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Biology Midterm Exam

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What does a controlled experiment allow the scientist to isolate and test?Hypothesis
When enough experimental data support a hypothesis, what does the hypothesis become?conclusion or theory
Which characteristic of life best explains why birds fly south for the winter?Living things respond to their environment
The process by which organisms keep thier internal conditions fairly constant is called?homeostasis
What is the basic unit of mass in the SI system?gram
What would a scientist use to observe a small, living organism?Light microscope?
What is an instrument that allows light to pass through the specimen and uses to lenses to form an image?Light microscope
What instrumen tis used to separate cell parts according to densityCell fractionation or blender
Define isotopesatoms of the same element that differ in the number of neutrons they contain
what are the uses of radioactive isotopesCan determine ages of rocks and fossils and help treat and kill cancer
Define the polarity of waterthere is an unefven distribution of electrons between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms
What is the pH of stomach acid and oven cleaner?1.5 and 13.5
What are solutions that contain concentrations of H+ ions lower than pure water called?H+
Amina acid is to protein as simple sugar is tomonosccharides
Which organic copound is the main source of energy for living things?Lipids
RNA molecules are made of what?sugar ribose
What is the term used to describe the energy needed to get a reaction started?acctivation energy
Whare are the funcions of catalysts?speeds up rate of a chemical reaction
Enzymes affect the reactions in living cells by changing theactivation every
The work of Schleiden and Schwann can be summareized by saying that?Made up cell theory
The cell theory applies to...All living things
Which type of microscopes can produce three-dimensional images of cells?Electron microscope
What do eukaryotes usually containdos=zens of structures and internal membrans
What is the funciton of the nucleus?Seperates genetic material from rest of the cell
Which organelle breaks down food into molecules the cell can use?Lysosomes
Which structure makes proteins using coded instructions that come from the nucleosRibosomes
Which organelle converts the chemical energy stored in food into compounds that are more convenient for the cell to use?Mitochondria
Trace the path of a protien in the cellTrace the path!
Which organelle would you expect to find in plant cells but no animal cells?Chloroplasts
What is the function of the cyto skeleton?Supporting structure and transportation system.
What is the main function of a cell wall?Provide support and protection fro the cell!
What is the funciton of a cell membrane?regulates what enters nad leaves teh cell and provides protecion and support
The cell membrane contains channels and pumps. What are these made of?Lipids and Proteins
Define diffusionMove from an area where they are more concentrated to an are where they are less.
Which means of particle transport requires input of energy from the cell?Osmosis
What is the term for the diffuision of water across a selectively permeable membrane called?Osmosis
Why will an animal cell that is surrounded by fresh water burst?Water will want to equal out.
Define specialization of cellsCells throughout an organism can develop in different ways to preform different tasks.
Define organ systemA group of organs that work together to preform a specific function
Organisms, such as plants, that make their own food are called?Autotrophs!
What are the three parts of an ATP molecule?Adenine, a 5-carbon sugar called ribose, and three phosphate groups
When is energy released from ATP?breaking chemical bond between the second and thrid phosphates
A student is collecting the gas given off from a plant in bright sunlight at room temperature. What is the gas being colectedOxygen
Describe the stroma and what occurs here?Calcin cycle takes place here
Where do the light-dependent reacions take place?in the sun light
What are the products of the light-dependent reacions?sugars and oxygen
Where does the Calvin Cycle take place?in the stroma
What are the products of the Calvin CycleADP and high energy sugars
If you continue to increase the intensity of light that a plant receives, what happen?Increases less and less until it remains the same rate no matter the intensity!
Trace the pathway of electrons during photosythesis.Trace it!!
Cellular respiration uses on e molecule of glucose to produce what?energy
Cellular respiration releases energy by breaking down...glucose
What are the reactants in the equation for cellular respiration?oxygen and glucose
What are the products of cellular respirationcarbon dioxide, water, and energy
Describe what happened during lactic acid fermentation to allow glycolysis to continue.Process regenerates NAD+
What passes high-energy electrons into the electron transport chain?Krebs cycle
Why doyou breathe heavily after running a race?need of more oxygen
How are cellular respirtaion and photosynthesis almost opposite processes?Photosynthesis creates energy while Cellular respirtaion release it!
Phtotsynthesis is to chloroplasts as cellular respirtaion is to...Glucose
Give the correct sequence of events in cellular respiration.Yes do!
What is the equation for cellular respiration?602+C6H12O6=6CO2+6H2O
What is the starting molecule for glycolysis?N/A
What happens as a cell becomes larger?Cell division (two daughter cells are formed)
What is the outcome of cell division?each daughter cell recieves its own genetic "library"
Describe the stages in the cell cycleG1 Phase-growth, S Phase- DNA replication, G2 Phase- preperation for mitosis
When is the DNA replicated druing the cell cycle?S phase
During which phase of mitosis do the chromosomes line up along the middle of the dividing cell?Metaphase
What is the role of the spindle during mitosis?helps seperate chromosomes.
What are the two main stages of cell division called?Prophase and S phase
What are the differences between cell division in plant cells and in animal cells?Cytokinesis is defferent in plant cells
When cytoplasm from a cell that is undergoing mitosis is injected into a cell that is in interphase, the second cell?replicates
What regulates the cell cycle?Cyclin
A cell with a defective p53 gene is likely to have?Cancer
what is a tumor?Cancer cells out of control
What do we call offspring that result form crosses between parents with defferent traits?hybrids.
If a pea plant has a recessive allele for green peas, it will produce?green peas unless meets a dominant.
In the P generation, a tall plant was crossed with a short plant. Short plants reappeared in the F2 generation because?dominant gene?
Organism that have two identical alleles for a particular trait are said to be?Dominant
What principle states that during gamete formation genes for defferent traits separate without influencing each other's inheritance?um the first principal
Variation in human skin color is an example of?Dominant and recessive alleles
If an organism's diploid number is 12, its haploid number is?6
What happens between meiosis I and meiosisII that reduces the number of chromosomes?Because a pair of homologous chromosomes was seterated, neither of the daughter cells has two complete sets. Therefore useless
What does meiosis I and meiosis II that reduces the number of chromosomes?daughter cells
Crossing over rare occurs in mitosis, unlike meiosis. Why?Meiosis needs joining of daughter cells ot work
Gene maps are based on?relative location of each known gene on one of the chromosomes.



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