DC BIO Final

Integrated pest management ________.

In most developing countries, ________.

Like plants, fungi have _____; however, in plants they are composed of ____, whereas in fungi they are composed of ____.

In the oceans, global warming has ________.

A feature unique to mammals includes ________.

___ is the discipline of biology that focuses on classifying organisms and determining their evolutionary relationships.

In The Origin of Species, Darwin argued that the mechanism of descent with modification was ________.

An ancestral species and all its evolutionary descendants define a(n)________.

A reproductive barrier that prevents individuals from closely related species from interbreeding is an example of _____

Evolutionary evidence suggests fungi evolved from ________ that also gave rise to the fourth and most diverse group

Dinosaurs (aside from the lineage that produced birds) were extinct by the end of the ________.

Ecology is the study of ________.

________ are an example of an invasive species.

An effect of deforestation has been to ________.

Land was first colonized about ________ years ago.

Bacterial RNA polymerase binds to the ________.

A period of mass extinction is often followed by ________.

Logistic growth model, what happens to a population when the size of the population reaches carrying capacity?

In an aquatic food chain, small fishes that eat zooplankton are ________.

In most developed countries, overall population growth rates ________.

Approximately what percentage of the human genome consists of noncoding DNA?

Approximately what percentage of the visible light that reaches Earth's producers is converted to chemical energy?

Landscape ecology ________.

Global warming may trigger all but one of these results to occur. Choose the EXCEPTION.

Homology is evidence of ________.

If you study how two species of finches compete for food, you are trying to answer a question about ________.

How are the cells in different body tissues able to perform different functions?

Analogous structures are evidence of ________.

Exploring in the tropics, you discover a nonvascular plant that produces pollen. What type of plant have you discovered?

An unexpected freeze that kills a population of chipmunks is an example of ________.

Gymnosperms and angiosperms share multiple similarities. All of these are similarities except one. Choose the exception.

Besides the atmosphere, abiotic reservoirs of carbon dioxide include ________.

________, a chemical that hardens cell walls and supports terrestrial plants, is found in all plants EXCEPT ________.

Bacilli are ________ prokaryotes.

In prokaryotes, the production of a single RNA transcript for a group of related genes is under the control of ________.

Cells communicate with one another via ________.

In an ideal, unlimited environment, what shape does a population's growth curve most closely resemble?

Homeotic genes are important for ________.

A regional assemblage of interacting ecosystems is a ________.

Competition among individuals of the same species for the same limited resources is ________ competition.

________ are characterized body tissues, radial symmetry, and tentacles with stinging cells.

A characteristic that is shared by snakes and birds is ________.

Inheritance of certain genes increases the risk of getting certain cancers; thus, it can be said that ________.

In bacteria, what name is given to a cluster of genes with related functions, along with their DNA control sequences?

________ is(are) responsible for more cancers than any other carcinogen.

A DNA fragment with the sticky end sequence TGGCA will bind with another DNA fragment with the sticky end sequence ____

In human gene therapy ________.

Biomass is the total amount of ________ an ecosystem.

to assess the species diversity of a community, you would need to know the number of different species present and

Identify a difference between embryonic and adult stem cells from the following list.

A feature that freed reptiles from dependence on water for reproduction is ________.

Homology is evidence of ________.

A vaccine works by ________.

Herbivory is an example of a ________ interaction.

A change in the gene pool due to chance results in ________.

________ is a critical abiotic factor that contributes to plant growth in savanna ecosystems.

All of these but one are practical reasons to be concerned with preserving plant diversity. Which is the exception?

Food poisoning from Salmonella occurs because of ________.

________ is an example of bioremediation.

A characteristic of arthropods that has allowed for their great success is the presence of ________.

Homeotic genes ________.

All but one of these are causes for increasing carbon dioxide levels. Choose the EXCEPTION

In ________ the gametophyte is more obvious than the sporophyte.

A major function of a mushroom is to ________.

________ are the mammalian group that lays eggs.

An example of a mutualism, or +/+ relationship, is ________.

Large, diverse, multicellular organisms first appeared in the fossil record ___ million years ago during the __.

In an operon, the ________ acts as an on/off switch.

________ convert nitrogen from nitrates to N2.

In the food chain grass < antelope < human < lion, the antelope is ________.

FGA is one of the STRs that are used to compare DNA between different people. Why is FGA useful?

A movement corridor ________.

________ introduced a system for grouping species into a hierarchy of categories.

Eukaryotes that are not fungi, animals, or plants are classified in a "catch-all" category called ________.

Eukaryotes arose about ________ years after the first prokaryotes.

If there are 500 oak trees in a forest covering 50 square kilometers (km2) then the population density is ________.

In an aquatic ecosystem, what name is given to the region where photosynthesis can occur?

Biological species consist of groups of ________.

As a result of a severe disturbance, a community will ________.

How can mature plants be cloned to produce genetically identical copies?

A protist with a shell made of silica is most likely a(n) ________.

Bears eat berries, humans, and fish; fish eat fish and insects; humans eat bears, large fish, and berries. The scenario

All organisms that photosynthesize fit into which nutritional category?

In what type of organism was the CRISPR-Cas9 system discovered?

A pollen grain is a ________.