TEST BANK
Biology: Science for Life with Physiology
Colleen Belk & Virginia Maier
5th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Can Science Cure the Common Cold? Introduction to the Scientific Method 1
Chapter 2 Science Fiction, Bad Science, and Pseudoscience: Water, Biochemistry, and Cells 25
Chapter 3 Is It Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Performance and Health? Nutrients
and Membrane Transport 40
Chapter 4 Body Weight and Health: Enzymes, Metabolism, and Cellular Respiration 63
Chapter 5 Life in the Greenhouse: Photosynthesis and Climate Change 81
Chapter 6 Cancer: DNA Synthesis, Mitosis, and Meiosis 100
Chapter 7 Are You Only as Smart as Your Genes? Mendelian and Quantitative Genetics 117
Chapter 8 DNA Detective: Complex Patterns of Inheritance and DNA Profiling 137
Chapter 9 Genetically Modified Organisms: Gene Expression, Mutation, Stem Cells, and
Cloning 156
Chapter 10 Where Did We Come From? The Evidence for Evolution 174
Chapter 11 An Evolving Enemy: Natural Selection 197
Chapter 12 Who Am I? Species and Races 218
Chapter 13 The Greatest Species on Earth? Biodiversity and Classification 239
Chapter 14 Is the Human Population Too Large? Population Ecology 257
Chapter 15 Conserving Biodiversity: Community and Ecosystem Ecology 275
Chapter 16 Where Do You Live? Climate and Biomes 298
Chapter 17 Organ Donation: Tissues and Organs 319
Chapter 18 Binge Drinking: The Digestive and Urinary Systems 334
Chapter 19 Clearing the Air: Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems 343
Chapter 20 Vaccination: Protection and Prevention or Peril? Immune System, Bacteria,
Viruses, and Other Pathogens 358
Chapter 21 Human Sex Differences: Endocrine, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems 379
Chapter 22 Is There Something in the Water? Reproductive and Developmental Biology 396
Chapter 23 Study Drugs: Brain Boost or Brain Drain? Brain Structure and Function 416
Chapter 24 Feeding the World: Plant Structure and Growth 435
Chapter 25 Growing a Green Thumb: Plant Physiology 455
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Test Bank - Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, 5th Edition (Belk, 2015)
Chapter 1 Can 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
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.
C) It is a theory about something.
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D) It is not based on observations.
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
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.
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
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
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
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
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people with 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
7) Which microbiologists contributed to the germ theory of disease?
A) Warren and Marshall
B) Pasteur and Koch
C) Watson and Crick
D) Jacob and Monod
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.2
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.
D) Experimentation is not necessary.
Answer: C
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application (Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.4
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9) Why are hypotheses never accepted as proven by scientists?
A) A hypothesis cannot ever be true or false because it is an opinion.
B) Experimentation cannot support a hypothesis because it only tests predictions.
C) Hypotheses change every time a new experiment is conducted.
D) Alternative hypotheses might provide a better answer to the research question.
Answer: D
Section: 1.1
Skill: Analysis (Analyze)
Learning Outcome: 1.4
10) What is the result when a well-tested hypothesis is supported by many independent
studies in the scientific community?
A) The hypothesis would be considered a scientific theory.
B) The hypothesis is now be referred to as a prediction.
C) Further experiments would not occur unless a sufficient alternative is proposed.
D) The hypothesis is a fact that cannot be refuted.
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Answer: A
Section: 1.2
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.5
11) Consider this hypothesis: "Drinking Echinacea tea reduces the duration and severity of
colds." Which of the following statements is the best prediction based on this
hypothesis?
A) If people with a cold drink Echinacea tea, then they will feel better sooner.
B) If people with a cold drink Echinacea tea, then a tea ingredient will destroy the
cold viruses.
C) If people with a cold drink Echinacea tea, then the tea will reduce their stress.
D) If a person doesn't drink Echinacea tea, then he or she will catch a cold very
easily.
