Biology 101 Study Exam I
What does the root term ‘bio’ mean? What does ‘logy’ mean?
How many Kingdoms are recognized today?
Which of the following is an example of a quantitative observation?
To which kingdom do the bacteria belong?
A Hypothesis:
Was Darwin the only person to develop the theory of evolution by natural selection?
What was Darwin’s position on board the ship when he traveled to South America?
What are the levels in the hierarchy of classification?
When you have several cells of the same kind working together in-masse you have a?
How is Biological Species defined as?
In the scientific method, factors that vary and can potentially influence the effect being studied are called?
The whole living Earth, when looked at by scientists, is referred to by the term?
Artificial selection and natural selection have which of the following features in common? a.
In both cases, a force acts upon inheritable variation in a population to select individuals with certain traits b.
Scientists can directly observe both these processes in a lab in a short time. c.
Reproduction of selected individuals increases the occurrence of the trait in the population. d.
Both (a) and (c).
How do we define “community” consists of?
Which of the following groups represents a “population”? a mother duck and her babies all of the plants, sunlight, animals and minerals in a forest a bumble bee, a flower, and a worm all the squirrels in the Grand Canyon
When you have several different tissues together forming a structure or part of the body, you have a what?

What are some characteristics of members of the kingdom Animalia?
The “blueprint” or genetic instructions for an organism is encoded in the molecule?
There are several different types of observations people can make. The best observations are those that are?
Predictions made using the information from the scientific method are based on deductive reasoning; also referred to as what type of logic?
Can the scientific process can falsify a hypothesis just as well as support it?
Describe some characteristics of The Scientific Process?
Describe some characteristics of a hypothesis?
When a hypothesis fails a test, must it be completely thrown out and started all over again?
Approximately how many species are there on the planet?
To which kingdom do yeasts and molds belong?
Evolution (as a term) biologically generally stands for?
Which quality of life describes an organism’s tendency towards complex organization?
Which quality of life describes an organism’s ability to perpetuate, or continue, itself over time through generations?
Which of the following questions is outside the realm of science?
What are some of the key assumptions the theory of evolution is based on?
What are some examples of an organ system?
What is a heritable trait? How is this different from an acquired trait?
What criteria are used to determine if a hypothesis becomes a theory?
Natural Selection, as a mechanism for evolution, states there is?
Which quality of life describes an organism’s ability to maintain its internal environment within the limits of life while its external environment is changing?
All life on Earth, including humans, is still evolving. What is small scale changes called? And large scale changes?

What do we call unicellular organisms?
Can a hypothesis, given enough time and effort, be proven absolutely true, 100%?
The core theoretical theme of the science of biology is?
Which quality of life describes an organism’s ability to increase in size and complexity and to develop characteristics of its species?
Natural selection is sometimes described as “survival of the fittest”. Which metric most accurately measures an organism’s fitness?
How does the theory of “spontaneous generation” match up to the Cell Theory?
Which quality of life describes an organism’s ability to react to stimuli from their environment?
The difference between a Law and a Theory is that a Law?
The second step in the scientific method, after making observations, is to?
For something to qualify as falsifiable, it must?
Which step in the scientific method involves correcting or rewriting a hypothesis if it failed an experiment, but not discarding it, to include new information?
Which level of life’s hierarchy of complexity begins to involve both all the living things in a particular area and the non-living, physical components of the environment?
Can horses and donkeys breed and produce fertile offspring? Are they therefore one or two separate species?