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CAMPBELL BIOLOGY TEST BANK 4) To understand the chemical basis of inheritance, we must understand the molecular
11TH EDITION structure of DNA. This is an example of the application of which concept to the study of
biology?
(URRY) LATEST 2025/2026 UPDATED A) evolution
VERSION A+ B) emergent properties
Chapter 1 Evolution, the Themes of Biology, and Scientific Inquiry 1.1 C) reductionism
Multiple-Choice Questions D) feedback regulation Answer: C
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1
1) Cells are .
A) only found in pairs, because single cells cannot exist independently 5) A localized group of organisms that belong to the same species is called a .
B) limited in size to 200 and 500 micrometers in diameter A) community
C) characteristic of eukaryotic but not prokaryotic organisms B) population
D) characteristic of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms Answer: D C) ecosystem
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1 D) family Answer: B
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1
2) In comparison to eukaryotes, prokaryotes . 6) Which of the following statements is true regarding the complexity of biological
A) are more structurally complex systems?
B) are larger A) An understanding of the interactions between different components within a living
C) are smaller system is an approach towards understanding reductionism.
D) do not have membranes Answer: C B) Knowing the function of a component of a living system can provide insights into the
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1 structure and organization of the living system.
C) Understanding the chemical structure of DNA reveals how it directs the functioning of a
3) Which of the following types of cells utilize deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as their living cell.
genetic material but do not have their DNA encased within a nuclear envelope? D) An ecosystem displays complex properties of the biotic component only. Answer: B
A) animal Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1
B) plant
C) archaean 7) Which of the following order is correct in terms of the hierarchy of the organization?
D) fungi Answer: C A) Ecosystem → Biosphere → Population → Community → Organism
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1 B) Biosphere → Ecosystem → Population → Community → Organism
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A) gene expression
C) Ecosystem → Community → Biosphere → Population → Organism B) replication
D) Biosphere → Ecosystem →Community → Population → Organism Answer: D Bloom's C) post translation modification
Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1 D) cloning Answer: A
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2
8) When your body temperature rises on a hot day, the neural and hormonal mechanisms
activate sweating. Evaporation of sweat leads to cooling of the body surface. This is an example
12) Which of the following statements is true?
of
A) mRNA is the only type of RNA found in the living system
.
B) All forms of life employ the same genetic code
A) positive feedback regulation
C) A typical human liver cell has one set of chromosomes
B) negative feedback regulation
D) Organisms interact but do not affect their environment Answer: B
C) chemical cycling
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
D) emergent properties Answer: B
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1
13) Plants convert .
A) chemical energy to mechanical energy.
9) Characters are transmitted from parents to offspring. are the units of inheritance.
B) sunlight to mechanical energy.
A) Genes
C) sunlight to chemical energy.
B) Proteins
D) mechanical energy to chemical energy. Answer: C
C) RNA
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
D) DNA
Answer: A
14) Which of these provides evidence of the common ancestry of all life?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1
A) near universality of the genetic code
B) structure of the nucleus
10) As letters are to English language, is/are to genetic information.
C) structure of cilia
A) proteins
D) structure of chloroplasts Answer: A
B) nucleotides
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2
C) DNA double helix
D) A and B Answer: B
15) Which branch of biology is concerned with the naming and classifying of organisms?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1
A) informatics
11) The process by which the information in a gene directs the synthesis of a protein is called
B) taxonomy
.
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D) You and Streptococcus have nothing in common. Answer: B
C) genomics
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2 19)
D) evolution Answer: B Which of the following is true of natural selection? A)
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2 16) It requires genetic variation.
Use the following figure to answer the question.
B) It results in descent with modification.
C) It involves differential reproductive success.
The phylogenetic tree .
D) It requires genetic variation, results in descent with modification, and involves
A) depicts that Archaea is closer to Bacteria than Eukarya
differential reproductive success.
B) depicts that Eukarya is closer to Bacteria than Archaea
Answer: D
C) includes unicellular and some forms of multicellular life, but not complex animals and
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
plants
D) includes every single life form on this earth Answer: D
20) Which of the following is not one of Charles Darwin's observations? A)
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2
Individuals in a population vary in their traits.
B) Many of the traits in an individual are heritable.
17) Use the following figure to answer the question.
C) A population avoids competition by producing only as many offspring as can
successfully reproduce on their own.
D) Species generally are adapted to their environments. Answer: C
"A" is ; "B" is .
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
A) the most recent species to evolve on Earth; an ancestor of group "A"
B) the most recent species to evolve on Earth; the last common ancestor of Archaea and
21) The evolution of one species into two or more species as a result of different populations
Eukarya
becoming reproductively isolated from each other is best termed as .
