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Which characteristic BEST indicates that an organism is a fungus, not a plant?
a) cell walls
b) eukaryotic
c) heterotroph
d) usually multicellular
Eddie is to prepare a dichotomous key for several objects. His first task was to arrange the objects. The objects are a lightning bug, a butterfly, a ladybug, an ant and a canary. What should each question in the dichotomous key accomplish?
a) It should arrange the organisms by phylum.
b) It should divide the objects into two groups.
c) It should predict the offspring of the objects.
d) It should give the clues to the organism’s name.
Which kingdom is composed of multicellular autotrophs?
a) Animal
b) Fungi
c) Plant
d) Protist
Euglena are unique protist because they behave like plants and like animals depending on the environment. They have a light-detecting eye spot that detects light. Because of this, we might expect euglena to
a) use chlorophyll to make sugar.
b) search for prey as a predator.
c) use the eye spot to find other euglena.
d) use the eye spot to swim away from the light.
What domain? unicellular protozoa and uni/multicellular algae; multicellular heterotroph with cell walls of chitin; multicellular autotroph and cell walls of cellulose; multicellular heterotroph that lacks cell walls.
a) Archea
b) Bacteria
c) Eukaroya
d) Monera
Use question 33 pictures and dichotomous key. Out of the organisms listed, which are most closely related based on the characteristics listed.
a) Balantidium sp. and Stentor sp. because they are both multicellular.
b) Monodon monoceros and Canis familiaris because they are both mammals.
c) Ophiophagus hannah and Pinus Ponderosa because they both live on land.
d) Stentor sp. and Monodon monoceros because they are both found in the water.
Karen has discovered a new organism in the Amazon Rainforest. It moves by itself, is a consumer, and its cells do not have a cell wall. In what Kingdom would this newly discovered organism belong?
a) Amazon
b) Amimalia
c) Fungi
d) Plantae
What is a major difference between Animalia and Plantae kingdoms?
a) Animals get their nutrients from plants and other animals while plants get their nutrients from oxygen.
b) Plants stop growing when they become adults, but animals continue grow throughout their lives.
c) Plants produce their own food using sunlight and animals need other organisms for nourishment.
d) Animals need water to live, but plants are able to survive without it.
Review the chart for question 32, of all the domesticated rabbits. The different types of rabbits are listed by their scientific names. If you were a rabbit breeder, which rabbits could you breed to produce fertile offspring? Explain.
a) All of the rabbits listed. They are all rabbits.
b) None of these rabbits. They are all different species.
c) Any of the cottontail rabbits They are the same species.
d) Any of the rabbits on the same branch in the chart because that means they are closely related.
Which type of cell contains DNA enclosed in a nucleus?
a) centriole
b) eukaryote
c) plasmid
d) prokaryote
Powdery mildew diseases infects many plant species. Each plant type is unique in that the powdery mildew that infects it will not infect any other. Powdery mildew is caused by
a) a bacteria
b) a fungus
c) genetics
d) a virus
This group of mushrooms, fungi, are growing up through the leaf litter on the forest floor. In any food chain, these fungi would be classified as ____________ and they get their nutrients by
a) consumers; absorbing the nutrients from the soil.
b) producers; using the pigment in the caps to make food.
c) decomposers; breakdown the leaf litter and using the products as food.
d) parasites; living off of the dead lead litter and using the organic matter as a food source.
The scientific name for the dog is Canis lupus and the domesticated cat is Felis catus. Dogs and cats live and play together, but they do not have offspring together. A cat and a dog cannot produce fertile offspring because they are not the same
a) class
b) domain
c) phylum
d) species
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