Name: Date: Period: MORE WORK- WHOOHOO! 1. You try to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, but notice that there are colored spots on a small portion of one of the sandwich pieces. Your bestie tells you to “just slice it off”... but you’re not too sure. So, you call Dominick, your friend from Biology class. a. Was your bestie right? ______________ b. What are those colored spots? ___________ c. What kingdom do they belong to? _____________________________________ d. How do they reproduce? ____________________ e. How should Dominick respond? ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 2. Explain the biological difference between a key ingredient that is found in a typical loaf of bread vs a pancake and how it contributes to their respective sizes/shapes. ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3. Liliana and Damaris want to run their own little experiment. In one tightly sealed plastic bag, they mix yeast, Froot Loops, and warm water. a. What do you hypothesize will happen in the plastic bag? ___________________ ________________________________________________________________ b. Is the environment in the bag aerobic or anaerobic? _______________________ c. Illustrate in the box below what you think the plastic bag will look like after an hour. 4. Look at the image underneath the microscope. a. Draw and describe what you see. b. Darker purple stains indicate the presence of nuclei. Therefore, is the organism eukaryotic or prokaryotic? ______________________ c. Is the organism unicellular or multicellular? _____________________________ d. What is the arrow pointing at? ________________________________________ e. Therefore, is the organism motile or non-motile? _________________________ f. What kingdom does the organism belong to? Explain based on its characteristics. _________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 5. Evelyn tells Andrea that the only difference between us and a plant is that plants are green, and we clearly aren’t. a. What are some similarities that Andrea can list between humans and plants? (2) ________________________________________________________________ b. What are some differences that Andrea can list between humans and plants? (2) ________________________________________________________________ 6. Look at the chemical equation below. a. What appears to be the relationship between cellular respiration and photosynthesis? ___________________________________________________ b. Which kingdoms are autotrophs? _____________________________________ c. What is an autotroph? ______________________________________________ d. Which organisms that you know of release carbon dioxide as waste? _________ ________________________________________________________________ e. Plants need _______, which is one of our waste products in order to produce _____________. Humans need ___________ (sugar) which is broken down by _____________. 7. Answer the following STAAR questions. **shoot system refers to the parts of the plant above the soil
