QUESTIONS COMPLETE WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
\.Structures in a cell that make proteins. They read information on the mRNA and
produce proteins. - ANSWERS✔-ribosomes
\.Organisms are a product of - ANSWERS✔-Evolution
\.Archaea are more closely related to _______ than _______ - ANSWERS✔-
eukaryotes, bacteria
\.uses energy
is made of one or more cells
processes information
reproduces
can evolve - ANSWERS✔-criteria for life
\.All living things release ___________ into the environment - ANSWERS✔-energy
\.All cells have a ________ membrane, but not all cells have a _________ wall -
ANSWERS✔-plasma, cell
,\.Prokaryotes duplicate via ___________ - ANSWERS✔-binary fission
\.Eukaryotes reproduce via - ANSWERS✔-mitosis or meiosis
\.change in heritable characteristics over time of a species. - ANSWERS✔-
evolution definition
\.Every cells living today comes from - ANSWERS✔-another cell
\.Prokaryotes have a cell ________ outside the plasma membrane - ANSWERS✔-
wall
\.Prokaryotes do not have a _________, instead they have a single, circular
__________ . - ANSWERS✔-nucleus, chromosome
\.The small piece of DNA in a prokaryote, separate from the chromosome, is the
__________ - ANSWERS✔-plasmid
\.Some eukaryotic cells have a ___________ - ANSWERS✔-cell wall
\.Eukaryotic cells have multiple ______________ to store DNA - ANSWERS✔-
linear chromosomes
,\.DNA in a eukaryotes in stored in the __________. - ANSWERS✔-nucleus
\.Bacteria and Archaea are members of - ANSWERS✔-Prokaryota
\.A trait that is not reliant on genes, and acquired over time is called an
_________ - ANSWERS✔-acquired trait
\.Any change in the inherited traits of a population that occurs over time is called -
ANSWERS✔-biological evolution
\.Charles Darwin and __________ independently invented the theory of evolution
- ANSWERS✔-Alfred Wallace
\.Biological fitness is determined by the - ANSWERS✔-amount of fertile and
healthy offspring
\.Natural selection selects individuals with higher - ANSWERS✔-fitness
\.A trait that increases the fitness of an individual in a given environment is called
an - ANSWERS✔-adaptation
\.An trait that is an adaptation in one environment could ___________ in another.
- ANSWERS✔-deleterious
, \.A group in a phylogenetic tree consisting of a common ancestor and all its
descendants is called a _________. - ANSWERS✔-clade
\.More closely related taxa form a __________ clade. - ANSWERS✔-smaller
\.The theory of evolution does not explain how ____________________, it
explains how life has evolved since then. - ANSWERS✔-life originated
\.Natural selection changes the heritable traits of _______________ to cause the
evolution of ___________. - ANSWERS✔-populations, populations
\.Natural selections acts on _______________ - ANSWERS✔-individuals
\.All prokaryotes are ______________ celled organisms - ANSWERS✔-single
\.Bacteria have cell walls made of - ANSWERS✔-peptidoglycan
\.Gram positive bacteria stain ___________ - ANSWERS✔-purple
\.Gram negative bacteria stain _____________, because their peptidoglycan is
covered by a phospholipid bilayer. - ANSWERS✔-pink
\.Cells reads DNA and makes RNA - ANSWERS✔-transcription