HONORS BIOLOGY FINAL

REVIEW

QUESTION #1OA POPULATION HAS

MANY DEATHS AND FEW ORGANISMS MIGRATING INTO THE POPULATION. WHAT WILL MOST LIKELY

HAPPEN TO THE POPULATION?

ANSWER #1OIT WILL BE SHRINKING

QUESTION #2ONAME 2 THINGS THAT A CLIMOGRAPH WILL TELL

YOU.

ANSWER #2OTEMPERATURE &

PRECIPITATION

QUESTION #3ONAME AT LEAST 3

EXAMPLES FOR A FOSSIL.

ANSWER #3OCASTS/MOLDS

OAMBEROBODY PARTS (BONE,

TEETH, SHELLS)OTRACE

OPERMINERALIZATION

QUESTION #4OWHAT WERE THE FIRST

LIVING ORGANISMS ON EARTH?

ANSWER #4OPROKAYOTIC – BACTERIA

QUESTION #5OUSING RELATIVE DATING, AN EASILY

RECOGNIZED FOSSIL IS CALLED WHAT?

ANSWER #5OINDEX FOSSIL

QUESTION #6OWHAT TYPES OF CELLS

ARE HAPLOID?

ANSWER #6OGAMETES OR SEX CELLS

OR EGG & SPERM

QUESTION #7OIN HUMANS, MEIOSIS WILL PRODUCE CELLS

WITH HOW MANY CHROMOSOMES?

ANSWER #7O23

QUESTION #8OWHAT IS EARTH’S MOST

RECENT ERA?

ANSWER #8OCENOZOIC

QUESTION #9OWHAT LEVEL OF A FOOD

CHAIN IS THE LEAST AFFECTED BY

BIOMAGNIFICATION?

ANSWER #9OPRODUCERS

QUESTION #10OWHAT TYPE OF

SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BEST FITS A FLEA DRAWING BLOOD

FROM A DOG?

ANSWER #10OPARASITISM

QUESTION #11OA TORNADO RIPS OUT

ALL OF THE TREES IN THE FOREST. WHAT

TYPE OF SUCCESSION WILL MOST LIKELY

OCCUR?

ANSWER #11OSECONDARY SUCCESSION

QUESTION #12OWHAT ABNORMALITY IS SEEN

IN THIS KARYOTYPE?

ANSWER #12ODOWN’S SYNDROME –

TRISOMY #21

QUESTION #13OWHAT IS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF

AUTOSOME CHROMOSOMES IN THE KARYOTYPE BELOW?

ANSWER #13O45

QUESTION #14OA TORNADO IS AN

EXAMPLE OF DENSITY-DEPENDENT OR

DENSITY-INDEPENDENT LIMITING FACTOR?

ANSWER #14ODENSITY-INDEPENDENT

LIMITING FACTOR.

QUESTION #15OAVERAGES OF PRECIPITATION,

SUNSHINE, TEMPERATURE,

HUMIDITY, ETC. OVER LONG PERIODS OF TIME

DESCRIBES WHAT?

ANSWRE #15OCLIMATE

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

ANSWER #16OPHOTOSYNTHESIS & CELLULAR RESPIRATION

QUESTION #17O WILL SPECIATION

INCEASE, DECREASE, OR STAY THE SAME WHEN 2 POPULATIONS OF DEER

WILL NO LONGER SUCCESSFULLY MATE WITH ONE ANOTHER?

ANSWER #17OINCREASES.

QUESTION #18OWHAT TYPE OF

HETEROTROPH IS AN ORGANISM THAT EATS

ONLY MEAT?

ANSWER #18OCARNIVORE

QUESTION #19OIF AN ALLELE MAKES UP

THREE-QUARTERS OF A POPULATION’S ALLELES

FOR A GIVEN TRAIT, WHAT IS ITS RELATIVE

FREQUENCY?

ANSWER #19O75%

QUESTION #20OA MOUNTAIN HAS

SEPARATED 2 LIZARD POPULATIONS. NAME

THE TYPE OF ISOLATION.

ANSWER #20OGEOGRAPHIC OR

ALLOPATRIC ISOLATION

QUESTION #21OIF THE PHENOTYPE THAT IS SELECTED AGAINST IN THE POPULATION IS THE AVERAGE PHENOTYPE,

WHAT TYPE OF SELECTION IS TAKING

PLACE?

QUESTION #21ODISRUPTIVE SELECTION

QUESTION #22O WHAT PERCENT OF ALL

SPECIES THAT HAVE EVER LIVED HAVE GONE

EXTINCT?

