Biology Exam Review - Statistics

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What do protists and bacteria have in common? Can reproduce through binary fission
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What is the difference between homologous and analogous? Homologous means same structure but different function, analogous means same function but different evolutionary origin
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What organelle breaks down waste with enzymes? Lysosomes
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What do sphincters do? Tighten to close a passage in the body
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If an organism's haploid number is 6, what is the diploid number? 12
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Which of the following is a structural adaptation? Camoflage
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Coyotes move to an area and the number of white rabbits drop drastically. The next generation of rabbits is brown. What is this an example of? Natural selection
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A person has type A blood. What are all the blood types that can they receive blood donations from? O and A
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Which of the following is not a bacteria shape? Square
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What kind of cell is a virus? Viruses are not cells
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Dumb king Phillip... ...came over for good spaghetti
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What organelle provides shape and transports materials? Cytoskeleton
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What does DNA stand for? Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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What type of dominance causes an organism to express a mixture of alleles? Incomplete Dominance
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What blood type can donate blood to all other blood types? O
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What is the ideal structure for gas exchange (why are the alveoli and capillaries so effective)? One cell thick
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What type(s) of organisms have cellulose in their cell wall? Plants and protists
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What organelle produces, modifies, and transports protein? Rough ER
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In what form do plants store food? Starch
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What is nondisjunction? The failure of homologous chromosomes separating during meiosis
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What is the order of valves that blood passes through first in the heart to valves that blood passes through last in the heart? Tricuspid Valve, pulmonary valve, mitral valve, aortic valve
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What organelle stores waste, nutrients, and water? Vacuole
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What is a similarity between the lysogenic and lytic cycle of viruses? Virus attaches to the host cell
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What is not a part of blood? Water
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A white allele and black allele are both codominant. What colour would be expressed if both of these alleles are inherited. White and Black
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Which of the following shows disruptive selection?
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A cell has 8 chromosomes in G1 phase before DNA replication. In meiosis, how many chromosomes will the daughter cells have after telophase 1 and after telophase 2? 8 chromosomes, then 4 chromosomes
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What are the DNA base pairings? A and T, C and G
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What are the four bases for DNA? Adenine, cytosine, guanine, thyamine
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Which of the following is true about animal-like protists? All of the other options
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What enzyme found in the mouth breaks down carbohydrates? Amylase
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Which of the following is INCORRECT? Amylase breaks down carbs and is found in the stomach
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Which of the following is an example of an open circulatory system? Blood is pumped straight into organism's body cavity
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Veins carry... ...blood towards the heart
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What does a paramecium (protist) use to move around? Cillia
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What are plasmids? Circular DNA strands found in bacteria
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Which two terms have DIFFERENT definitions? Coccus and spiral
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What do ALL organisms have in common? Contain DNA
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What does the smooth endoplasmic reticulum do? Detoxifies and removes toxic material from the cell
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Humans are an example of _ because our anus is the first opening in the embryo. Deuterostomes
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What type of body cavity is an inside structure? Endoskeleton
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Movement of alleles from one generation to another is called... ...gene flow
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Who presented the idea of acquired characteristics? Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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What are vestigial structures? Left over body parts that have lost their purpose through evolution
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What enzyme is found and produced in the mouth? Lipase
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What does the law of segregation state? Only one of the two alleles for each gene is distributed to each gamete
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What is found in the cell wall of bacteria? Peptidoglycon
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What is allopatric speciation? Physical separation between a species
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What does not support endosymbiotic theory? Some organelles are present in eukaryotes and prokaryotes
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What parts of the respiratory system are listed in order from where oxygen passes through first to where oxygen passes through last? Trachea, bronchus, bronchioles, alveoli
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What are the hair-like projections that line the inside of the small intestine? Villi
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Which of the following shows stabilizing selection?
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Which of the following are ancestors of plants? All of the other options
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A snake has adapted to have poisonous venom. This is an example of... ...a physiological adaptation
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Which of the following is not looked at when classifying animals? Autotroph or heterotroph
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What is NOT evidence used to show the relationship/classification of organisms? Biological evidence
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Which is NOT a method bacteria use to swap DNA Conjuction
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What is peristalsis? Contraction/relaxation of muscles in intestine
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What are the names of the two sphincters in the stomach? Esophageal and plyoric
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X-linked dominant disorders are most common in... Females
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Change in allele frequencies due to chance events is called: Genetic Drift
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What organelle packages protein and other materials for storage and waste? Golgi
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Out of the following three plant tissues, which one is in between the other two? Ground tissue
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Other than crossing over, how do gametes become genetically unique during meiosis? Independent assortment
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What is the middle part of the small intestine? Jejunum
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Which of the following is NOT evidence of evolution? Morphological evidence
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What phase does crossing over occur in meiosis? Prophase 1
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What is the name of the idea that evolution occurs in spurts rather than a linear process? Punctuated Equalibrium
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If a disorder skips a generation, the disorder is... Recessive
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Where is lipase NOT produced? Small Intestine
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What is the morphological species concept? Species must be a unique cluster of cells
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What does a cladogram (phylogenetic tree) show? The evolutionary relationships between species
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Which of the following happens in the lytic cycle of viruses? Virus causes host cell to explode after using it for replication
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What part of the plant carries water up to other plant parts? Xylum
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Why are Y-linked traits more rare than X-linked traits? Y-linked traits can only be expressed in males
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