THIRD PRELIMS IN SCIENCE 10

NAME: ____________________________________ SCORE:______________

SECTION: _________________________________ DATE: _______________

I. Multiple choice. Write the letter that corresponds to the best answer on the space provided before the number.

____ 1. Response patterns in the endocrine system are particularly effective in:
a. rapid short – term specific responses c. the release of chemical neurotransmitters
b. crisis management d. coordinating cell activities on a long – term basis

____ 2. Which of the following would NOT be characterized as an endocrine – controlled process?
a. puberty
b. the constriction of the iris muscles when a bright light is shined in the eye
c. maintenance of reproductive abilities in a female until menopause
d. pregnancy

____ 3. The release of hormones by endocrine cells alters the:

a. metabolic activities of many tissues and organs simultaneously
b. anatomical boundary between nervous and endocrine systems
c. rate at which chemical neurotransmitters are released
d. very specific responses to environmental stimuli

____ 4. Hypothyroidism, myxedema, and goiter may result from inadequate amount of:
a. dietary iodide c. magnesium and zinc
b. sodium and calcium d. salt in diet

____5. Which of the following are the parts of neurons?

a. brain, spinal cord, and vertebral column c. sensory and motor
b. dendrite, axon, and cell body d. sympathetic and parasympathetic

____6. A dendrite conducts impulses ___________ the cell body.

a. away b. toward c. both toward and away from d. only inside

____7. An axon conducts nerve impulses ____________ the cell body

a. away b. toward c. both toward and away from d. only inside

____8. Which of the following is/are type(s) of neurons?

a. sensory b. motor c. interneurons d. all of a,b and c

____9. The hormone that works with estrogen to prepare for implantation of a fertilized egg is ___________
a. LH b. FSH c. ADH d. progesterone

____10. The average menstrual cycle is ______

a. 14 days b. 18 days c. 24 days d. 28 days

____11.One of the functions of DNA is to

a. secrete vacuoles c. make copies of itself
b. join amino acids to each other d. carry genetic information out of the nucleus

____12.Two sugars found in nucleic acids are

a. sucrose and ribose c. glucose and fructose
b. deoxyribose and ribose d. deoxyribose and glucose

____13. The number of adenine bases in a DNA molecule equals the number of thymine bases because ___________
a. DNA contains equal numbers of all four bases
b. 5thymine always follows adenine on each DNA strand
c. DNA is made of alternating adenine and thymine bases
d. adenine on one strand bonds to thymine on the other strand

____14. Which of the following would not occur during complementary base pairing?
a. A-T b. U-G c. C-G d. A-U C
____15. Identify the mRNA pair for the DNA strand below:

a. CGU UCA UGG ACC c. CGU UCA UGG ACU

b. CGU UCA UCG ACU d. AGU UCA UGG ACC

____16. Which of the following describes a DNA molecule?

a. Double helix of glucose sugars and phosphates
b. Ladder-like structure composed of fats and sugars
c. Double chain of nucleotides joined by hydrogen bonds
d. A chain of alternating phosphates and nitrogenous bases

____17. Which of the following is an example of complementary base pairing?

a. Thymine – uracil c. Guanine – adenine
b. Adenine – thymine d. Cytosine – thymine

____18. The process shown in the diagram below is _______________

a. hydrolysis b. translation c. replication d. transcription

____19. Which describes natural selection?

a. Some live and some die in each generation
b. Only the largest and strongest survive
c. Random assortment of genes results in better characteristics in the following generations
d. The best adapted individuals survive and reproduce, contributing the most to the next generation

____20. Which of the following is NOT one of the premises on which evolution by natural selection is based?
a. Organisms usually produce many more offspring than the environment can support.
b. Most natural populations remain approximately the same size through time.
c. Organisms can alter their genes to help them survive in a particular environment.
d. Hereditary differences between organisms can be passed on to their offspring.

____21. Which of the following is true of evolution?

a. evolutionary changes increase the ability of a species to survive and reproduce in a specific environment.
b. evolutionary changes increase the ability of a species to survive and reproduce under any circumstances.
c. evolutionary changes result in a species becoming more and more abundant over time.
d. evolutionary changes result in animals becoming larger over time and having larger numbers of offspring.

____22. Industrial melanism describes the change in moth color from pale to dark after pollution from factories resulted
in coating tree trunks with a layer of dark soot. Which statement is true concerning industrial melanism?

a. After the pollution occurred, moths became dark because soot got on their wings.
b. The dark moths survived better after the pollution because they were not poisoned by the pollutants.
c. Individual moths changed their color in response to the pollution.
d. Some dark moths must have been born in the population even before pollution occurred.

____23. Modern whales lack hind limbs, but have tiny bones in their skeletons which are the remnants of pelvic and leg
 bones. Which of the following is NOT TRUE concerning this information?
a. The remnants of pelvic and leg bones in whales are vestigial structures.
b. Modern whales most likely had an ancestor that possessed hind