Answer: A
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis (Apply/Analyze)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
12) Which of the following is a testable hypothesis?
A) Taking zinc lozenges at the first sign of cold symptoms is wise.
B) Avoiding contact with other people reduces the chance of catching a cold.
C) Being a good driver makes you less likely to catch a cold.
D) Sleeping 8 hours a night makes you feel better when you have a cold.
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
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13) Which of the following hypotheses is testable using scientific methods?
A) Bees can see ultraviolet light that humans can't.
B) The dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex was a scavenger, not a predator.
C) Peacocks like to display their large tail feathers.
D) People with type O blood are natural meat eaters.
Answer: A
Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
14) Which of the following statements is a testable scientific hypothesis?
A) Antioxidants from food are better than antioxidants from a vitamin pill.
B) Eating fish reduces the chance of having a stroke.
C) Embryonic stem cell research will allow scientists to find a cure for diabetes.
D) Smoking makes people less attractive.
Answer: B
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Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
15) Which statement makes a prediction for the hypothesis "bird species have decreased in
number in a particular wetland due to construction traffic"?
A) If a wetland area is disturbed by construction vehicles, then the number of bird
species will decrease.
B) If construction vehicles are in a wetland, then the birds will become too
frightened to reproduce.
C) If bird numbers decrease in a wetland, then construction vehicles must have
polluted the environment.
D) If construction vehicles enter a wetland, then new predators will arrive and
reduce the bird populations.
Answer: A
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis (Apply/Analyze)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
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16) Certain researchers have published peer-reviewed reports that the use of zinc lozenges
reduces the length and severity of cold symptoms. Why are some scientists still
skeptical about the merits of using zinc lozenges during a cold?
A) Most people get zinc in their diet so extra zinc lozenges may not affect a cold.
B) Ideas about vitamin C have been discredited, so zinc will also be ineffective.
C) There is no way of knowing if the original work was properly controlled.
D) There may be other reasons why the people taking zinc lozenges recovered faster.
Answer: D
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application (Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.4
17) What type of reasoning takes the form of "if/then" statements?
Answer: Deductive
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
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Learning Outcome: 1.3
18) What type of reasoning is used to make a hypothesis based on previously established
observations?
Answer: Inductive
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
19) What two-word phrase is an explanation of a set of related observations based on
well-supported hypotheses from a number of different, independent lines of research?
Answer: scientific theory
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.2
20) What type of reasoning is used to make predictions based on a hypothesis?
Answer: Deductive
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
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21) A researcher has hypothesized that the chemical tributyltin (an additive in boat paint)
seeps into the water causing reproductive defects in developing marine snails. In an
experiment testing the effects of tributyltin on developing snails, which condition
should be used as a control?
A) Developing snails are kept in a tank of water and exposed to below-expected
levels of tributyltin.
B) Developing snails are kept in a tank of water and exposed to boat paint without
tributyltin.
C) Developing snails are kept in a dry tank to avoid exposure to contaminated water.
D) Developing snails are kept in a tank of water that has been cleaned with chlorine
bleach.
Answer: B
Section: 1.2
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.5
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22) Mehran heard that drinking a high protein supplement after football training would
improve his muscle mass. To test his hypothesis, the experimental group would
receive a high protein drink and the control group would drink only water. Who should
be selected for the control group in this experiment?
