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| 1 | The Theory of Evolution is the central organizing principle of biology. |
 | A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 2 | The properties of life today are very different from those present at its origin. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 3 | Many remarkable properties have arisen during life's long evolutionary history and are observable in various combinations among currently living forms. These properties include which of the following? |
| A) | Chemical uniqueness |
| B) | Complexity and hierarchical organization |
| C) | Reproduction |
| D) | Possession of a genetic program |
| E) | All of the above are properties of life |
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| 4 | The appearance of new characteristics at a given level of organization is called… |
| A) | Cellular hierarchy |
| B) | Emergence |
| C) | Reproduction |
| D) | Variation |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 5 | The faithful transmission of traits from parents to offspring is termed variation. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 6 | The structures of the protein molecules needed for organismal development and functioning in animals are encoded in… |
| A) | Nucleic Acids |
| B) | Mitochondrial DNA |
| C) | Nuclear DNA |
| D) | Proteins |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 7 | Which of the following may be part of animal development? |
| A) | Fertilization of the egg |
| B) | Changing from an embryo to an adult |
| C) | Postembryonic development |
| D) | Metamorphosis |
| E) | All of the above may be part of animal development |
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| 8 | The study of organismal interaction with an environment is called … |
| A) | Zoology |
| B) | Embryology |
| C) | Physiology |
| D) | Ecology |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 9 | The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form to another. This would imply that the amount of energy in the universe is constant. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 10 | The second law of thermodynamics states that physical systems tend to proceed toward a state of greater disorder called… |
| A) | Enthalpy |
| B) | Entropy |
| C) | Complexity |
| D) | Zymurgy |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 11 | Animals can generally be distinguished from plants and fungi by which of the following? |
| A) | Do not use light energy to produce organic compounds |
| B) | Lack a rigid cell wall that surrounds cell membrances |
| C) | Do not acquire nutrition by absorption of small organic molecules from their environment |
| D) | All of the above are correct |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 12 | Some unicellular organisms, such as Euglena have both animal-like and plant-like characteristics and for these reasons are grouped into the Kingdom Protista. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 13 | Science is both a body of knowledge and a way of asking questions about the natural world and sometimes obtaining precise answers to them. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 14 | “Creation-Science” is in fact a religious position and not a valid scientific endeavor, because the essential characteristics of science, as summarized by Judge Overton in a historic lawsuit in 1981, are as follows: |
| A) | It is guided by natural law and must be explanatory by reference to natural law |
| B) | It is testable against the observable world |
| C) | It is falsifiable |
| D) | Its conclusions are tentative and therefore not necessarily the final word |
| E) | All of the above are correct |
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| 15 | The scientific method frequently involves the hypothetico-deductive method. After observing natural phenomena and formulating questions about these phenomena, the next step would be to do which of the following? |
| A) | Collect data |
| B) | Draw conclusions |
| C) | Generate hypotheses |
| D) | Write a paper explaining your observations |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 16 | The word “theory” as it is used by scientists, for example, in the Theory of Evolution, is not a “speculation” as it is in ordinary English. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 17 | Powerful theories that guide extensive research are called… |
| A) | Hypotheses |
| B) | Theories |
| C) | Paradigms |
| D) | Methodologies |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 18 | The experimental sciences generally address which of the following? |
| A) | The philosophy of science |
| B) | Evolutionary causes |
| C) | Proximate or immediate causes |
| D) | All of the above are correct |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 19 | Controls, repetitions of the experimental procedure that lack the disturbance, are established to eliminate unperceived factors that may bias the outcome of the experiment. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 20 | Contributions to animal biology may come from areas such as… |
| A) | Biochemistry |
| B) | Genetics |
| C) | Cell Biology |
| D) | Embryology |
| E) | All of the above are correct |