Biology II Review

1. When an organism becomes better suited to its environment, it is known as

Commensalism

Isolation

Camouflage

Adaptation

2. What is the relationship between person 1 and person 7?

Father and Son

Mother and Son

Grandfather and Grandson

Grandfather and Grandaughter

3. Person 5 ___________________________ hemophilia.

Has the disease

Is a carrier of

Does not have the gene for

Cannot tell

4. Natural selection is also known as

Overpopulation

Artificial selection

Survival of the fittest

Genetic interaction

5. The relationship between the hawk and the snake can best be described as

Predator- prey

Scavenger - carrion

Parasite - host

Consumer - producer

6. Natural selection can best be defined as the

Survival of the biggest and strongest organims in a population

Elimination of the smallest organisms by the biggest organisms

Survival and reproduction of the organisms that occupy the largest area

Survival and reproduction of the organisms that are genetically best adapted to the environment

7. Unrestricted populations of organisms experience

Exponential growth

Linear growth

Fertility

Biotic growth

8. Which of the following pairs would be found in a DNA molecule?

Adenine - guanine

Guanine - cytosine

Cytosine - adenine

Guianine - thymine

9. Why is the snake considered a second order consumer?

It consumes the primary consumer

It consumes the tertiary consumer

It eventually is decomposed

It consumes the producers

10. Natural processes such as speciation and gradualism provide the genetic basis for

Evolution

Spontaneous generation

Biogenesis

Sexual reproduction

11. X-rays, ultraviolet light and radioactive substances that can change the chemical nature of DNA are classified as

Mutations

Hydrolytic enzymes

Growth regulators

Metamorphic molecules

12. In a food web, what happens to the energy as it moves from the producer to the 1st order consumer and then to the 2nd order consumer?

Energy increases

Energy decreases

Energy decreases and then increases

Increases or decreases depending on the organism

13. Nitrogen is released to the abioitic parts of the biosphere from the processes of death and

Decay by bacteria

Infiltration of groundwater

Runoff

Lightening in storm clouds

14. One population of squirrels live on the north rim of a canyon and a second population of squirrels lives on the south rim of the same canyon. After hundreds of years, these two populations are recognized as different populations. Which of the following is the best explanation for this?

The two populations are geographically isolated

The two populations have very different mating habits

The north rim of the canyon has a harsher climate

The north rim of the canyon has less food available

15. A system for naming species in which two words are used to name an organism is

Fan diagramming

Cladistics

Dichotomous keying

Binomial nomenclature

16. Which series is arranged in order from largest to smallest in size?

Cell, nucleotide, nucleus, DNA, chromosome

Nucleotide, chromosome, cell, DNA, nucleus

Cell, nucleus, chromosome, DNA, nucleotide

Chromosome, nucleus, cell, DNA, nucleotide

17. Which of the following genetic disorders can be detected by karyotyping?

Downs Syndrome

Tay-Sachs disease and phenylketonuria

Hemophilia and cystic fibrosis

Klinefelter syndrome and sickle cell anemia

18. This pedigree represents the sex linked trait hemophilia.
What is the genotype of person 5?

XHXH

XHXh

XHY

XhY

19. Sea stars live in saltwater ecosystems. Some species live in shallow tidal pools. This is a description of the _____ of sea stars.

Niche

Habitat

Community

None of these

20. The backbone of a DNA molecule is made of which 2 components?

Deoxyribose sugars and phosphate molecules

Deoxyphosphates and glucose

Ribose sugars and phosphate

Deoxyribose sugars and nitogen bases

21. A trait controlled by four alleles is said to have

Homologous alleles

Autosomes

Hybridization

Multiple alleles

22. A phenotype that results from a dominant allele must have at least ________ dominant allele(s) present in the parent.

One

Two

Three

Four

23. A child is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. Neither parent has the disorder. How might the child have inherited this disorder?

The disorder is dominant and was carried by a parent

The disorder is recessive and carried by both parents

The disorder is sex linked and inherited only from the father

The disorder could occur only as a mutation in the child because neither parent had the disease.

24. If a female fruit fly heterozygous for red eyes (X^RX^r) crossed with a white eyed male (X^rY), what percent of their offspring would have white eyes?

