Welcome to your B7 Practice Questions 10.8 – Protoctists, prokaryotes & theories of evolution

1. 
Which kingdom contains a mixed collection of organisms – some with plant-like cells and some with animal-like cells?

2. 

All protoctists have cells with a .

3. 
True or false? Most protoctists are multicellular.

4. 

Seaweeds are an example of protoctists.

5. 
Which of these protoctists has plant-like cells with chloroplasts?

6. 

Bacteria belong to the kingdom.

7. 
True or false? Prokaryotic cells do not have a nucleus.

8. 

Prokaryotes have a circular loop of , which is free in the cytoplasm.

9. 
Aristotle believed that living things develop spontaneously from non-living matter, such as mud. What is this idea called?

10. 

Living things that can produce fertile offspring with each other belong to the same .

11. 
True or false? Cuvier thought that living things had died out because of natural disasters and that new ones were then created.

12. 

Lamarck believed that the organs of living things change through or disuse.

13. 
How did the giraffe get its long neck, according to Lamarck?

14. 

A random change in the DNA of a living thing is called a .

15. 
True or false? According to Darwin, species never change.

16. 

The natural survival of the living things that are best adapted to their environment is called .