Developmental Biology Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Developmental Biology
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Developmental Biology
Developmental Biology Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Teratology is the scientific study of congenital abnormalities and abnormal formations.
A. True
B. False - answerA. True
The theory of epigenesis states that the organism is a complete miniature structure within the
sperm or the egg an...
Developmental Biology Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Teratology is the scientific study of congenital abnormalities and abnormal formations.
A. True
B. False - answer✔A. True
The theory of epigenesis states that the organism is a complete miniature structure within the
sperm or the egg and simply grows larger as it develops.
A. True
B. False - answer✔B. False
In the theory of preformation, the ________________ is a supposed microscopic but fully
formed human being from which a fetus was formerly believed to develop.
A. fetus
B. tadpole
C. humunculus
D. nucleus - answer✔C. humunculus
___________________stated that living organisms could arise from nonliving matter and that
such a process was regular in nature.
A. Epigenesis
B. Endosymbiosis
C. Preformation
D. Spontaneous generation - answer✔D. Spontaneous generation
Which statement is false regarding prokaryotic cells?
A) They have a circular loop of DNA instead of multiple linear DNA molecules.
B) They lack a nucleus.
C) They are always single-celled organisms that are invisible to the naked eye.
E) They contain cytoplasm but never a plasma membrane. - answer✔E) They contain
cytoplasm but never a plasma membrane.
Which of the following would you NOT expect to find in a bacterial cell?
A. Swimming using flagella
B. Having a cell wall around the plasma membrane
C. energy (in the form of ATP) production in mitochondria
D. Protein production on the ribosome
E. Sexual exchange of DNA with other bacteria - answer✔C. energy (in the form of ATP)
production in mitochondria
Prokaryotes reproduce by meiosis.
A. True
B. False - answer✔B. False
Which of the following structures is exclusively found in eukaryotic cells?
A. Plasma membrane
B. Cell wall
C. Chromosome
D. Ribosome
E. Lysosome - answer✔E. Lysosome
Mitochondria and chloroplasts are thought to have evolved from free-living aerobic bacteria that
were engulfed by an ancestral anaerobic cell and established a mutually beneficial (symbiotic)
relationship with it.
A. True
B. False - answer✔A. True
Eucaryotic cells dive by
A. mitosis
B. meiosis
C. both - answer✔C. both
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