0%

25%

50%

100%

25. Some birds are known as honey guides because they may be followed by humans to beehives. When the humans take honey from the hives, the birds are able to feast on the honey and bees, too. this type of relationship can best be described as

Commensalism

Parasitism

Mutualism

Symbiosis

26. Structures that have a similar evolutionary origin and structure that are adaped for different purposes, such as a bat wing and a human arm, are called______________________________.

Homozygous structures

Homologous structures

Analgous structures

Embryological structures

27. The theory of continental drift hypothesizes that Africa and South America slowly drifted apart after once being a single landmass. The monkeys on the two continents, although similar, show numberous genetic differences. Which factor is probably the most important in maintaining these differences?

Fossil records

Geographic isolation

Comparitave anatomy

Comparative embryology

28. A heterotrophic eukaryote associated with the decomposition of dead organisms is

Bacterium

Herbivore

Fungus

Protist

29. Upon close examination of the skeleton of an adult python, a pelvic girdle and leg bones can be observed. These features are an example of

Artificial selection

Homologous structures

Vestigial structures

Comparative embryology

30. Within a decade of the introduction of a new insecticide, nearly all of the descendants of the target pests were immune to the usual sized dose. The most likely explanation for this immunity to the insecticide is that

Eating the insecticide caused the bugs to become resistant to it

Eating the insecticide caused the bugs to become less resistance to it

It destroyed organims that cuase disease in the insects, thus allowing them to live longer

The pests have developed adaptations to the insecticide

31. Which type of selection favors the average individual?

Stabilizing

Disruptive

Directional

None of these

32. Carbon dioxide leaves the atmosphere through

Photosynthesis

Burning fossil fuels

Respiration

Transpiration

33. Population control factors whose effects increase as the size of the population increases are

Abiotic factors

Density dependent factors

Limiting factors

Density independent factors

34. Most human genetic disorders are caused by the expression of

Recessive alleles

Two dominant alleles

One dominant allele

Sex-linked heredity

35. An ecologist who studies how several species in an area interact among each other and with the abiotic parts of the environment is interested in the biological organizational level called

Organism

Population

Community

Ecosystem

36. The type of inheritance shown when a red flowering plant is crossed with a white flowering plant and only pink flowering plants are produced is

Inbreeding

Incomplete dominance

Polygenic inheritance

Codominance

37. A population that grows until it reaches its carrying capacity usually has the shape of a

I

J

S

M

38. A man heterozygous for blood type A marriers a woman heterozygous for blood type B. The chance that their first child will have blood type O is..

O%

25%

50%

100%

39. Water is lost to the abiotic parts of the biosphere from the biotic parts by the process of

Precipitation

Photosynthesis

Transpiration

Infiltration

40. The pairing of ______________ is the key feature that allows DNA to be copied.

Nucleotides

Nitrogen bases

A protein molecule

The genetic material

41. Because the gene for red-green colorblindness is located on the X chromosome, it is normally not possible for a

Color blind father to pass the gene on to his son

Color blind father to pass the gene on to his daughter

Carrier mother to pass the gene on to her son

Carrier mother to pass the gene on to her daughter

42. The science of grouping and naming organisms is

Classification

Phylogeny

Nomenclature

Taxonomy

43. Both hemophilia and red green color blindness are

Inherited only from the mother

Located on the Y chromosome

Caused by a dominant gene

Sex linked conditions

44. An ecologist who studies how several species in an area interact is interested in the biological organization called

Organism

Population

Community

Ecosystem

45. Density independent factors are limiting factors whose effects are

Confined to the habitat of the population

Determined by the degree of competition for resources

Not influenced by population densities

Determined by the difference between birthrate and population density

46. For a particular species, the carrying capacity is the maximum number of individual organisms that

The species could reach in a given time period if all the offpring survive and reproduce

Could be supported by a given environmental indefinately

Are in their post reproductive years

Could be supported by an environment over a period of one year

47. All of the individuals of the same species in a given area form a

Niche

Ecosystem

Phenotype

Gene pool

48. What are the chances that person 8 will have hemophilia?

100%

50%

25%

0%

49. The blood types A, B, AB and O are the result of _______________ inheritance.

Multiple allelic

Polygenic

Sex linked

Simple dominant

50. Which of the following lines of evidence for evolution is indirect?

Bacteria adapting to antibiotics

Observed allele frequency changes

Fossils

All of thes

Biology II Review

1. When an organism becomes better suited to its environment, it is known as

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. What is the relationship between person 1 and person 7?

