A) bioinformatics
B) schematic biology
C) proteomics
D) genomics
E) evolution
Answer: A
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
9) Prokaryotes are classified as belonging to two different domains. What are the domains?
A) Bacteria and Eukarya
B) Archaea and Monera
C) Eukarya and Monera
D) Bacteria and Protista
E) Bacteria and Archaea
Answer: E
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
10) Global warming, as demonstrated by observations such as melting of glaciers, increasing
CO2 levels, and increasing average ambient temperatures, has already had many effects on living
organisms. Which of the following might best offer a solution to this problem?
A) Continue to measure these and other parameters of the problem.
B) Increase the abilities of animals to migrate to more suitable habitats.
C) Do nothing; nature will attain its own balance.
D) Limit the burning of fossil fuels and regulate our loss of forested areas.
E) Recycle as much as possible.
Answer: D
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Synthesis/Evaluation
11) A water sample from a hot thermal vent contained a single-celled organism that lacked a
nucleus. What is its most likely classification?
A) Eukarya
B) Archaea
C) Animalia
D) Protista
E) Fungi
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
12) A filamentous organism has been isolated from decomposing organic matter. This organism
has organelles and a cell wall but no chloroplasts. How would you classify this organism?
A) domain Bacteria, kingdom Prokaryota
B) domain Archaea, kingdom Bacteria
C) domain Eukarya, kingdom Plantae
D) domain Eukarya, kingdom Protista
E) domain Eukarya, kingdom Fungi
Answer: E
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
13) Which of these provides evidence of the common ancestry of all life?
A) ubiquitous use of catalysts by living systems
B) near universality of the genetic code
C) structure of the nucleus
D) structure of cilia
E) structure of chloroplasts
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
14) Which of the following is true of natural selection?
A) It requires genetic variation.
B) It results in descent with modification.
C) It involves differential reproductive success.
D) It results in descent with modification and involves differential reproductive success.
E) It requires genetic variation, results in descent with modification, and involves differential
reproductive success.
Answer: E
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
15) Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism for descent with modification that stated that
organisms of a particular species are adapted to their environment when they possess which of
the following?
A) non-inheritable traits that enhance their survival in the local environment
B) non-inheritable traits that enhance their reproductive success in the local environment
C) non-inheritable traits that enhance their survival and reproductive success in the local
environment
D) inheritable traits that enhance their survival and reproductive success in the local environment
E) inheritable traits that decrease their survival and reproductive success in the local environment
Answer: D
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
16) Which of these individuals is likely to be most successful in an evolutionary sense?
A) a reproductively sterile individual who never falls ill
B) an organism that dies after five days of life but leaves 10 offspring, all of whom survive to
reproduce
C) a male who mates with 20 females and fathers one offspring
D) an organism that lives 100 years and leaves two offspring, both of whom survive to reproduce
E) a female who mates with 20 males and produces one offspring that lives to reproduce
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
17) In a hypothetical world, every 50 years people over 6 feet tall are eliminated from the
population before they reproduce. Based on your knowledge of natural selection, what would
you predict about how the average height of the human population will change over time?
A) Average height will remain unchanged.
B) Average height will gradually decline.
C) Average height will rapidly decline.
D) Average height will gradually increase.
E) Average height will rapidly increase.
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
18) Through time, the lineage that led to modern whales shows a change from four-limbed land
animals to aquatic animals with two limbs that function as flippers. Which of the following
explains this change?
A) natural philosophy
B) creationism
C) the hierarchy of the biological organization of life
D) natural selection
E) feedback inhibition
Answer: D
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Application/Analysis
19) Which of the following statements is true?
A) A kingdom can include several subgroups known as domains.
B) All eukarya belong to one domain.
C) All prokaryotes belong to one domain.
D) The importance of fungi has led scientists to make them the whole of one domain.
E) Only organisms that produce their own food belong to one of the domains.
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
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Test Bank - Campbell Biology, 4th Canadian Edition (Urry, 2025)
20) What is the name of the process by which the information in a gene directs the synthesis of a
protein?
A) gene expression
B) replication
C) post translation modification
D) cloning
E) transcription
Answer: A
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
21) Why is Darwin considered original in his thinking?
A) He provided examples of organisms that had evolved over time.
B) He demonstrated that evolution is continuing to occur now.
C) He described the relationship between genes and evolution.
D) He proposed the mechanism that explained how evolution takes place.
E) He observed that organisms produce large numbers of offspring.
Answer: D
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
22) Darwin's finches, collected from the Galápagos Islands, illustrate which of the following?
A) mutation frequency
B) ancestors from different regions
C) adaptive radiation
D) vestigial anatomic structures
E) the accuracy of the fossil record
Answer: C
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension
23) When your body temperature rises on a hot day, the neural and hormonal mechanisms
activate sweating. Evaporation of sweat leads to cooling of the body surface. What is this is an
example of?
A) positive feedback regulation
B) negative feedback regulation
C) chemical cycling
D) emergent properties
E) chemical regulation
Answer: B
Type: MC
Topic: Concept 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis
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