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Biology 2nd Semester Final Exam Study Guide
This is your study guide for the General Biology Final Exam. We will
discuss this study guide in detail May 15 – May 21st. Please take good notes,
participate in class, and do not wait until the last minute to study. This exam
is worth 20% of your final grade!!!
Genetics:
1. What are genes?
2. What are traits?
3. What are alleles?
4. What are phenotypes and genotypes?
5. What are multiple alleles?
6. What is incomplete dominance?
7. What is codominance?
8. What is the genotype of a dominant and recessive trait?
9. What is the difference between sex and autosomal chromosomes?
10. What is the role of Mendel in Genetics?
11. What is a Punnett Square?
12. Know how to work a dihybrid cross and figure out the genotypic and
phenotypic ratio?
13. List 4 Mendels Concepts and what they mean?
14. List 3 variations of Mendel’s Concepts?
15. A farmer has a pea plant that is heterozygous for purple flowers and round
seeds. The recessive alleles are white flowers and wrinkled seeds. He
crosses the plant with a pea plant that is homozygous for purple flowers and
wrinkled seeds. Do the dihybrid cross and tell me the phenotypic ratios of
the offspring?
Advanced Genetics:
16. What is nondisjunction?
17. What specifically is Down’s Syndrome?
18. What is euploidy, anuploidy, haploid, diploid, triploid, and tetraploid and list
their numeric abbreviations?
19. What is eugenics?
20. What is parthogenesis?
21. What is monosomy and trisomy?
22. What are substitution, deletion and addition mutations?
23. What is genetic variation?
24. What is the gene pool?
Evolution:
25. What is the correct attitude of a Christian toward Evolution?
26. What is the philosophy of Evolution?
27. What are Lamark’s concepts of Evolution?
28. Who is Ussher and what did he base his date of creation on?
29. What is the result of believing in evolution?
30. What is genetic load?
31. What is a fossil?
32. What is the role of Carbon 14?
33. Who proposed the concept of survival of the fittest?
34. According to the Bible, the earth was created approximately how long ago?
35. What are the six days of creation?
Plants
36. Describe plant classification and characteristics of plant kingdom
37. Why study plants?
38. What are nonvascular plants (Bryophyta) characteristics
39. What are vascular plants without seeds (Pteridophyta) characteristics
40. Vascular plant with seeds characteristics
41. Gymnosperms vs. angiosperms
42. Coniferophyta (cone-bearing plant) charactistics
43. Anthophyta characterisitcs
44. Compare Monocots vs. dicots
45. Plant tissue types: dermal, vascular, ground, and meristematic
46. Structure of a leaf
47. Palmate vs. pinnate leaf shape
48. Compound vs. simple leaf shape
49. What are Stomata and guard cells? What are their purpose, function, location,
and what causes them to work.
50. What are the different Root tissues (4 regions)
51. 4 purposes of roots
52. Function of water in plants (4 primary)
53. Plant movement (nastic)
54. Essential minerals in plants and fertilizers
55. Tropism
56. Photoperiodism
57. Parts of a flower
Classification, bacteria, protists, viruses, and fungus:
58. List the levels of classification?
59. List the six Kingdoms and their characteristics.
60. What are the three shapes of Eubacteria?
61. What is peptidoglycan and why is it important?
62. What are the two main components of viruses.
63. What are some conditions that are favorable for bacteria growth?
64. What is a bacteriophage?
65. Who are Dr. Wendell and Dimitri Iwanowski and the TMV?
66. What is gram staining?
67. What is the 2 ways to classify Eubacteria?
68. What are the three types fungus and their differences?
69. What are protists and what makes them different from bacteria?
70. What are the three types of protists and their differences?
71. What is saprophytic and parasitic?
72. List the ways that a fungus is different than a plant.
73. What is lichen?
74. Water vascular system of a starfish.
Look over your Animal Kingdom notes and objectives from the last test.