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Cells in multicellular organisms have many different sizes and shapes. These differences in cells is called cell specialization. Cell specialization allows cells to…

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Perform different functions

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What is metabolism?

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The sum of all chemical reactions taking place in an organism

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The basic unit of length in the metric system is the…

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Meter

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True or false. Living systems are all composed of two or more cells.

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False

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Suppose that a scientist proposes a hypothesis about how a newly discovered virus affects humans. Other virus researchers would likely…

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Design new experiments to test the hypothesis

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To be scientifically valid, a hypothesis must be…

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Testable and falsifiable

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All of the following factors contribute to Earth's climate except:
Shape and elevation of land masses
Transport of heat by winds
Latitude
Longitude
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Longitude

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The energy that powers the flight of an eagle

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Came originally from the Sun and will eventually return to space

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Corn planted in a field that has been previously planted with legumes and then plowed under is likely to be…

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More productive because the bacteria living on the roots of the legumes fix nitrogen in the soil

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Dwarf mistletoes are flowering plants that grow on certain forest trees. They obtain nutrients and water from the vascular tissues of the trees. The trees derive no known benefits from the dwarf mistletoes. What symbiotic relationship describes this?

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Parasitism

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When construction is done on a housing site, what factors affect the population density of the rats living there?

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Decreased space and food

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What are the two types of population growth?

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Exponential and logistic

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According to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, individuals who survive are the ones best adapted for their environment. Their survival is due to the…

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Possession of inherited adaptations that maximize fitness

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In a fox population, the allele frequency of a gene for red fur changes from 20% to 30%. What can you say about that population of foxes?

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The population is evolving

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What are the two types of sexual selection?

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Intersexual selection- female chooses showy male

Intrasexual selection- males compete for female mates

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If the original finches that had been blown over to the Galapagos from South America had already been genetically different from the parental population of South America finches, even before adapting to the Galapagos, this would have been an example of

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Genetic drift and founder’s effect

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Homologous features show that the two animals had

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A common ancestor

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If an atom contains 11 protons and 12 neutrons, its atomic number is

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11

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Changing the number of ____ would change it into an atom of a different element.

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Protons in an atom

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The chemical properties of an atom are primarily determined by the number of

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Protons it has in its nucleus

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What are isotopes?

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Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons

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If two molecules of the general type shown (carbohydrate) were linked together, the single molecule that would result would be

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Sucrose

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Starch and cellulose are both polymers made of

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Glucose

23
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What food is a major source of Vitamin D?

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Milk, yoghurt, cheese

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Which of the following is not a polymer?
Cellulose
DNA 
Starch
Glucose
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Glucose

Starch and cellulose are made of glucose, DNA is made of nucleic acids

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When the enzyme and substrate are joined in a reaction, the overall structure is called…

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The E-S Complex

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Proteins contain the elements:

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C, H, O, N

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Nucleic acids contain the elements:

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C, H, O, N, P

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Lipids and carbohydrates contain the elements:

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C, H, O

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The building block for carbohydrates is:

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Monosaccharide (such as glucose)

30
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The building block for lipids is:

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No known building block

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The building block for proteins is:

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Amino acids

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The building block for nucleic acids is:

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Nucleotide

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The presence of a small amount of cholesterol in the plasma membrane of some animals…

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Enables the membrane to stay fluid more easily

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According to the fluid mosaic model of cell membranes, which of the following is a true statement about membrane phospholipids?
They frequently flip flop from one side of the membrane to the other.
They have hydrophilic tails in the interior of the membrane.
They occur in an uninterrupted bilayer with membrane proteins restricted to the surface of the membrane.
They can move laterally along the plane of the membrane; they are amphipathic.

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They can move laterally along the plane of the membrane; they are amphipathic.

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Which of the following membrane activities require energy from ATP hydrolysis?
Movement of glucose molecules
Movement of water into a cell
Facilitated diffusion
NA+ ions moving out of the cell
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NA+ ions moving out of the cell

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Under which of the following conditions would you expect to find a cell with many ribosomes?
A cell that is secreting proteins
A cell that is digesting food particles
A cell that is constructing its cell wall or extra cellular matrix
A cell that is producing enzymes

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A cell that is producing enzymes

37
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Which of the following would likely move through the lipid bilayer of a plasma membrane most rapidly?
An amino acid
Starch
K+
Glucose
CO2
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CO2

38
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A cell has the following molecules and structures: enzymes, DNA, ribosomes, plasma membrane, and mitochondria. It could be a cell from

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A plant or animal cell

39
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Which of the following is a major cause of size limits for certain cell types?
The need for a larger surface area to volume ratio that is sufficient to allow a cell’s function.
The need for a small surface area to volume ratio that is sufficient to allow the cell’s function.

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The need for a larger surface area to volume ratio that is sufficient to allow a cell’s function.

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Tay-Sachs disease is a human genetic abnormality that results in cells accumulating and becoming clogged with very large and complex lipids. Which cellular organelle must be involved in this condition?

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The lysosome

41
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White blood cells engulf bacteria through what process?

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Phagocytosis

42
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Animal cells like to be in ______ solutions while plant cells like to be in _______ solutions.

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Isotonic; hypotonic

43
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How do unsaturated fatty acids keep a membrane more fluid?

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The double bonds form kinks in the fatty acid tails forcing adjacent lipids to be further apart.

44
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A moth following the trail of airborne chemicals called pheromones is an example of…

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Response to stimuli

45
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During a controlled experiment, a scientist isolates and tests…

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A single variable

46
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Phyll

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Leaf

47
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Milli

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One thousand

48
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Sunflower follows sunlight while growing

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Evolve

49
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Give an example of Mullerian mimicry

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Two species of unpalatable butterflies with the same wing patterns

50
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What are the two types of limiting factors?

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Density dependent and density independent

51
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What is the formula for population density?

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Number of individuals divided by the area

52
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What is a diagram that shows the number of surviving members over time from a measured set of births?

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Survivorship curve

53
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Study of evolutionary relationships

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Phylogeny

54
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Organisms with a vertebrae

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Chordata

55
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Controlled by two or more traits; produces many possible outcomes

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Polygenic traits

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