Could You Still Pass Your High School Biology Class?
By: J.P. Naomi
1 min
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About This Quiz
Think back to high school and your biology class. How did it affect you? Did you end up in a career in science? Or did you immediately (and happily) forget the periodic table, never to see it again for the rest of your life? Okay, maybe not everything you learned in high school was relevant to your current life, (like memorizing a Shakespearean sonnet) but what you learned in biology is still important today. From the alarming reduction of bees leading to an increase in food prices, to DNA testing for medical history, biology deals with the everyday world around you.
And now you can go back in time and take that high school class again with a simple, 15-question quiz. You'll recall the process for photosynthesis, the functions of the parts of the body, blood types and more. You'll also be asked about cells and their various functions. Whether you had a passion for science or only paid attention when you had to, you'll enjoy realizing how much you retained from that class. The best part of all ... no dissection required. Now it's time to recall what you learned "back in the day" with this quick quiz. Take it now and pass with flying colors.Â
The green pigment in plant cells is called:
Chlorophyll
Plants use chlorophyll to trap light needed for photosynthesis. Recent research has studied the potential therapeutic effects of a semi-synthetic type of chlorophyll on cancer and obesity.
A fish takes water into its mouth and forces it out through the gills where the dissolved oxygen moves into the blood and can get to the other cells of the fish.
A person with type A blood can receive a transfusion from a person with which blood type(s)?
Type O only
Type A only
Type B only
Type A and O
A person with Type A blood can receive blood only from a person with type A or type O blood because it only has the antigens for type A, and type O does not express any antigens. Type O is often called the "universal donor".
Gregor Mendel is known as the founder of the modern science of genetics. What type of plants did he use to establish the rules of heredity?
Apples
Geraniums
Peas
Mendel studied the characteristics of pea plants and coined the terms “recessive†and “dominant†to describe certain traits. Using the pea plants, he demonstrated that green peas are recessive and yellow peas are dominant.
If a person has sickle-cell anemia, what shape do his or her red blood cells form?
circle
crescent
Sickle-cell anemia is a condition in which there are not enough healthy red blood cells to carry enough oxygen throughout your body. The crescent-shaped red blood cells can stick together and get stuck in small blood vessels which can lead to high blood pressure, organ damage, or even stroke.
prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.
Mitosis is a method of cell division in which chromosomes divide into two identical sets of chromosomes, and producing identical copies of the original cell.
In which process does a liquid pass through a semi-permeable membrane to obtain equilibrium?
Exocytosis
Fermentation
Phagocytosis
Osmosis
Osmosis involves the movement of water or other liquids from a less concentrated to a more concentrated solution until both solutions are of the same concentration = equilibrium.
The theory of evolution was elegantly explained in the 1859 book "On the Origin of Species". Who wrote this book?
Charlie Sheen
Charles Darwin
This book by Charles Darwin discussed for the first time, the scientific theory that populations evolve through a process of natural selection - the "survival of the fittest".
The most basic classification of living things as described by Linnaeus​ in the 1700s is
Kingdom
From the largest group to the smallest, the descriptions are as follows: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. There are five kingdoms: animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and protoctists
What organelle is considered the "powerhouse of the cell"?
nucleus
lysosome
mitochondria
Mitochondria produce ATP and are responsible for creating a concentration across its membranes during cellular respiration. A single liver cell can contain up to 2000 mitochondria!
