SCIN 130 Week 6 Quiz

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Week 6 Quiz

Question 1 of 31

What type of prokaryote obtains its energy from chemical compounds?

  A. photoautotroph

  B. heterotroph

  C. phototroph

  D. chemotroph

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Question 2 of 31

What type of prokaryote obtains its energy from sunlight?

  A. chemoautotroph

  B. heterotroph

  C. chemotroph

  D. phototroph

Question 3 of 31

The community of bacteria in the human body provides benefits EXCEPT?

  A. Development of immune system

  B. Increase in antibiotic resistance

  C. Protection from pathogens

  D. Maintenance of gut

 Question 4 of 31

Why were only anaerobic organisms able to live during the first 2 billion years on Earth?

  A. the atmosphere was cold

  B. the atmosphere was anoxic

  C. the atmosphere was hot

  D. the atmosphere was hyper-nitrogenous

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Question 5 of 31

What is an example of a positive relationship between fungi and plants?

  A. infection of stored seeds such as corn

  B. decay of standing or recently felled trees

  C. fungi infecting a potato crop, so that most plants die

  D. mycorrhizae increase nutrient uptake in the soil

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Question 6 of 31

Why are Protists difficult to classify?

  A. They have varied habitats

  B. They use the same reproductive strategies

  C. They are not motile

  D. They are similar in cell structure

Question 7 of 31

Which of the following are NOT an example of a fruit?

A. pine cones

  B. string beans

  C. samaras

  D. berries

.Question 8 of 31

Most plants have alternating generations; what are they classified as?

  A. haplodiplontic

  B. haploid

  C. haplontic

  D. diplontic

 Question 9 of 31

What is the function of phloem cells in vascular tissue?

  A. are only found in leaves

  B. transport water and nutrients

  C. transport sugars, proteins, and other solutes

  D. are only found in roots

Question 10 of 31

Eudicots typically have all but which of the following?

  A. leaves with a network of branched veins

  B. vascular tissue scattered in the stem

  C. a tap root with lateral roots

  D. seedlings with 2 cotyledons

Question 11 of 31

 What group of plants has the greatest number of species?

  A. angiosperms

  B. bryophytes

  C. gymnosperms

  D. ferns

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Question 12 of 31

 Which is NOT one of the major adaptations of land plants?

  A. apical meristems in vascular plants

  B. sporangium in which spores are formed

  C. the haploid life stage is dominant

  D. gametangia producing gametes

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 Question 13 of 31

 All of the following are considered an amniote EXCEPT which?

  A. crocodile

  B. bird

  C. frog

  D. turtle

  E. tautaras

.Question 14 of 31

 Which are considered a vertebrate?

  A. spider

  B. jawless fish

  C. tape worm

  D. jellyfish

 Question 15 of 31

 How is it possible that male bees have a haploid body and females have a diploid body?

  A. The temperature of the hive was too cold.

  B. All bees have a diploid body type.

  C. It develops from an unfertilized egg.

  D. A queen honey bee only mates once in her life.

 Question 16 of 31

 Most flat worms only have a mouth and a gut, meaning they take in nutrients and expel wastes from the same opening. What type of digestive system do they have?

  A. non-existent

  B. complete

  C. incomplete

  D. convoluted

.Question 17 of 31

 In which environment do most Cnidarians reside?

  A. desert

  B. arctic

  C. forest

  D. marine

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Question 18 of 31

 Which phylum makes up approximately 85% of the animal kingdom?

  A. Arthropoda

  B. Echinoderms

  C. Amphibia

  D. Nematoda

  E. Cnidarians

  Question 19 of 31

 Plants cannot move around to search for water and food; what is the term for this?

   A. vagile

  B. sessile

  C. motile

  D. unattached

  E. pedunculate

 Question 20 of 31

 What is a representation of the relationship between biological lineages such as species referred to as?

  A. pangenesis

  B. epigenesis

  C. phylogeny

  D. ontogeny

Question 21 of 31

Which are the most plentiful plants on Earth today?

  A. lycophytes

  B. angiosperms

  C. bryophytes

  D. gymnosperms

Question 22 of 31

 Which of the following Microsoft products allow for the construction of spreadsheets?

  A. PowerPoint

  B. Word

  C. Publisher

  D. Excel

Question 23 of 31

 Which of the following symbols are needed for Microsoft Excel to perform a calculation?

  A. =

  B. ;

  C. /

  D. :

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Question 24 of 31

 Which chart type displays the correlation between two variables by connecting data points to show a trend?

  A. Scatterplot

  B. Bar

  C. Line

  D. Pie

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 Question 25 of 31

 The genes responsible for branching, seed coat and number of kernels in maize and teosinte are what type?

  A. complimentary gene

  B. regulatory gene

  C. hidden gene

  D. duplicate gene

 Question 26 of 31

 What evidence did Dr. Beadle use to support the fact that teosinte was an ancestor of maize?

  A. teosinte and maize have soft, naked seeds

  B. teosinte and maize have similar number of chromosomes

  C. teosinte and maize have lots of branching

  D. teosinte and maize cannot interbreed

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 Question 27 of 31

 When does it appear that the domestication of corn first began based on mutation rate between maize and teosinte?

  A. 76,000 years ago

  B. 25,000 years ago

  C. 9,000 years ago

  D. 43,000 years ago

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 Question 28 of 31

 What type of evidence was archaeologist Dr. Piperno looking for?

  A. carbon fumes

  B. microfossils

  C. macrofossils

  D. radiocarbon dating

 Question 29 of 31

 How many genes did Dr. Beadle determine were responsible for a few simple changes in teosinte to produce maize?

  A. 2 or 3

  B. 3 or 4

  C. 4 or 5

  D. 1 or 2

  E. 5 or 6

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Question 30 of 31

 In a few sentences, what was the overall purpose of the lab for this week? You should include 1-2 sentences on the methods and then the overall reason.

Question 31 of 31

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