Final Review

Question 1

This organelle contributes the most power to plant cells

Answer 1

Chloroplasts

Question 2

How do hypotheses differ from theories

Answer 2

Theories are more comprehensive than hypotheses

Question 3

Enzymes are almost always

Answer 3

Proteins

Question 4

Determines the sequence of amino acids in proteins

Answer 4

mRNA

Question 5

Which of the following is a product of the citric acid cycle

Answer 5

NADH

Question 6

Which blood type is considered codominant

Answer 6

Type AB blood

Question 7

Which of the following is not a chemical reaction

Answer 7

Ice melts to form liquid water

Question 8

The smallest biological unit which evolves is a

Answer 8

Population

Question 9

What does evolutionary fitness measure

Answer 9

Relative reproductive success

Question 10

What are genes composed of

Answer 10

DNA

Question 11

Which even occurs during prophase

Answer 11

The chromosomes condense

Question 12

Natural selection

Answer 12

Results in evolutionary adaptation

Question 13

What are the four most common elements found in living organisms

Answer 13

Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen

Question 14

What polysaccharide is the primary component of plant cell walls

Answer 14

Cellulose

Question 15

Any change in the nucleotide sequence of DNA is called a

Answer 15

Mutation

Question 16

Biological species consist of groups of

Answer 16

Populations

Question 17

A DNA fragment with the sticky end sequence TGGCA will bind with another DNA fragment with the sticky end sequence

Answer 17

ACCGT

Question 18

During cellular respiration, the energy in glucose

Answer 18

Is used to manufacture ATP molecules

Question 19

Recorded observations are called

Answer 19

Data

Question 20

Which of the following is the composition of nucleotides

Answer 20

A phosphate group, a nitrogenous base, a sugar

Question 21

Which of the following would be considered an arthropod

Answer 21

Hermit crabs

Question 22

The hydrogen and oxygen atoms of a water molecule are held together by __ bonds

Answer 22

Covalent

Question 23

Which genotype is considered homozygous dominant

Answer 23

CC

Question 24

Sympatric speciation specifically EXCLUDES

Answer 24

Geographic isolation

Question 25

A __ is an autotroph

Answer 25

Pine tree

Question 26

__ is a distinction in appearance between males and females not directly associated with reproduction or survival

Answer 26

Sexual dimorphism

Question 27

Which is a feature of prokaryotic cells but NOT eukaryotic cells

Answer 27

Fimbriae

Question 28

Sister chromatids are joined at the

Answer 28

Centromere

Question 29

The tailbone of a human __ to the tail of a monkey

Answer 29

Is homologous to

Question 30

After a restriction enzyme binds to its restriction site, it cuts the two strands of the DNA by

Answer 30

Breaking chemical bonds at specific points within the sequence

Question 31

Which is a function of the plasma membrane

Answer 31

Regulate traffic of materials in and out of the cell

Question 32

Chloroplasts absorb light mainly in the __ part of the light spectrum

Answer 32

Blue-violet

Question 33

In eukaryotic cells, the transcription of genes is enhanced by

Answer 33

Enhancer sequences

Question 34

The biological species concept cannot be applied to

Answer 34

Fossils

Question 35

What is an independent variable

Answer 35

What is being manipulated by the researchers

Question 36

What are the two broadest divisions of the cell cycle

Answer 36

Interphase and the mitotic phase

Question 37

Where in the cell does glycolysis occur

Answer 37

In the cytoplasm

Question 38

The presence of gills in both fish and human embryos is an example of

Answer 38

Homology

Question 39

What must pyruvic acid be converted to before it can enter the citric acid cycle

Answer 39

Acetyl CoA

Question 40

If the abnormal cells remain at the original site, the lump is called a

Answer 40

Benign tumor

Question 41

DNA replication

Answer 41

Requires the cooperation of over a dozen enzymes and other proteins

Question 42

Many proto-oncogenes regulate

Answer 42

Cell division

Question 43

Restriction enzymes are obtained from

Answer 43

Bacteria