A) randomly selected teammates who are given only small amounts of a protein
drink
B) randomly selected teammates in training who are given a placebo instead of a
protein drink
C) volunteers from the general campus population who are not given any protein
drink
D) volunteers from the football team who agree to take a placebo instead of a
protein drink
Answer: B
Section: 1.2
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.5
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Biology: Science for Life with Physiology
Colleen Belk & Virginia Maier
5th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Can Science Cure the Common Cold? Introduction to the Scientific Method 1
Chapter 2 Science Fiction, Bad Science, and Pseudoscience: Water, Biochemistry, and Cells 25
Chapter 3 Is It Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Performance and Health? Nutrients
and Membrane Transport 40
Chapter 4 Body Weight and Health: Enzymes, Metabolism, and Cellular Respiration 63
Chapter 5 Life in the Greenhouse: Photosynthesis and Climate Change 81
Chapter 6 Cancer: DNA Synthesis, Mitosis, and Meiosis 100
Chapter 7 Are You Only as Smart as Your Genes? Mendelian and Quantitative Genetics 117
Chapter 8 DNA Detective: Complex Patterns of Inheritance and DNA Profiling 137
Chapter 9 Genetically Modified Organisms: Gene Expression, Mutation, Stem Cells, and
Cloning 156
Chapter 10 Where Did We Come From? The Evidence for Evolution 174
Chapter 11 An Evolving Enemy: Natural Selection 197
Chapter 12 Who Am I? Species and Races 218
Chapter 13 The Greatest Species on Earth? Biodiversity and Classification 239
Chapter 14 Is the Human Population Too Large? Population Ecology 257
Chapter 15 Conserving Biodiversity: Community and Ecosystem Ecology 275
Chapter 16 Where Do You Live? Climate and Biomes 298
Chapter 17 Organ Donation: Tissues and Organs 319
Chapter 18 Binge Drinking: The Digestive and Urinary Systems 334
Chapter 19 Clearing the Air: Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems 343
Chapter 20 Vaccination: Protection and Prevention or Peril? Immune System, Bacteria,
Viruses, and Other Pathogens 358
Chapter 21 Human Sex Differences: Endocrine, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems 379
Chapter 22 Is There Something in the Water? Reproductive and Developmental Biology 396
Chapter 23 Study Drugs: Brain Boost or Brain Drain? Brain Structure and Function 416
Chapter 24 Feeding the World: Plant Structure and Growth 435
Chapter 25 Growing a Green Thumb: Plant Physiology 455
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Test Bank - Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, 5th Edition (Belk, 2015)
Chapter 1 Can 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
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.
C) It is a theory about something.
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D) It is not based on observations.
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
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.
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
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
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge (Remember)
Learning Outcome: 1.2
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Test Bank - Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, 5th Edition (Belk, 2015)
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
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
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people with 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
7) Which microbiologists contributed to the germ theory of disease?
A) Warren and Marshall
B) Pasteur and Koch
C) Watson and Crick
D) Jacob and Monod
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.2
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.
D) Experimentation is not necessary.
Answer: C
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application (Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.4
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Test Bank - Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, 5th Edition (Belk, 2015)
9) Why are hypotheses never accepted as proven by scientists?
A) A hypothesis cannot ever be true or false because it is an opinion.
B) Experimentation cannot support a hypothesis because it only tests predictions.
C) Hypotheses change every time a new experiment is conducted.
D) Alternative hypotheses might provide a better answer to the research question.
Answer: D
Section: 1.1
Skill: Analysis (Analyze)
Learning Outcome: 1.4
10) What is the result when a well-tested hypothesis is supported by many independent
studies in the scientific community?
A) The hypothesis would be considered a scientific theory.
B) The hypothesis is now be referred to as a prediction.
C) Further experiments would not occur unless a sufficient alternative is proposed.
D) The hypothesis is a fact that cannot be refuted.
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Answer: A
Section: 1.2
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.5
11) Consider this hypothesis: "Drinking Echinacea tea reduces the duration and severity of
colds." Which of the following statements is the best prediction based on this
hypothesis?
A) If people with a cold drink Echinacea tea, then they will feel better sooner.
B) If people with a cold drink Echinacea tea, then a tea ingredient will destroy the
cold viruses.
C) If people with a cold drink Echinacea tea, then the tea will reduce their stress.
D) If a person doesn't drink Echinacea tea, then he or she will catch a cold very
easily.
Answer: A
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis (Apply/Analyze)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
12) Which of the following is a testable hypothesis?
