General Biology
Quiz 10
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Provide the best answer for the following:
1. The meaning of the following quote in GATTACA is what: “I not only think that we will tamper with
Mother Nature. I think mother wants us to.”
a.
b.
c.
d.
Man is in control of its own evolution
Mother nature controls the evolution of man
Our tampering with Mother Mature is due to our close relationship with Mother Nature
Man lacks the ability to control its evolution and Mother Nature will eventually make humans
pay for their gross arrogance.
2. The meaning of the following quote in GATTACA is what: “As nightfall does not come at once, neither
does oppression. It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of the change in the air, however slight,
lest we become victims of the darkness.”
a. Discrimination against the Jews by the Nazi party happened very quickly
b. Oppression is a vital and necessary part of the evolution of man and its slow progression is
necessary to educate the masses as to its importance.
c. It is the responsibility of man to keep watch over the decisions made by one’s government
d. The setting of the sun causes changes in air qualities necessary for oppression to occur
3. One example of an adaptation would be:
a. Giraffes growing larger necks during droughts and shortening their necks when rain and food are
plenty.
b. Humans lifting weights to grow strong and then passing that strength onto their offspring.
c. Galapagos turtles having the same shaped shells despite the different environments they live in.
d. The speed of the Cheetah to make kills on Gazelles.
4. In our activity on Natural Selection, the environment that determined how many beans were collected
was:
a. The beans and the chopsticks
b. The rug and the fork
c. The rug and the beans
d. The beans and the knife
5. What aspect of the Natural Selection activity determined the fitness of the predator (utensil)?
a. Size
b. Shape
c. Number
d. Age
6. What aspect of the Natural Selection activity determined the fitness of the prey (utensil)?
a. Size
b. Shape
c. Number
d. Age
7. Successful organisms in environments are able to :
a. Adapt to their environment
b. Produce less offspring than non-successful organisms
c. Decrease the number of its genes in the gene pool
d. Produce more offspring than non-successful organisms
8. If predators always catch their prey:
a. Only the predators will survive
b. Only the prey will survive
c. Both the predators and prey will die
d. Both the predators and prey will survive
9. Why is the advantage for current unsuccessful adaptations to survive within a give species?
a. It makes the gene pool smaller.
b. The environment may select for those adaptations in the future.
c. Keeping unsuccessful adaptations in the population is the purpose of natural selection
d. It’s the humane thing to do.
10. Natural selection means:
a. Organisms adapting to their environment
b. Organisms change over time
c. Organisms with beneficial traits produce less offspring than other do
d. Organisms being adapted by their environment
11. The most famous scientist responsible for the Theory of Evolution is:
a. Jean Baptiste LaMarck
b. Charles Darwin
c. Charles Lyell
d. Thomas Malthus
12. The base pairing rules for the nitrogen bases in RNA are:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Adenine with Guanine, Thymine with Cytosine
Adenine with Thymine, Cytosine with Guanine
Adenine with Cytosine, Guanine with Thymine
Adenine with Uracil, Cytosine with Guanine
13. All of the following are major differences between DNA and RNA except:
a. The number of strands they have.
b. The type of phosphate they have.
c. The type of sugar they have.
d. The type of nitrogen bases they have.
14. The two individuals responsible for first publishing an acceptable model for the structure of DNA are:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Wilkins and Franklin
Chargaff and Griffith
Watson and Crick
Watson and Holmes
15. Because in DNA the two chemical strands run in opposite directions to each other they are said to be:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Unilateral
Longitudinal
Antiparallel
Parallel
16. The purpose for DNA replication is:
a. For DNA to make proteins
b. For DNA to make a copy of itself
c. For DNA to make mRNA
d. For DNA to make tRNA
17. The major enzyme necessary for DNA replication is:
a. RNA Polymerase
b. DNA Helicase
c. DNA Topoisomerase
d. DNA Polymerase
18. If DNA is being replicated and section reads GATTACA on one strand the other strand would read:
a.
b.
c.
d.
CTAATGT
CUAAUGU
AGCCGTG
AGCCGUG
19. A mistake in the copying of DNA is known as:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Cancer
Evolution
Mutation
Mutagen
20. Proteins are made up of simpler biological molecules known as:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Carbonic acids
Antacids
Nucleic acids
Amino acids