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EOC-Review Study Guide for Bio 1 Semester
Chapter 1 – What is Science
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Goals of Science
What is Biology?
What is the Metric System? Why do we use it in science?
Metric Measurements: length, temp, mass, volume (units used?)
Steps to Scientific Method: observation, hypothesis, etc…
What is included in designing and conducting an experiment?
o Dependent variable – responding variable
o Independent variable – manipulated variable
o Controlled experiment
o Field experiment
o Controls
o What is quantitative data?
o What is qualitative data?
o What is a theory?
7. Understanding Redi’s experiment
8. Spontaneous generation
9. Characteristics of living organisms (p.15)
o Homeostasis
o Stimulus
o Response
10. Using a Microscope
o Making a ”wet mount” slide
o Know where objective lenses are
o How do find magnification?
o Different kinds of microscopes and their uses (ex: compound,
electron, TEM,SEM)
10. Charts and Graphs
o How to read a chart?
o How to read a graph?
o What makes a good graph?
11. Summary & vocabulary – p.30
Chapter 7 – Life is Cellular
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What is the Cell Theory (its three parts?)
What are eukaryote cells?
What are prokaryote cells?
Name the organelles and their functions (ex: vacuoles, ribosomes,
nucleolus, chloroplast, etc…)
5. How are plant and animal cells different?
6. What makes up a lipid bilayer? Why is it called this?
7. How are cell walls and cell membranes different?
8. What is the concentration of a solution?
9. What happens to particles in diffusion? (how do particle move?)
10. Is energy required in diffusion?
11. What is osmosis?
o How do particles act in an isotonic solution?
o How do particles act in a hypertonic solution?
o How do particles act in a hypotonic solution?
12. What happens in facilitated diffusion?
13. What happens in active transport?
14. What is the difference between endocytosis and exocytosis?
15. What are the levels of organization in a multicellular organism?
(cell→ tissues→ etc…)
16. Summary and vocabulary – p.196
Chapter 10-2 Cell Division
1. What are chromatids, centromeres, spindles, centrioles?
2. Cell cycle
o Interphase
o Mitosis – prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase (what happens in
each phase?)
o Cytokinesis
3. Summary & vocabulary – p.256
Chapter 11 – The Work of Gregor Mendel
1. What did Mendel contribute to genetics?
2. Genetic vocabulary
o True-breeding
o Trait
o Hybrids
o Genes
o Alleles
o Gamete
o Probability
o Punnett square
o Homozygous
o Heterozygous
o Phenotype
o Genotype
o Dominant
o Recessive
3. Make Punnett squares for the following:
o Incomplete dominance
o Codominance
o Multiple alleles
o Sex-linked traits
4. What is the difference between Mitosis and Meiosis?
5. When are chromosomes homologous?
6. What is the difference between diploid and haploid cell?
7. What happens when chromatids cross-over?
Chapter 14 – Human Heredity
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What is a karyotype and why is it useful?
There are 46 chromosomes in the human cell
What are sex chromosomes and how many do you have?
Autosomes = 44 chromosomes
Female = XX, male = XY
Pedigree charts
o Male symbol
o Female symbol
o Carrier
o Dominant and recessive traits
7. Summary and vocabulary – p. 282
Chapter 2 – Carbon Compounds (Organic Molecules)
Macro Molecules
1. What is a Macromolecule?
2. Name and describe the process by which they are formed.
3. What is the relationship between monomers and polymers?
4. What are four groups of organic compounds found in living things?
Carbohydrates
1. What is a Carbohydrate?
2. What is the simplest type of carbohydrate?
3. For what purpose do living things use carbohydrates?
4. What are polysaccharides and how are they used by living organisms?
Lipids
1. What are lipids?
2. What are common categories of lipids?
3. Why are Lipids important for living things? (What are they used for?)
4. What are the basic building blocks of lipids?
5. What would it mean if the fat is saturated? or polyunsaturated?
Proteins
1. What is a protein? What are the basic building blocks of proteins?
2. Where is the information for arranging proteins from their building
blocks found?
3. Where are proteins found in living organisms?
Chapter 12- DNA (p.291)
1. What makes up a nucleotide?
2. What are the 4 kinds of bases?
3. Which bases are paired together?
4. A double helix looks like what?
5. What is a basic difference between RNA and DNA?