Test 2

Question 1

DNA must duplicate itself

Answer 1

A. Whenever a cell divides

Question 2

DNA is a polymer of

Answer 2

D. Nucelotides

Question 3

A _____ is a segment of DNA containing the information for one protein polypeptide

Answer 3

A. Gene

Question 4

Molecules of _____ leave the nucleus to be translated

Answer 4

C. mRNA

Question 5

Translation

Answer 5

B. Produces a protein or polypeptide

Question 6

A polypeptide (protein) of ____ amino acids would be coded by a segment of DNA 90 nucleotides long

Answer 6

b. 30

Question 7

The mRNA segment that would be made from a DNA reading TTaCG; would be

Answer 7

c. AAUGC

Question 8

Ribosomes are

Answer 8

B. Required for translation

Question 9

Mutations may be caused by

Answer 9

D. All of the above

Question 10

_____, a student of Aristotle, is called the father of botany and wrote one of the first classifications of plants.

Answer 10

D. Theophrastus

Question 11

A scientific name or binomial consists of a ____ and a species name.

Answer 11

C. Genus

Question 12

The following is an advantage of the scientific binomial system

Answer 12

D. All of the above

Question 13

____ invented the binomial system of scientific names

Answer 13

A. Linnaeus

Question 14

A ___ is a book that helps identify the plants in a defined region, for example northern Utah

Answer 14

b. Flora

Question 15

What information is used to construct a natural classification or phylogeny

Answer 15

D.All of the above

Question 16

For natural selection to occur the most fit individuals must survive and

Answer 16

D. Reproduce

Question 17

The process in nature that eliminates less fit individuals and allows more fit individuals to survive is

Answer 17

C. Natural Selection

Question 18

A favorable characteristic that increases an organism’s chance to survive and reproduce is an

Answer 18

B. Adaptation

Question 19

Humans need about ____Calories per day

Answer 19

C. 1200-3200

Question 20

Plants store sugars mainly in the form of

Answer 20

D. Starch

Question 21

Dietary plant fiber consists mainly of

Answer 21

B. Cell Walls

Question 22

Amino Acids that we must consume because our bodies cannot make them are called

Answer 22

B. Essential

Question 23

Humans often only partially breakdown ____ into their subunits and then reassemble them into new and useful compounds, rather than use them up in cellular respiration just to make ATP

Answer 23

B. Protiens

Question 24

Fats have 9 Calories per gram. Proteins and carbohydrates have _____ Calories per gram

Answer 24

C. 4

Question 25

Most of the fats in our diet are ____

Answer 25

D. Triglycerides

Question 26

Cholesterol is

Answer 26

A. Absent from all plant derived foods

Question 27

Triglycerides like olive, peanut and canola oil with a high percentage of ____ fatty acids are considered the healthiest fats.

Answer 27

D. Monosaturated

Question 28

Lack of vitamin folic acid can cause

Answer 28

C. Neural tube birth defects.

Question 29

Lycopene and flavonoids are example of ____ that may enhance human health

Answer 29

A. Phytochemicals

Question 30

Modern humans have existed for over 100,000 years, but agriculture did not rise until approximately

Answer 30

C. 10,000 years ago

Question 31

Agriculture rose at least twice in the Old World, in the Fertile Crescent and ____

Answer 31

b. China

Question 32

Plant parts that are well preserved at archaeological sites include

Answer 32

D. Both A and B

Question 33

Scientists think that as humans began agriculture

Answer 33

A. They continued to forage while they made a gradual transition.

Question 34

Carbon Dating

Answer 34

C. Only works on organic material like wood and seeds

Question 35

The following traits are often bred into crop plants

Answer 35

A. Non-shattering grain heads and large fruits

Question 36

Research from 1916-1936 _____ determined 8 centers of origin for domesticated plants

Answer 36

C. Vavilov

Question 37

For example, _____ farming moved from Mexico to the northeast US before European discovery

Answer 37

C. Corn

Question 38

Queen Hatshepsut sent an expedition to Ethiopia in 1500 B.C. to collect _____ in one of the first documented plant collecting expeditions.

Answer 38

C. Frankincense

Question 39

Quina-Quina was first used by the Incas to treat

Answer 39

A. Malaria

Question 40

The voyage of the H.M.S. bounty under Captain Bligh was intended to

Answer 40

C. Introduce breadfruit to slave plantations

Question 41

Often traveling in disguise, Robert Fortune made four plant collecting trips to China during the ____, when it was dangerous to be there as a British citizen

Answer 41

D. Opium Wars

Question 42

Joseph Rock "discovered" and introduced the Chualmoogra tree to the west from Myanmar as a cure for

Answer 42

B. Leprosy

Question 43

____ Founded the USDA section of Foreign Plant and Seed introduction.

Answer 43

A. David Fairchild

Question 44

Ethnobotany is the study of ____ people and their use of plants.

Answer 44

D. Indigenous

Question 45

Harvard ethnobotanist _____ worked in the Amazon for over 15 continuous years and collected germplasm of rubber trees that were high yielding and blight resistant.

Answer 45

C. Richard Schultes

Question 46

Richard Evan Schultes and his students pioneered the ____ method of ethnobotany

Answer 46

A. Participant Observer

Question 47

During WW2, the USDA Rubber Research Program was started because

Answer 47

C. Japan controlled the world's supply of natural rubber

Question 48

Mark Plotkin's statement, "Every time a ____ dies, it's as if a library has burned down" refers to the fragile nature of knowledge in cultures with an oral tradition of communication.

Answer 48

B. Shaman.

Question 49

Utahn Paul Alan Cox worked in ____ to preserve the land and culture of the indigenous people.

Answer 49

D. American Samoa

Question 50

Blah blah blah blah, knowledge in the tropical rain forests are the difficulty in continuing the oral tradition of knowledge and

Answer 50

A. Loss of habitat.