Biological Science, 8th edition Scott Freeman Kim Quillin Lizabeth Allison Michael Black Jeff Carmichael
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Emily Taylor Greg Podgorski Jeremy Hsu
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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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C) Sugars are broken down inside cells to produce energy.
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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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dpole into an adult frog. dt dt dt dt
E) Giraffes have longer necks so that they can reach food sources unavailable to other a
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nimals.
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2) Which of the following statements best describes a characteristic that may be associated with bo
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th living organisms and nonliving matter?
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A) Reproduction by passing on genetic information to future generations. dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt
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D) Able to produce heat as a byproduct of chemical reactions.
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3) Which of the following statements is an inaccurate example of how the living organism in the sce
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nario exemplifies a characteristic feature of living organisms?
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A) Photosynthetic bacteria meet the energy requirement, as they are able to convert energy fr dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt
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 an
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d 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 bul
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ldogs due to their DNA from the parents.
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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 ab
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ility to change over time. dt dt dt dt
E) All of the statements are proper examples of how that organism exemplifies particular c
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haracteristics of life. dt dt
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4) Pasteur’s experiments demonstrated that dt dt dt dt .
A) cells cannot survive in swan-necked flasks
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B) in order to grow, cells need to be supplied with oxygen
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C) spontaneous generation can only occur if nutrient broth is left open to the environment dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt
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E) preexisting cells present in the air can grow in sterilized nutrient broth A dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt dt
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5) Recall Pasteur’s experiment on spontaneous generation. If he had just warmed the nutrien
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rich broth, rather than boiled it, what would have been the likely outcome of his experimen
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t? Cells would
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A) not have appeared in either flask
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B) have appeared in both flasks dt dt dt dt
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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neck flask Answer: B
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6) Spontaneous generation dt dt .
A) was demonstrated to occur under normal laboratory conditions by Pasteur
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C) occurs every time a new species evolves from a preexisting species
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7) Recall Pasteur’s experiment on spontaneous generation. What would the expected results h
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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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B) Cells would have appeared in both flasks.
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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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neck flask. Answer: B
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8) Algae in the genus Caulerpa typically grow to a length of over half a meter and have structure simi
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lar to stems, leaves, and roots. Reproduction occurs when adults produce sperm and eggs that fus
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e to form offspring. Each adult Caulerpa consists of just a single cell, however. Which of the follo
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wing statements is TRUE?
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A) Caulerpa violate the pattern component of the cell theory that all organisms consist of ce
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B) Caulerpa violate the process component of the cell theory that all cells come from pr
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eexisting cells. dt