Cathedral High School Academic Quiz Bowl Science Test

Attention:

1.Please write your name and school on your answer sheet.

2.Please write Science in the Subject space.

Directions: Chose the best answer for each of the following multiple choice questions

and darken the appropriate space on the scantron answer sheet. You will receive 1 point for each correct answer. The highest, second highest, and third highest score will receive a bonus of 20, 10, and 5 points

respectively.

Good Luck!

1.Which of the following carry a single set of chromosomes?

  1. Angiosperms
  2. Gametophytes
  3. Sporophytes
  4. Gymnosperms

2. Which of the following carry a continuous stream upward of water?

  1. Phloem
  2. Mesophyll
  3. Stoma
  4. Xylem

3. Who wrote Zoonomia?

  1. Alfred Russel Wallace
  2. Nicolas Steno
  3. Erasmus Darwin
  4. Charles Darwin

4.Who publicized Mendel’s laws of heredity in 1909?

  1. Thomas Hunt Morgan
  2. Matthias Schleiden
  3. William Bateson
  4. Hugo de Vries

5.The genetic material of a cell is stored in the ______?

  1. Vesicle
  2. Ribosomes
  3. Vacuole
  4. Nucleus

6.What did Heinrich Waldeyer-Hartz call the “mitotic threads” discovered by Walther Flemming?

  1. Chromatids
  2. Alleles
  3. Cytokinesis
  4. Chromosomes

7.Who discovered the roles played by chromosomes in heredity?

  1. Carl Correns
  2. Karl von Nägell
  3. Thomas Hunt Morgan
  4. Seymour Benzer

8.Who was responsible for proving that DNA was the molecule responsible for carrying genetic information?

  1. Maurice Wilkins
  2. Alan Turing
  3. Oswald Avery
  4. Sydney Brenner

9.The base of a nucleotide can be each of the following EXCEPT:

  1. Aminotine
  2. Adenine
  3. Cytosine
  4. Guanine

10.About how many feet of DNA does the human body contain?

  1. 6
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9

11.Which of the following was the first to understand the life cycle of moss?

  1. Joseph Dalton Hooker
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Johann Moldenhawer
  4. Johann Hedwig

12.Which of the following MOST closely describes the Calvin cycle?

  1. Sucrose from oxygen
  2. Glucose from oxygen
  3. Sucrose from carbon dioxide
  4. Glucose from carbon dioxide

13.Which of the following is MOST associated with Alfred Wegener?

  1. Molecular biology
  2. Continental drift
  3. Natural selection
  4. Classification of species

14.To which religious Order did Gregor Mendel belong?

  1. Franciscan
  2. Dominican
  3. Jesuits
  4. Augustinians

15.Who was the FIRSt to see living, moving, single-celled life in pond water?

  1. Robert Hook
  2. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
  3. James Danielli
  4. Theodor Schwann

16.Which of the following is TRUE?

  1. In mitosis, two genetically different “daughter” cells are produced
  2. In mitosis, four genetically identical “daughter” cells are produced
  3. In meiosis, two genetically identical “daughter” cells are produced
  4. In meiosis, four genetically different “daughter” cells are produced

17. Which chromosome is affected in Down Syndrome?

  1. 9
  2. 21
  3. 27
  4. 33

18.Who was responsible for capturing the “x” shape DNA in a X-ray diffraction image?

  1. Rosalind Franklin
  2. Maurice Wilkins
  3. James Crick
  4. Margaret Salinger

19.Protein is made on granules called Ribosomes in a cell’s ______?

  1. Nucleus
  2. Cytoplasm
  3. Chromosomes
  4. Golgi apparatus

20.Which chromosome in the human genome is the longest?

  1. 1
  2. 19
  3. X
  4. 23

21.Which of the following produce female gametes?

  1. Carpels
  2. Stamen
  3. Anthers
  4. Zygotes

22.Which of the following is NOT a limiting factor of photosynthesis?

  1. Soil density
  2. Light intensity
  3. Carbon dioxide concentration
  4. Temperature

23.Which of the following erroneously believed that acquired physical traits were passed on?

  1. Ernst Mayr
  2. Theodor Schwann
  3. Erasmus Darwin
  4. Jean Baptiste Lamarck

24.In addition to Christian Sprengel, who established the role of pollination in plant breeding?

  1. Joseph Kölreuter
  2. John Gould
  3. Francis Bacon
  4. Jan von Helmont

25.Which of the following are MOST involved in the making of ribosomes?

