TEST BANK FOR KARP’S CELL AND
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 9TH EDITION,
GERALD KARP, JANET IWASA
CHAPTERS 1 – 18 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATED 2025.
,Test Bank for Karp’s Cell and Molecular Biology 9th Edition Karp
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Cell and Molecular Biology
Chapter 2: The Chemical Basis of Life
Chapter 3: Bioenergetics, Enzymes, and Metabolism
Chapter 4: The Structure and Function of the Plasma Membrane
Chapter 5: Aerobic Respiration and the Mitochondrion
Chapter 6: Photosynthesis and the Chloroplast
Chapter 7: Interactions between Cells and Their Environment
Chapter 8: Cytoplasmic Membrane Systems: Structure, Function, and Membrane Trafficking
Chapter 9: The Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility Chapter
10: The Nature of the Gene and the Genome
Chapter 11: The Central Dogma: DNA to RNA to Protein Chapter
12: Control of Gene Expression
Chapter 13: DNA Replication and Repair Chapter
14: Cell Division 6
Chapter 15: Cell Signaling and Signal Transduction: Communication between Cells Chapter
16: Cancer
Chapter 17: The Immune Response
Chapter 18: Techniques in Cell and Molecular Biology
,Package Title: Test Bank
Course Title: Karp9e Chapter
Number: 1
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Cell and Molecular Biology
Karp’s Cell and Molecular Biology, 9th Edition
Question Type: Multiple Choice
1) Who was the first person to name what he thought were single cells?
a) Leeuwenhoek
b) Hooke
c) Schleiden
d) Schwann
e) Virchow
ANSWER: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Identify the three tenets of cell theory. Section
Reference: Section 1.1 The Discovery of Cells
2) The first compound light microscopes were constructed by the end of the sixteenth century.
What characteristic defines a compound microscope?
a) It has a moveable stage.
b) It has multiple lenses.
c) Its lens is double the size of simple microscopes.
d) The lens has two different colors.
e) It has two different light sources.
ANSWER: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Identify the three tenets of cell theory. Section
Reference: Section 1.1 The Discovery of Cells
3) Who was the first scientist to examine and describe living cells?
a) Leeuwenhoek
b) Hooke
c) Schleiden
d) Schwann
e) Virchow
ANSWER: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Identify the three tenets of cell theory. Section
Reference: Section 1.1 The Discovery of Cells
, 4) Who is generally credited with the discovery of cells?
a) Leeuwenhoek
b) Hooke
c) Schleiden
d) Schwann
e) Virchow
ANSWER:
b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Identify the three tenets of cell theory.
Section Reference: Section 1.1 The Discovery of Cells
5) Cells grown in culture, outside the body are described as cells grown .
a) in vivo
b) live
c) in vitro
d) in culturo
e) vivacious
ANSWER:
c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Explain the importance of the fundamental properties shared by all cells.
Section Reference: Section 1.2 Basic Properties of Cells
6) A high powered microscope that allows cellular organelles to be examined in great detail is called
.
a) a refractive microscope
b) an electron microscope
c) a fluorescence microscope
d) a scanning tunneling microscope
e) a confocal laser scanning
microscope ANSWER: b
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 9TH EDITION,
GERALD KARP, JANET IWASA
CHAPTERS 1 – 18 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATED 2025.
,Test Bank for Karp’s Cell and Molecular Biology 9th Edition Karp
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Cell and Molecular Biology
Chapter 2: The Chemical Basis of Life
Chapter 3: Bioenergetics, Enzymes, and Metabolism
Chapter 4: The Structure and Function of the Plasma Membrane
Chapter 5: Aerobic Respiration and the Mitochondrion
Chapter 6: Photosynthesis and the Chloroplast
Chapter 7: Interactions between Cells and Their Environment
Chapter 8: Cytoplasmic Membrane Systems: Structure, Function, and Membrane Trafficking
Chapter 9: The Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility Chapter
10: The Nature of the Gene and the Genome
Chapter 11: The Central Dogma: DNA to RNA to Protein Chapter
12: Control of Gene Expression
Chapter 13: DNA Replication and Repair Chapter
14: Cell Division 6
Chapter 15: Cell Signaling and Signal Transduction: Communication between Cells Chapter
16: Cancer
Chapter 17: The Immune Response
Chapter 18: Techniques in Cell and Molecular Biology
,Package Title: Test Bank
Course Title: Karp9e Chapter
Number: 1
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Cell and Molecular Biology
Karp’s Cell and Molecular Biology, 9th Edition
Question Type: Multiple Choice
1) Who was the first person to name what he thought were single cells?
a) Leeuwenhoek
b) Hooke
c) Schleiden
d) Schwann
e) Virchow
ANSWER: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Identify the three tenets of cell theory. Section
Reference: Section 1.1 The Discovery of Cells
2) The first compound light microscopes were constructed by the end of the sixteenth century.
What characteristic defines a compound microscope?
a) It has a moveable stage.
b) It has multiple lenses.
c) Its lens is double the size of simple microscopes.
d) The lens has two different colors.
e) It has two different light sources.
ANSWER: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Identify the three tenets of cell theory. Section
Reference: Section 1.1 The Discovery of Cells
3) Who was the first scientist to examine and describe living cells?
a) Leeuwenhoek
b) Hooke
c) Schleiden
d) Schwann
e) Virchow
ANSWER: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Identify the three tenets of cell theory. Section
Reference: Section 1.1 The Discovery of Cells
, 4) Who is generally credited with the discovery of cells?
a) Leeuwenhoek
b) Hooke
c) Schleiden
d) Schwann
e) Virchow
ANSWER:
b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Identify the three tenets of cell theory.
Section Reference: Section 1.1 The Discovery of Cells
5) Cells grown in culture, outside the body are described as cells grown .
a) in vivo
b) live
c) in vitro
d) in culturo
e) vivacious
ANSWER:
c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Explain the importance of the fundamental properties shared by all cells.
Section Reference: Section 1.2 Basic Properties of Cells
6) A high powered microscope that allows cellular organelles to be examined in great detail is called
.
a) a refractive microscope
b) an electron microscope
c) a fluorescence microscope
d) a scanning tunneling microscope
e) a confocal laser scanning
microscope ANSWER: b
