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Question 1
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Abiotic factors affect an ecosystem and include all of these except the?

a. quantity and quality of water

b. nitrogen-fixing bacteria
c. amount of light available
d. quantity of minerals

Question 2
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Which of the following would be a biotic factor in an ecosystem?

a. rainfall
b. temperature
c. soil
d. bacteria

Question 3
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What is the process in which humans breed organisms for certain traits?

a. natural selection
b. descent without modification
c. inheritance of acquired characteristics
d. artificial selection

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Question 4

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Which of these traits is controlled by a gene with multiple alleles?

a. widow’s peak
b. straight hairline
c. blood type
d. smile dimples

Question 5
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What naturalist described the concept of natural selection?

a. Georges Buffon
b. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
c. Carolus Linnaeus
d. Alfred Wallace

Question 6

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DNA replication can be described as ?

a. radical
b. degenerative
c. semiconservative
d. conservative

Question 7
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What is a section of DNA that codes for a protein called?

a. Allele
b. Gene
c. Plasmid
d. Chromosome

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Question 8

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Which theory states that floods and earthquakes have occurred often in Earth’s history?

a. natural selection
b. uniformitarianism 
c. catastrophism
d. artificial selection

Question 9
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What does a Punnett square show?

a. only the dominant alleles in a genetic cross

b. all of Mendel’s discoveries about genetic crosses
c. all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross
d. only the recessive alleles in a genetic cross

Question 10

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Which scientist developed a classification system for organisms?

a. Carolus Linnaeus
b. Georges L.L. de Buffon
c. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
d. Charles Darwin

Question 11
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Which of the following is not needed for DNA transcription?

a. DNA
b. Nucleotides
c. Enzymes
d. Ribosomes

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Question 12

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Genetic engineering involves?

a. cutting out a DNA sequence.

b. changing a DNA sequence.
c. reinserting DNA into living organisms.
d. all of the above

Question 13
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Which genetic disorder causes the body to produce unusually thick mucus in the lungs and intestines?

a. cystic fibrosis
b. sickle-cell disease
c. Down syndrome
d. hemophilia

Question 14

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Fossil evidence shows that structures considered vestigial in living organisms?

a. were useful to their ancestors

b. do not fill gaps in the fossil record
c. are not found in ancient organisms
d. have always been vestigial

Question 15
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Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce?

a. more offspring
b. stronger genes
c. fewer mutations
d. better traits

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Question 16

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What is the major source of water for the soil?

a. precipitation
b. ground water
c. combined water
d. capillary water

Question 17
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What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive better in its environment?

a. homologous structure
b. variation
c. vestigial structure
d. adaptation

Question 18

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What is the small circular pieces of DNA found inside bacteria in addition to their chromosome?

a. RNA
b. DNA
c. a clone
d. a plasmid

Question 19
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What is a man made ecological factor?

a. ploughing
b. grazing
c. fire
d. farming 

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Question 20

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The theory of evolution by natural selection was independently developed by?

a. Charles Lyell and James Hutton

b. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck
c. Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace
d. Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin

Question 21
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The physical location of an ecosystem in which a given species lives is called a?

a. tropical level.
b. habitat.
c. biotic zone.
d. niche.

Question 22

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What the plants absorb from the soil?

a. both hygroscopic and gravitational water 

b. hygroscopic water
c. gravitational water
d. capillary water

Question 23
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Which one of the following factors is biotic?

a. photoperiod
b. texture and porosity of soil
c. rainfall
d. CO2 content of the soil

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Question 24

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Ecology is the study of the interaction of living organisms?

a. and the food they eat.

b. with each other and their habitat.
c. with each other and their physical environment.
d. and their communities.

Question 25
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Natural selection results in change overtime by acting on traits that are?

a. mutated
b. better
c. new
d. heritable

Question 26

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Which of these are not competed for by plants?

a. Warmth
b. Water
c. Light
d. Minerals

Question 27
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What is the science that dealing with the soil?

a. palaeontology
b. geology
c. pedology
d. aerology

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Question 28

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Which of the following is most often associated with the elaborate courtship rituals conducted by many birds?

a. kin selection
b. feeding response
c. species recognition
d. migration

Question 29
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What is the cells removed from the blastocyst of a developing embryo?

a. somatic cells
b. gametes
c. the inner cell mass
d. blood cells

Question 30

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What is the correct term to describe the entire genetic material of an organism?

a. Nucleus
b. DNA
c. Gene
d. Genome

Question 31
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Which of the following would not be included in a description of an organism’s niche?

a. the humidity and temperature it prefers

b. its trophic level
c. when it reproduces
d. its number of chromosomes

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Question 32

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What are multiple alleles?

a. More than two codominant genes in a chromosome

b. Three or more chromosomes that determine a trait
c. Three or more forms of a gene that code for a single trait
d. More than two genes that control a trait

Question 33
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All energy in a food chain originates from?

a. a plant
b. The Sun
c. An electric outlet
d. farmers

Question 34

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What factors can effect a person's height?

a. Both genes and environmental factors

b. the sex chromosomes a person inherits
c. Environmental factors only
d. Genes only

Question 35
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All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a?

a. population 
b. group
c. variation
d. fossil

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Question 36

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Adaptive evolution can be caused by?

a. gene flow.
b. natural selection.
c. genetic drift.
d. the bottleneck effect.

Question 37
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What is a disadvantage of adult stem cells over embryonic stem cells?

a. They are difficult to grow in large numbers.

b. They are difficult to locate since there are so few of them.
c. All of the above are disadvantages.
d. They can differentiate into a limited number of cell types.

Question 38

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Why does height in humans have such a wide variety of phenotypes?

a. Height is controlled by sex-linked genes

b. The gene for height has only two alleles
c. Height is controlled by at least four genes
d. Height is controlled by a recessive allele

Question 39
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The process of making changes in the DNA code of living organisms is called?

a. selective breeding.
b. inbreeding
c. hybridization.
d. genetic engineering.

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Question 40

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Which combination of sex chromosomes results in a male human being?

a. XX
b. XY
c. Either XX or YY
d. YY

Question 41
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Where does protein synthesis take place?

a. on the ribosomes in the cytoplasm of the cell

b. in the chromosomes in the nucleus of the cell
c. in the ribosomes in the nucleus of the cell
d. on the chromosomes in the cytoplasm of the cell

Question 42

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A technique which can be used to seperate DNA fragments of differnt sizes is called?

a. Restriction enzyme
b. PCR
c. transformation
d. Gel electrophoresis

Question 43
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What is the study of the distribution of organisms around the world?

a. geology
b. paleontology
c. geography
d. biogeography

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Question 44

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All the nonliving parts of an ecosystem are referred to as?

a. abiotic factors
b. biomes
c. the community
d. biotic factors

Question 45
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The different forms of a gene are called?

a. masks
b. factors
c. traits
d. alleles

Question 46

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Which of these is an example of the benefits of genetic engineering?

a. growing a new plant from a cutting

b. cross-breeding to create disease-resistant crops
c. creating human insulin to treat people with diabetes
d. analyzing karyotypes and pedigree charts

Question 47
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Which of the following would represent an ecosystem?

a. all of these
b. A lake
c. A prairie
d. A fish tank

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Question 48

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A DNA molecule produced by combining DNA from different sources is known as?

a. strange DNA
b. a change
c. recombinant DNA.
d. a mutant.

Question 49
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The study of interactions between living organisms and environment is called?

a. ecology
b. phytogeography
c. ecosystem
d. phytosociology

Question 50

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Which term refers to physical characteristics that are studied in genetics?

a. generations
b. offspring
c. hybrids
d. traits

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