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Mastering Biology Final Exam Questions &
Answers
1. Falsifiable
Answer data can be collected that will support or reject the hypothesis
2. Proximate explanation
Answer an explanation that provides the cause closest to, orimmediately
responsible for the results
3. Ultimate explanation
Answer an explanation that provides a higher-level cause, whichis often considered
the "real" reason for an event
4. Kinesis
Answer random movement that is not oriented in a certain way with regard to
stimulus
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5. Taxis
Answer movement toward or away from a stimulus
6. Why might the cell theory actually be a law?
Answer the majority of principles in themodern cell theory are accepted as fact
among the scientific community but with nothing to prove this theory is incorrect is
potential for it to become a law
7. Endosymbiotic theory
Answer mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as prokaryoticcells engulfed by an
ancestral eukaryotic cell.The engulfed cell and its host cell thenevolved into a single
organism
8. 3 domains
Answer archaea, bacteria, and eukarya
9. Which domains contain organisms that are prokaryotic?
Answer bacteria and ar-chaea
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10. Which domains contain organisms that are eukaryotic?
Answer eukarya
11. Which domains are the most closely related to each other?
Answer eukarya andarchaea
12. Cell structure that may be present in plant cells but never in animal
cells
Answer cell walls, chloroplasts, and large central vacuoles
13. How are plant and fungi cells similar and different?
Answer they both have cell walls,but the walls of plant cells are made of cellulose
14. How are animal and fungi cells similar and different?
Answer they are both eukary-otic but animal cells don't have a cell wall
15. Which two are more closely related out of plants, animals, and fungi?
Answer fungiand animal cells because of the absence of chloroplasts and the
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