C) the common ancestor of all life; the common ancestor of Bacteria and Archaea
A) adaptive radiation
D) the common ancestor of all life; the last common ancestor of Archaea and Eukarya
B) creationism
Answer: D
C) natural selection
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2
D) prototype Answer: A
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
18) You are suffering from Streptococcus throat infection. You share the following with
the bacteria that is responsible for your condition. A) You both belong to the same
22) Cotton-topped tamarins are small primates with tufts of long white hair on their heads.
domain.
While studying these creatures, you notice that males with longer hair get more opportunities to
B) You both are made up of cells.
C) You both have genetic material in your nucleus.
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A researcher discovered a species of moth that lays its eggs on oak trees. Eggs are laid at two
mate and father more offspring. To test the hypothesis that having longer hair is adaptive in these distinct times of the year: early in spring when the oak trees are flowering and in midsummer
males, you should . when flowering is past. Caterpillars from eggs that hatch in spring feed on oak flowers and look
A) test whether other traits in these males are also adaptive like oak flowers, but caterpillars that hatch in summer feed on oak leaves and look like oak
B) look for evidence of hair in ancestors of tamarins twigs.
C) determine if hair length is heritable
D) test whether males with shaved heads are still able to mate Answer: C How does the same population of moths produce such different-looking caterpillars on the same
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2 trees? To answer this question, the biologist caught many female moths from the same
23) Following a scientific method, which of the following is the correct order of steps? population and collected their eggs. He put at least one egg from each female into eight identical
A) Observation → Analysis → Hypothesis → Conclusion → Communicate results → cups. The eggs hatched, and at least two larvae from each female were maintained in one of the
Experiment four temperature and light conditions listed below.
B) Observation → Hypothesis → Experiment → Communicate results → Analysis →
Conclusion
C) Experiment → Hypothesis → Observation → Analysis → Conclusion → Communicate
results
D) Observation → Hypothesis → Experiment → Analysis → Conclusion → Communicate
results
Answer: D
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.3
24) Which of the following questions is considered a thought-provoking scientific query? A)
How long ago did the Pterosaurs live on this planet?
B) Does the amount of solute in water affect the boiling point of the solution?
C) Who invented the telescope?
D) How many tigers are left in India? Answer: D
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1
25) The following experiment is used for the following question.
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CAMPBELL BIOLOGY TEST BANK 4) To understand the chemical basis of inheritance, we must understand the molecular
11TH EDITION structure of DNA. This is an example of the application of which concept to the study of
biology?
(URRY) LATEST 2025/2026 UPDATED A) evolution
VERSION A+ B) emergent properties
Chapter 1 Evolution, the Themes of Biology, and Scientific Inquiry 1.1 C) reductionism
Multiple-Choice Questions D) feedback regulation Answer: C
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1
1) Cells are .
A) only found in pairs, because single cells cannot exist independently 5) A localized group of organisms that belong to the same species is called a .
B) limited in size to 200 and 500 micrometers in diameter A) community
C) characteristic of eukaryotic but not prokaryotic organisms B) population
D) characteristic of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms Answer: D C) ecosystem
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1 D) family Answer: B
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1
2) In comparison to eukaryotes, prokaryotes . 6) Which of the following statements is true regarding the complexity of biological
A) are more structurally complex systems?
B) are larger A) An understanding of the interactions between different components within a living
C) are smaller system is an approach towards understanding reductionism.
D) do not have membranes Answer: C B) Knowing the function of a component of a living system can provide insights into the
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1 structure and organization of the living system.
C) Understanding the chemical structure of DNA reveals how it directs the functioning of a
3) Which of the following types of cells utilize deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as their living cell.
genetic material but do not have their DNA encased within a nuclear envelope? D) An ecosystem displays complex properties of the biotic component only. Answer: B
A) animal Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1
B) plant
C) archaean 7) Which of the following order is correct in terms of the hierarchy of the organization?
D) fungi Answer: C A) Ecosystem → Biosphere → Population → Community → Organism
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1 B) Biosphere → Ecosystem → Population → Community → Organism
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A) gene expression
C) Ecosystem → Community → Biosphere → Population → Organism B) replication
D) Biosphere → Ecosystem →Community → Population → Organism Answer: D Bloom's C) post translation modification
Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1 D) cloning Answer: A
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2
8) When your body temperature rises on a hot day, the neural and hormonal mechanisms
activate sweating. Evaporation of sweat leads to cooling of the body surface. This is an example
12) Which of the following statements is true?
of
A) mRNA is the only type of RNA found in the living system
.
