,Exam
Name___________________________________
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
1) What is the difference between a tissue and an organ system?
A) An organ system includes tissues.
B) Tissues are not composed of cells, but organ systems are composed of cells.
C) A tissue cannot exist unless it is part of an organ system, but an organ system
can exist
independently of tissues.
D) Tissues are composed of organ systems.
Answer: A
Explanation:
A)
B)
C)
D)
2) Which of the following is an example of how living things assimilate energy?
A) producing a new generation of offspring
B) solving a mathematics problem
C) blinking at a bright light
D) eating a meal
Answer: D
Explanation:
3)
A)
B)
C)
D)
4) Evolution allows us to explain:
A) both the diversity of life and how all living things are related.
B) only the diversity of life.
C) only the origin of life.
D) only the unity of life.
Answer: A
Explanation:
2)
A)
B)
C)
D)
3) Because scientists are in the business of investigating nature, scientists
function as:
A) society's eyes and ears on the natural world.
B) protectors of the natural world.
C) political advisors.
D) authorities on the natural world.
Answer: A
Explanation:
,1)
A)
B)
C)
D)
1
4)
, 5) The liver releases glucose into the bloodstream if you don't eat for a long
time. This represents an
example of a characteristic possessed by all living things. Which is it?
A) possessing an inherited information base
B) maintaining a relatively constant internal environment
C) being able to reproduce
D) being composed of cells
Answer: B
Explanation:
A)
B)
C)
D)
6) The questions that can be answered by science are:
A) limited by what can be investigated using the scientific method.
B) limited only by imagination.
C) without limit.
D) limited by what is found in the living world.
E) limited by religious doctrine.
Answer: A
Explanation:
7)
A)
B)
C)
D)
8) Living things inherit information from their parents encoded in:
A) atoms.
B) fats.
C) proteins.
D) DNA.
Answer: D
Explanation:
6)
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
7) Biology developed as a science later than physics because:
A) biologists had to invent rules of the living world before they could describe
the forms.
B) the living world is tremendously diverse compared to the non-living world.
C) it is more difficult to come up with ways of describing nature.
D) biology is less complex than physics.
Answer: B
Explanation:
5)
A)
Name___________________________________
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
1) What is the difference between a tissue and an organ system?
A) An organ system includes tissues.
B) Tissues are not composed of cells, but organ systems are composed of cells.
C) A tissue cannot exist unless it is part of an organ system, but an organ system
can exist
independently of tissues.
D) Tissues are composed of organ systems.
Answer: A
Explanation:
A)
B)
C)
D)
2) Which of the following is an example of how living things assimilate energy?
A) producing a new generation of offspring
B) solving a mathematics problem
C) blinking at a bright light
D) eating a meal
Answer: D
Explanation:
3)
A)
B)
C)
D)
4) Evolution allows us to explain:
A) both the diversity of life and how all living things are related.
B) only the diversity of life.
C) only the origin of life.
D) only the unity of life.
Answer: A
Explanation:
2)
A)
B)
C)
D)
3) Because scientists are in the business of investigating nature, scientists
function as:
A) society's eyes and ears on the natural world.
B) protectors of the natural world.
C) political advisors.
D) authorities on the natural world.
Answer: A
Explanation:
,1)
A)
B)
C)
D)
1
4)
, 5) The liver releases glucose into the bloodstream if you don't eat for a long
time. This represents an
example of a characteristic possessed by all living things. Which is it?
A) possessing an inherited information base
B) maintaining a relatively constant internal environment
C) being able to reproduce
D) being composed of cells
Answer: B
Explanation:
A)
B)
C)
D)
6) The questions that can be answered by science are:
A) limited by what can be investigated using the scientific method.
B) limited only by imagination.
C) without limit.
D) limited by what is found in the living world.
E) limited by religious doctrine.
Answer: A
Explanation:
7)
A)
B)
C)
D)
8) Living things inherit information from their parents encoded in:
A) atoms.
B) fats.
C) proteins.
D) DNA.
Answer: D
Explanation:
6)
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
7) Biology developed as a science later than physics because:
A) biologists had to invent rules of the living world before they could describe
the forms.
B) the living world is tremendously diverse compared to the non-living world.
C) it is more difficult to come up with ways of describing nature.
D) biology is less complex than physics.
Answer: B
Explanation:
5)
A)
