Duplicate of Biology Final Exam Review

All the members of a population ...

The principle of dominance states that

A fertilized egg is called a ...

Charles Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment

In animal cells, electron transport occurs in the

When a farmer breeds only his or her best livestock, the process involved is

Which best describes the composition of a plasma membrane?

During which phase of mitosis are sister chromatids separated and pulled toward opposite poles?

Where do the light-dependent reactions take place?

An organism that uses energy to produce its own food supply from inorganic compounds

The work of scientists begins with

The series of predictable changes that occurs in a community over time is called

Which of the following is a nucleotide found in DNA?

A group of organisms of one species living in the same place at the same time?

The repeated movement of water between Earth’s surface and the atmosphere is called

A segment of DNA that is the basic unit of heredity

What is the name given to non-living factors in the environment that affect living things?

A student is collecting the gas given off from a plant. The gas being collected is probably

The starting molecule for glycolysis is

The property of water molecules that describes how they stick to other substances?

Organisms that have two identical alleles for a particular trait are said to be

Which of the following makes up a molecule of water?

Gregor Mendel used pea plants to study

Glycolysis provides a cell with a net gain of

Plants gather the sun’s energy with light-absorbing molecules called

A symbiosis in which both species benefit is

Energy is released from ATP when ...

Enzymes affect the reactions in living cells by changing the

The movement of organisms into a given area from another area, is called

Identify the reactant(s) in the chemical reaction, CO₂ + H₂O ------------> H₂CO₃.

The branch of biology dealing with interactions among organisms and their environment

What does meiosis do that mitosis does not do?

What is the term used to describe the energy needed to get a reaction started?

Which of the following is NOT a goal of science?

Lactic acid fermentation occurs in

A man has B⁺ blood and his wife has A⁺ blood. Which genotype can't they have as an offspring?

Most of the energy available to a consumer trophic level is used by organisms for

Which cell structure contains the cell’s genetic material and controls the cell’s activities?

Which will reduce competition within a species’ population?

In humans, the pelvis and femur are involved in walking. In whales, the pelvis and femur are

What is the movement of waste materials from inside the cell to outside the cell called?

Which of these is a product of cellular respiration?

A monosaccharide is a

During which phase of mitosis do the chromosomes line up along the middle of the dividing cell?

Isotopes are atoms of the same element with the same number of protons and

During mitosis, a parent cell having four chromosomes will produce two daughter cells with

An adaptation is an inherited characteristic that can be

The two main types of fermentation are called

Green plants are

Organisms that cannot make their own food and must obtain energy from the foods they eat

James Hutton’s and Charles Lyell’s work suggests that

The property of water molecules that describes how they stick to one another?

In 1859, Charles Darwin published his revolutionary scientific ideas in a work titled

A change in a sequence of DNA is called a

Which of these processes takes place in the cytoplasm of a cell?

How is a cell in one tissue (liver)different from a cell in a different tissue (skin?

Cellular respiration is called an aerobic process because it requires

What is the correct equation for cellular respiration?

Which organelle would you expect to find in plant cells but not animal cells?

Which level of organization includes all of the other levels?

Prokaryotes lack

Unlike mitosis, meiosis results in the formation of

Science differs from other disciplines, such as history and the arts, because science relies on

Solutions that contain concentrations of H⁺ ions lower than pure water

Which type(s) of RNA is(are) involved in protein synthesis?

A substance formed by the combination of two or more elements in definite proportions.

Which organelles provide cells with energy?

How does active transport differ from passive transport? B

An organism that cannot make its own food is called a(an)

Which of the following is a function of the cell membrane?

What is a product of the Calvin cycle?

What does meiosis produce?

Which genetics term is ‘the appearance of a trait’?

What is transcription?

What type of ion forms when an atom loses electrons?

Primary succession can begin after

In the presence of oxygen, glycolysis is followed by

When salt is dissolved in water, water is the

The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane is called

Darwin hypothesized that the different species of finches on the Galapagos ..

Plants whose flowers open at midday and other plants whose flowers open late in the day exhibit

What is an organism that feeds only on plants called?

During gamete formation, genes for different traits separate without influencing each other.

Where in the chloroplast is chlorophyll found?

Why is Dolly a clone?

How many codons are needed to specify three amino acids?

Chemical pathways that depend upon or use oxygen gas are said to be ...

What genetics term means ‘the actual genetic makeup of a trait’?

Compared to a polygenic trait, a single-gene trait tends to have

Selective breeding produces

The process by which organisms keep their internal conditions relatively stable is called

Which type of particle transport requires input of energy from the cell?

When during the cell cycle is a cell’s DNA replicated?

Small protein catalysts that do chemical work

During DNA replication, a DNA strand that has the bases CTAGGT produces a strand with the bases

Which of the following organic compounds is the main source of energy for eukaryotic organisms?

Hutton’s and Lyell’s (two geologists) work was important to Darwin because these scientists

DNA is copied during a process called

A covalent bond is formed as the result of

The process by which polymers are broken down into monomers.