BIOTA QUIZ BEE MOCK TEST PART 1 9.

Which of these break down macromolecules such

as nucleic acids, proteins, and polysaccharides?

A) microtubules
1. What are the organelles that generate large
B) deoxyribonucleic acids
quantities of energy in the form of adenosine
C) lysosomes
triphosphate (ATP)?
D) ribosomes
A) cytoplasm C) Golgi bodies
B) membranes D) mitochondria 10. In cells with a clearly defined nucleus, which
membrane-bound organelle is responsible for
2. What are the sites of protein synthesis? transporting, modifying, and packaging proteins and
lipids into vesicles?
A) nuclei C) centrioles
B) filaments D) ribosomes A) Golgi apparatus C) nucleus
B) lysosome D) cristerna
3. Plant cell walls are composed of which material?
11. What is one kind of filament that allows certain
A) cytoplasm protozoans to move about?
B) rough endoplasmic reticulum
C) smooth endoplasmic reticulum A) cilium C) chromatin
D) cellulose B) fibril D) tendril

4. What is the site of photosynthesis in a plant cell? 12. What is one kind of filament that allows certain
protozoans to move about?
A) chloroplast C) peroxisome
A) cilium C) chromatin
B) raphide crystal D) plasmodesma B) fibril D) tendril

13. The fluid matrix inside the cell is called

5. Within a cell, what is a space that is empty of
cytoplasm, lined with a membrane, and filled with A) nucleoplasm
fluid? B) endoplasm
C) cytosol
A) nucleus C) vacuole
B) nucleolus D) centriole 14. The cytosol consists of all the following except

6. What is the thin layer that forms the outer A) organelles

boundary of a cell? B) water
C) cell membrane
A) membrane C) partition
B) sheath D) wall 15. There is water on the inside and outside of a cell.
The inside water and outside water are separated by a
7. What organelle recycles carbon from cell membrane that is composed of two layers of
phosphoglycolate during photorespiration in plant phospholipids. Due to the hydrophobic nature of the
cells? fatty acids in the cell membrane, which of the
A) amyloplast C) peroxisome following best describes the position of the fatty acids
B) Golgi vesicle D) mitochondrion within the membrane?

A) facing toward each other

8. What is the material that surrounds a cell’s B) facing away from each other
organelles? C) facing toward each other while others face away
A) smooth endoplasmic reticulum from each other
B) cytoplasm
C) plasma
D) chromatin
16. The cell membrane is composed of numerous 24. A signal molecule that binds to a plasma-
proteins, some of which allow for passage of material membrane protein is a
in and out of the cell. Which of the following proteins
A) ligand C) protein kinase
allow large molecules to pass through passively?
B) second messenger D) receptor protein
A) receptor
B) channel 25. What do second messengers do?
C) transmembrane transporter protein
A) transport a signal through the lipid bilayer
B) relay a signal from the outside to the inside of the
17. Which of the following proteins have a
cell
carbohydrate molecule associated with it?
C) relay message from the inside of the membrane
A) channel throughout the cytoplasm
B) adhesion D) dampen the message
C) recognition
26. Signal amplification is most often achieved by
18. Since the liver cells detoxify drugs, they most likely
A) an enzyme cascade
have an abundance of __________.
B) binding of multiple signals
A) smooth endoplasmic reticulum C) branching pathways
B) nuclei D) action of adenylyl cyclase
C) lysosomes
27. Hormones are used in ____ signaling.
20. Since muscle cells make and utilize an abundance
A) endocrine
of ATP (energy) for muscle activity, each muscle cell
B) juxtacine
most likely has numerous __________.
C) autocrine
A) peroxisomes D) paracrine
B) lysosomes
C) mitochondria 28. The 3 steps of signal transduction in order are

A) reception, transduction, response

21. During metabolism, hydrogen peroxide is
B) response, transduction, reception
produced as a byproduct. Hydrogen peroxide can lead
C) reception, response, transduction
to the formation of toxic products. In order to prevent
D) transduction, reception, response
this, the cells break hydrogen peroxide down to form
water and oxygen. Which of the following cell
29. Protein kinases activate other relay proteins by
organelles has this function?
adding a(n) ____ to them.
A) lysosomes
A) phosphate
B) smooth endoplasmic reticulum
B) ATP molecule
C) peroxisomes
C) cAMP
D) GTP
22. What is an organic compound that is made by
glands in the body (pituitary, thyroid, etc.) that is used
30. What determines whether a cell is a target cell for
in long distance communication between cells?
a particular signal molecule?
A) Hormones C) Synapse
A) phosphorylation cascade
B) Neurotransmitters D) Carbohydrates
B) cAMP
C) signal receptors
23. Which of the following can activate a protein by
D) phosphatase
transferring a phosphate group to it?

A) cAMP C) protein kinase

B) G Protein D) protein