WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions With Complete Solutions Rated A+
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WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions With Complete Solutions Rated A+
The endosymbiosis theory argues that a ____ relationship was established between two cells. - correct answer...mutualistic
The endosymbiosis theory argues that small prokaryotic cells were ...
WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global
Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions With
Complete Solutions Rated A+
The endosymbiosis theory argues that a ____ relationship was established between two
cells. - correct answer...✔✔mutualistic
The endosymbiosis theory argues that small prokaryotic cells were engulfed by ____. -
correct answer...✔✔larger prokaryotic cells
The first hominids appeared at the end of the ____. - correct answer...✔✔Tertiary
The first fungi evolved in the ____. - correct answer...✔✔Ordovician
Francisco Redi did an experiment to show that meat did not produce maggots by the
process of ____. - correct answer...✔✔spontaneous generaiton
The ____ is the period of the first vascular plants. - correct answer...✔✔Silurian
Protenoid spheres could have evolved via ____. - correct answer...✔✔self assembly
____ was the first period of the Cenozoic. - correct answer...✔✔Tertiary
The Pleistocene Epoch ended roughly ____ years ago. - correct answer...✔✔8000
Both mitochondria and chloroplasts have two membranes. - correct answer...✔✔True
Chloroplasts are found only in members of the Kingdom Plantae. - correct answer...✔✔
False
The bony fish evolved in the ____ period of the Paleozoic. - correct answer...✔✔
Ordovician
Bacteria-like DNA is found in the ____ of eukaryotes. - correct answer...✔✔
mitochondria
Multicellularity might have evolved by incomplete cell division. - correct answer...✔✔
True
Stanley Miller was able to produce synthetic ____. - correct answer...✔✔amino acids
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,Oparin converted elemental nitrogen, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen to ____. - correct
answer...✔✔amino acids
DNA in the nuclei of eukaryotic cells is complexed with ____. - correct answer...✔✔
proteins
Pasteur did an experiment to show that there was no ____. - correct answer...✔✔
spontaneous generation
Multicellularity might have evolved from coloniality. - correct answer...✔✔True
The ____ era is broken down into Epochs. - correct answer...✔✔Cenozoic
____ are the site for aerobic respiration in eukaryotes. - correct answer...✔✔
Mitochondria
Most scientists think the Earth is ____ years old. - correct answer...✔✔4.5 Billion
Water moves through soil to the groundwater by the process of ____. - correct answer...
✔✔percolation
Denitrification is the conversion of ____ to N2. - correct answer...✔✔NO2
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, In photosynthesis, CO2 is converted to ____ and H2O. - correct answer...✔✔sugars
Temperate species may tend to be more ecologically specialized than their tropical
counterparts. - correct answer...✔✔False
Ammonia is a gas and has the chemical formula ____. - correct answer...✔✔NH3
The tropics may harbor more species with narrower niches than temperate species. -
correct answer...✔✔True
Energy in biological systems mostly exists in the form ____ molecules. - correct
answer...✔✔ATP
Through the evolutionary process, species may become increasingly adapted for
narrower environmental conditions and this can make them more rare. - correct
answer...✔✔True
Ecological pyramids were the brain child of ____. - correct answer...✔✔Charles Elton
In a food web animals are never ____. - correct answer...✔✔primary producers
Ecological pyramids illustrate the amount of ____ at various trophic levels. - correct
answer...✔✔biomass
Plants take up water from the soil and move it to the atmosphere by means of ____. -
correct answer...✔✔transpiration
Photosynthesis is essentially ____. - correct answer...✔✔carbon fixation
Some ammonia is mineralized as ____. - correct answer...✔✔NH4+
Northern Mockingbirds were introduced successfully to ____. - correct answer...✔✔
Hawaiian Islands
Some Nitrogen is fixed by the action of lightning. - correct answer...✔✔True
The symbiotic relationship between plant and Rhizobium is ____ in nature. - correct
answer...✔✔mutualistic
Denitrification occurs only ____. - correct answer...✔✔when O2 is not available
Most of the gaseous nitrogen in the atmosphere exists in the form of ____. - correct
answer...✔✔N2
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