Deck 20: Strategies of Life: What Is Life

Question 1

The scientific name of the white oak tree is Quercus alba. In this name, the name Quercus refers to the tree's

A) family.
B) breed.
C) order.
D) species.
E) genus.

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Using what research method were the Archaea discovered?

A) Linnaean classification
B) straining through sea water
C) molecular genetics
D) DNA analysis
E) dissection

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Vascular plants

A) can live in dry environments.
B) include ferns.
C) overcome gravity with internal structure.
D) can be seedless.
E) are described by all of these.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Which is an example of a bryophyte?

A) apple tree
B) lichen
C) moss
D) orchid
E) penicillium

Question 5

One possible ancestor to modern humans is named Homo erectus. Compared to modern human beings, Homo erectus was a member of a different

A) species.
B) genus.
C) family.
D) subgenus.
E) order.

Question 6

The Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus based his system of classification upon

A) observation.
B) DNA typing.
C) experimentation.
D) carbon dating.
E) all of these are correct.

Question 7

Which of the following is not true about all living things?

A) They are subject to the laws of thermodynamics.
B) They are made from more than one cell.
C) They respond to their environments.
D) They need energy to live.
E) They are dependent upon chemical reactions.

Question 8

Energy for the Industrial Revolution was dependent upon the prehistoric dominance and vast preservation of compressed

A) seedless vascular plants.
B) gymnosperms.
C) angiosperms.
D) arthropods.
E) bryophytes.

Question 9

Which is true of algae?

A) Algae can be single-celled or multi-cellular organisms.
B) Algae carry out at least half of global photosynthesis.
C) Algae include seaweed and kelp.
D) Algae are found in symbiotic combination with fungi.
E) Algae can be all of these.

Question 10

In the new view of biological classification, the three domains of life are

A) Monera, Archaea, and Eucaryea
B) Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucaryea
C) Eucaryea, Monera, and Protista
D) Fungi, Bacteria, and Animals
E) Archaea, Plants, and Animals

Question 11

In revised taxonomic schemes, examples of Eucaryea are

A) birds
B) trees
C) lobsters
D) frogs
E) all of these are correct

Question 12

The main difference between the kingdoms Monera and Protista is

A) the number of cells in the organism.
B) the location of the internal chordate.
C) the presence of a nucleus.
D) a filamentous root system.
E) the method of locomotion.

Question 13

"Cold-blooded" is a term that can refer to

A) insects and spiders.
B) snakes and crabs.
C) frogs and turtles.
D) turtles and lobsters.
E) all of these are correct.

Question 14

Which of the following does not describe a process common to all plants?

A) take energy directly from the Sun
B) consuming other organisms
C) remove carbon dioxide from the air
D) remove water vapor from the air
E) produce oxygen as a waste product

Question 15

Which of the following is a legacy of Linnaeus?

A) biological domains
B) Archaea
C) binomial nomenclature
D) Monera
E) Cyanobacteria

Question 16

On what part of a bacterium cell does penicillin act?

A) nucleus
B) chloroplast
C) cytoplasm
D) cell membrane
E) protoplasm

Question 17

How are Fungi different from Protista?

A) number of leaves
B) presence of a nucleus
C) strategy of obtaining energy
D) color and texture
E) skeleton

Question 18

What do all primates have in common?

A) the same order
B) fingernails
C) eyes in the front of the head
D) large brain
E) all of these are correct

Question 19

What is the correct order of the following, according to the Linnaean system of classification?

A) genus, species, class, order, phyla, family, kingdom
B) class, species, family, order, kingdom, genus, phyla
C) kingdom, phyla, class, order, family, genus, species
D) kingdom, order, phyla, species, class, family, genus
E) genus, species, class, family, order, phyla, kingdom

Question 20

How long have flowering plants been the dominant plant life on Earth?

A) 150 million years
B) 250 million years
C) 150 thousand years
D) 65 million years
E) 25 million years

Question 21

How were prehistoric amphibians adapted to live at least part of their lives on land?

Question 22

What about the body structure of insects has contributed to their success as an animal group?

Question 23

Based upon the Linnaean system of classification, what do we know about three organisms with the scientific names Ursus horribilis, Ursus maritimus, and Cornus florida?

A) Cornus florida is probably a corn plant.
B) Cornus florida was first found in Florida.
C) Ursus horribilis and Ursus maritimus are the most closely related of all three.
D) Ursus horribilis was first identified by a scientist whose last name was Horribilis.
E) All of these are true.

Question 24

Explain how the discovery of antibiotics was a "botched experiment."

Question 25

What was Jan Baptiste Van Helmont trying to show in his experiment with a willow sapling?

Question 26

What is taxonomy?

Question 27

Upon what concept is the Linnaean classification of life based?

Question 28

Why did Carl Woese propose the new domain name Archaea and the scheme of domain classification considering that the Linnaean classification had served biology well for many years?

Question 29

Using binomial nomenclature, how are species names - for example, in your textbook - usually written?

Question 30

What did the biologist J.B.S. Haldane mean when he said "God has an inordinate fondness for beetles."?

Question 31

Why is it so difficult to estimate how many species of insects there are on the Earth?

A) There is no central repository for information on new species on Earth.
B) New species continue to be discovered and other species go extinct.
C) Different methods of estimating numbers yield widely varied results.
D) All of these are valid reasons.
E) No estimate is necessary because a good approximation of the number of insect species is sufficient.

Question 32

What is biology?

Question 33

Life is defined by biologists by a collection of properties. For example, all life forms require water, grow, and process energy. What other properties describe life?

Question 34

If you discovered a new organism in deep oceanic hydrothermal vents and you were trying to understand to which kingdom it belonged, what is one of the first questions you might ask?

A) What color is it?
B) How many cells does it have?
C) How does it acquire energy?
D) How does it move?
E) What temperature variations can it withstand?

Question 35

Which of the following phyla is the most successful in the animal kingdom, based on numbers of species and total biomass?

A) chordates
B) vertebrates
C) mollusks
D) arthropods
E) worms

Question 36

An apple is to an angiosperm as __________ is to __________?

A) a web, a spider
B) a cone, a gymnosperm
C) pollen, an angiosperm
D) coral, a sponge
E) a flower, a seed

Question 37

When we say of life that "all living things are part of larger systems of matter and energy," what does that mean?

Question 38

What makes the seed a successful means of reproduction?

Question 39

What is the difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms?

Question 40

When we say that all living things are descended from a "common ancestor," which is part of the definition of life, what does that say about evolution?

Question 41

Why is a fern considered to be a "primitive" vascular plant?

Question 42

What is the EOL and what is its goal?

Question 43

In the Linnaean classification of humans, to what family does our species belong? What other organisms are in that same family?

Question 44

What are three types of fungi that we are familiar with because they are related to foods?

Question 45

In making some estimates of the total number of species of a particular organism in the world, a factor is used that has a value of 1.7. What is the origin of this factor?

Question 46

What world event was a major factor in speeding up work on penicillin as an antibiotic?

Question 47

What are the most primitive of all terrestrial plants?

Question 48

What is peculiar about the cellular organization of sponges?

Question 49

What are lichens?

Question 50

What is the way that angiosperms can reproduce without fertilization?