Chapter 1 Quiz 1

What feature is not common to all living organisms?

• DNA

• Chloroplast

• Cytoplasm

• Ribosomes

A car is living because it excretes waste products via the exhaust pipe.

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a characteristic of living organisms?

• Nutrition

• Sensitivity

• Respiration

• Communication

Viruses are living because they can reproduce

• True

• False

All seven characteristics must be possessed by an organism for it to be classified as living

• True

• False

Which of the following can be used to determine classification?

• Morphology

• DNA

• Anatomy

• Habitat

Which of the following are reasons why classification is important?

• To identify organisms at risk of extinction

• To study evolutionary relationships

• To place all organisms in one class in the same place

• To organise all the organisms into a system

Donkeys and horses are part of the same species.

• True

• False

Why did you answer what you did in question 8?

An organism has 11 pairs of legs, two pairs of antennae and one pair of compound eyes. What type of arthropod is this organism?

• Insect

• Arachnid

• Crustacea

• Myriapod