High School Biology : Chapter 1 Practice Test

An important part of studying a chapter is being comfortable of what you may be asked on a test. As a process for studying for a test, after going through an outlined study guide you should take practice tests to see how you stand and how you should focus your further studies. Here is a sample set of questions you should be comfortable answering in preparing for a test on this chapter or including this chapter.

• How are tissues, organs, and organ systems related to cells and organelles within the biological organization of organisms (order and function)?
• How are populations, biological communities, and ecosystems related to the biological organization beyond the organism (order and function)?
• Do animals and multicellular organisms react from a simple or complex relationship at the molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ levels? Give an example.
• What is the initial and expanded observation contained in cell theory?
• What are the two primary types of cells? Name an example or two for each kind of cell and identify its characteristic for why cells are divided into these types.
• What is the structure and function of DNA? How is the presence of DNA different in the two primary types of cells?
• What is the significance of the "structure-function" phenomenon present in organisms?
• How is energy converted in the processes of an ecosystem? How do producers and consumers play a role in this?
• What is the significance of regulatory mechanisms? What are the two primary types of regulatory mechanisms?

• What are the three domains? Give examples of each.
• What are the two ideas founded in The Origin of Species?
• How is unity and diversity inherent in evolution?

• What is the significance of "discovery science" and what is induction?
• Why is a hypothesis crucial to the scientific method?
• Describe the steps of the scientific method? Why is this process standard for the pursuit of scientific knowledge?
• What is a theory? What is crucial to a theory to become accepted in the scientific community?
• Why is science important to society? Why is science important to technology and why is technology important to science? Does one precede the other?