Elsc week 20 exam - elsc 1st sem

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The different forms of a gene are called?

a.
alleles

b.
masks

c.
traits

d.
factors

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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.
species recognition

c.
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d.
migration
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Which of these are not competed for by plants?

a.
Water

b.
Light

c.
Minerals

d.
Warmth

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

a.
Height is controlled by a recessive allele

b.
The gene for height has only two alleles

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c.
Height is controlled by at least four genes

d.
Height is controlled by sex-linked genes
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What is a disadvantage of adult stem cells over embryonic stem cells?

a.
All of the above are disadvantages.

b.
They can differentiate into a limited number of cell types.

c.
They are difficult to grow in large numbers.

d.
They are difficult to locate since there are so few of them.

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What is the science that dealing with the soil?

a.
palaeontology

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b.
aerology

c.
geology

d.
pedology
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What is the cells removed from the blastocyst of a developing embryo?

a.
somatic cells

b.
blood cells

c.
gametes

d.
the inner cell mass

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

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a.
quantity and quality of water

b.
quantity of minerals

c.
nitrogen-fixing bacteria

d.
amount of light available
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All energy in a food chain originates from?

a.
farmers

b.
The Sun

c.
a plant

d.
An electric outlet

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Which scientist developed a classification system for organisms?

a.
Georges L.L. de Buffon

b.
Carolus Linnaeus

c.
Charles Darwin

d.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Which one of the following factors is biotic?

a.
photoperiod

b.
CO2 content of the soil

c.
rainfall

d.
texture and porosity of soil

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

a.
descent without modification

b.
natural selection

c.
artificial selection

d.
inheritance of acquired characteristics

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

a.
Genome

b.
Nucleus

c.
DNA

d.
Gene

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Genetic engineering involves?

a.
changing a DNA sequence.

b.
all of the above

c.
cutting out a DNA sequence.

d.
reinserting DNA into living organisms.

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What is the major source of water for the soil?

a.
capillary water

b.
precipitation

c.
ground water

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d.
combined water
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Adaptive evolution can be caused by?

a.
gene flow.

b.
the bottleneck effect.

c.
natural selection.

d.
genetic drift.

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What naturalist described the concept of natural selection?

a.
Alfred Wallace

b.
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

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Carolus Linnaeus

d.
Georges Buffon
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The study of interactions between living organisms and environment is called?

a.
ecology

b.
ecosystem

c.
phytosociology

d.
phytogeography

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What does a Punnett square show?

a.
only the recessive alleles in a genetic cross

b.
only the dominant alleles in a genetic cross

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c.
all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross

d.
all of Mendel’s discoveries about genetic crosses
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Ecology is the study of the interaction of living organisms?

a.
and their communities.

b.
with each other and their physical environment.

c.
with each other and their habitat.

d.
and the food they eat.

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What are multiple alleles?

a.
More than two genes that control a trait

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b.
Three or more forms of a gene that code for a single trait

c.
Three or more chromosomes that determine a trait

d.
More than two codominant genes in a chromosome
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Which of the following would represent an ecosystem?

a.
A prairie

b.
A fish tank

c.
all of these

d.
A lake

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

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a.
Either XX or YY

b.
XY

c.
XX

d.
YY
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All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a?

a.
variation

b.
population

c.
fossil

d.
group

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

a.
analyzing karyotypes and pedigree charts

b.
creating human insulin to treat people with diabetes

c.
growing a new plant from a cutting

d.
cross-breeding to create disease-resistant crops
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What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive better in its
environment?

a.
variation

b.
adaptation

c.
homologous structure

d.
vestigial structure

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What factors can effect a person's height?

a.
Environmental factors only

b.
Genes only

c.
Both genes and environmental factors

d.
the sex chromosomes a person inherits

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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

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Which of the following is not needed for DNA transcription?

a.
Ribosomes

b.
DNA

c.
Enzymes

d.
Nucleotides

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What is a man made ecological factor?(idk huhu)

a.
farming

b.
fire

c.
grazing

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d.
ploughing
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Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce?

a.
fewer mutations

b.
better traits

c.
stronger genes

d.
more offspring

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

a.
catastrophism

b.
artificial selection

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c.
natural selection

d.
uniformitarianism
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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.
when it reproduces

c.
its number of chromosomes

d.
its trophic level

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What the plants absorb from the soil?

a.
gravitational water

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b.
both hygroscopic and gravitational water

c.
hygroscopic water

d.
capillary water
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Where does protein synthesis take place?

a.
in the ribosomes in the nucleus of the cell

b.
in the chromosomes in the nucleus of the cell

c.
on the ribosomes in the cytoplasm of the cell

d.
on the chromosomes in the cytoplasm of the cell

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

a.

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genetic engineering.

b.
hybridization.

c.
selective breeding.

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

a.
biotic factors

b.
abiotic factors

c.
the community

d.
biomes

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

a.
a change

b.
recombinant DNA.

c.
a mutant.

d.
strange DNA
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What is a section of DNA that codes for a protein called?

a.
Gene

b.
Plasmid

c.
Allele

d.
Chromosome

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

a.
Restriction enzyme

b.
Gel electrophoresis

c.
transformation

d.
PCR

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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.
hemophilia

d.

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Fossil evidence shows that structures considered vestigial in living organisms?

a.
do not fill gaps in the fossil record

b.
were useful to their ancestors

c.
have always been vestigial

d.
are not found in ancient organisms

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

a.
mutated

b.
new

c.
better

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d.
heritable
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Which of the following would be a biotic factor in an ecosystem?

a.
bacteria

b.
soil

c.
rainfall

d.
temperature

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

a.
paleontology

b.
biogeography

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c.
geology

d.
geography
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DNA replication can be described as ?

a.
semiconservative

b.
radical

c.
conservative

d.
degenerative

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

a.
offspring

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b.
traits

c.
hybrids

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

a.
widow’s peak

b.
smile dimples

c.
straight hairline

d.
blood type

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

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a.
a clone

b.
DNA

c.
a plasmid

d.
RNA
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The physical location of an ecosystem in which a given species lives is called a?

a.
habitat.

b.
tropical level.

c.
biotic zone.

d.
niche.

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