1. Base your answer to the following question on Which
life process is indicated by the arrows in the diagram of
an amoeba shown below?
A) digestion
C) fermentation
B) excretion
D) transport
2. Which statement best describes cellular respiration?
A)
B)
C)
D)
It occurs in animal cells but not in plant cells.
It converts energy in food into a more usable form.
It uses carbon dioxide and produces oxygen.
It stores energy in food molecules.
3. Arrows A, B, and C in the diagram below represent the processes necessary to make the energy stored in
food available for muscle activity.
The correct sequence of processes represented by A, B, and C is
A)
B)
C)
D)
diffusion ® synthesis ® active transport
digestion ® diffusion ® cellular respiration
digestion ® excretion ® cellular respiration
synthesis ® active transport ® excretion
4. Which reactions in the list below are associated with
metabolism?
(A) cellular reactions that release energy
(B) photosynthetic reactions that store energy
(C) muscle reactions that use energy
A) A and B, only
C) A and C, only
B) B and C, only
D) A, B, and C
5. A brick is to house as a cell is to
A) an organ system
C) a tissue
B) an organ
D) an organism
6. Specialized cells and organs are necessary in
multicellular organisms because in these organisms
A) fewer cells are in direct contact with the external
environment
B) all cells are in direct contact with the external
environment
C) a body type evolved that relied on fewer body cells
D) a body type evolved that required larger sized cells
7. Base your answer to the following question on the
diagram below and on your knowledge of biology.
9. Several structures are labeled in the diagram of a puppy
shown below.
Every cell in each of these structures contains
Structure B represents
A)
B)
C)
D)
cells, only
cells and tissues, only
an organ with cells and tissues
a complete system with organs, tissues, and cells
8. Which sequence represents the levels of biological
organization from smallest to largest?
A) organism ® cell ® tissue ® organelle ® organ
system ® organ
B) organ system ® organ ® organism ® cell ®
tissue ® organelle
C) organelle ® organ system ® cell ® organism ®
tissue ® organ
D) organelle ® cell ® tissue ® organ ® organ
system ® organism
A)
B)
C)
D)
equal amounts of ATP
identical genetic information
proteins that are all identical
organelles for the synthesis of glucose
10. Which structures are listed in order from the least
complex to the most complex?
A)
B)
C)
D)
plant cell, leaf, chloroplast, rose bush
chloroplast, plant cell, leaf, rose bush
chloroplast, leaf, plant cell, rose bush
rose bush, leaf, plant cell, chloroplast
11. Which model best represents the relationship between a
cell, a nucleus, a gene, and a chromosome?
13. The cell represented below produces oxygen.
A)
B)
C)
Which structure allows the passage of this oxygen to
the environment?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
14. The mitochondria is to the cell as
D)
12. Which statement best compares a multicellular
organism to a single-celled organism?
A) A multicellular organism has organ systems that
interact to carry out life functions, while a
single-celled organism carries out life functions
without using organ systems.
B) A single-celled organism carries out fewer life
functions than each cell of a multicellular
organism.
C) A multicellular organism always obtains energy
through a process that is different from that used
by a single-celled organism.
D) The cell of a single-celled organism is always
much larger than an individual cell of a
multicellular organism.
A)
B)
C)
D)
the motor is to a car
the windshield is to a car
the door is to a car
the seatbelt is to a car
15. As a human red blood cell matures, it loses its nucleus.
After losing its nucleus, what ability does a mature red
blood cell lack?
A)
B)
C)
D)
take in material from the blood
release hormones to the blood
pass through artery walls
carry out cell division
16. Base your answer to the following question on The
diagram below represents two single-celled organisms.
These organisms carry out the activities needed to
maintain homeostasis by using specialized internal
A) tissues
C) systems
B) organelles
D) organs
17. Which organelles outside the cell nucleus contain
genetic material?
A)
B)
C)
D)
lysosomes and cell walls
chloroplasts and mitochondria
endoplasmic reticula and cell membranes
vacuoles and Golgi complex
18. Which cell organelle is composed of a series of
channels throughout the cytoplasm that functions in the
transport of molecules?
A)
B)
C)
D)
lysosome
chloroplast
cell wall
endoplasmic reticulum
19. Which instrument was used in the 18th and 19th
centuries and helped scientists develop the cell theory?
A)
B)
C)
D)
electron microscope
light microscope
microdissecting apparatus
ultracentrifuge
20. The cell theory states that
A) all cells have nuclei that contain genetic
information
B) living organisms are composed of cells that arise
from preexisting cells
C) all cells regenerate and contain the same basic
structures
D) organisms that lack certain organelles reproduce
by binary fission
21. Base your answer to the following question on the diagrams below of two cells, X and Y, and on your
knowledge of biology.
Identify one process that is carried out in cell Y that is not carried out in cell X.
22. Base your answer to the following question on Base your answer to the following question on the diagram
below, which shows some of the specialized organelles in a single-celled organism.
a Write the letter of one of the labeled organelles and state the name of that organelle.
b Explain how the function of the organelle you selected in part a assists in the maintenance of
homeostasis.
c Identify a system in the human body that performs a function similar to that of the organelle you selected
in part a.