GCD 3033 Chapter 1
In what way are all cells alike? - answer They store their genetic instructions in DNA
How long ago is it estimated that the common ancestor for all life existed? - answer
between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years ago
Genetic change followed by selection is the fundamentals of what process? - answer
evolution
Which statement is NOT true about the differences between liver cells and kidney cells
from the same animal? - answer the different cells have different DNA
What is the cell theory? - answer all cells are formed by the division of preexisting cells
Which of these structures cannot be resolved with a conventional light microscope? -
answer ribosome
Individual atoms can be seen with an electron microscope - answer false
What do eukaryotic cells have that prokaryotes lack? - answera nucleus and other
internal organelles
Which of the following are prokaryotes? - answerarchaea and bacteria
What statement is NOT true about prokaryotes? - answerprokaryotic store their genetic
information in a nucleus
At a molecular level, the members of the two domains of prokaryotess--archaea and
bacteria--differ as much from each other as either does from eukaryotes - answertrue
Which of the following has a nucleus? - answerYeast
Which statement is NOT true of mitochondria? - answermitochondria are not present in
plant cells
Which statement is NOT true of chloroplasts? - answerchloroplasts are present in
essentially all eukaryotic cells
Which of the following organelles is an irregular maze of interconnected spaces
enclosed by a membrane that functions as the site where most cell membrane
components, as well as materials destined for export from the cell, are made? -
answerthe endoplasmic reticulum
In what way are all cells alike? - answer They store their genetic instructions in DNA
How long ago is it estimated that the common ancestor for all life existed? - answer
between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years ago
Genetic change followed by selection is the fundamentals of what process? - answer
evolution
Which statement is NOT true about the differences between liver cells and kidney cells
from the same animal? - answer the different cells have different DNA
What is the cell theory? - answer all cells are formed by the division of preexisting cells
Which of these structures cannot be resolved with a conventional light microscope? -
answer ribosome
Individual atoms can be seen with an electron microscope - answer false
What do eukaryotic cells have that prokaryotes lack? - answera nucleus and other
internal organelles
Which of the following are prokaryotes? - answerarchaea and bacteria
What statement is NOT true about prokaryotes? - answerprokaryotic store their genetic
information in a nucleus
At a molecular level, the members of the two domains of prokaryotess--archaea and
bacteria--differ as much from each other as either does from eukaryotes - answertrue
Which of the following has a nucleus? - answerYeast
Which statement is NOT true of mitochondria? - answermitochondria are not present in
plant cells
Which statement is NOT true of chloroplasts? - answerchloroplasts are present in
essentially all eukaryotic cells
Which of the following organelles is an irregular maze of interconnected spaces
enclosed by a membrane that functions as the site where most cell membrane
components, as well as materials destined for export from the cell, are made? -
answerthe endoplasmic reticulum
