DC BIO Final

________ are the mammalian group that lays eggs.

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

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

Homology is evidence of ________.

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

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

Analogous structures are evidence of ________.

A vaccine works by ________.

________ are an example of an invasive species.

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

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

Food poisoning from Salmonella occurs because of ________.

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

Eukaryotes arose about ________ years after the first prokaryotes.

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

Biomass is the total amount of ________ an ecosystem.

All organisms that photosynthesize fit into which nutritional category?

Biological species consist of groups of ________.

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

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

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

A regional assemblage of interacting ecosystems is a ________.

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

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

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

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

A movement corridor ________.

________ is an example of bioremediation.

In the oceans, global warming has ________.

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

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

In most developing countries, ________.

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

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

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

Herbivory is an example of a ________ interaction.

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

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

Bacterial RNA polymerase binds to the ________.

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

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

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

A period of mass extinction is often followed by ________.

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

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

Homeotic genes ________.

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

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

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

A major function of a mushroom is to ________.

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

In ________ the gametophyte is more obvious than the sporophyte.

In human gene therapy ________.

Integrated pest management ________.

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

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

Ecology is the study of ________.

Homeotic genes are important for ________.

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

In most developed countries, overall population growth rates ________.

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

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

A pollen grain is a ________.

A feature unique to mammals includes ________.

Cells communicate with one another via ________.

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

________ convert nitrogen from nitrates to N2.

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

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

Landscape ecology ________.

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

Land was first colonized about ________ years ago.

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

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

Bacilli are ________ prokaryotes.

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

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

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

An effect of deforestation has been to ________.

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

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

Homology is evidence of ________.

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

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

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