General Biology I Final Exam Review

What role does oxygen play in cellular respiration?

It would be a great surprise to find which of the following structure in a prokaryotic cell?

Which of the following polysaccharides is used by animals as the storage form of glucose?

If a cell did not have RNA molecules, what would be the result?

What are alleles?

In meiosis, crossing-over occurs during which of the following phases?

The basic unit of structure and function for all life is the:

The building blocks of proteins are called:

A cell biologist looks through a microscope at a cell which contains no nucleus. To which domain might it belong?

When you mix sugar into coffee, the sugar dissolves. This shows that sugar molecules are:

Lemon juice has a pH of 2.3 and should be classified as a:

The order of the major pathways and reactions of cellular respiration is:

A cell has lysosomes, a nucleus, but no cholorplasts. What type of cell is it?

Which is the correct choice that lists the steps in the scientific method in their typical order?

Which of the following molecules might be used for an immediate source of energy?

Where inside an animal cell would engulfed bacteria, debris, and macromolecules be broken down?

A person with Klinefelter syndrome has long arms & legs, and some breast development due to which chromosomal anomaly?

Which of the following makes the least sense as a topic of study in experiments on organic biomolecules?

A geneticist is studying the failure of chromosomes to separate properly during meiosis; this is called:

What cell structure converts light energy into chemical molecules?

What is the term for programmed cell death?

During the process of cellular respiration, what is the total number of ATP produced per glucose molecule?

In a mendelian monohybrid cross, which generation is always completely heterozygous?

When cancer has spread beyond its original location, it is said to have metastasized.

What are the end products of the light reactions in photosynthesis?

The more unsaturated a lipid is, the more:

Which part of an experiment allows a scientist to know if the treatment worked or not?

Which of the following phases takes place entirely outside the mitochondria and is considered to be anaerobic?

Mitosis and meiosis differ in that:

What type of bond occurs between one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom in a water molecule?

What process uses energy to move a substance from an area of low concentration to an area of high concentration?

Which of the following is absolutely necessary for diffusion to occur?

The short term storage form of glucose in plants is:

An atom was found to have an atomic number of 15 and a mass of 31. What is the total number of electrons in this atom?

Which six elements are the main components in living organisms?

Which interaction bonds water molecules to other water molecules?

Which of the following is correct about saturated fatty acids?

A geneticist who finds 3 copies of chromosome 21 in a karyotype of a patient, draws the conclusion that the patient has:

The base sequence of one DNA strand is 5' ACGCTA 3'. What is the complementary base sequence on the other DNA strand?

According to the fluid-mosaic model, a cell membrane is assembled from:

Which answer choice is not a defining characteristic of life?

Cancer can best be described as:

During _____, the nuclear envelope disappears, and the chromosomes become distinct.

Which of the following levels of taxonomy includes the greatest number of organisms?

What is the proper order of events in the cell cycle?

The major goal of the Calvin cycle is to produce what material?

Which term describes the tendency of water molecules to cling to other water molecules?

ATP is made up of:

A molecule which speeds a reaction by bringing the reactants together is referred to as a/an:

When solute molecules pass through the membrane using a carrier protein without any energy input, it is referred to as:

The regulation of an organism's internal environment is known as homeostasis.

How is the mass number of an element determined?

Mendel's law of segregation implies that the two members of an allelic pair:

What is the semifluid substance enclosed within the inner membrane of the mitochondrion?

Meiosis results in a change in chromosome number which can be written as:

When observing an animal cell in telophase, you would expect to observe the formation of a(n):

The formation of carbohydrate during photosynthesis, occurs where in the choloroplast?

Which bond results from the sharing of electrons?

The ATP which is made during the ETC is made at which site?

Brown eyes (B) are dominant to blue eyes (b). A brown-eyed woman who has a blue-eyed child would have the genotype:

When converting a polypeptide into smaller subunits, which of the following chemical reactions would be needed?

If you observed the sister chromatids separating during cell division, what phase of mitosis would you be observing?

A scientist who studies a group of field mice all living in the same area would be studying:

A possible explanation for a natural event is known as a/an:

To which kingdom does a unicelluar organism with a nucelus and structures for photosynthesis found in pond water belong?

If the total number of chromosomes in a parent cell is 6, then after mitosis there will be:

The terms alpha helix and pleated sheet are associated with which level of protein structure?

A cell placed in a hypertonic solution will:

If a eukaryotic cell lacked the Golgi apparatus, it could not:

In which kind of cross would you expect to find a ratio of 3:1 among the F2 offspring?

The theory stating that the chloroplast & mitochondria are formed due to a eukaryotic cell engulfing prokaryotic cells?

Which of the following terms is represented by word descriptions, such as brown or tall?

Which of the following is true of a protein which has been denatured by high heat?

To convert two monosaccharides into a disaccharide, which of the following reactions would be needed?

If an animal leg cell has 50 chromosomes, then what is the haploid number of this species?

In a study of the raw materials used for photosynthesis, what two kinds of molecules would be studied?

What is the name of the kingdom of eukaryotic, multicelluar organisms that ingest their food?

You discover a cell that has a nucleus, a cell wall, and a large central vacuole. You can conclude that it is a/an:

Water is split and oxygen is released during which process in photosynthesis?

In mitosis, the chromosomes line up on the equator of the cell during:

In animals, under anaerobic conditions, pyruvate is converted to which of the following molecules?

The substance that initially traps solar energy in photosynthesis is:

As a result of gylcolysis, one molecule of glucose is broken into two molecules of:

What are the reactants involved in cellular respiration?

Which of the following states the First Law of Thermodynamics?

If a poison specifically destroyed the ribosomes of a cell, what is the main reason that the cell would die?

Which of these is an example of homeostasis?

Which kind of bond occurs between positively and negatively charged atoms?

In a solution, if the hydroxide ion concentration exceeds the hydrogen ion concentration, the solution is considered:

The Calvin Cycle is directly dependent upon a supply of:

When the number of protons does not equal the number of electrons, the atom is called a/an:

How can enzymes speed up chemical reactions?

Which of the following changes would cause an atom to become a different element?

The identity of any atom can be determined by the:

Once NADH and FADH₂ have delivered their electrons and hydrogen ions to the ETC, they:

Which part of cellular respiration produces the greatest amount of ATP?

Why are the cristae important in the inner membrane of the mitochondria?

During the process of photosynthesis, which of the following products are formed?

Which organelle creates energy for the cell?

Which of these events happens during anaphase II?