USAFA Bio 215 Block 1 Exam Questions
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Select the appropriate Principle of Biology: Your DNA codes for the creation of insulin (protein)
in pancreatic cells used to help regulate blood sugar in the body. You inherited this code from
your parents and will pass the code on to your kids. - Answer✔Information Flow, Exchange, and
Storage
Select the appropriate Principle of Biology: The branched structure in your lungs provides high
surface area over which a very high volume of air may pass. - Answer✔Structure and Function
How do hypotheses differ from theories? - Answer✔Theories are more comprehensive than
hypotheses.
Select the appropriate Principle of Biology: Fungi are decomposers that breakdown waste and
the remains of dead organisms, changing complex molecules into simple nutrients making
nutrients available for plants to take up from the soil. - Answer✔pathways & transformation of
energy and matter
What best describes a theory? - Answer✔A comprehensive explanation of natural phenomena
supported by abundant evidence
Select the appropriate Principle of Biology: Changing weather patterns and water levels has
increased the range of several species of disease-causing mosquitoes bringing illness to parts of
the world not previously affected by the disease. - Answer✔Systems
A hypothesis is a(n)? - Answer✔tentative answer to a question
Select the appropriate Principle of Biology: All mammals have hair and produce milk through
mammary glands. We would expect such similar characteristics in all mammals descended from
a common ancestor (first mammal). - Answer✔Evolution
A fat molecule is composed of two types of smaller molecules: _______ and fatty acids. -
Answer✔glycerol
_____ are the monomers from which large proteins are constructed. - Answer✔Amino acids
Science is ________. - Answer✔the inquiry-based effort to describe and explain nature
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