Download Test Review Sheet: Biology Final – 09 Know the steps of the

Test Review Sheet: Biology Final – 09
1. Know the steps of the scientific method and what is done are each step.
2. Be able to identify the control (dependent variable) and experimental group (independent variable).
Identify the independent and dependent variable in the scenario below.
A sample of digestive juice was removed from the stomach of a pig. The juice was placed in a test tube along
with some grains of wheat. A second test tube was set up containing an equal number of wheat grains, with
distilled water rather than digestive juice. The test tubes were kept for 8 hours at 40 degrees Celsius. After 8
hours, the seeds inside the digestive juice had broken into tiny particles. The grains of wheat, in the water,
were wet but otherwise unchanged.
3. What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?
4. What is homeostasis?
5. What are the characteristics of the cell membrane. (function, location, etc.)?
6. What are the three parts of the cell theory?
7. What are the building blocks of carbs, proteins, and nucleic acids?
8. What makes carbon such a special element?
9. What is an organism?
10. What are the differences between plant and animal cells?
11. What is changed during a controlled experiment?
12. What are the three laws of Gregor Mendel?
13. What are dominant and recessive alleles?
14. What are genotype and phenotype?
15. What are stem cells?
16. What is the goal of stem cell research?
17. What is the purpose of mitosis?
18. What is the end result of mitosis? Know the stages?
19. What is meiosis?
20. Be able to complete a two trait cross using a punnet square?
21. What does cell respiration take place in the cell? What is the end result of cell respiration?
22. What is the equation for cell respiration?
23. What is cancer?
24. Be able to complete a one trait cross using a punnet square.
25. What occurred during the osmosis experiment (egg and vinegar) and the diffusion experiment (bag
and corn starch) and why?
26. What are the base pairs of DNA?
27. What are the steps of DNA replication?
28. What is the complementary DNA sequence of A-T-C-C-G-A-G-T?
29. What are the steps of protein synthesis?
30. What does transcription take place in the cell?
31. What is true of sex-linked disorders regarding transmission from parents to kids and why?
32. What two people discovered the structure of DNA?
33. What is the amino acid sequence of the DNA base sequence C-T-G-A-A-T-G-C-A
34. What is the purpose of cell transformation?
35. How is the particular gene that is needed for research isolated from the rest of the DNA?
36. What is the DNA from two different sources?
37. What are some reasons for genetic engineering?
38. What happens to a favorable trait for an organism?
39. What factors affect natural selection?
40. What are homologous structures?
41. How does someone present a scientific name?
42. What is the correct taxonomic order from largest to smallest?
43. What is a cladogram? Know how to interpret one.
44. Know the characteristics of a virus (composition, when they are active, prevention, etc.)
45. Remember the evolution and antibiotic experiment?
46. Know the steps of the lytic cycle?
47. What are some diseases caused by bacteria?
48. What are some diseases caused by viruses?
49. What is a protest?
50. What protists are strictly parasitic?
51. What protist causes malaria? How is it transmitted?
52. Know the characteristics of a fungus (ecological purpose, reproduction, etc).
53. Know the characteristics of Annelids (examples, location, benefits, etc).
54. What ways can someone get a roundworm disease?
55. Compare and contrast the three classes of mollusks?
56. Know the characteristics of invertebrates (no backbone, sexual reproduction, etc).
57. Know the characteristics of arthropods.
58. What are the environmental impacts of insects?
59. What the characteristics of vertebrates?
60. Compare the circulatory, respiratory, reproduction, and other body systems with other vertebrates.
61. What makes the lamprey different from the trout?
62. What makes the trout different from the shark?
63. Compare the body systems of amphibians and reptiles (reproduction, respiration, etc).
64. What is a nonrenewable resource?
65. What are fossil fuels? What are the pros and cons of all of them? What affect do they have on the
atmosphere?
66. What is the impact of deforestation on global warming?
67. What is a renewable resource?
68. What are the biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem?
69. What impact are the less-developed countries (LDCs) having on the world’s resources?
70. What is an alternative energy? Name some examples?
71. What is IPM? How is it related to pollution?
72. Who produces the energy in an ecosystem and where does it end?
73. What is a trophic level? What happens to the energy in an ecosystem as you move up the trophic
levels in an ecosystem?
74. What effect do human activities have on the environment?
75. What are scientists so concerned with carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere?
76. What is crossing over?
77. What are greenhouse gases? What is the major source of greenhouse gases?
78. What are the pros and cons of all the renewable energies (solar, wind, etc)?
79. What can be done to increase or decrease an ecological footprint?
80. What are the major sources of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
81. Who are primary consumers?
82. The organisms in the food web below live near large cattle ranches. Over many years, mountain lions
occasionally killed a few cattle. One year, a few ranchers hunted and killed many mountain lions to
prevent future loss of their cattle. Later, ranchers noticed that animals from this food web were eating
large amounts of grain from their fields.
Identify two specific populations that most likely increased
in number after themountain lion population decreased.
Support your answer.
Explain how killing many mountain lions affected
other ranchers in the community.
Be able to explain he role of each organism in the food web.
83. Be able to analyze a food chain
84. Where does Luzerne county rank against the rest of the U.S. in terms of pollution?
85. Explain the fossil fuel use per capita in the U.S.
86. Can global warming be stopped? If so, what can be done?
87. What impact do the more developed countries have on the world’s energy?