Module #1 Review Questions

Question 1

All life forms contain deoxyribonucleic acid which is called what?

Answer 1

DNA

Question 2

All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from their surroundings and convert it into what?

Answer 2

Energy that sustain them

Question 3

All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and do what?

Answer 3

Respond to their changes

Question 4

All life forms have the ability to?

Answer 4

Reproduce

Question 5

DNA provides the information necessary to take a bunch of lifeless chemicals and turn them into what?

Answer 5

An ordered, living system

Question 6

What can be split into two categories of anabolism and catabolism?

Answer 6

Metabolism

Question 7

Metabolism can be split into two categories: which category involves using energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures?

Answer 7

Anabolism

Question 8

Metabolism can be split into two categories: which one is the breaking down of chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks?

Answer 8

Catabolism

Question 9

The vast majority of energy that sustains life comes from what?

Answer 9

The sun

Question 10

Green plants use that energy to make food for themselves via a process called what?

Answer 10

Photosynthesis

Question 11

How do consumers get energy from producers?

Answer 11

By eating them

Question 12

What are consumers which eat only plants called?

Answer 12

Herbivores

Question 13

What are consumers which eat only non-plants called?

Answer 13

Carnivores

Question 14

What are consumers which eat plants and non-plants called?

Answer 14

Omnivores

Question 15

The energy of dead producers and consumers is recycled back into creation by what?

Answer 15

Decomposers

Question 16

Producers are often called what, which is the Greek roots of which literally me “self-feeder.”?

Answer 16

Autotrophs

Question 17

Consumers and decomposers are often called what?

Answer 17

Heterotrophs

Question 18

Heterotroph literally means what?

Answer 18

Other feeders

Question 19

Living organisms are equipped with structures called what, which receive information about their surroundings?

Answer 19

Receptors

Question 20

Receptors are necessary for a living organism’s survival because God’s creation is always what?

Answer 20

Changing

Question 21

In asexual reproduction, the characteristics and traits inherited by the offspring (under normal circumstances) are what?

Answer 21

Identical to the parent

Question 22

In sexual reproduction, under normal circumstances, the offspring’s traits and characteristics are what?

Answer 22

Some mixture to the parent.

Question 23

When can the offspring possess traits that are incredibly different from those of the parent or parents?

Answer 23

When mutation occurs.

Question 24

In the scientific method, the scientist starts by ___ the world around him.

Answer 24

Observing

Question 25

In the scientific method, after observing the world the scientist forms a ___to explain some aspect of how the world functions.

Answer 25

Hypothesis

Question 26

In the scientific method, after making a hypothesis, the scientist then ___ in an attempt to test his hypothesis.

Answer 26

Collects more data.

Question 27

In the scientific method, if a large amount of data confirms the hypothesis, it becomes a ___, which is tested with even more data.

Answer 27

Theory

Question 28

In the scientific method, if a theory continues to be confirmed over several generations, it might become a what?

Answer 28

Scientific Law

Question 29

Scientists once believed that life could spring from non-living things. This was called what?

Answer 29

Spontaneous generation

Question 30

Spontaneous generation was refuted in the mid 1800s by a scientist named ___.

Answer 30

Louis Pasteur

Question 31

The story of how the scientific community believed in spontaneous generation for so long demonstrates that science has what?

Answer 31

Flaws

Question 32

The newest version of spontaneous generation is called what?

Answer 32

Abiogenesis

Question 33

What does Abiogensis claim?

Answer 33

that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions.

Question 34

The groups used in our classification scheme, from largest to smallest are what?

Answer 34

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species

Question 35

The five kingdoms we use in this course are what?

Answer 35

Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia

Question 36

A cell with no membrane-bounded organelles is called what?

Answer 36

Prokaryotic

Question 37

A cell with membrane-bounded organelles is called what?

Answer 37

Eukaryotic cell

Question 38

Members of kingdom Monera are composed of what kind of cells?

Answer 38

Prokaryotic cells

Question 39

A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units is called what?

Answer 39

Species

Question 40

A series of questions that is designed to classify organisms is called a biological ___.

Answer 40

Key

Question 41

When we call wolves “Canis lupus,” we are using what?

Answer 41

Binomial nomenclature

Question 42

There are three basic groups in the three-domain system of classification name them.

Answer 42

Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya

Question 43

In the three-domain system of classification, members of kingdom Monera are placed in either one of two groups name them.

Answer 43

Archaea or Bacteria

Question 44

In the three-domain system of classification, if an organism is not in kingdom Monera it is placed in what group?

Answer 44

Eukarya

Question 45

A creationist taxonomy scheme that attempts to classify organisms based on the kind of organisms that God made during creation is called what?

Answer 45

Baraminology

Question 46

Multicellular autotrophs are typically placed in what kingdom?

Answer 46

Plantae

Question 47

Single-celled creatures made of eukaryotic cells are placed in what kingdom?

Answer 47

Protista

Question 48

Multicellular consumers are typically placed in what kingdom?

Answer 48

Animalia

Question 49

Decomposers made of eukaryotic cells are mostly found in what kingdom?

Answer 49

Fungi

Question 50

Organisms made of prokaryotic cells are found in what kingdom?

Answer 50

Monera