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DAY 1 Due 12/19
1. List six characteristics of living things?
2. Name and briefly describe the 4 classes of organic compounds.
3. For each of the following tests, indicate the organic compound that a positive test will
indicate: brown paper, Benedict’s solution, Biuret solution, Lugol’s (Iodine) solution
4. What is the function of an enzyme?
5. What is the function of ATP? What does ATP stand for?
6. What is the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs.
7. What is the difference between photosynthetic and chemosynthetic organisms.
8. Write the general chemical equation for photosynthesis? Label the name of each reactant and
product. Identify the main product and the waste product.
9. Where in the cell does photosynthesis take place?
10. Write the general chemical equation for cellular respiration? Label the name of each reactant
and product. Identify the main product and the waste products.
11. What is fermentation?
12. What are the two types of fermentation and tell where each would take place?
13. List three differences between photosynthesis and respiration.
DAY 2 Due 01/05
1. What are the three major components of the cell theory?
2. Describe two major differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
Give examples of each.
3. For each process, indicate the cell organelle where it occurs: a. protein synthesis, b. photosynthesis,
c. DNA replication, d. water storage, e. aerobic ATP production.
4. What are three major differences between a plant cell and an animal cell?
5. What is the key difference between passive transport and active transport?
6. What are the similarities and differences between diffusion, osmosis, and facilitated diffusion?
7. For each solution, draw a picture of a cell showing the movement of water: a hypotonic,
isotonic, and hypertonic.
8. If a cell with a salt concentration of 1% is placed in a 10% salt solution which way will the
water flow? Is it a hypotonic, hypertonic, or isotonic solution? What will happen to the cell?
Draw a picture showing what happens.
9. Why is a cell membrane described as being semi-permeable?
10. Draw and label a human nerve cell (neuron).
11. How is electrophoresis used to produce a DNA Fingerprint? How is a DNA Fingerprint used in
forensic science?
DAY 3 Due 01/11
1. What are the major phases of the cell cycle?
2. What are three major functions of cell division?
3. What is cellular division called in prokaryotes (bacteria)?
4. What is the division of the cytoplasm called?
5. What does 2n and n stand for?
6. What are homologous chromosomes?
7. List three differences between mitosis and meiosis.
8. List two differences between sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction.
9. Indicate how each of the following word pairs are different: a. Genetics/heredity,
b. genotype/phenotype, c. homozygous/heterozygous, d. dominant/recessive, e. gene/allele.
10. Use a Punnett square to solve the following. Fluffy, an albino rat, mates with Spot, a black rat.
Albinism is recessive in rats and Spot’s father was an albino. What percentage of Fluffy’s
offspring will be black? albino? What would be the genotype and phenotype?
11. For each genetic condition, describe the basic symptoms and the pattern of inheritance:
a. sickle cell anemia, b. cystic fibrosis, c. hemophilia, d. Down’s syndrome, e. Huntington’s disease.
DAY 4
Due 01/13
1. What are the two types of nucleic acid? What are the monomers of nucleic acids called?
List the 3 parts that make up these subunits? What are the 4 nitrogen bases?
How do the bases pair up?
2. What are the 3 major differences between DNA and RNA?
3. What is a polypeptide? What are its monomers?
How is the sequence of monomers determined?
4. What are changes in DNA called? How does a change in the DNA lead to a change in the protein?
5. What mRNA sequence and amino acid sequence would the following DNA code for:
ATTCCGATCTTT
6. How does each of the following provide evidence for evolution: a.embryology, b. homologous
structures, c. vestigial structures, d. similarities in protein sequences, e. fossil record?
7. Explain how the Galapagos finches may have evolved.
8. For each phenomena, indicate what causes it and its impact on the biosphere.
a. Acid rain, b. greenhouse effect, c. global warming, d. ozone depletion
9. Describe three nonrenewable resources that are being destroyed by humans.
10. Draw and label a graph representing human population growth
11. What are stem cells? What human diseases could they potentially be used to treat?
DAY 5 Due 01/18
1. What language are scientific names written in? Which word is capitalized? What information
does the first word provide?
2. What are the major groups of the scientific system of classification from largest to smallest?
3. Describe a virus and tell why it is not classified as a living thing.
4. For each item, name the kingdom(s) that are described.
a) all autotrophs
b) prokaryotic cells
c) all heterotrophs
d) all multicellular
e) eukaryotic cells
f) all unicellular
5. Describe the contribution of each of the following: a. Watson and Crick, b. Mendel, c. Darwin, d. Linnaeus.
6. Give an example for each for the following types of symbiosis:
a. mutualism, b. commensalism, c. parasitism
7. Draw a food chain using the following organisms: snake, hawk, mouse, corn.
Draw an energy pyramid using the same organisms.
8. Use the pyramid from #7 to answer the following:
a. Which organism has the largest population? smallest?
b. Which heterotroph has the greatest amount of biomass?
c. Which organism is the 2nd order consumer?
d. Which organism is the producer?
9. Why will a food chain usually have no more than four tropic levels?
10. Using the following words, create a diagram of the carbon cycle: photosynthesis, combustion,
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, cellular respiration, decomposition, fossil fuels
11. Explain the effect of deforestation on each of the following:
a. carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere
b. oxygen gas levels in the atmosphere
b. impact of global warming
d. habitat disruption