Question 1

Fish sperm is mostly made of male DNA.A chemical test would find high amounts of

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A)   nitrogenous bases, sugar, and phosphate groups.
B)   phospholipids and steroids.
C)   amino acids and unsaturated fats.
D)   triglycerides and ATP.
E)   globular proteins and stored fats.F) A) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 2

Carbohydrates are categorized into

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A)   organic and inorganic carbohydrates.
B)   saturated and unsaturated carbohydrates.
C)   monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides.
D)   primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary carbohydrates.
E)   monomer and polymer carbohydrates.F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 3

A nucleic acid is a polymer made up of which kind of monomers?

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A)   Amino acids
B)   Nucleotides
C)   Glucose or modified glucose molecules
D)   Alternating sugar and phosphate groupsE) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 4

The alpha helix is found at which level of protein organization?

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A)   Primary structure
B)   Secondary structure
C)   Tertiary structure
D)   Quaternary structureE) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

The three principal groups of lipids are neutral fats,phospholipids,and

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A)   glycogen.
B)   steroids.
C)   amino acids.
D)   fatty acids.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 6

Which pairing of occurrence and date is correct?

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A)   Beginning of Cambrian - 600 million years ago
B)   Origin of life - 3.8 billion years ago
C)   Origin of eukaryotic cells - 1.5 billion years ago
D)   All the choices are correctE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 7

Describe the chicken-or-the-egg dilemma with enzymes and hereditary molecules,and detail how the "RNA world" proposal offers a solution.

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Question 8

Neutral fats are

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A)   stored as glycogen.
B)   not stored.
C)   made of fatty acids and glycerol.
D)   made of chains of fatty acids linked together by water molecules.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 9

The earliest source of reduced compounds for oxidative metabolism was probably ____________ _____________.

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Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a steroid?

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A)   Vitamin D
B)   Adrenocortical hormones
C)   Sex hormones
D)   Cholesterol
E)   All of the choices are steroidsF) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 11

What evidence leads researchers to believe that there was a diversity of animal life before the Cambrian if we cannot find extensive fossils of earlier animals?

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Question 12

A chain consisting of a number of amino acids is a

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A)   quaternary structure.
B)   dipeptide.
C)   polypeptide.
D)   None of the choices are correct.E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 13

Which of the carbohydrates given below is a major component of the cuticle of arthropods (e.g.,insects,crayfish,etc.) ?

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A)   Starch
B)   Chitin
C)   Cellulose
D)   GlycogenE) All of the above
F) B) and C) B

Question 14

Pasteur's work with spontaneous generation showed that

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A)   life could not have evolved from non-living chemistry on the early earth.
B)   mice came from mother mice and maggots from mother flies.
C)   simple chemicals could become complex organic macromolecules without any living cell involved.
D)   broth did not ferment spontaneously but required contamination with organisms.E) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 15

Biological evolution differs from chemical evolution in that biological evolution would have been possible only after the development of

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A)   true cells capable of replication.
B)   nucleic acids.
C)   enzymes.
D)   a metabolic pathway.E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 16

Which of the following kinds of molecules is thought to have been absent from the primitive reducing atmosphere?

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A)   Water vapor (H2O) 
B)   Carbon dioxide (CO2) 
C)   Oxygen (O2) 
D)   Nitrogen (N2) E) A) and B)
F) A) and C) C

Question 17

You eat eggs for breakfast and return in the evening to dirty dishes with "dried on" yellow streaks.After soaking awhile,the egg yolk protein molecules easily "wash off." What happened?

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A)   Heating denatured the egg protein molecules, hydrolysis reactions then formed bonds in the dried egg yolk, and soaking in water eventually resulted in condensation reactions where water broke these bonds
B)   Heating denatured the egg protein molecules, unorganized condensation reactions formed bonds in the drying egg, and soaking in water resulted in hydrolysis reactions where water broke these bonds
C)   Egg monomers were fused to become one polymer, which was easily dissolved by water back into monomers
D)   Addition of water converted organic molecules into inorganic moleculesE) C) and D)
F) None of the above B

Question 18

Which of the following is a correct statement about oxidation reduction reactions?

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A)   Reduction is the loss of electrons
B)   Reduction is the loss of hydrogen atoms
C)   Oxidation is the loss of electrons or hydrogen atoms
D)   Reduction and oxidation sometimes occur together, but not alwaysE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 19

The most important of the energy-storing carbohydrate monomers is the molecule _______________.

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Question 20

Which of these statements is true about DNA?

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A)   It is the genetic material of the cell
B)   It forms a protein
C)   It is pure amino acid
D)   It contains no sugarE) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Pasteur's work with spontaneous generation showed that

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Biological evolution differs from chemical evolution in that biological evolution would have been possible only after the development of

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