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Biology Spring Final Exam Review
The completion of this ENTIRE review packet is worth 10 BONUS POINTS on the final exam. The bonus
points are all or nothing, either you complete the ENTIRE packet or you do not. THERE WILL BE NO
PARTIAL CREDIT GIVEN! Review packets are due at the time of your final exam.
You must COPY DOWN THE QUESTION and then provide your (correct) answer. NUMBER and
ANSWER all questions HANDWRITTEN IN PENCIL on notebook paper and attach them to this page.
Double check that you have answered all parts of the question.
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List all characteristics shared by living things.
Describe the purpose of science.
List the steps of the scientific method in sequential order.
Define the following terms: control, independent variable and dependent variable.
Draw and label two energy diagrams – one which illustrates energy being absorbed, the other which illustrates
energy being released.
Draw an energy diagram which illustrates a chemical reaction taking place both with and without an enzyme.
Describe the difference between a physical change and a chemical change.
What is activation energy?
What is the function of an enzyme in a chemical reaction?
Describe the impact of heat on enzymes.
List at least three structures you will find in ALL cells (both prokaryotic and eukaryotic).
Define semipermeable. Which major organelle is considered semipermeable?
Draw and label what happens to a cell when placed in each of the following solutions: hypertonic, hypotonic and
isotonic.
Use and venn diagram to compare and contrast passive transport and active transport. Include examples of each.
What is unique about osmosis?
Describe the overall purpose and process of photosynthesis.
Describe the overall purpose and process of cellular respiration.
Label the chloroplast/photosynthesis picture seen on your images page.
Summarize the major difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
What causes the burning in your muscles when you have depleted all available oxygen?
What is the overall purpose of mitosis? Meiosis?
Draw a picture of a cell in each phase of the mitosis cell cycle: Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase,
Telophase and Cytokinesis
Draw a picture of a cell in each phase of the meiosis cell cycle: Interphase, Prophase I, Metaphase I, Anaphase I,
Telophase I, Prophase II, Metaphase II, Anaphase II, Telophase II and Cytokinesis.
During which part of the cell cycle does a cell spend the majority of its time?
How is cancer related to mitosis?
Complete the following: During meiosis, DNA replicates ______ and the nucleus divides ________.
What three parts make up a nucleotide?
What molecule is made during the process of transcription?
Use a venn diagram to compare and contrast DNA and RNA. Have at least two characteristics in each section.
True or False: Only mutations which take place in the DNA of gametes (sex cells) will be passed down to
offspring.
How many CODONS signal for FOUR amino acids?
How many NITROGEN BASES signal for FOUR amino acids?
Describe the function of a Punnett square.
34. What do the letters on the top and side of a Punnett square represent?
35. Provide an explanation for how two parents with widow’s peaks (a dominant trait) can have a child without a
widow’s peak hairline.
36. The pedigree on the images page traces a dominant trait. Label the genotypes of all individuals.
37. Define the following terms: dominant, recessive, codominant, imcomplete dominance, and sex-linked.
38. Why are more males colorblind than females?
39. Describe how DNA fingerprinting is used to determine biological relationships.
40. Dimples are a dominant trait. Show the cross between two parents heterozygous for dimples. What percentage of
their children would you expect to have dimples?
41. Show the cross between a parent heterozygous for dimples and a parent without dimples. What percentage of their
children would you expect to have dimples?
42. Analyze the karyotype seen on the images page.
a. What is the gender of the individual?
b. What is their chromosomal condition?
43. Identify examples of both density dependent and density independent limiting factors in an ecosystem.
44. Analyze the food web seen on the images page. Highlight a single food chain with at least four organisms.
45. Analyze the food web seen on the images page. List the producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers ,
and tertiary consumers.
46. Describe what happens to energy as it travels throughout the trophic levels in an ecosystem.
47. Define the following terms: predation, competition and symbiosis.
48. Describe the impact humans have on the earth from the burning of fossil fuels.
49. Give an example of each type of symbiotic relationship: parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.
50. List the levels of ecological organization from smallest to largest, beginning with organism.
51. Define limiting factor and carrying capacity.
52. Analyze the graph on the images page. What is the carrying capacity for deer on Walla Walla Island?
53. Define binomial nomenclature.
54. What are the two parts of a scientific name? How is a scientific name written correctly?
55. Which classification level tells you the most information about an organism: Kingdom or Species?
56. Describe the purpose of a dichotomous key.
57. Why are viruses considered to be nonliving? Hint: it involves reproduction.
58. Use a venn diagram to compare and contrast the lytic and lysogenic cycles of viral reproduction.
59. To which domain do the following belong?
a. Kingdom Archaebacteria
b. Kingdom Eubacteria
c. Kingdom Protista
d. Kingdom Fungi
e. Kingdom Plantae
f. Kingdom Animalia
60. List the major characteristics of Kingdom Archaebacteria and Kingdom Eubacteria.
61. True or False: Protists are prokaryotic.
62. Why is Kingdom Protista known as the “Junk Drawer Kingdom?”
63. Mychorrizae is the mutualistic structure formed between plant roots and fungi. Describe how this relationship
benefits both organisms.
64. Identify the purpose of fungal spores.
65. Are members of Kingdom Plantae…
a. Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic?
b. Unicellular or Multicellular?
c. Autotrophic or Heterotrophic?
66. Put the following in order from oldest to most recently evolved: Gymnosperms, Angiosperms, Seedless Vascular
Plants, Algae, and Nonvascular Plants
67. Define pollination.
68. List the characteristics of all vertebrate animals.
69. Analyze the picture of the dog seen on the images page. Label the following anatomical terms: anterior, posterior,
dorsal, and ventral.
70. Give an example of an organism with the following: asymmetry, bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
71. What is the role of genes in evolution?
72. Describe how the natural selection of peppered moths in England changed following the Industrial Revolution.
73. Draw and label each of the following diagrams: Directional Selection, Disruptive Selection, Stabilizing Selection.
74. Analyze the cladogram seen on the images page. According to the diagram, crocodiles and other reptiles share the
most recent common ancestor with which animals?
75. Analyze the cladogram seen on the images page. According to the diagram, small mammals (rabbits and rodents)
share the most recent common ancestor with which animals?
Biology Spring Semester Diagrams
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