ANSWER #22OMORE THAN 99%

QUESTION #23OTHE LENGTH OF TIME REQUIRED FOR HALF OF

THE RADIOACTIVE ATOMS IN A SAMPLE TO

DECAY IS CALLED WHAT?

ANSWER #23OHALF-LIFE

QUESTION #24ONAME THE BASIC

DIVISIONS OF TIME ON THE GEOLOGIC TIME

SCALE FROM LARGER TO SMALLER.

ANSWER #24OEON, ERA, PERIOD &

EPOCH

QUESTION #25OGIVE ME AN EXAMPLE

OF A DIPLOID CELL?

ANSWER #25OANY SOMATIC OR BODY

CELL

QUESTION #26OIF AN ORGANISM

DONATES COPIES OF A GENE TO THE

OFFSPRING IN A PREDICTABLE RATIO,

WHICH ONE OF MENDEL’S LAWS DOES

THIS DESCRIBE.

ANSWER #26OMENDEL’S LAW OF

SEGREGATION

QUESTION #27ONAME 3 THINGS THAT

WILL INFLUENCE THE EXPRESSION OF A

PERSON’S PHENOTYPE.

ANSWER #27OWHICH CHROMOSOME

IT IS LOCATED ON (AUTOSOME/SEX)

ODOMINANT/RECESSIVEOENVIRONMENT

QUESTION #28OIF A PERSON IS

HETEROZYGOUS FOR A RECESSIVE GENETIC

DISORDER, DOES THE PERSON HAVE THE

DISORDER? EXPLAIN.

ANSWER #28ONO. THE PERSON IS A

CARRIER (HAS ONE ALLELE FOR THE

DISORDER), BUT DOES NOT HAVE THE

DISORDER

QUESTION #29O IF A TRAIT IS SEX-LINKED, HOW MANY

ALLELES DOES A WOMAN NEED TO HAVE

TO EXPRESS A RECESSIVE TRAIT?

ANSWER #29O2 RECESSIVE ALLELES

QUESTION #30OWHAT DID WE STUDY

THAT INVOLVED MATCHING UP

CHROMOSOME PAIRS AFTER THEY WERE

CHEMICALLY STAINED?

ANSWER #30OKARYOTYPE

QUESTION #31OBELOW IS A STRAND OF DNA, WHAT WOULD THE

RNA STRAND BE.OC C T T A A G G C G A T

ANSWER #31OG G A A U U C C G C U A

QUESTION #32OIN A DNA MOLECULE

YOU SEE ONE OLD STRAND WITH ONE NEW STRAND, WHAT VOCAB WORD IS THIS TALKING

ABOUT.

ANSWER #32ODNA REPLICATION OR

DNA SEMI CONSERVATIVE REPLICATION

QUESTION #33OWHAT 3 THINGS WILL MAKE UP A NUCLEOTIDE

IN RNA?

ANSWER #33ORIBOSE SUGAR

ONITROGEN BASE (A, U, G, C)

OPHOSPHATE

QUESTION #34OINFORMATION FLOWING

FROM DNA TO RNA TO PROTEIN SYNTHESIS DESCRIBES WHAT?

ANSWER#34OCENTRAL DOGMA

QUESTION #35OWHAT VOCAB WORD DESCRIBES A FEATURE

THAT ALLOWS AN ORGANISM TO SURVIVE

BETTER IN ITS ENVIRONMENT?

ANSWER #35OADAPTATION

QUESTION #40OREMNANT OF AN ORGAN

THAT HAD A FUNCTION IN AN EARLY ANCESTOR

IS KNOWN AS WHAT?

ANSWER #40OVESTIGIAL STRUCTURE

QUESTION #41OWHAT RNA MOLECULRE CARRIES AMINO ACIDS?

ANSWER #41OTRANSFER RNA

QUESTION #42OWHAT IS PRODUCED

DURING TRANSCRIPTION?

ANSWER #42OMESSENGER RNA

QUESTION #43OHOW MANY CODONS

ARE NEEDED TO SPECIFY FOR 5 AMINO

ACIDS?

ANSWER #43O5 CODONS

QUESTION #44OWHAT ORGANISM IS

RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING MOST OF THE ENERGY IN THE

ECOSYSTEM?

ANSWER #44OPRODUCERS OR

AUTOTROPHS OR PLANS

QUESTION #45OAN AREA THAT

INCLUDES ALL OF THE BIOTIC & ABIOTIC

FACTORS DESCRIBES WHAT?

ANSWERS #45OECOSYSTEM