Layman D. Biology Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide
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(c) Animal functions
(d) Animal anatomy
(e) Plant regularity
4. The ‘‘process of cutting’’ the body ‘‘up or apart’’
(a) Biology
(b) Geology
(c) Paleontology
(d) Bacteriology
(e) Anatomy
5. You might consider body function as being what corresponding part of
a sentence?
(a) Verb
(b) Adverb
(c) Adjective
(d) Noun
(e) Object
6. _____ only occurs within living organisms
(a) Gross anatomy
(b) Body structure
(c) Physiology
(d) Microanatomy
(e) Occupation of space
7. Rising of oral body temperature to a high of about 99.6 degrees F, and
a falling down to a low of about 97.6 degrees F
(a) Normal range
(b) Changing of anatomy
(c) Mean (average) value of oral body temperature
(d) Absolute constancy of body temperature
(e) Complete chaos of body temperature
8. A characteristic found only in living things
(a) Definite patterns of structural arrangement
(b) Metabolism and excretion
(c) Dynamic changes in function over time
(d) Generation of heat associated with movement
(e) Response to changes in the environment
9. Rising of oral body temperature far beyond 99.6 degrees F, or falling of
it far below 97.6 degrees F
(a) Biological Order
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(b) Homeostasis
(c) Denoted by a living giraffe with black spots
(d) Biological Disorder
(e) Stable pattern of the living internal environment
10. The study of the relationships among different organisms, and their
interactions with the external environment
(a) Anthropology
(b) High school physics classes
(c) Physiology
(d) Anatomy
(e) Ecology
11. The icon of a dead spider and its web
(a) Homeostasis
(b) Biological Disorder within an organism
(c) Biological Disorder extending beyond the individual organism
(d) Maintenance of ecological systematic
(e) A high degree of Environmental Order
12. The world’s first great biologist and Father of Natural History
(a) James Dean
(b) Frances Crick
(c) Plato
(d) Aristotle
(e) Little Lord Fauntleroy
13. Natural History can best be considered as:
(a) A concentration upon the ‘‘household affairs’’ of an organism
(b) Primarily a study of the Fossil Record
(c) The comprehensive study of all living creatures
(d) The exact opposite of Modern Biology
(e) Genetics, only
14. The _____ method starts with a hypothesis (educated guess or hunch)
(a) Natural History
(b) Experimental
(c) Geological
(d) Taxidermy
(e) Classification
15. Literally translates from Latin to mean a ‘‘control of sameness’’
(a) Homeostasis
(b) Normal range
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(c) All aspects of human physiology
(d) Metabolism
(e) Hypothesis
16. The Father of Experimental Physiology and originator of the concept
of homeostasis
(a) Aristotle
(b) Gregor Mendel
(c) Claude Duvall
(d) Charles Darwin
(e) Claude Bernard
17. A stacked Pyramid of Life was used in this book to symbolize the
(a) Interactions between body structure and body function
(b) Various levels of biological organization
(c) States of Biological Disorder, primarily
(d) Existence of anatomy & physiology at just a single level of
complexity
(e) Collapse of most ecosystems, given enough time
18. The simplest and smallest level of biological organization
(a) Community
(b) Atoms
(c) Cells
(d) Tissues
(e) Subatomic particles
19. The lowest living level of biological organization
(a) Population
(b) Organelle
(c) Cell
(d) Tissue
(e) Organism
20. A group of individuals of the same species that live together in the same
place
(a) Ecosystem
(b) Community
(c) Population
(d) Organism
(e) Tissue
21. Homeostasis is restricted to what portion of the Great Pyramid of Life?
(a) Area beyond the community but below the ecosystem
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(b) Organism and below
(c) Cell and organelle
(d) Tissues and organs
(e) Atom and below
22. A population balance maintained over time
(a) Relative constancy of an organism
(b) Homeostasis
(c) Normal range
(d) Ecological relationships
(e) Regular physiology
23. Mammals are literally
(a) Animals with milk-giving ‘‘breasts’’
(b) Creatures who ‘‘walk freely’’
(c) Animals with ‘‘backbones’’
(d) Organisms having ‘‘internal order’’
(e) Species that ‘‘reproduce’’ themselves using sex
24. Cosmic Order
(a) The increasing tilt and speed at which solar systems keep moving
away from one another
(b) The ongoing Death of Stars
(c) Creation of Earth’s solar system
(d) Early absence of life on our world
(e) Constant disturbances that may kill off an organism
25. Sometime between 3.5 billion and 4 billion years ago
(a) Dawn of Life
(b) The original ‘‘Big Bang’’ occurred
(c) Appearance of the Milky Way galaxy
(d) Creation of our planet
(e) First appearance of H
2
O in Earth’s atmosphere
26. Threw doubt upon the Spontaneous Generation Theory
(a) Charles Montgomery
(b) Francesco Reid
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Louis Pasteur
(e) Groucho Marx
27. ‘‘Life only occurs because it has been produced by other living
organisms’’
(a) Recessive gene hypothesis
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(b) Theory of Biogenesis
(c) Theory of Evolution
(d) Law of Attraction between unlike charges
(e) Notion of a primordial soup
28. Among the oldest-known fossils
(a) Filament-shaped ancient bacteria preserved within stromatolite
rocks
(b) Dead bee bodies encased in amber
(c) Imprints of ferns in Western Sandstone deposits
(d) Calcified remains of gigantic fish
(e) Mummified skeletons of early human ape-men
29. A process where living organisms utilize the energy in sunlight to make
sugar
(a) Glycolysis
(b) Aerobic metabolism
(c) Photosynthesis
(d) Chlorophyll molecules
(e) Oxygen consumption
30. Types of cells that probably came into existence before cells with
‘‘kernels’’
(a) Vertebrate
(b) Embryonic
(c) Zygote
(d) Prokaryotes
(e) Aerobes
31. Organelle carrying out most aerobic metabolism within cells
(a) Nucleus
(b) Ribosome
(c) Mitochondrion
(d) Plasma membrane
(e) Centriole
32. ‘‘But with the coming of multicellular creatures, _____ of body
structure and function arrived’’
(a) Generality
(b) Merging
(c) Specialization
(d) Destruction
(e) Denucleation
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33. Type of cell containing a nucleus surrounded by its own membrane
(a) Stromatolite
(b) Filament
(c) Prokaryote
(d) Dry
(e) Eukaryote
34. The _____ were among the first pioneering multicellular eukaryotes
(a) Ferns
(b) Fungi
(c) Algae
(d) Sea gulls
(e) Squids
35. Fungus
(a) Greenish plant engaging in photosynthesis
(b) Aerobic organism using glycolysis to obtain energy
(c) Fertilized ovum of a mammal
(d) Plant-like organism that feeds on living or dead organic matter
(e) Greenish-blue anaerobes whose cells are filled with chlorophyll
36. Any ‘‘living, breathing’’ multicellular organism that is not a plant or
fungus
(a) Microbe
(b) Animal
(c) Reptile
(d) Fish
(e) Duck
37. Delicate jellyfish gracefully floating in the Pre-Cambrian seas
(a) Pathogenic plants
(b) Chordates
(c) Vertebrates
(d) Fungi
(e) Invertebrates
38. Time of 500–200 million years ago, with first vertebrates, land plants,
and insects
(a) Cenozoic Era
(b) Paleozoic Era
(c) Mesozoic Era
(d) Jurassic Park Period
(e) ‘‘Age of the Terrible Lizards’’
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39. Time in the Fossil Record when dinosaur bones were laid down
(a) Dawn of Life
(b) Pre-Cambrian Era
(c) Paleozoic Era
(d) Cosmic Creation
(e) Mesozoic Era
40. Possible explanation offered for the relatively sudden extinction of the
dinosaurs
(a) Law of Hidden Evil
(b) Might makes right!
