Review Questions
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| 1. |
What
feature clearly distinguishes kingdom Monera from other kingdoms? |
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All monerans are prokaryotes. |
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All monerans are eukaryotes. |
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Monerans have a cell wall, whereas other organisms only
have cell membranes. |
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Monerans are angiosperms, whereas all other organisms are
gymnosperms. |
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All monerans exhibit radial cleavage. |
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| 2. |
An
autotrophic organism might |
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engage in photosynthesis |
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consume the organic nutrients in other living organisms |
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be a fungus |
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not be able produce its own organic nutrients |
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not require an external source of energy for metabolism |
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| 3. |
Which
of the following has a chitinous cell wall? |
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Spider |
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Fungi |
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Slime mold |
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Euglena |
| (E) |
Cnidarian |
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| 4. |
All
of the following are phylogenetic clues used by taxonomists to classify
animals EXCEPT |
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motility |
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body symmetry |
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pattern of embryonic development |
| (D) |
similarity of molecular clocks |
| (E) |
complexity of tissue organization |
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| 5. |
As
plants adapted to terrestrial living, they developed all of the
following EXCEPT |
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seeds |
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phloem |
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flowers |
| (D) |
xylem |
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spores |
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| 6. |
According
to the heterotroph hypothesis, |
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anaerobic and aerobic organisms evolved simultaneously |
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photosynthetic autotrophs evolved first, since they required
only energy from the sun and simple molecules from the environment |
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autotrophs evolved before a carbon source was made available |
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anaerobic heterotrophs evolved first |
| (E) |
chemosynthesis was critical to the evolution of heterotrophic
organisms |
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| 7. |
Which
of the following best characterizes Lamarckian evolution? |
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Evolutionary change happens instantaneously. |
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An animal that draws on a particular trait very often passes
that trait on in reduced form to offspring because of overuse. |
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The function of a body part plays no part in evolution. |
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Acquired traits can be passed down from parent to offspring. |
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Selection pressures push evolutionary change. |
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| 8. |
A
river switches course and splits a population into two populations
that cannot interbreed. What is likely to occur? |
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Speciation |
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Adaptive radiation |
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Convergent evolution |
| (D) |
Natural selection |
| (E) |
Lamarckian evolution |
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| 9. |
Weather
patterns on earth suddenly change, and the temperature in Alaska
becomes much colder. Among the penguins, a few individuals have
an extra layer of fat that allows them to function more efficiently
in the cold. This is an example of |
| (A) |
speciation |
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evolution |
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natural selection |
| (D) |
divergent evolution |
| (E) |
convergent evolution |
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| 10. |
An
organism that lays hard eggs and gives little parental care to its
offspring is a(n) |
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prokaryote |
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vertebrate |
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amphibian |
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reptile |
| (E) |
bird |
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