HONORS BIOLOGY FINAL REVIEW

QUESTION #1 O A POPULATION HAS MANY DEATHS AND FEW ORGANISMS MIGRATING INTO THE POPULATION. WHAT WILL MOST LIKELY HAPPEN TO THE POPULATION?

ANSWER #1 O IT WILL BE SHRINKING

QUESTION #2 O NAME 2 THINGS THAT A CLIMOGRAPH WILL TELL YOU.

ANSWER #2 O TEMPERATURE & PRECIPITATION

QUESTION #3 O NAME AT LEAST 3 EXAMPLES FOR A FOSSIL.

ANSWER #3 O CASTS/MOLDS O AMBER O BODY PARTS (BONE, TEETH, SHELLS) O TRACE O PERMINERALIZATION

QUESTION #4 O WHAT WERE THE FIRST LIVING ORGANISMS ON EARTH?

ANSWER #4 O PROKAYOTIC – BACTERIA

QUESTION #5 O USING RELATIVE DATING, AN EASILY RECOGNIZED FOSSIL IS CALLED WHAT?

ANSWER #5 O INDEX FOSSIL

QUESTION #6 O WHAT TYPES OF CELLS ARE HAPLOID?

ANSWER #6 O GAMETES OR SEX CELLS OR EGG & SPERM

QUESTION #7 O IN HUMANS, MEIOSIS WILL PRODUCE CELLS WITH HOW MANY CHROMOSOMES?

ANSWER #7 O 23

QUESTION #8 O WHAT IS EARTH’S MOST RECENT ERA?

ANSWER #8 O CENOZOIC

QUESTION #9 O WHAT LEVEL OF A FOOD CHAIN IS THE LEAST AFFECTED BY BIOMAGNIFICATION?

ANSWER #9 O PRODUCERS

QUESTION #10 O WHAT TYPE OF SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BEST FITS A FLEA DRAWING BLOOD FROM A DOG?

ANSWER #10 O PARASITISM

QUESTION #11 O A TORNADO RIPS OUT ALL OF THE TREES IN THE FOREST. WHAT TYPE OF SUCCESSION WILL MOST LIKELY OCCUR?

ANSWER #11 O SECONDARY SUCCESSION

QUESTION #12 O WHAT ABNORMALITY IS SEEN IN THIS KARYOTYPE?

ANSWER #12 O DOWN’S SYNDROME – TRISOMY #21

QUESTION #13 O WHAT IS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AUTOSOME CHROMOSOMES IN THE KARYOTYPE BELOW?

ANSWER #13 O 45

QUESTION #14 O A TORNADO IS AN EXAMPLE OF DENSITY-DEPENDENT OR DENSITY-INDEPENDENT LIMITING FACTOR?

ANSWER #14 O DENSITY-INDEPENDENT LIMITING FACTOR.

QUESTION #15 O AVERAGES OF PRECIPITATION, SUNSHINE, TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY, ETC. OVER LONG PERIODS OF TIME DESCRIBES WHAT?

ANSWRE #15 O CLIMATE

QUESTION #16 O NAME 2 PROCESSES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE CARBON CYCLE & THE OXYGEN CYCLE.

ANSWER #16 O PHOTOSYNTHESIS & CELLULAR RESPIRATION

QUESTION #17 O WILL SPECIATION INCEASE, DECREASE, OR STAY THE SAME WHEN 2 POPULATIONS OF DEER WILL NO LONGER SUCCESSFULLY MATE WITH ONE ANOTHER?

ANSWER #17 O INCREASES.

QUESTION #18 O WHAT TYPE OF HETEROTROPH IS AN ORGANISM THAT EATS ONLY MEAT?

ANSWER #18 O CARNIVORE

QUESTION #19 O IF AN ALLELE MAKES UP THREE-QUARTERS OF A POPULATION’S ALLELES FOR A GIVEN TRAIT, WHAT IS ITS RELATIVE FREQUENCY?

ANSWER #19 O 75%

QUESTION #20 O A MOUNTAIN HAS SEPARATED 2 LIZARD POPULATIONS. NAME THE TYPE OF ISOLATION.

ANSWER #20 O GEOGRAPHIC OR ALLOPATRIC ISOLATION

QUESTION #21 O IF THE PHENOTYPE THAT IS SELECTED AGAINST IN THE POPULATION IS THE AVERAGE PHENOTYPE, WHAT TYPE OF SELECTION IS TAKING PLACE?

QUESTION #21 O DISRUPTIVE SELECTION

QUESTION #22 O WHAT PERCENT OF ALL SPECIES THAT HAVE EVER LIVED HAVE GONE EXTINCT?

