This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Biology – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Biology Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The cell spends most of it's life in ..... A) Mitosis. B) Cytokinesis. C) Interphase. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interphase. 2. The living components of an ecosystem A) Biotic factors. B) Predator-prey. C) Abiotic factors. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic factors. 3. Which statement best compares aerobic and anaerobic respiration? A) More oxygen is generated during anaerobic respiration than during aerobic respiration. B) Less lactic acid is generated during anaerobic respiration than during aerobic respiration. C) More water is generated during anaerobic respiration than during aerobic respiration. D) Less ATP is generated during anaerobic respiration than during aerobic respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Less ATP is generated during anaerobic respiration than during aerobic respiration. 4. Waterproofs, insulates, and stores energy long-term A) Lipids. B) Proteins. C) Carbohydrates. D) Nucleic Acids. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lipids. 5. Which of the following performs alcohol fermentation? A) Bacteria. B) Yeast. C) Plants. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yeast. 6. The central vein is also called ..... A) Midbrib. B) Apex. C) Margin. D) Base. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Midbrib. 7. What is an Endoskeleton A) Provides an ant with armor. B) Protects insects. C) A structure that is inside an organism. D) A structure that is on the outside of an organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A structure that is inside an organism. 8. Organisms that cannot make their own food and must obtain energy from external sources are called A) Heterotrophs. B) Plants. C) Thylakoids. D) Autotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heterotrophs. 9. What is the largest geographic area that contains all ecosystems on earth called A) Biosphere. B) Environment. C) Biome. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 10. What are two types of passive transport? A) Endo and exocytosis. B) Cookies and milk. C) Active and passive. D) Osmosis and diffusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osmosis and diffusion. 11. Which statement is true about amino acids? A) All amino acids have $ C=C$ double bonds. B) All amino acids have amine groups. C) Some amino acids contain phosphorus. D) No amino acid contains sulfur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All amino acids have amine groups. 12. What are the characteristics of Eukaryotes? A) No Nucleus, Complex, Small. B) Nucleus, Complex, Large. C) Nucleus, Simple, Small. D) No Nucleus, Simple, Large. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nucleus, Complex, Large. 13. Amino acids are the building blocks of ..... A) RNA. B) DNA. C) Atoms. D) Proteins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proteins. 14. Biology is ..... A) The study of physics. B) The study of space. C) The study of life. D) The study of the Earth's interior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of life. 15. Conifers have several adaptive features to reduce water loss. Which one of the following is incorrect? A) Needle like leaves. B) Thick cuticle. C) Sunken stomata. D) Producing pollen grains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Producing pollen grains. 16. Which of the following is not a Pteridophyte? A) Polytrichum. B) Dryopteris. C) Salvinia. D) Equisitum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polytrichum. 17. At what temperature are pollen grains stored in pollen banks? A) -186$^ \circ$C. B) -196$^ \circ$C. C) -192$^ \circ$C. D) -78$^ \circ$C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -196$^ \circ$C. 18. Organisms which produce their own food are called A) Autotrophs. B) Saprotrophs. C) Parasites. D) Heterotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autotrophs. 19. Stores genetic information and carries out protein synthesis A) Proteins. B) Carbohydrates. C) Nucleic Acids. D) Lipids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nucleic Acids. 20. Which gas is produced during photosynthesis. A) Carbon dioxide. B) Nitrogen. C) Hydrogen. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxygen. 21. A species that kills and eats other organisms for food ..... A) Predator. B) Prey. C) Parasitic. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predator. 22. Organisms composed of many cells are called A) Multicellular. B) Eukaryotic. C) Unicellular. D) Prokaryotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multicellular. 23. How do consumers get their energy to survive? A) Use sunlight for photosynthesis. B) Consume only producers. C) Consume producers and other consumers. D) Consume only other consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consume producers and other consumers. 24. What generates a nerve impulse on the post-synaptic membrane? A) Potassium leaking into the post-synaptic membrane. B) Neurotransmitter binding with receptor sites. C) Calcium binding with a receptor site. D) Neurotransmitter being removed from the synapse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neurotransmitter binding with receptor sites. 25. Study of FISHES. A) Ichthyology. B) Entomology. C) Ethology. D) Ornithology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ichthyology. 26. Which group to these belong to? insects, arachnids, and crustaceans A) Arthropods. B) Mollusk. C) Vetebrates. D) Fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arthropods. 27. An alien (not native to the ecosystem) species brought to an area by man, which competes for resources and causes problems for the native species within an ecosystem A) Keystone species. B) Resilience. C) Limiting factors. D) Invasive species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Invasive species. 28. What 3 letters do enzymes typically end in? A) -ose. B) -ase. C) -tic. D) -ese. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -ase. 29. The scientific name for something living is a(an) A) Cell. B) Organism. C) Human. D) Tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organism. 30. Breaks down glucose to release energy for the cell A) Vacuole. B) Mitochondria. C) Lysosomes. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mitochondria. 31. Which would be the best evidence that a cell is using active transport to move a substance across its cell membrane? A) Substances are moving from high to low concentrations. B) ATP is being rapidly consumed near the cellular membrane. C) Substances are moving through channels in the cell membrane. D) Substances are moving rapidly across the cell membranes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ATP is being rapidly consumed near the cellular membrane. 32. Which of the following genotypes is heterozygous? A) Bb. B) B. C) BB. D) Bb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bb. 33. Typically, in carbon compounds, how many bonds does carbon make? A) 3. B) 4. C) 5. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 34. Choose the correct sequence of the frog's life cycle A) Froglet, tadpole, frog, and egg. B) Egg, frog, tadpole, and froglet. C) Egg, tadpole, froglet, and frog. D) Tadpole, froglet, frog, and egg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Egg, tadpole, froglet, and frog. 35. When a cell is not dividing, and even as it duplicates the DNA in preparation for cell division, each chromosome is in the form a of along thin ..... fiber A) Chromosome. B) Sister chromatid. C) Chromatin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chromatin. 36. Rocks are not living because A) They never move. B) They are not made of cells. C) They aren't needed for humans. D) They don't break down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are not made of cells. 37. The combination of chemical reactions throughwhich an organism builds up or breaks downmaterials as it carries out its life processes is called ..... A) Consumption. B) Digestion. C) Metabolism. D) Absorption. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metabolism. 38. Eukaryotic chromomes are made up of A) Chromatin. B) Centromeres. C) Chromatids. D) Centrioles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chromatin. 39. Which of the following are true of hepatocytes? I. they release glucose into the blood or store it as glycogenII. they produce bile saltsIII. their surface contains microvilli A) I and II only. B) I and III only. C) II and III only. D) I, II and III. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I, II and III. 40. Phosphorus is needed for the production of ..... A) Oxygen. B) Glucose. C) ATP. D) Carbon Dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ATP. 41. This is the attachment point between two sister chromatids A) Centriole. B) Chromatid. C) Centromere. D) Chiasma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Centromere. 42. "If the concentration of salt increases, then the freezing point of water will decrease." What is the independent variable in this hypothesis? A) Freezing point of water. B) The type of salt. C) Salt concentration. D) The water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salt concentration. 43. The ..... is the basic unit of life A) Tissue. B) Atom. C) Organ. D) Cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cell. 44. Which statement best describes what will happen if the population of herbivores in the community decreases A) The pop. Of foxes will increase. B) The pop. of meadow plants will inc. C) The pop. of hawks will inc. D) The pop. of rabbits will increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The pop. of meadow plants will inc. 45. Relationships between living organisms and their environment, and how they interact with both living and non-living components in the environment. A) Morphology. B) Palaeontology. C) Biogeography. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecology. 46. What is the macromolecule that includes enzymes? A) Carbohydrate. B) Lipid. C) Nucleic acid. D) Protein. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protein. 47. Which of the following does a plant cell ONLY have? A) Vacuole. B) Nucleus. C) Chloroplast. D) Centrosome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chloroplast. 48. What does mulitcellular mean? A) Protozoans. B) Bacteria. C) Only one cell. D) More than one cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) More than one cell. 49. When a farmer sprays a chemical on to crop plants, how does the chemical travel to the roots of the plants? A) In the phloem, by transpiration pull. B) In the xylem, by transpiration pull. C) In the phloem, by active translocation. D) In the xylem, by active translocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the phloem, by active translocation. 50. The yucca plant releases a strong scent when yucca moths are active. The yucca moth is attracted to the scent and gathers pollen from the plant and deposits it along with its eggs on another yucca plant. This insures the moth larvae will have food and the yucca gets pollinated. What relationship does this best illustrate? A) Parasitism. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutualism. 51. Define Surface area A) The total area on the surface of an object. B) Length X Width. C) 6 X (length X width). D) Add up the sides and divide by 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The total area on the surface of an object. 52. Choose one that is NOT a characteristic of life A) Growth. B) Evolution. C) Development. D) Reproduction. E) Organization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evolution. 53. What type of molecule is water? A) Amino. B) Compound. C) Carbon. D) Polar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polar. 54. How is a biological addiction formed? A) The body adapts to the substance, leading you to take more of it to get a similar reaction. B) The brain automatically gets hooked on it. C) Trimethylpurine-2 6 dione converts the substance into a specific energy source the brain works best on. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The body adapts to the substance, leading you to take more of it to get a similar reaction. 55. Holdfast, Stipe and frond are usually found in members of A) Chlorophyceae. B) Phaeophyceae. C) Rhodophyceae. D) All algae. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phaeophyceae. 56. A leaf with more than one blade. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compound. 57. Which of the following correctly shows the organization in an ecosystem, from smallest to the largest level A) Ecosystem, community, population, organism. B) Population, community, ecosystem, organism. C) Organism/ population/ community/ ecosystem. D) Community/ecosystem/organism/ populations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organism/ population/ community/ ecosystem. 58. Plants need ..... as a reactant for photosynthesis. A) Soil. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Sugar. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carbon dioxide. 59. What process can cause cells to elongate? A) The movement of protons into the cell wall; loosening of the cellulose; efflux of water. B) The movement of protons into the cell wall; loosening of the cellulose; influx of water. C) The movement of protons into the cytoplasm; loosening of the cell wall; influx of water. D) The movement of protons into the nucleus; activating genes to loosen the cell wall; influx of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The movement of protons into the cell wall; loosening of the cellulose; influx of water. 60. The enzyme that unzips the DNA to prepare for replication A) Replicase. B) Synthase. C) Polymerase. D) Helicase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Helicase. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesBiology Quiz 1Biology Quiz 2Biology Quiz 3Biology Quiz 4Biology Quiz 5Biology Quiz 6Biology Quiz 8Biology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books