CellsEcologyEnergy Flow & Metabolism Heredity & Genetics Evolution Bonus Question: 5000 pts

Cells: 200 Question: A biological catalyst that lowers the activation energy of a chemical reaction in an organism. Answer Enzyme

Cells: 400 Question: The best and second best way to distinguish whether a cell is prokaryotic or eukaryotic? Bonus 200: In plants? Answer Nucleus/Membrane-bound organelles Bonus: Chloroplasts/Cell Wall

Cells: 600 Question: What is the key difference between the products of Mitosis and Meiosis? (Hint: number of chromosomes) Answer Diploid v. Haploid

Cells: 800 Question: A slice of potato is dropped into a glass of pure water that contains no solute. What will happen to the potato? Why? Bonus: What would happen to the potato if the water was very salty? Answer Swell (Osmosis!) Bonus: Shrivel

Cells: 1000 Question: Identify: Answer Carb, (phospho)lipid, nucleic acid, protein

Ecology: 200 Question: A non-native species introduced into an ecosystem that has an advantage over native species. Answer Invasive species

Ecology: 400 Question: The general number of a particular species that a given ecosystem has the capacity to comfortably support. Answer Carrying Capacity

Ecology: 600 Question: Name three animals that would be affected & describe how they would be affected if the goat population developed a space flight program and escaped to Jupiter. Answer: varies

Ecology: 800 Question: What is the name of the process by which nature either reclaims an area or moves into an area either for the first time. Bonus 200: Name the two types and give an example. Answer Succession Bonus: Primary, Secondary; varies

Ecology: 1000 Question: Graph examples of Logistic and Exponential growth on the board. Label Carrying Capacity in the appropriate place on the graph. Answer

Energy: 200 Question: The primary source of energy for life on Earth. Answer The sun.

Energy: 400 Question: Organisms inhabiting the first tier of any energy pyramid that lock up the energy from the sun into glucose. Answer Producers/Autotrophs

Energy: 600 Question: The organelles that are the primary sites of metabolism in a plant and in an animal, respectively. Answer Chloroplast and mitochondria

Energy: 800 Question: The primary energy currency molecule in an organism. Bonus 200: Which bond of this molecule is broken to release the energy it carries? Answer ATP Bonus Bond between 2 nd and 3 rd phosphates

Energy: 1000 Question: The process by which atmospheric nitrogen is made available to plants and animals via a special variety of bacteria. Answer Nitrogen fixation.

Heredity: 200 Question: The part of a nucleotide that codes for genetic data. Bonus 200: What are the names of the 5 different types of this part? Answer Nitrogenous base Bonus: Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, Thymine, Uracil

Heredity: 400 Question: The event in Prophase I of meiosis that leads to increased genetic variability. Answer Crossing Over.

Heredity: 600 Question: What is the genotypic ratio for the offspring of the following cross: Bb x Bb Answer 1: 2: 1

Heredity: 800 Question: Transcribe the following into mRNA: TACAAGGAT. Bonus 200: How many codons does this transcript contain? Answer AUGUUCCUA Bonus 3

Heredity: 1000 Question: DNA: TAC GAT CCA TAT ACT mRNA: AUG CUA GGA UAU GA What kind of mutation has occurred here and in which codon has it occurred? Answer Frameshift/Deletion; 3 rd base of the 3 rd DNA codon wasn’t copied

Evo: 200 Question: A characteristic of an organism that makes it more fit for its environment. Answer Adaptation / trait

Evo: 400 Question: A collection of these over time in a population’s genetic code may result in the emergence of new traits or adaptations. Answer mutation

Evo: 600 Question: Speciation driven by geographic isolation. Answer Allopatric Speciation

Evo: 800 Question: A type of fossil that displays characteristics of both the ancestral group and a newly emerging group. Answer Transitional

Evo: 1000 Question: Which members of this cladogram possess claws or nails? Bonus 200: Which species is the outgroup? Answer Lizard, Pigeon, Mouse, Chimp Bonus: Hagfish

Bonus Question: 5000 pts. Question: W Answer