Lab Quiz #1

Question 1

Percent of time spent in interphase

Answer 1

91%

Question 2

Percent of time spent in prophase

Answer 2

6%

Question 3

Percent of time spent in metaphase

Answer 3

2%

Question 4

Percent of time spent in anaphase

Answer 4

0.5%

Question 5

Percent of time spent in telophase

Answer 5

0.5%

Question 6

Advantages of sexual reproduction

Answer 6

aids in adaptation; creates genetic variation in populations

Question 7

Disadvantages of sexual reproduction

Answer 7

does not help a multicellular organism grow; is time consuming

Question 8

Advantages of asexual reproduction

Answer 8

quick growth; unicellular organism reproduction

Question 9

Disadvantages of asexual reproduction

Answer 9

does not result in genetic variation

Question 10

colonial organisms

Answer 10

Volvox colony (looks like a circle with a bunch of little circles)

Question 11

filamentous organisms

Answer 11

Oedogmium filaments

Question 12

three types of bacteria morphology

Answer 12

coccus, spirillum, baccillus

Question 13

heterocysts

Answer 13

structures that perform nitrogen fixation in certain prokaryotic cells

Question 14

Oscillatoria

Answer 14

made up of coin-stack looking cells

Question 15

made up of coin-stack looking cells

Answer 15

Oscillatoria

Question 16

Nostoc

Answer 16

spirally sorta colorful bacteria

Question 17

spirally sorta colorful bacteria

Answer 17

Nostoc

Question 18

Anabaena

Answer 18

coccus bacteria with heterocysts

Question 19

coccus bacteria with heterocysts

Answer 19

Anabaena

Question 20

gram positive bacteria

Answer 20

have a single wall with a thick layer of peptidoglycan, a polymer of amino sugars (polysaccaride-polypeptide)

Question 21

gram negative bacteria

Answer 21

have a thinner peptidoglycan layer, but it is covered by an additional lipo-polysaccaride layer

Question 22

Rhizopus phylum:

Answer 22

Zygomycota

Question 23

Yeast phylum

Answer 23

Ascomycota

Question 24

Schizosaccaromyces phylum:

Answer 24

Ascomycota

Question 25

Peziza phylum:

Answer 25

Ascomycota

Question 26

Penecillium:

Answer 26

Condial fungi

Question 27

Mushroom phylum

Answer 27

Basidiomycota

Question 28

Crustose lichen

Answer 28

form dry, crusty, colorful, "paint-like" splotches

Question 29

Foliose

Answer 29

form leaf-like lobes

Question 30

Fruiticose

Answer 30

form erect, miniature "shrubs" or fruiting bodies