HONORS BIOLOGY
FINAL REVIEW
QUESTION #1
O A POPULATION HAS MANY
DEATHS AND FEW
ORGANISMS MIGRATING
INTO THE POPULATION.
WHAT WILL MOST LIKELY
HAPPEN TO THE
POPULATION?
ANSWER #1
O IT WILL BE SHRINKING
QUESTION #2
O NAME 2 THINGS THAT A
CLIMOGRAPH WILL TELL YOU.
ANSWER #2
O TEMPERATURE &
PRECIPITATION
QUESTION #3
O NAME AT LEAST 3 EXAMPLES
FOR A FOSSIL.
ANSWER #3
O CASTS/MOLDS
O AMBER
O BODY PARTS (BONE, TEETH,
SHELLS)
O TRACE
O PERMINERALIZATION
QUESTION #4
O WHAT WERE THE FIRST
LIVING ORGANISMS ON
EARTH?
ANSWER #4
O PROKAYOTIC – BACTERIA
QUESTION #5
O USING RELATIVE DATING, AN
EASILY RECOGNIZED FOSSIL
IS CALLED WHAT?
ANSWER #5
O INDEX FOSSIL
QUESTION #6
O WHAT TYPES OF CELLS ARE
HAPLOID?
ANSWER #6
O GAMETES OR SEX CELLS OR
EGG & SPERM
QUESTION #7
O IN HUMANS, MEIOSIS WILL
PRODUCE CELLS WITH HOW
MANY CHROMOSOMES?
ANSWER #7
O 23
QUESTION #8
O WHAT IS EARTH’S MOST
RECENT ERA?
ANSWER #8
O CENOZOIC
QUESTION #9
O WHAT LEVEL OF A FOOD
CHAIN IS THE LEAST
AFFECTED BY
BIOMAGNIFICATION?
ANSWER #9
O PRODUCERS
QUESTION #10
O WHAT TYPE OF SYMBIOTIC
RELATIONSHIP BEST FITS A
FLEA DRAWING BLOOD FROM
A DOG?
ANSWER #10
O PARASITISM
QUESTION #11
O A TORNADO RIPS OUT ALL OF
THE TREES IN THE FOREST.
WHAT TYPE OF SUCCESSION
WILL MOST LIKELY OCCUR?
ANSWER #11
O SECONDARY SUCCESSION
QUESTION #12
O WHAT ABNORMALITY IS SEEN IN THIS
KARYOTYPE?
ANSWER #12
O DOWN’S SYNDROME –
TRISOMY #21
QUESTION #13
O WHAT IS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF
AUTOSOME CHROMOSOMES IN THE
KARYOTYPE BELOW?
ANSWER #13
O 45
QUESTION #14
O A TORNADO IS AN EXAMPLE
OF DENSITY-DEPENDENT OR
DENSITY-INDEPENDENT
LIMITING FACTOR?
ANSWER #14
O DENSITY-INDEPENDENT
LIMITING FACTOR.
QUESTION #15
O AVERAGES OF
PRECIPITATION, SUNSHINE,
TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY,
ETC. OVER LONG PERIODS OF
TIME DESCRIBES WHAT?
ANSWRE #15
O CLIMATE
QUESTION #16
O NAME 2 PROCESSES THAT
ARE INVOLVED IN THE
CARBON CYCLE & THE
OXYGEN CYCLE.
ANSWER #16
O PHOTOSYNTHESIS &
CELLULAR RESPIRATION
QUESTION #17
O WILL SPECIATION INCEASE,
DECREASE, OR STAY THE
SAME WHEN 2 POPULATIONS
OF DEER WILL NO LONGER
SUCCESSFULLY MATE WITH
ONE ANOTHER?
ANSWER #17
O INCREASES.
QUESTION #18
O WHAT TYPE OF
HETEROTROPH IS AN
ORGANISM THAT EATS ONLY
MEAT?
ANSWER #18
O CARNIVORE
QUESTION #19
O IF AN ALLELE MAKES UP
THREE-QUARTERS OF A
POPULATION’S ALLELES FOR
A GIVEN TRAIT, WHAT IS ITS
RELATIVE FREQUENCY?
ANSWER #19
O 75%
QUESTION #20
O A MOUNTAIN HAS SEPARATED
2 LIZARD POPULATIONS.
NAME THE TYPE OF
ISOLATION.
ANSWER #20
O GEOGRAPHIC OR ALLOPATRIC
ISOLATION
QUESTION #21
O IF THE PHENOTYPE THAT IS
SELECTED AGAINST IN THE
POPULATION IS THE AVERAGE
PHENOTYPE, WHAT TYPE OF
SELECTION IS TAKING
PLACE?