ANSWER #22 O MORE THAN 99%

QUESTION #23 O THE LENGTH OF TIME REQUIRED FOR HALF OF THE RADIOACTIVE ATOMS IN A SAMPLE TO DECAY IS CALLED WHAT?

ANSWER #23 O HALF-LIFE

QUESTION #24 O NAME THE BASIC DIVISIONS OF TIME ON THE GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE FROM LARGER TO SMALLER.

ANSWER #24 O EON, ERA, PERIOD & EPOCH

QUESTION #25 O GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF A DIPLOID CELL?

ANSWER #25 O ANY SOMATIC OR BODY CELL

QUESTION #26 O IF AN ORGANISM DONATES COPIES OF A GENE TO THE OFFSPRING IN A PREDICTABLE RATIO, WHICH ONE OF MENDEL’S LAWS DOES THIS DESCRIBE.

ANSWER #26 O MENDEL’S LAW OF SEGREGATION

QUESTION #27 O NAME 3 THINGS THAT WILL INFLUENCE THE EXPRESSION OF A PERSON’S PHENOTYPE.

ANSWER #27 O WHICH CHROMOSOME IT IS LOCATED ON (AUTOSOME/SEX) O DOMINANT/RECESSIVE O ENVIRONMENT

QUESTION #28 O IF A PERSON IS HETEROZYGOUS FOR A RECESSIVE GENETIC DISORDER, DOES THE PERSON HAVE THE DISORDER? EXPLAIN.

ANSWER #28 O NO. THE PERSON IS A CARRIER (HAS ONE ALLELE FOR THE DISORDER), BUT DOES NOT HAVE THE DISORDER

QUESTION #29 O IF A TRAIT IS SEX-LINKED, HOW MANY ALLELES DOES A WOMAN NEED TO HAVE TO EXPRESS A RECESSIVE TRAIT?

ANSWER #29 O 2 RECESSIVE ALLELES

QUESTION #30 O WHAT DID WE STUDY THAT INVOLVED MATCHING UP CHROMOSOME PAIRS AFTER THEY WERE CHEMICALLY STAINED?

ANSWER #30 O KARYOTYPE

QUESTION #31 O BELOW IS A STRAND OF DNA, WHAT WOULD THE RNA STRAND BE. O C C T T A A G G C G A T

ANSWER #31 O G G A A U U C C G C U A

QUESTION #32 O IN A DNA MOLECULE YOU SEE ONE OLD STRAND WITH ONE NEW STRAND, WHAT VOCAB WORD IS THIS TALKING ABOUT.

ANSWER #32 O DNA REPLICATION OR DNA SEMI CONSERVATIVE REPLICATION

QUESTION #33 O WHAT 3 THINGS WILL MAKE UP A NUCLEOTIDE IN RNA?

ANSWER #33 O RIBOSE SUGAR O NITROGEN BASE (A, U, G, C) O PHOSPHATE

QUESTION #34 O INFORMATION FLOWING FROM DNA TO RNA TO PROTEIN SYNTHESIS DESCRIBES WHAT?

ANSWER#34 O CENTRAL DOGMA

QUESTION #35 O WHAT VOCAB WORD DESCRIBES A FEATURE THAT ALLOWS AN ORGANISM TO SURVIVE BETTER IN ITS ENVIRONMENT?

ANSWER #35 O ADAPTATION

QUESTION #40 O REMNANT OF AN ORGAN THAT HAD A FUNCTION IN AN EARLY ANCESTOR IS KNOWN AS WHAT?

ANSWER #40 O VESTIGIAL STRUCTURE

QUESTION #41 O WHAT RNA MOLECULRE CARRIES AMINO ACIDS?

ANSWER #41 O TRANSFER RNA

QUESTION #42 O WHAT IS PRODUCED DURING TRANSCRIPTION?

ANSWER #42 O MESSENGER RNA

QUESTION #43 O HOW MANY CODONS ARE NEEDED TO SPECIFY FOR 5 AMINO ACIDS?

ANSWER #43 O 5 CODONS

QUESTION #44 O WHAT ORGANISM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING MOST OF THE ENERGY IN THE ECOSYSTEM?

ANSWER #44 O PRODUCERS OR AUTOTROPHS OR PLANS

QUESTION #45 O AN AREA THAT INCLUDES ALL OF THE BIOTIC & ABIOTIC FACTORS DESCRIBES WHAT?

ANSWERS #45 O ECOSYSTEM