A) Taking zinc lozenges at the first sign of cold symptoms is wise.
B) Avoiding contact with other people reduces the chance of catching a cold.
C) Being a good driver makes you less likely to catch a cold.
D) Sleeping 8 hours a night makes you feel better when you have a cold.
Answer: B
Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
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Test Bank - Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, 5th Edition (Belk, 2015)
13) Which of the following hypotheses is testable using scientific methods?
A) Bees can see ultraviolet light that humans can't.
B) The dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex was a scavenger, not a predator.
C) Peacocks like to display their large tail feathers.
D) People with type O blood are natural meat eaters.
Answer: A
Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
14) Which of the following statements is a testable scientific hypothesis?
A) Antioxidants from food are better than antioxidants from a vitamin pill.
B) Eating fish reduces the chance of having a stroke.
C) Embryonic stem cell research will allow scientists to find a cure for diabetes.
D) Smoking makes people less attractive.
Answer: B
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Section: 1.1
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.1
15) Which statement makes a prediction for the hypothesis "bird species have decreased in
number in a particular wetland due to construction traffic"?
A) If a wetland area is disturbed by construction vehicles, then the number of bird
species will decrease.
B) If construction vehicles are in a wetland, then the birds will become too
frightened to reproduce.
C) If bird numbers decrease in a wetland, then construction vehicles must have
polluted the environment.
D) If construction vehicles enter a wetland, then new predators will arrive and
reduce the bird populations.
Answer: A
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application/Analysis (Apply/Analyze)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
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16) Certain researchers have published peer-reviewed reports that the use of zinc lozenges
reduces the length and severity of cold symptoms. Why are some scientists still
skeptical about the merits of using zinc lozenges during a cold?
A) Most people get zinc in their diet so extra zinc lozenges may not affect a cold.
B) Ideas about vitamin C have been discredited, so zinc will also be ineffective.
C) There is no way of knowing if the original work was properly controlled.
D) There may be other reasons why the people taking zinc lozenges recovered faster.
Answer: D
Section: 1.1
Skill: Application (Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.4
17) What type of reasoning takes the form of "if/then" statements?
Answer: Deductive
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
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Learning Outcome: 1.3
18) What type of reasoning is used to make a hypothesis based on previously established
observations?
Answer: Inductive
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
19) What two-word phrase is an explanation of a set of related observations based on
well-supported hypotheses from a number of different, independent lines of research?
Answer: scientific theory
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.2
20) What type of reasoning is used to make predictions based on a hypothesis?
Answer: Deductive
Section: 1.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension (Remember/Understand)
Learning Outcome: 1.3
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Test Bank - Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, 5th Edition (Belk, 2015)
21) A researcher has hypothesized that the chemical tributyltin (an additive in boat paint)
seeps into the water causing reproductive defects in developing marine snails. In an
experiment testing the effects of tributyltin on developing snails, which condition
should be used as a control?
A) Developing snails are kept in a tank of water and exposed to below-expected
levels of tributyltin.
B) Developing snails are kept in a tank of water and exposed to boat paint without
tributyltin.
C) Developing snails are kept in a dry tank to avoid exposure to contaminated water.
D) Developing snails are kept in a tank of water that has been cleaned with chlorine
bleach.
Answer: B
Section: 1.2
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.5
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22) Mehran heard that drinking a high protein supplement after football training would
improve his muscle mass. To test his hypothesis, the experimental group would
receive a high protein drink and the control group would drink only water. Who should
be selected for the control group in this experiment?
A) randomly selected teammates who are given only small amounts of a protein
drink
B) randomly selected teammates in training who are given a placebo instead of a
protein drink
C) volunteers from the general campus population who are not given any protein
drink
D) volunteers from the football team who agree to take a placebo instead of a
protein drink
Answer: B
Section: 1.2
Skill: Comprehension/Application (Understand/Apply)
Learning Outcome: 1.5
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