QUESTION #21
O DISRUPTIVE SELECTION
QUESTION #22
O WHAT PERCENT OF ALL
SPECIES THAT HAVE EVER
LIVED HAVE GONE EXTINCT?
ANSWER #22
O MORE THAN 99%
QUESTION #23
O THE LENGTH OF TIME
REQUIRED FOR HALF OF THE
RADIOACTIVE ATOMS IN A
SAMPLE TO DECAY IS CALLED
WHAT?
ANSWER #23
O HALF-LIFE
QUESTION #24
O NAME THE BASIC DIVISIONS
OF TIME ON THE GEOLOGIC
TIME SCALE FROM LARGER
TO SMALLER.
ANSWER #24
O EON, ERA, PERIOD & EPOCH
QUESTION #25
O GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF A
DIPLOID CELL?
ANSWER #25
O ANY SOMATIC OR BODY CELL
QUESTION #26
O IF AN ORGANISM DONATES
COPIES OF A GENE TO THE
OFFSPRING IN A
PREDICTABLE RATIO, WHICH
ONE OF MENDEL’S LAWS
DOES THIS DESCRIBE.
ANSWER #26
O MENDEL’S LAW OF
SEGREGATION
QUESTION #27
O NAME 3 THINGS THAT WILL
INFLUENCE THE EXPRESSION
OF A PERSON’S PHENOTYPE.
ANSWER #27
O WHICH CHROMOSOME IT IS
LOCATED ON
(AUTOSOME/SEX)
O DOMINANT/RECESSIVE
O ENVIRONMENT
QUESTION #28
O IF A PERSON IS
HETEROZYGOUS FOR A
RECESSIVE GENETIC
DISORDER, DOES THE
PERSON HAVE THE
DISORDER? EXPLAIN.
ANSWER #28
O NO. THE PERSON IS A
CARRIER (HAS ONE ALLELE
FOR THE DISORDER), BUT
DOES NOT HAVE THE
DISORDER
QUESTION #29
O IF A TRAIT IS SEX-LINKED,
HOW MANY ALLELES DOES A
WOMAN NEED TO HAVE TO
EXPRESS A RECESSIVE
TRAIT?
ANSWER #29
O 2 RECESSIVE ALLELES
QUESTION #30
O WHAT DID WE STUDY THAT
INVOLVED MATCHING UP
CHROMOSOME PAIRS AFTER
THEY WERE CHEMICALLY
STAINED?
ANSWER #30
O KARYOTYPE
QUESTION #31
O BELOW IS A STRAND OF DNA,
WHAT WOULD THE RNA
STRAND BE.
OC C T T A A G G C G A T
ANSWER #31
OG G A A U U C C G C U A
QUESTION #32
O IN A DNA MOLECULE YOU
SEE ONE OLD STRAND WITH
ONE NEW STRAND, WHAT
VOCAB WORD IS THIS
TALKING ABOUT.
ANSWER #32
O DNA REPLICATION OR DNA
SEMI CONSERVATIVE
REPLICATION
QUESTION #33
O WHAT 3 THINGS WILL MAKE
UP A NUCLEOTIDE IN RNA?
ANSWER #33
O RIBOSE SUGAR
O NITROGEN BASE (A, U, G, C)
O PHOSPHATE
QUESTION #34
O INFORMATION FLOWING
FROM DNA TO RNA TO
PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
DESCRIBES WHAT?
ANSWER#34
O CENTRAL DOGMA
QUESTION #35
O WHAT VOCAB WORD
DESCRIBES A FEATURE THAT
ALLOWS AN ORGANISM TO
SURVIVE BETTER IN ITS
ENVIRONMENT?
ANSWER #35
O ADAPTATION
QUESTION #40
O REMNANT OF AN ORGAN
THAT HAD A FUNCTION IN AN
EARLY ANCESTOR IS KNOWN
AS WHAT?
ANSWER #40
O VESTIGIAL STRUCTURE
QUESTION #41
O WHAT RNA MOLECULRE
CARRIES AMINO ACIDS?
ANSWER #41
O TRANSFER RNA
QUESTION #42
O WHAT IS PRODUCED DURING
TRANSCRIPTION?
ANSWER #42
O MESSENGER RNA
QUESTION #43
O HOW MANY CODONS ARE
NEEDED TO SPECIFY FOR 5
AMINO ACIDS?
ANSWER #43
O 5 CODONS
QUESTION #44
O WHAT ORGANISM IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR
PROVIDING MOST OF THE
ENERGY IN THE ECOSYSTEM?
ANSWER #44
O PRODUCERS OR
AUTOTROPHS OR PLANS
QUESTION #45
O AN AREA THAT INCLUDES ALL
OF THE BIOTIC & ABIOTIC
FACTORS DESCRIBES WHAT?
ANSWERS #45
O ECOSYSTEM