AP Bio Chap 1 Quiz
AP Bio Chap 1 Quiz
AP Bio Chap 1 Quiz
_____1. Which of the following is Not one of the characteristics of living organisms?
a) to be organized
b) to respond
c) to grow
d) to metabolize
e) All of the above are characteristics of living organisms.
_____3. Which of the following characteristics is Not required for the life of an
individual organism to continue?
a) to be organized b) to respond c) to metabolize d) to reproduce
_____4. Which of the following organisms is Not ultimately dependent on the sun as a source of energy?
a) A night blooming flower is pollinated by a night flying bat.
b) An underground earthworm avoids the sun.
c) A cave fish feed on debris that washes down to it.
d) All of the above are ultimately dependent on the sun.
_____5. What is the process by which the sun's energy is trapped as the source of energy used
by virtually all living organisms?
a) evolution b) metabolism c) adaptation d) homeostasis e) photosynthesis
_____7. What is the name of all the chemical energy transformations that occur within a cell?
a) evolution b) metabolism c) adaptation d) homeostasis e) photosynthesis
_____10. Which of these is the process by which changes occur in the characteristics
of species of organisms over time?
a) evolution b) metabolism c) adaptation d) homeostasis e) photosynthesis
_____11. Who was the person who first devised the binomial system of naming a species?
a) Aristotle b) Gregory Mendel c) Carolus Linnaeus d) Charles Darwin e) George W. Bush
_____13. Which of the following sequences correctly gives the different classification
levels of an organism, going from the largest group to the smallest? (Some are left out.)
a) species, genus, family, class, phylum
b) kingdom, phylum, class, order, species
c) class, family, kingdom, species, genus
d) genus, class, phylum, species, family
e) kingdom, class, phylum, genus, species
_____14. Which of the following domains contains the most primitive bacteria
and that live in extreme environments?
a) Archaea b) Bacteria c) Plantae d) Fungi e) Eukarya
_____15. Which of the following domains contains the common advanced plants
and animals and fungi?
a) Archaea b) Bacteria c) Plantae d) Fungi e) Eukarya
_____16. Which of the following kingdoms contain multicellular organisms that ingest their food?
a) Protista b) Animalia c) Plantae d) Archaea e) Fungi