B) All forms of life employ the same genetic code
A) positive feedback regulation
C) A typical human liver cell has one set of chromosomes
B) negative feedback regulation
D) Organisms interact but do not affect their environment Answer: B
C) chemical cycling
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
D) emergent properties Answer: B
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1
13) Plants convert .
A) chemical energy to mechanical energy.
9) Characters are transmitted from parents to offspring. are the units of inheritance.
B) sunlight to mechanical energy.
A) Genes
C) sunlight to chemical energy.
B) Proteins
D) mechanical energy to chemical energy. Answer: C
C) RNA
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
D) DNA
Answer: A
14) Which of these provides evidence of the common ancestry of all life?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1
A) near universality of the genetic code
B) structure of the nucleus
10) As letters are to English language, is/are to genetic information.
C) structure of cilia
A) proteins
D) structure of chloroplasts Answer: A
B) nucleotides
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2
C) DNA double helix
D) A and B Answer: B
15) Which branch of biology is concerned with the naming and classifying of organisms?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.1
A) informatics
11) The process by which the information in a gene directs the synthesis of a protein is called
B) taxonomy
.
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D) You and Streptococcus have nothing in common. Answer: B
C) genomics
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2 19)
D) evolution Answer: B Which of the following is true of natural selection? A)
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2 16) It requires genetic variation.
Use the following figure to answer the question.
B) It results in descent with modification.
C) It involves differential reproductive success.
The phylogenetic tree .
D) It requires genetic variation, results in descent with modification, and involves
A) depicts that Archaea is closer to Bacteria than Eukarya
differential reproductive success.
B) depicts that Eukarya is closer to Bacteria than Archaea
Answer: D
C) includes unicellular and some forms of multicellular life, but not complex animals and
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
plants
D) includes every single life form on this earth Answer: D
20) Which of the following is not one of Charles Darwin's observations? A)
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2
Individuals in a population vary in their traits.
B) Many of the traits in an individual are heritable.
17) Use the following figure to answer the question.
C) A population avoids competition by producing only as many offspring as can
successfully reproduce on their own.
D) Species generally are adapted to their environments. Answer: C
"A" is ; "B" is .
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
A) the most recent species to evolve on Earth; an ancestor of group "A"
B) the most recent species to evolve on Earth; the last common ancestor of Archaea and
21) The evolution of one species into two or more species as a result of different populations
Eukarya
becoming reproductively isolated from each other is best termed as .
C) the common ancestor of all life; the common ancestor of Bacteria and Archaea
A) adaptive radiation
D) the common ancestor of all life; the last common ancestor of Archaea and Eukarya
B) creationism
Answer: D
C) natural selection
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2
D) prototype Answer: A
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.2
18) You are suffering from Streptococcus throat infection. You share the following with
the bacteria that is responsible for your condition. A) You both belong to the same
22) Cotton-topped tamarins are small primates with tufts of long white hair on their heads.
domain.
While studying these creatures, you notice that males with longer hair get more opportunities to
B) You both are made up of cells.
C) You both have genetic material in your nucleus.
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A researcher discovered a species of moth that lays its eggs on oak trees. Eggs are laid at two
mate and father more offspring. To test the hypothesis that having longer hair is adaptive in these distinct times of the year: early in spring when the oak trees are flowering and in midsummer
males, you should . when flowering is past. Caterpillars from eggs that hatch in spring feed on oak flowers and look
A) test whether other traits in these males are also adaptive like oak flowers, but caterpillars that hatch in summer feed on oak leaves and look like oak
B) look for evidence of hair in ancestors of tamarins twigs.
C) determine if hair length is heritable
D) test whether males with shaved heads are still able to mate Answer: C How does the same population of moths produce such different-looking caterpillars on the same
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.2 trees? To answer this question, the biologist caught many female moths from the same
23) Following a scientific method, which of the following is the correct order of steps? population and collected their eggs. He put at least one egg from each female into eight identical
A) Observation → Analysis → Hypothesis → Conclusion → Communicate results → cups. The eggs hatched, and at least two larvae from each female were maintained in one of the
Experiment four temperature and light conditions listed below.
B) Observation → Hypothesis → Experiment → Communicate results → Analysis →
Conclusion
C) Experiment → Hypothesis → Observation → Analysis → Conclusion → Communicate
results
D) Observation → Hypothesis → Experiment → Analysis → Conclusion → Communicate
results
Answer: D
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension Section: 1.3
24) Which of the following questions is considered a thought-provoking scientific query? A)
How long ago did the Pterosaurs live on this planet?
B) Does the amount of solute in water affect the boiling point of the solution?
C) Who invented the telescope?
D) How many tigers are left in India? Answer: D
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application/Analysis Section: 1.1
25) The following experiment is used for the following question.
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