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1) Which of the following is NOT related to the five fundamental characteristics of life?
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A) A bacterial cell divides to produce two cells.
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B) Sugars are transported on carrier proteins into cells across the plasma membrane.
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D) The gene that specifies skin color in frogs is expressed during its development from a ta
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E) Giraffes have longer necks so that they can reach food sources unavailable to other a
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D) Able to produce heat as a byproduct of chemical reactions.
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nd organs, all of those components are made of specialized types of cells.
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C) English bulldogs would meet both the information and ability to replicate requirements b
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ecause when they have a litter of puppies, we would expect the progeny to be English bu
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D) Monarch butterflies meet the evolution requirement because each of them will look diffe
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rent as adults (butterflies) than they do as juveniles (caterpillars) which demonstrate their a
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E) All of the statements are proper examples of how that organism exemplifies particular c
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4) Pasteur’s experiments demonstrated that br br br br .
A) cells cannot survive in swan-necked flasks
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C) spontaneous generation can only occur if nutrient broth is left open to the environment
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5) Recall Pasteur’s experiment on spontaneous generation. If he had just warmed the nutrie
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C) have appeared in the swan-neck but not the straight-neck flask
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D) have appeared in the straight-neck but not the swan-
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ave been if Pasteur’s swan-neck experiment hypothesis were incorrect?
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A) Cells would not have appeared in either flask.
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C) Cells would have appeared in the swan-neck but not the straight-neck flask.
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D) Cells would have appeared in the straight-neck but not the swan-
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Emily Taylor Greg Podgorski Jeremy Hsu
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Chapter 1-54 br
Chapter 1 Biology: The Study of Life
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1) Which of the following is NOT related to the five fundamental characteristics of life?
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A) A bacterial cell divides to produce two cells.
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B) Sugars are transported on carrier proteins into cells across the plasma membrane.
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D) The gene that specifies skin color in frogs is expressed during its development from a ta
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E) Giraffes have longer necks so that they can reach food sources unavailable to other a
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nimals.
Answer: E br
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2) Which of the following statements best describes a characteristic that may be associated with b
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D) Able to produce heat as a byproduct of chemical reactions.
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A) Photosynthetic bacteria meet the energy requirement, as they are able to convert energy fr br br br br br br br br br br br br br
om sunlight into the chemical energy they store in sugars.
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, B) As humans, we meet the cell requirement because even though we are made of tissues a
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nd organs, all of those components are made of specialized types of cells.
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C) English bulldogs would meet both the information and ability to replicate requirements b
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ecause when they have a litter of puppies, we would expect the progeny to be English bu
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D) Monarch butterflies meet the evolution requirement because each of them will look diffe
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rent as adults (butterflies) than they do as juveniles (caterpillars) which demonstrate their a
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C) have appeared in the swan-neck but not the straight-neck flask
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D) have appeared in the straight-neck but not the swan-
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