SI Activity:
Final Study Guide
Leader: Katie Uhde
Supplemental Instruction
Iowa State University
Instructor: Raich
Date: 9/30/11
Course: Bio 2011
The following review questions are designed to guide you through the textbook as you prepare
for the exam.
Be familiar with all Vocabulary.
Review Questions:
1. What are all of the properties of life?
2. Differentiate Cladogenesis from Anagenesis.
3. Draw a prokaryotic cell and lable: Flagellum, capsule, cell wall, plasma membrane,
nucleoid, pilli.
4. What are the three main bacterial shapes? (scientific names)
5. Describe the Gram-Stain experiment and its findings.
6. Diagram binary fission, transformation, transduction, ad conjugation.
7. Discuss cyanobacteria. What is unique about them and what is their ecological role?
8. Describe bacterial DNA.
9. Depict your understanding of horizontal gene transfer and offer a real world example.
10. Describe the function of endospores and akinetes.
11. Identify and explain two ways that pathogens infect cells.
12. Describe and diagram primary, secondary, and tertiary endosymbiosis.
13. What is convergent evolution and how does it apply to protists?
14. Give some characteristics of diatoms and explain their ecological role.
15. How do red algae differ from green algae?
16. Distinguish between Supergroups: excavata, alveolata, apicomplexan, stramenophila,
rhizaria, amoebazoa, and opisthokonta give an example organism for each.
17. What is red tide and what are its ecological implications?
18. Describe the different ways bacteria and protists respirate.
19. Understand evolutionary relationships on phylogenetic trees.
20. Differentiate between the following: Green Algae, Bryophytes, Seedless Vascular Plants,
Gymnosperms, Sporophytes
21. What is the function of the apical meristem?
22. Diagram the lifecycle of a Bryophyte labeling: Mitosis, Meiosis, Fertilization, haploid
and diploid stages, sperm and eggs, gametophyte, sporophyte, spores, archegonia, zygote,
embryo, sporangium
23. Name all organisms that have a dependent sporophyte.
24. Describe the function of vascular tissue.
25. Diagram the lifecycle of a fern labeling: Mitosis, Meiosis, Fertilization, haploid and
diploid stages, sperm and eggs, gametophyte, sporophyte, spores, sporangia, sori,
archegonium
26. What is the K/T event? What impact did it have on terrestrial life?
27. Diagram the lifecycle of a conifer labeling: Sporophyte, gametophyte, Meiosis, Mitosis,
Microspores, Megaspores, sperm and eggs, pollen, fertilization, seeds, seedling
28. Draw a flower and label: ovules, receptacle, pedicel, anther, pistil, petal, sepal, filament,
stamen, style, ovary, stigma
29. Diagram the lifecycle of an angiosperm labeling: Mitosis, Meiosis, antheridia,
archegonia, double fertilization, sperm and eggs, microspores, megaspores, gametophyte,
sporophyte, endosperm
30. Differentiate between monocots and eudicots.
31. Name multiple methods of seed and pollen transfer.
32. Differentiate between septate and aseptate hypae.
33. Describe the processes of plasmogamy and karyogamy and differentiate between
dikaryotic and heterokaryotic mycelium
34. What is mycorrhizae? What is the difference between endomycorrhizae, arbuscular
mycorrhizae, and ectomycorrhizae.
35. What is a lichen? Name a few types.
36. What are the defining characteristics of each: Chytrids, Zygomycetes, AM Fungi,
Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes.
37. Diagram the lifecycles of zycomycetes, ascomycetes, basidiomycetes.
38. Diagram and describe the amniotic egg.
39. What are the two defining characteristics of lophotrochozoans?
40. Differentiate between protozoa and Eumetazoa.
41. Diagram and describe each stage of gastrulation.
42. Which phyla have an open circulatory system?
43. How is the amniotic egg an adaptation to living on land?
44. Which invertebrate phyla exhibit bilateral symmetry?
45. What are the defining characteristics of all mammals?
46. How do platyhelminthes differ from annelids?
47. How do Marsupials differ from Eutherian mammals?
48. How do Nematodes differ from Annelids?
49. What is the difference between protostomes and deuterostomes?
50. To which phyla do cephalopods belong? What is unique about them?
51. Which organisms belong to class hexapoda? Class Myriapoda?
52. What are the two defining characteristics or craniates?
53. Draw both forms of cnidarians.
54. Which organisms have indeterminate cleavage?
55. What are gill arches and how do they relate to the development of skeletons?
56. Describe the flatworm excretory system.
57. What is unique about rotifers?
58. What are the defining characteristics of chordates?
59. What are the two main points of the cell theory?
60. What do all cells have in common?
61. Describe the function of ribosomes.
62. Diagram the sequence of protein production.
63. How do eukaryotes differ from prokaryotes?
64. Draw the cell cycle labeling each stage.
65. Diagram mitosis.
66. What is the result of meiosis? Diagram the process.
67. What does IPMAT represent?
68. Where does variability come from?
69. What did Mendel discover?
70. What was the result of Mendel’s monohybrid cross?
71. What was the result of his original F1XF1 cross?
72. What are Mendel’s two laws?
73. What are linked genes? Sex Linked genes? How did Morgan discover them?
74. Give 5 pieces of evidence for evolution.
75. Put the following in decreasing order: Population, cell, community, species, individual,
ecosystem, molecule, tissue, biosphere, organism
76. What is the mechanism of adaptive change?
The other half of the exam is over ecology which we will discuss separately.