SLCC BIOLOGY 1090 UNIT 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025-
2026
Homeostasis - Answers What is the name for the ability of living things to maintain a relatively
constant internal environment?
Using both a treatment and a control group - Answers Eliminate as many alternative hypotheses
as possible
"Blinding" both the researcher and the participants - Answers Eliminate the possibility of bias
Using groups as large as possible - Answers Assure that the sampled group represents the
population as a whole
Hypothesis/Prediction - Answers A well stated ___ allows a researcher to make a/an ____ which
can then be tested.
Domain - Answers In the classification of living organisms, what level of organization is the
group called Archaea?
Genes made from proteins - Answers Each of the following is a feature of all known living things
EXCEPT
Anecdotal evidence. - Answers Celebrities Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey are big proponents
of anti-vaccination claiming that it causes autism in children. Their testimonial in news media is
a classic example of ___________.
Plasma membrane, ribosome - Answers Which of the following could describe the contents of a
prokaryotic cell?
They all belong to the animal kingdom
They all belong to the phylum Chordata
They all belong to the domain Eukarya - Answers Rabbits, turtles, fish, humans, and whales all
share certain characteristics but also differ from each other. One of the characteristics (among
others) that all of these particular organisms share is the fact that they all have a backbone.
What level(s) of classification do all of these organisms share?
Short stories from a personal history - Answers Which of the following is an example of a
process that yields anecdotal evidence rather than scientific evidence?
Eukaryotic - Answers What kind of cells are humans composed of?
Proteins - Answers Which of the following macromolecules is/are best demonstrated by all of
the following descriptions?
, • Can be broken down and components utilized in aerobic respiration
• Organic molecule derived primarily of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen
• Monomers are called amino acids
• The sequence of its monomers, and thus its final shape, is determined by genes
Two water molecules are attracted to each other with hydrogen bonds - Answers Water is
cohesive because
carbon - Answers The important elements for life include carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,
sulfur, and phosphorus. Which of these is the most prevalent in the biomolecules because it
forms the "backbone" of these molecules?
Carbon - Answers An organic compound always contains one or more atoms of ____________.
autotrophs - Answers The process of capturing solar energy and carbon dioxide to produce
biological molecules is done by
The outer electron shell is full
The number of protons and electrons are equal - Answers Atoms are "happy" and thus most
stable when
polypeptide - Answers What is the name of a molecule composed of one or more amino acids?
Unsaturated fats contain carbon-to-carbon double bonds, but saturated fats don't. - Answers
What is a major difference between saturated and unsaturated fats?
Matter - Answers Chemistry is the study of ____ and energy.
carbon. - Answers The atom that forms the backbone of organic molecules.
Hydrophobic - Answers Molecules that will not dissolve in water are called ____. They are usually
made with nonpolar covalent bonds.
Glycogen - Answers The storage form of carbohydrates found mainly in the liver and the
muscles.
Saturated - Answers Animal fats are usually solid at room temperature because their fatty acids
are ___.
Nitrogen - Answers The important atom found in proteins but not found in carbohydrates or
lipids is ___.
eukaryotic; nucleus - Answers The organelle in a ____ cell that stores DNA is the _____.
2026
Homeostasis - Answers What is the name for the ability of living things to maintain a relatively
constant internal environment?
Using both a treatment and a control group - Answers Eliminate as many alternative hypotheses
as possible
"Blinding" both the researcher and the participants - Answers Eliminate the possibility of bias
Using groups as large as possible - Answers Assure that the sampled group represents the
population as a whole
Hypothesis/Prediction - Answers A well stated ___ allows a researcher to make a/an ____ which
can then be tested.
Domain - Answers In the classification of living organisms, what level of organization is the
group called Archaea?
Genes made from proteins - Answers Each of the following is a feature of all known living things
EXCEPT
Anecdotal evidence. - Answers Celebrities Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey are big proponents
of anti-vaccination claiming that it causes autism in children. Their testimonial in news media is
a classic example of ___________.
Plasma membrane, ribosome - Answers Which of the following could describe the contents of a
prokaryotic cell?
They all belong to the animal kingdom
They all belong to the phylum Chordata
They all belong to the domain Eukarya - Answers Rabbits, turtles, fish, humans, and whales all
share certain characteristics but also differ from each other. One of the characteristics (among
others) that all of these particular organisms share is the fact that they all have a backbone.
What level(s) of classification do all of these organisms share?
Short stories from a personal history - Answers Which of the following is an example of a
process that yields anecdotal evidence rather than scientific evidence?
Eukaryotic - Answers What kind of cells are humans composed of?
Proteins - Answers Which of the following macromolecules is/are best demonstrated by all of
the following descriptions?
, • Can be broken down and components utilized in aerobic respiration
• Organic molecule derived primarily of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen
• Monomers are called amino acids
• The sequence of its monomers, and thus its final shape, is determined by genes
Two water molecules are attracted to each other with hydrogen bonds - Answers Water is
cohesive because
carbon - Answers The important elements for life include carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,
sulfur, and phosphorus. Which of these is the most prevalent in the biomolecules because it
forms the "backbone" of these molecules?
Carbon - Answers An organic compound always contains one or more atoms of ____________.
autotrophs - Answers The process of capturing solar energy and carbon dioxide to produce
biological molecules is done by
The outer electron shell is full
The number of protons and electrons are equal - Answers Atoms are "happy" and thus most
stable when
polypeptide - Answers What is the name of a molecule composed of one or more amino acids?
Unsaturated fats contain carbon-to-carbon double bonds, but saturated fats don't. - Answers
What is a major difference between saturated and unsaturated fats?
Matter - Answers Chemistry is the study of ____ and energy.
carbon. - Answers The atom that forms the backbone of organic molecules.
Hydrophobic - Answers Molecules that will not dissolve in water are called ____. They are usually
made with nonpolar covalent bonds.
Glycogen - Answers The storage form of carbohydrates found mainly in the liver and the
muscles.
Saturated - Answers Animal fats are usually solid at room temperature because their fatty acids
are ___.
Nitrogen - Answers The important atom found in proteins but not found in carbohydrates or
lipids is ___.
eukaryotic; nucleus - Answers The organelle in a ____ cell that stores DNA is the _____.
