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What is it called when an organism exchanges gas?
A. Biology
B. Pressure
C. Respiration

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C. Respiration

1
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What is the study of life?
A. Reproduction
B. Biology
C. Adaptation

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B. Biology

2
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What is a lipid that is a liquid at room temperature?
A. Protein
B. Polysaccharide
C. Oil

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C. Oil

3
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What are three or more simple sugars called?
A. Fat
B. Polysaccharide
C. Lipid

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B. Polysaccharide

4
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A change in an organism that makes it better suited for its environment is?
A. Metabolism
B. Adaptation
C. Reproduction

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B. Adaptation

5
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When a living thing makes more living things is called?
A. Reproduction
B. Metabolism
C. Diffusion

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A. Reproduction

6
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What are all biochemical reactions in the body called?
A. Phagocytosis
B. Metabolism
C. Diffusion

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B. Metabolism

7
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From what kind of the sun’s rays do organisms need protection?
A. Diffusion
B. Ultra violet
C. Temperature

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B. Ultra violet

8
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The movement of a substance from areas of high concentration to low is called?
A. Pressure
B. Diffusion
C. Temperature

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B. Diffusion

9
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The two names given to every every classified organism is called?
A. Binomial nomenclature
B. Polysaccharide
C. Micro elements

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A. Binomial nomenclature

10
Q

What is an element required by your body in large amounts called?
A. Temperature
B. Monosaccharide
C. Macro element

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C. Macro element

11
Q

What is the movement of a solid across a cell membrane without passing through a pore called?
A. Phagocytosis
B. Temperature
C. Diffusion

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A. Phagocytosis

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Q

What are the two factors that affect the rate of diffusion?
A. Temperature and protein
B. Fat and oil
C. Temperature and pressure

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C. Temperature and pressure

13
Q

What is the cell type that does NOT have membrane bound nucleus and organelles?
A. Polysaccharide
B. Prokaryotic
C. Pressure

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B. Prokaryotic

14
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What is an element needed by the body in small amounts called?
A. Micro element
B. Macro element
C. Pressure

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A. Micro element

15
Q

What is a simple sugar called?
A. Oil
B. Monosaccharide
C. Polysaccharide

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B. Monosaccharide

16
Q

What is a lipid that is solid at room temperature called?
A. Fat
B. Oil
C. Diffusion

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A. Fat

17
Q

What is made of long chains of amino acids?
A. DNA
B. Adaptation
C. Protein

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C. Protein

18
Q

What are blueprints for how to build and operate an organism?
A. Fat
B. DNA
C. Oil

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B. DNA

19
Q

Who improved the telescope?
A. Hooke
B. Copernicus
C. Galileo

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C. Galileo

20
Q

Who discovered the cell?
A. Hooke
B. Harvey
C. Charles Darwin

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A. Hooke

21
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Who said that the sun was the center of the universe?
A. Galileo
B. Linnaeus
C. Copernicus

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C. Copernicus

22
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Who wrote the book The Origin of the Species?
A. Charles Darwin
B. Harvey
C. Schwann

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A. Charles Darwin

23
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Who discovered circulation in the body?
A. Schwann
B. Schleiden
C. Harvey

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C. Harvey

24
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Who was the grandfather of Charles Darwin?
A. Galileo
B. Erasmus Darwin
C. Von Leuwenhoek

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B. Erasmus Darwin

25
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Who said that all plants have cells?
A. Schwann
B. Schleiden
C. Linnaeus

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B. Schleiden

26
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Who said that all animals have cells?
A. Schwann
B. Schleiden
C. Linnaeus

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A. Schwann

27
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Who classified all living things?
A. Schwann
B. Linnaeus
C. Hooke

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B. Linnaeus

28
Q

Pasture and Redi performed their experiments to disprove
A. Cell theory
B. Spontaneous generation
C. Biology

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B. Spontaneous generation

29
Q

Which is not a step in the scientific method
A. Experiment
B. Conclusion
C. An uneducated guess

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C. An uneducated guess

30
Q

What is not a type of carbohydrate?
A. Monosaccharide
B. Trisaccharide
C. Polysaccharide

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B. Trisaccharide

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Factors that affect the rate of diffusion are
A. Temperature and pressure
B. Temperature and heat
C. Temperature and speed

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A. Temperature and pressure

32
Q

Which of the following uses energy to move substances across a cell membrane
A. Osmosis
B. Active transport
C. Diffusion

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B. Active transport

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What are the two types of Nucleic Acids?
A. RNA, NRA
B. NRA, NBC
C. DNA, RNA

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C. DNA, RNA

34
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Which of the following is an example of a carbohydrate?
A. Oil
B. Fat
C. Starch

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C. Starch

35
Q

Organic molecules have all but one of the following elements
A. Hydrogen (H)
B Nitrogen (N)
C. Carbon (C)

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B. Nitrogen (N)

36
Q

Photosynthesis is the process of making sugar from the energy from the
A. Sun
B. Soil
C. Water

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A. Sun

37
Q

If you perform an experiment and the temperature goes up 5 degrees - what kind of observation is it?
A. Qualitative
B. Quantitative

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B. Quantitative

38
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What is an organism that must get heat from the surrounding environment?
A. Exothermic
B. Endothermic

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A. Exothermic