  1. Lysomes
  2. Endoplasmic reticulum
  3. Mitochondrion
  4. Nucleolus

26.Who showed that acquired characteristics could not be inherited by cutting off the tails of rats?

  1. Rudolf Virchow
  2. August Weismann
  3. Walther Flemming
  4. Leonard Hayflick

27.On which of the following did Thomas Hunt Morgan experiment to show the role of genes?

  1. Sea urchins
  2. Pea plants
  3. Grasshoppers
  4. Fruit flies

28.In which category did James Watson win the Nobel Prize?

  1. Organic Chemistry
  2. Mathematics
  3. Physiology
  4. Astrophysics

29.By which process are spores produced in ferns?

  1. Archegonia
  2. Prothallus
  3. Sporangia
  4. Meiosis

30.Which of the following correctly orders the following species from MOST chromosomes to the LEAST chromosomes?

  1. Human, Chimpanzee, Cow, Fruit Fly
  2. Chimpanzee, Human, Cow, Fruit Fly
  3. Cow, Human, Chimpanzee, fruit Fly
  4. Fruit Fly, Cow, Chimpanzee, Human

31.The catalogue of the genes of a cell or organism is called______.

  1. Gene sequence
  2. Genome
  3. Nucleotide
  4. Helix

32.Which of the following forms a “pushing” force to drive water through the root and up the stem?

  1. Epidemosis
  2. Hameostasis
  3. Osmosis
  4. Evaporation

33.Who believed that, “new species [including humans] could evolve as a result of geographical splits or spontaneous change”?

  1. Charles Darwin
  2. Alfred Wegener
  3. Ernst Mayr
  4. Alfred Russel Wallace

34.Whose work showed some exceptions to Mendel’s Law of Independent Assortment?

  1. Thomas Hunt Morgan
  2. William Ferrel
  3. Carl Correns
  4. Francis Crick

35.Which of the following is TRUE?

  1. Osmosis is the diffusion of molecules of water from an area of low solute concentration to high concentration through a semipermeable membrane.
  2. Osmosis is the diffusion of molecules of water from an area of high solute concentration to low concentration through a semipermeable membrane
  3. Energy is required for diffusion
  4. Active transportation is a passive process where some molecules are moved by protein carrier molecules

36.Which of the following lists the stages of mitosis in the correct order?

  1. Metaphase, anaphase, prophase, telophase
  2. Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
  3. Metaphase, anaphase, telophase, prophase
  4. Telophase, metaphase, prophase, anaphase

37.How many chromosomes do human cells have?

  1. 21
  2. 42
  3. 46
  4. 48

38.In which journal was the DNA model and its findings, published?

  1. The Journal of the American Medical Association
  2. Nature
  3. Discovery
  4. Journal of Molecular Biology

39.Which of the following was a Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens?

  1. Arthur Geoffrey Evans
  2. Edward Thiselton-Dyer
  3. Robert Brown
  4. Joseph Dalton Hooker

40.When was the Human Genome Project launched?

  1. 1980
  2. 1990
  3. 2000
  4. 2002

41.Which of the following contain “restriction enzymes”?

  1. Bacteria
  2. Viruses
  3. RNA
  4. Icolitides

42.Which of the following is a wax coating produced by the epidermal cells to prevent too much water from being lost?

  1. Auxins
  2. Xylems
  3. Cuticles
  4. Vacuoles

43.Who said, “It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.”?

  1. Pierre De Fermat
  2. Ernst Mayr
  3. Alfred Russel Wallace
  4. Charles Darwin

44.What seperates in Mendel’s Law of Segregation?

  1. Alleles
  2. Chromosomes
  3. Zygotes
  4. Phenotypes

45.Which of the following is responsible for making energy for the cell?

  1. Centrioles
  2. Golgi Apparatus
  3. Chloroplasts
  4. Mitochondrion

46.Eduard Strasburger was MOST associated with which of the following areas?

  1. Spontaneously forming life
  2. The process of meiosis
  3. The doubling of chromatin material in cell division
  4. Nuclei only arise from division of existing nuclei

47.In what year was the last human chromosome sequence completed?

  1. 1996
  2. 1995
  3. 1992
  4. 1988

48.What does DNA stand for?

  1. Deoxyribonucleic acid
  2. Diclaicnutrino acid
  3. Dextenucleic Acid
  4. Dendraic Acid

49. Chromatin threads consist of DNA coiled around proteins called______.

  1. Thymine
  2. Chromosomes
  3. Histones
  4. Amino acids

50.Who sequenced the FIRST genome?

  1. Walter Fiers
  2. John Sulston
  3. Thomas Hunt Morgan
  4. Robert Horvits