3. Person 5 ___________________________ hemophilia.

4. Natural selection is also known as

5. The relationship between the hawk and the snake can best be described as

6. Natural selection can best be defined as the

7. Unrestricted populations of organisms experience

8. Which of the following pairs would be found in a DNA molecule?

9. Why is the snake considered a second order consumer?

10. Natural processes such as speciation and gradualism provide the genetic basis for

11. X-rays, ultraviolet light and radioactive substances that can change the chemical nature of DNA are classified as

12. In a food web, what happens to the energy as it moves from the producer to the 1st order consumer and then to the 2nd order consumer?

13. Nitrogen is released to the abioitic parts of the biosphere from the processes of death and

14. One population of squirrels live on the north rim of a canyon and a second population of squirrels lives on the south rim of the same canyon. After hundreds of years, these two populations are recognized as different populations. Which of the following is the best explanation for this?

15. A system for naming species in which two words are used to name an organism is

16. Which series is arranged in order from largest to smallest in size?

17. Which of the following genetic disorders can be detected by karyotyping?

18. This pedigree represents the sex linked trait hemophilia.What is the genotype of person 5?

19. Sea stars live in saltwater ecosystems. Some species live in shallow tidal pools. This is a description of the _____ of sea stars.

20. The backbone of a DNA molecule is made of which 2 components?

21. A trait controlled by four alleles is said to have

22. A phenotype that results from a dominant allele must have at least ________ dominant allele(s) present in the parent.

23. A child is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. Neither parent has the disorder. How might the child have inherited this disorder?

24. If a female fruit fly heterozygous for red eyes (XRXr) crossed with a white eyed male (XrY), what percent of their offspring would have white eyes?

25. Some birds are known as honey guides because they may be followed by humans to beehives. When the humans take honey from the hives, the birds are able to feast on the honey and bees, too. this type of relationship can best be described as

26. Structures that have a similar evolutionary origin and structure that are adaped for different purposes, such as a bat wing and a human arm, are called______________________________.

28. A heterotrophic eukaryote associated with the decomposition of dead organisms is

29. Upon close examination of the skeleton of an adult python, a pelvic girdle and leg bones can be observed. These features are an example of

30. Within a decade of the introduction of a new insecticide, nearly all of the descendants of the target pests were immune to the usual sized dose. The most likely explanation for this immunity to the insecticide is that

31. Which type of selection favors the average individual?

32. Carbon dioxide leaves the atmosphere through

33. Population control factors whose effects increase as the size of the population increases are

34. Most human genetic disorders are caused by the expression of

35. An ecologist who studies how several species in an area interact among each other and with the abiotic parts of the environment is interested in the biological organizational level called

36. The type of inheritance shown when a red flowering plant is crossed with a white flowering plant and only pink flowering plants are produced is

37. A population that grows until it reaches its carrying capacity usually has the shape of a

38. A man heterozygous for blood type A marriers a woman heterozygous for blood type B. The chance that their first child will have blood type O is..

39. Water is lost to the abiotic parts of the biosphere from the biotic parts by the process of

40. The pairing of ______________ is the key feature that allows DNA to be copied.

41. Because the gene for red-green colorblindness is located on the X chromosome, it is normally not possible for a

42. The science of grouping and naming organisms is

43. Both hemophilia and red green color blindness are

44. An ecologist who studies how several species in an area interact is interested in the biological organization called

45. Density independent factors are limiting factors whose effects are

46. For a particular species, the carrying capacity is the maximum number of individual organisms that

47. All of the individuals of the same species in a given area form a

48. What are the chances that person 8 will have hemophilia?

49. The blood types A, B, AB and O are the result of _______________ inheritance.

50. Which of the following lines of evidence for evolution is indirect?

18. This pedigree represents the sex linked trait hemophilia.
What is the genotype of person 5?

24. If a female fruit fly heterozygous for red eyes (X^RX^r) crossed with a white eyed male (X^rY), what percent of their offspring would have white eyes?