1. Sunken Millions Animal Growth and Heredity
Grade 5
Copyright © 2002 Glenna R. Shaw and FTC Publishing
All Rights Reserved

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Level One
Level One

3. $200 When primitive organisms require only one parent
to produce offspring it is called:
A. mitosis
B. Sexual Reproduction
C. Asexual Reproduction
D. Meiosis
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4. $400 When more complex organisms produce offspring
with two parents involved it is called:
A. Asexual Reproduction
B. Sexual Reproduction
C. Mitosis
D. Meiosis
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5. When parent cells form zygotes it is called:
A. mitosis
B. chromosomes
C. meiosis
D. Sexual reproduction
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6. In meiosis, how many times does the cell divide?
B. 3
C. 1
D. It doesn’t
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7. $1000 After the 1st division during Meiosis,
the offspring has how many chromosomes?
After the 2nd division, the offspring
ends up with how many?
Half as many
as the parent and then
twice as many.
B. Twice as many and
Then half as many
C. Half as many as the
parent and then the
same number
D. The same number as the
parent and then half as
many
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Level Two
Level Two

9. Organisms such as butterflies go through four stages of change called
A. Life cycle
B. mitosis
C. metamorphosis
D. meiosis
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10. $4000 Young animals that have the same shape as their
parents go through __________ to become adults.
A. metamorphosis
B. Life cycle
C. mitosis
D. Direct development
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11. $6000 Each species has its own _________, a process in
which an animal is born unable to reproduce and
grows to become a reproducing adult.
A. metamorphosis
B. Life cycle
C. Direct development
D. chromosomes
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12. $8000 All animals go through _______, a process in
which cells make exact copies of themselves.
A. chromosomes
B. Life cycle
C. meiosis
D. mitosis
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13. Cells going through mitosis produce:
Half as many
chromosomes
B. Identical copies of
themselves
C. Offspring by budding
D. Six new male and
female cells
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Level Three
Level Three

15. What does rapid mitosis allow a lizard to do if
its tail is lost?
A. Regenerate a new tail
B. Divide a new tail
C. Spindle a new tail
D. Fuse a new tail
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16. $40000 Through the process of metamorphosis, an insect
Changes the form of its
body as it grows
B. Molts the outer covering
of its skeleton
C. Become a hopping,
wingless insect
D. Hatches from an egg
in late summer
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17. What are the three stages of incomplete metamorphosis?
A. egg, nymph, adult
B. larva, pupa, cocoon
C. egg, pupa, chrysalis
D. nymph, larva, adult
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18. Which of the following is required in sexual reproduction?
A. siblings
B. budding
C. Two parents
D. One parent
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19. How does the nucleus of a cell prepare for mitosis?
A. It divides cells into
exact copies
B. It makes exact copies
of chromosomes
C. It pinches the cell
membrane at the middle
D. Its chromosomes pull
apart the DNA coding
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Level Four
Level Four

21. In sexual reproduction, two cells combine to form a one-celled
A. gamete
B. egg
C. zygote
D. pupa
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22. Genes found on chromosomes contain A. Hypothesized factors
the DNA codes for
A. Hypothesized factors
B. Inherited traits
C. Mendel’s factors
D. Second generation
offspring
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23. In direct development, offspring B. Go through incomplete
Have the same
shape as adults
B. Go through incomplete
metamorphosis
C. Go through complete
metamorphosis
D. Become nymphs
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24. One human trait that is NOT inherited is
A. Tongue curling
B. Attached earlobes
C. Hair color
D. balance
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25. An example of incomplete metamorphosis
is the life cycle of the
A. frog
B. grasshopper
C. butterfly
D. rabbit $

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