SCI 1056 Exam 3 Spring 2024

This organelle turns glucose into ATP, carbon dioxide and water:

What is this process?

Our atmosphere is mostly nitrogen.

Allopatric speciation is:

Which process requires oxygen?

Where do producers get their energy from?

There can still be evolution without genetic variation.

Which biome has extreme wet and dry seasons

Which biome is the "bread basket" of the world (and has good top soil)?

Which is the "gateway" to the cell?

What are heterotrophs?

Which are the three domains of life?

Plants can perform both photosynthesis and cellular respiration

Secondary consumers eat meat.

What is this process?

This domain generally includes extremophiles (organisms that live in extreme conditions):

An ecosystem includes living organisms and abiotic factors.

Some of these organisms are essential for producing fermented foods like yogurt

Top Predators make up the ________ trophic level

How much energy is transferred between trophic levels?

If you're preserving something, what solution would you put it in?

Cells that have a nucleus and membrane bound organelles are

What is the most common biome in Colorado?

What happens to a red blood cell when it is in a hypertonic solution?

Palentology is the study of past human life and culture

Which biome has a good layer of top soil and is great for farming?

Where are the primary producers in the trophic levels?

The Golgi Apparatus would be most like what at a pizza place?

The following gives the cell structure:

Eukaryotic cells evolved more recently than prokaryotic cells.

The Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum is responsible for

Which organisms would you expect to see evolution rapidly?

We are living in the Phanerozoic Eon

Which statements are true about both mitochondria and chloroplasts?

What type of consumers eat producers?

The organelle responsible for getting rid of a cells waste. It is also acidic and recycles, reduces and reuses!

How do poisons bioaccumulate in the food chain?

Since prokaryotes don't have a nucleus, they can't contain DNA

What happens to a red blood cell when it is in a hypotonic solution?

Plants produce oxygen, and are net carbon "sinks".

What is a heterotroph?

Which metabolic pathways do plants use?

When did prokaryotic cells evolve?

What are trophic levels?

Which biome receives 10 or less inches of rain per year?

This organelle(s) is responsible for protein synthesis:

Which is the definition of evolution?

Which biome will be most affected by climate change?

There is less energy stored at higher trophic levels because at each level:

What are keystone species?

Which biome has water, but most of it is unavailable to drink?

Which biome has the most biodiversity

Consumers that eat only animals.

______________ biomes are defined as places that have less than 10 inches or 25 cm of rain or snow each year

Which of the statements best describes The Cell Principle?

Which cells have membrane bound organelles?

This organelle turns sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into sugar and other food molecules:

The largest time scale is called a/an:

Which of these processes DO NOT require energy to be transported in or out of the cell?

Eon is the shortest geologic time period

What is the biggest threat to biodiversity?

Which of these processes transports large molecules in and out of the cell?

Detritivores are at the bottom of the trophic pyramid

Which organisms changed Earth's toxic atmosphere into an oxygen rich one?

Eukarya, Fungi and Protista are the three Domains of life

Which of these processes transports water in and out of the cell?

Which of these processes transports molecules from high to low concentration?

Humans are carbon sinks.

This part of the cell is jelly-like and takes up the space not occupied by organelles:

The process of cellular respiration is basically opposite of photosynthesis.

What percent of energy is lost you move from a lower trophic level to the next higher level?

Prokaryotic cells are smaller than eukaryotic cells

An example of an autotroph is ____.