Test 1

Steadying body temperature and maintaining consistent blood pH levels are both examples of what unifying principle of life?

A plant will begin flowering in response to changes in length of daylight, temperature, and light quality. This is an example of what unifying principle of life?

All of the chemical reactions responsible for releasing energy and building up molecules and tissues are essential and happening every moment of our lives. This is an example of ____.

_______ is/are largely responsible for the traits of living organisms while DNA provides the blueprint for the organization, development, and function of living things

Which level of organization includes all of the others in the list?

Which level of organization is common to all life forms?

When cells in an organism associate with each other to perform a common task they from ____.

A community of organisms interacting with their physical environment is a(n)______.

Which is the simplest of ALL levels of organization?

Just the fiddler crabs living on an island is an example of a(n):

The root of a plant represents which level of organization?

The phenomenon through which populations of organisms change over several generations is termed:

A variety of finch species within the Hawaiian Islands have acquired different types of beaks needed for utilizing specific food resources over a long period of time. What is the likely process by which these different species of finches came about?

What feature of genetic mutations can eventually lead to the evolution of new species?

New species evolve from pre-existin species by the accumulation of:

How does evolutionary change occur?

In the process of biological evolution, new species may evolve through direct echange of genes from one species to another, different species. This process is called:

The grouping or classification of species is termed:

When grouping organisms, which classification level among these answer choices is most general for a particular type of organism?

All organisms in the Kingdom____ can perform photosynthesis

Our species is called Homo sapiens. The first word refers to which taxonomical grouping?

Which domain of life contains many multicellular organisms?

The complete genetic composition of an organisms is called its:

If a scientist were studying the role of different proteins in the regulation of insulin secretion from a pancreatic cell, they would be studying:

An explanation for a biological process that is substantiated by a large body of evidence is called a:

Collecting data without a specific hypothesis in mind is called: