This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Biology – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Biology Quiz 14 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In plants, the food not used is immediately stored in the form of A) Glucose. B) Starch. C) Glycogen. D) Cellulose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Starch. 2. Sphagnum is used as a packaging material to transport living plants because (most appropriate) A) It is bushy. B) It lasts long. C) It is easily available. D) It retains huge amount of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It retains huge amount of water. 3. Which part of a plant root hair is partially permeable? A) The cell sap. B) The cell surface membrane. C) The cell vacuole. D) The cell wall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The cell surface membrane. 4. Energy is released from ATP when the bond is broken between ..... A) Phosphate molecules. B) Adenosine and phosphates. C) Hydrogen and oxygen. D) All of the answer choices are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phosphate molecules. 5. A homologous pair of chromosomes associates during Prophase I through synapsis and creates a ..... A) Bivalent. B) Non-disjunction event. C) New chromosome. D) Histone Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bivalent. 6. What does the stomach do? A) Nothing. B) Adds digestive juices to the food. C) Goes out to the rectum. D) Barley any of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adds digestive juices to the food. 7. What does tRNA do? A) Carry info from genes to ribosomes. B) Carry amino acids to ribosomes. C) Help with RNA splicing. D) Make up ribosomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carry amino acids to ribosomes. 8. Which human activity would be most likely to have a negative impact on the environment? A) Planting trees to control soil erosion. B) Limiting the use of chemicals that kill weeds. C) Stopping the draining of swamps. D) Burning coal and oil to generate electric power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burning coal and oil to generate electric power. 9. Your gums are swollen. How will rinsing with warm salt water help the swelling? A) Swollen gums will absorb the salt. B) Salt lowers the temp. C) Salt goes against the concentration gradient. D) Water in the gums has diffused out of the cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water in the gums has diffused out of the cells. 10. Which processes best describe phototrophism? A) Plants growing towards light; cells on light side elongating. B) Plants growing away from light; cells on light side elongating. C) Plants growing toward light; cells on the dark side elongating. D) Plants growing towards light, cells on the light and dark side elongating. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plants growing toward light; cells on the dark side elongating. 11. What does the lytic cycle result in? A) Destruction of the infected cell and the membrane. B) Multiple new cells. C) People going in sane. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Destruction of the infected cell and the membrane. 12. Restricted blood flow can cause A) Hypertension. B) Atherosclerosis. C) Breathing difficulty. D) Angina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypertension. 13. Scientists are studying how wolves have shaped the ecosystem in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. They have found that an increase in wolf populations affects the populations of so many other living things that the rivers and mountains actually changed as well. In what branch of biology do these scientists work? A) Ecology. B) Botany. C) Cell biology. D) Anatomy and Physiology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecology. 14. When two or more organisms compete for the same resources within an ecological community A) Abiotic factors. B) Competition. C) Adaptation. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competition. 15. Jan van Helmont concluded that plants gain most of their mass from ..... A) Carbon dioxide in the air. B) Oxygen in the air. C) The soil. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. 16. Which best explains why muscle cells are different from blood cells? A) A mutation occurs during the development of muscle cells but not in blood cells. B) Different genes are activated in muscle cells than in blood cells. C) Muscle cells experience different environmental influences than blood cells. D) Muscle cells are produced by the brain, but blood cells are produced by the heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Different genes are activated in muscle cells than in blood cells. 17. This trait always shows up in an organism when the allele is present A) Dominant allele. B) Codominance. C) Probability. D) Recessive allele. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dominant allele. 18. Which sense does the Indus Dolphin use to find its prey? A) Vision. B) Smell. C) Hearing. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hearing. 19. Select the option that will add nitrogen to the soil in a field. A) Plough field regularly. B) Water field regularly. C) Add manure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Add manure. 20. What are the sequences in seed germination? A) Absorption of water, GA released, amylase released, maltose produced. B) GA released, absorption of water, amylase released, maltose produced. C) Maltose produced, amylase released, water absorbed, GA produced. D) Water absorbed, amylase produced, maltose produced, GA released. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Absorption of water, GA released, amylase released, maltose produced. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesBiology Quiz 1Biology Quiz 2Biology Quiz 3Biology Quiz 4Biology Quiz 5Biology Quiz 6Biology Quiz 7Biology Quiz 8Biology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books