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Honors Biology Midterm
What is the primary reason for including a control within the design of an experiment?
What are the properties of life?
What is the hierarchy of all living things?
Why must a scientist have a controlled experiment?
Define the following using prefixes and suffixes:
5. Biology:
6. Many sugars:
7. Inflammation of:
8. To make:
9. What is resolution?
10. What does the diaphragm do?
11. What is the magnification of each objective lens?
12. What time of data is used in a live graph? A bar graph?
13. What are brief definitions to the microscopes below?
a. Compound Light Microscope
b. SEM
c. TEM
d. Dissecting Microscope
14. The type of attraction that holds two water molecules together is:
15. What is the difference between hydrophilic and hydrophobic?
16. The attractive force between particles of the same kind is:
17. Complimentary base pairing deals with the relationship between the purines and
pyrimidines of nitrogenous bases. What are they the bases? What families do they belong to?
What are the complementary pairs?
18. Give names of a few carbohydrates.
19. The change in shape of an enzyme molecule when it is placed in an environment with a
higher than normal temperature is called:
20. What makes something acidic?
21. A fatty acid is unsaturated if it:
22. The difference between one amino acid and another is the _____?
23. Which hexose sugars are isomers of each other?
24. What part of the cell is a phospholipid?
25. Enzymes affect the reactions in living cells by changing the:
26. Catalase, ligase, polymerase, etc. These are all examples of:
27. Is water a polar compound?
28. Is fructose a monosaccharide?
29. The bonding of water molecules on one another is called:
30. The _________________ of DNA is a nucleotide.
31. Does a decrease in hydrogen ions leads to a decrease in pH? Does this make a base or an
acid?
32. A common structure found in animal cells, but rarely in plant cells is the:
33. Which is a major function of mitochondrion?
34. Which structures carry out cell movement and provide support for the cell?
35. Ridding of cell waste materials by discharging it in bulk from sacs at the cell surface is:
36. An animal cell that is surrounded by fresh water will: By salt water?
37. A plant cell that is surrounded by fresh water will: By salt water?
38. The cell membrane does what for the cell?
39. Cells that have high energy requirement generally have many:
40. Organelles that are surrounded by two membranes and contain DNA are the:
41. Whether a molecule can cross the plasma membrane depends upon what 3 things?
42. Which is the best definition of osmosis?
43. Which is the best definition of active transport?
44. Plants show turgor pressure when:
45. What would most likely happen if the ribosomes within a cell were not working?
46. Which of the following membrane activities are most nearly opposite to exocytosis?
47. Glycoproteins are:
48. Glycolipids are:
49. All of the following are the end products of the light-dependent reactions of
photosynthesis…
50. On a sunny day, the closing of stomata in plant leaves result in what?
51. What would be an example of a CAM plant? A C4 plant?
52. Organisms that make all the organic molecules that it needs is a _____________
53. The process of photosynthesis consumes _______________ and produces___________.
54. The NADPH and ATP from the light-dependent reactions are used to make what?
55. Why are plants green?
56. The end of the Calvin cycle is makes what molecule?
Know what occurs in the following:
A. Calvin cycle
B. Light Dependent reactions
Know what occurs in the following:
A. Glycolosis
B. Krebs Cycle
C. Electron transport chain
57. What are the reactants in the equation for cellular respiration?
58. Glycolysis provides the cell with a net gain of how many ATPs?
59. The starting molecule for glycolysis is?
60. What role does O2 play in cellular respiration?
61. During what state of cellular respiration is the most ATP produced?