(c) Impact hypothesis
(d) Cosmic Consciousness
(e) Alien invasion hypothesis
41. Appearance of Homo sapiens
(a) About 400,000 to 1 million years ago
(b) The Ice Age
(c) Carboniferous Era
(d) Stromatolite Period
(e) Fish-like Age
42. Monkeys, apes, and humans
(a) Amphibians
(b) Reptiles
(c) Urochordates
(d) Primates
(e) Pterosaurs
43. Stated the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
(a) James Watson
(b) Charles O’Connor
(c) Charles Darwin
(d) Gregor Mendel
(e) Francis Crick
44. By adaptation, it is meant that
(a) The external environment provides a larger copy which animal
genes follow
(b) Certain patterns of Biological Order make particular organisms
‘‘more fit’’ to survive in a given environment
(c) A gradual process of destruction is unfolding
(d) Natural Selection causes all body structures to deteriorate
(e) ‘‘Eat-or-be eaten’’ always prevails!
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45. Main builders of order or pattern at the chemical level
(a) Organelles
(b) Glucose molecules
(c) Chemical bonds
(d) Amino groups
(e) Cell autolyzers
46. ‘‘Like dissolves like’’ suggests that
(a) Solutions can be composed of any combination of contributing
particles
(b) Solvents dissolve solutes with similar bonding and/or electrical
charge to their own
(c) Solvents will just break down solutions with oppositely charged
particles
(d) Solutes, not solvents, really ‘‘like’’ to do the ‘‘dissolving’’!
(e) Neither solutes nor solvents can combine to produce solutions
47. A substance that breaks down into ions when placed into water
(a) Carbohydrate
(b) Electrolyte
(c) Any compound
(d) Organic molecule
(e) Hydrocarbon
48. Carbon atoms create highly orderly structural skeletons because they
(a) Easily mix with both NaCl and H
2
O
(b) Readily form covalent bonds with one another
(c) Push water molecules against one another to force them to create
mist
(d) Exist in the liquid state
(e) Usually diffuse away without leaving any part of them behind
49. Proteins that speed up many chemical reactions
(a) Antibodies
(b) Hemoglobins
(c) Enzymes
(d) Lipids
(e) C–C complexes
50. A group of fats and fat-like hydrocarbons that are not soluble in water
(a) Insulins
(b) Carbohydrates
(c) Vitamins
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(d) Lipids
(e) Proteins
51. ‘‘Carbon–water’’ molecules which include valuable sugars as body fuels
(a) Nucleic acids
(b) Actin filaments
(c) Lipids
(d) ATPs
(e) Carbohydrates
52. _____ is an important type of simple sugar molecule that is found in the
human bloodstream
(a) Glucose
(b) Glycogen
(c) Glucagon
(d) Glucosamine
(e) Pancreatic hydrase
53. The _____ acids derive their name from their occurrence within the cell
‘‘kernel’’
(a) Fatty
(b) Amino
(c) Nucleic
(d) Nitrogenous
(e) Acetic
54. An abbreviation for ribonucleic acid
(a) Ribonuca
(b) RNA
(c) RBNA
(d) RBA
(e) Rib-Nucle-Ac
55. Occurs as a twisted ladder or double helix, with genes occurring along
its length
(a) RNA
(b) Deoxyribose
(c) Deoxyribonucleic acid
(d) Viral protein coats
(e) A film of fungi
56. The ability to do work
(a) Metabolism
(b) Differentiation
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(c) Diffusion
(d) Mitosis
(e) Energy
57. Free energy that helps particles ‘‘move’’
(a) Potential
(b) Stored
(c) ATP
(d) Enzymatic
(e) Kinetic
58. High-energy phosphate bonds within the ATP molecule
(a) Non-reducing
(b) Potential energy storage
(c) ATPases
(d) Nucleic
(e) Aerobic
59. A continual process between energy storage and energy release that
occurs in cells
(a) Carbon–glucose conversion
(b) Hydrogen and amino acid transfer
(c) ATP–ADP Cycle
(d) Cellular phagocytosis
(e) Active immunity
60. A ‘‘condition of building up’’
(a) Anabolism
(b) Glycolysis
(c) Catabolism
(d) Metabolism
(e) Egestion
61. Heterotroph
(a) An organism that produces its own energy
(b) Creature that consumes other organic foodstuffs for its
nourishment
(c) Multicellular, free-living plant
(d) A type of molecule that is different from others
(e) An organism that feeds upon its own flesh!
62. The ‘‘process of breaking down sweets’’
(a) Glycolysis
(b) Calvin Cycle
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