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Chapter 1: An Overview of Cells and Cell Research
TEST FILE QUESTIONS
Multiple Choice
- RNA is believed to have been the original genetic system because it can
- form a stable double helix with a complementary nucleic acid strand.
- catalyze the polymerization of nucleotides into another RNA strand.
- form ribosomes.
- transfer amino acids to ribosomes.
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
Learning Objective: Explain how the first cell originated.
- The initial importance of membrane-enclosing, self-replicating RNA molecules and
- maintained these molecules as a unit capable of reproduction and evolution.
- provided sites for proteins to function.
- transported materials in and out of the compartment.
- kept other molecules out of the compartment.
associated proteins was that they
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
Learning Objective: Explain how the first cell originated.
- Stanley Miller applied electric sparks to a reducing atmosphere of methane, ammonia,
- amino acids can form.
- nucleotides can form.
- amino acids can polymerize into polypeptides.
- nucleotides can polymerize into nucleic acids.
water, and hydrogen, and the resulting products showed that under these conditions,
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
Learning Objective: Describe the major steps in evolution of metabolism.
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- Which energy-producing process is thought to have come first during cellular
- Photosynthesis
- Glycolysis
- Oxidative phosphorylation
- Proteolysis
evolution?
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
Learning Objective: Describe the major steps in evolution of metabolism.
- At the time life arose on Earth, Earth’s atmosphere contained abundant amounts of all
- H2.
- N2.
- O2.
- H2S.
of the following except
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
Learning Objective: Describe the major steps in evolution of metabolism.
- Organisms that evolved the ability to use H2O as a donor of electrons and hydrogen for
- sugar.
- cellulose.
- H2.
- O2.
the photosynthetic conversion of CO2 to organic compounds radically changed Earth by producing
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
Learning Objective: Describe the major steps in evolution of metabolism.
- The feature that most clearly distinguishes eukaryotes from prokaryotes is the presence
- ribosomes
- oxidative phosphorylation
- RNA molecules
- a nucleus
of in eukaryotic cells.
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
Learning Objective: Illustrate the structures of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
- Cytoplasmic organelles are
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- absent in prokaryotic cells and present in eukaryotic cells.
- present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
- present in prokaryotic cells and absent in eukaryotic cells.
- absent in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
Learning Objective: Illustrate the structures of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
- The eukaryotic nucleus contains DNA molecule(s).
- a single linear
- a single circular
- multiple linear
- multiple circular
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
Learning Objective: Illustrate the structures of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
- The bacterial genome is located in a portion of the cell called the
- nucleus.
- nucleolus.
- mesosome.
- nucleoid.
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
Learning Objective: Illustrate the structures of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
- Eukaryotic cell nuclei contain genes that are
- primarily of bacterial origin.
- primarily of archaebacterial origin.
- partly archaebacterial and partly bacterial in origin.
- all of eukaryotic origin.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
Learning Objective: Illustrate the structures of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
- Organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts are thought to have originated in
- phagocytosis.
- endosymbiosis.
- endocytosis.
- exocytosis.
eukaryotic cells via a process called
Answer: b
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Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
Learning Objective: Outline the evolution of eukaryotic cells and multicellular
organisms.
- Mitochondria and chloroplasts resemble bacteria in that they
- have their own DNA.
- have their own ribosomes.
- reproduce by simple division into two.
- All of the above
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
Learning Objective: Outline the evolution of eukaryotic cells and multicellular
organisms.
- Which of the following is a colonial organism closely related to the evolutionary
- Paramecium
- Dictyostelium discoideum
- Volvox
- Arabidopsis thaliana
precursors of present-day plants?
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
Learning Objective: Outline the evolution of eukaryotic cells and multicellular
organisms.
- The human body is composed of more than different types of cells.
- 100
- 200
- 400
- 2,000
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: The Origin and Evolution of Cells
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
Learning Objective: Outline the evolution of eukaryotic cells and multicellular
organisms.
- E. coli is a useful model system for molecular biology studies because
- it has a small genome.
- it reproduces rapidly.
- mutants can easily be isolated from culture dishes.
- All of the above
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Experimental Models in Cell Biology
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