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Topic/Concept
What you need to know
Biochemistry
1. What biological
polymer/macromolecule is
found in the nucleus and is
shaped like a double helix?
2. Biomolecules that make up cell
membranes?structure/function?
3. Biomolecule that serves as main
energy source?
Energy/Resp/Photosyn
1. 3 things most autotrophs need
to make their energy?
2. Process that makes glucose and
oxygen needed/used by animals
and plants?
3. Process that makes carbon
dioxide and water needed/used
by plants and other autotrophs?
4. Why is it essential for us to
breathe? Be very specific!
5. What energy conversions are
seen in photosynthesis?
6. What energy conversions are
seen in cellular respiration?
7. Gas produced by
photosynthesis?
Ecology/Environment
1. What does a predator prey
graph look like?
2. What atmospheric substances
are making global warming/
climate change worse?
3. What can be recycled?
Energy or Matter
4. Why does it have to be cycled?
5. What organisms are nature’s
recyclers?
6. 10% rule? (give example)
7. Why are invasive species so bad
for an environment?
REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM
Answer/Details
Period:
8. What organisms pull nitrogen
from the air to be used by other
living organisms?
9. Graph of logistic growth and
carrying capacity of a
population?
10. Why does the graph have that
shape?
Cell Division/Reproduction
1. How boy child made?
2. How girl child made?
3. Chance of making girl child?
4. Chance of making boy child?
5. Type of reproduction/ process
that creates genetic diversity?
6. Error that causes trisomy (3
copies of a chromosome)?
7. Types of cells that rarely
undergo mitosis?
8. Why damage to cells that don’t
divide can be a problem?
9. Stages of cell cycle in which
cells are NOT dividing?
10. If counting cells in each stage
of the cell cycle, how could you
tell cells are cancerous?
Genetics/DNA
1. How many different gametes
can be made if genotype is
AaBb?
2. Possible effects of DNA
mutation on phenotype?
3. White X Red = pink is what
inheritance pattern?
4. Genotype of female who is a
carrier for a sex linked trait?
5. Cross between female sex
linked carrier and normal male?
6. Blood type that must be
homozygous?
7. Blood type that illustrates codominance?
8. If gene/DNA is expressed in a
phenotype – what 2 processes
had to happen?
9. Process by which DNA is
manipulated in a lab?
10. How DNA pieces of varying
lengths can be separated in a
lab?
11. What makes two chromosomes
“homologous”?
Explain.
12. What are the 2 possible
genotypes for someone with a
dominant trait? Use the letters
B and b.
13. How is it possible for parents
with type A and type B blood to
have a child with type O blood?
14. What part of a DNA molecule
IS the genetic code (is
translated into amino acids)?
15. How can a mutation be
considered “silent”? Be specific!
16. What bonds must be broken in
DNA for replication and
transcription to happen?
17. How are DNA fingerprints used
to solve crimes?
18. Problem:
Parent #1 heterozygous for
TWO traits (AaBb)
Parent #2 recessive for the first
trait and homozygous dominant
for 2nd trait (aaBB)
What characteristic will ALL
offspring have?
Evolution
1. Endosymbiosis hypothesis says?
A = almond eyes, a = round eyes
B= blue eyes b = brown eyes
2. Homologous structures?
Definition
Example
What they suggest
3. Define Gradualism & draw
cladogram.
4. Define Punctuated equilibrium
and draw cladogram.
5. Species definition.
What is speciation?
6. What happens to length(s) of
monkey tail when average
length is selected AGAINST?
7. Why would bears in the arctic
and bears in NJ look different?
8. How can the layers in which 2
similar (but different) fossils are
found tell you about their
evolutionary relatedness?
9. What will you notice about the
DNA nucleotide sequences in
animals that are closely related
(compared to animals that are
not closely related)?
10. Is a lizard more closely
related to a salamander or to a
Perch? How do you know?
11. Which animals in cladogram
above have claws or nails?
12. What is the general name for
the environmental pressure
that determines whether traits
are passed to offspring?
13. Lots of different species
coming from one common
ancestor is called ____
(two different terms)
14. How do bacterium becomes
“resistant” to an antibiotic?
15. What are analogous
structures?
1)
2)
Define
Example
16. What do analogous structures
tell us about the organisms
with those structures?
17. If a deadly disease is caused
by a recessive gene, why will it
linger (stay around) in the
population and not totally
disappear?
18. How does a physical/
geographic separation within a
group of individuals that used
to live together allow for the
formation of two different
species (speciation) when at
one time there was just one
species?
19. Darwin’s explanation of
change over time did NOT
include knowledge of what
information that is now
accepted as very STRONG
evidence of common descent?
Final Exam Review – Open Ended
How can two species live together at the same time in the same place?
If a third species suddenly appeared, What might explain a corresponding decrease in one of the existing species?
Why might only ONE of the species decrease and not the other?
What could limit the growth of any one of the three species?
Graphing Practice
An insect known as a sawfly is found in evergreen forests in North America. Sawfly cocoons are the main source of
food for shrews (small mammals) and some bird species. Scientists studied 1-acre plots in various parts of a state
to determine the average number of sawfly cocoons, shrews, and robins. The data collected are shown in the table
below.
a). What is the average number of shrews per acre when the average number of sawfly cocoons is 500,000?
b). State what would most likely happen to the number of sawfly cocoons per acre if the shrews and robins were
removed from the area.