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BIO 1406 FINAL EXAM REVIEW
Dr. Harold Kay
1. Are living things made of cell?
2. Know how electrons are distributed on atoms.
3. What is homeostasis?
4. know hierarchy of biological organization
5. What is the nucleus of atoms made of?
6. What is atomic number?
7. What type of chemical bond holds oxygen and hydrogen together in H2O.
8. Water and its specific heat.
9. What is a buffer
10. Definition of an acid.
11. Example of a buffer.
12. Common form of carbohydrate.
13. What are the bases that make up pyrimidine/purine
14. What makes one amino acid different from another?
15. What is the bond that holds amino acids together?
16. What are the bases in DNA?
17. What elements are essential for life?
18. Know the pH scale.
19. The four most important organic compounds.
20. The octet rule.
21. Emergent property
22. Base sequence in DNA/RNA
23. Polymerization reaction/condensation reaction and hydrolysis
24. Aqueous solution
25. Saturated/unsaturated fats
26. Cellular respiration as a catabolic reaction
27. What does selective permeability mean
28. How do we describe mitochondria
29. What is cytosol
30. What are the two important concepts of microscopy
31. Reversible and irreversible enzyme inhibitors
32. What is the optimal temperature range for human enzymes
33. Autotrophic organisms
34. How do poisons such as cyanide work
35. When muscles function anaerobically they build up lactic acid which could be used as
indicator for muscle function
36. Types of endocytosis
37. What is ATP used for in the body
38. In exergonic reaction is delta G negative or positive
39. What is the spectrum range for visible light
40. What are examples of accessory pigments
41. Hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic solutions
42. Flaccid or limp
43. Endocytosis, exocytosis, facilitated diffusion
44. Concentration gradient, net directional movement
45. Crenate
46. Cell-cell recognition
47. CAM plants
48. Coenzyme
49. What is cellular respiration
50. What is allosteric site
51. In genetic disorder testing, fetoscopy, ultrasound and sonogram are the least invasive
procedures while amniocentesis is the most invasive procedure.
52. Nerve cells do not divide after they mature.
53. Gametic cells contain half the number of chromosomes. (Haploid)
54. The most common lethal genetic disease in the United States is cystic fibrosis.
55. There are checkpoints in the G1, G2 and M phases of the cell cycle.
56. What is heterogametic sex
57. What is homogametic sex
58. The enzyme that transfers a phosphate group from ATP to protein is protein phosphotase
59. What is genomic imprinting
60. What are the two main principles on which the chromosome theory of inheritance is
based
61. What is meant by position effect
62. Drosophyla melanogaster is an experimental organism
63. Polyploidy is when the chromosome number has more than two complete sets of
chromosome.
64. What are the two sources of genetic variation
65. What is pleiotropy
66. Definition of test cross, complete dominance and incomplete dominance
67. Definition of trait, homozygous, heterozygous, phenotype and genotype
68. What is meant by blending theory of inheritance?
69. Particulate theory of inheritance
70. Definition of sexual/ asexual reproduction
71. Definition of character
72. What is life cycle
73. What is karyotype?
74. What is locus
75. Define Heredity, Variation, Genetics
76. DNA fingerprints look like –the order of bases in a particular gene.
77. muscle and bone cells are different because they are differentiated
78. the simplest bacterial transposons are – insertion sequences
79. viroids are naked strands of RNA
80. Prions are infectious protein particles
81. a Prophage is a phage that has been incorporated into a specific site on the bacterial
chromosome
82. lytic cycle
83. Virulence. Associate this with the lytic cycle.
84. Mutagen- physical or chemical agents that interact with genetic material to cause
mutation.
85. know how DNA sequence goes from RNA to protein molecule ( from mRNA to tRNA,
anticodon)
86. Know the base pairing rule.
87. damaged DNA is usually excised by the enzyme-ligase
88. know mismatch repair
89. know excision repair
90. know DNA antiparallel rule in regard to 5’ 3’ direction.
91. the sequence of viral replication e.g. Attachment, entry etc
92. know about bovine growth hormone
93. human growth hormone has been a boom to children with hypopituitarism
94. electroporation
95. the goal of the human genome project
96. episome
97. transposons
98. inverted repeat
99. direct repeat
100.Operon