Afrodita Fuentes – Fall 07/SED 525S Assignment 1
Bloom’s Levels of Reasoning Questions - Biology/High School
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Cellular Respiration Questions & Answers
Levels of
Reasoning
Knowledge
1. What is the function of mitochondria?
a. To synthesize enzymes to speed up chemical reactions
b. To provide energy (ATP) to the cell by breaking down glucose.
c. To build proteins by linking amino acids
d. To use light to make food (glucose) in the cells of photosynthetic organisms.
e.
f.
g.
h.
To synthesize enzymes to speed up chemical reactions
To provide energy (ATP) to the cell by breaking down glucose.
To build proteins by linking amino acids
To use light to make food (glucose) in the cells of photosynthetic organisms.
Answer: b
2. The following concept map shows some of the carbon based molecules needed to
provide energy for cells. Indicate the term that best completes this concept map.
a. electrons
b. ATP
c. lactic acid
d. hydrogen ions
carbohydrates
lipids
protein s
Comprehension
Answer: b
carbon
compounds
that are broken
down to produce
???
Application
3. Which of the following organism carries out only the process of cellular respiration to
acquire energy for cellular activities?
a. grass
b. orange tree c. algae
d. lion
Analysis
4. Complete the following table to differentiate anaerobic & aerobic respiration by filling in
the chart with the requested information. (I suggest that you get rid of the numbers in
the chart, so the students can simply fill it in.
Anaerobic respiration
Aerobic respiration
Starting reactants
1
2
Pathways involved
3
4
End products
5
6
# of ATP molecules produced
7
8
Answer: d
4a. Complete the following table to differentiate anaerobic & aerobic respiration by filling in
the chart with the requested information.
Anaerobic respiration
Starting reactants
Pathways involved
End products
# of ATP molecules produced
Aerobic respiration
Afrodita Fuentes – Fall 07/SED 525S Assignment 1
Bloom’s Levels of Reasoning Questions - Biology/High School
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Answers: 1) glucose, 2) glucose and oxygen, 3) glycolysis, 4) glycolysis, Kreb’s cycle,
Synthesis
electron transport chain, 5) either carbon dioxide and alcohol or lactic acid, 6) carbon
dioxide, water, 7) 2, 8) 36
Anaerobic respiration
Aerobic respiration
Starting reactants
Glucose
Glucose and Oxygen
Pathways involved
Glycolysis
Glycolysis, Kreb’s
cycle, and electron
transport chain
End products
Either carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide and
and alcohol or lactic
water
acid
# of ATP molecules produced 2
36
5. Yeast cells can carry out both fermentation and aerobic respiration, depending on
whether respiration is present. In which case would you expect yeast cells to grow more
rapidly? Explain.
Answer: Yeast cells would probably grow faster when they perform aerobic
respiration because according to the cellular respiration equation, an average of 36
ATP molecules are produced in aerobic respiration and only about 4 ATP molecules
is produced in fermentation.
Evaluation
6. In certain cases, regular exercise causes an increase in the number of mitochondria in
muscle cells. How might that situation improve an individual’s ability to perform energyrequiring activities?
a. obtain energy from cellular respiration at a faster rate
b. obtain energy from cellular respiration at a slower rate
c. obtain energy from photosynthesis at a faster rate
d. obtain energy from photosynthesis at a slower rate
Answer: a
Afrodita Fuentes – Fall 07/SED 525S Assignment 1
Bloom’s Levels of Reasoning Questions - Biology/High School
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Levels of
Reasoning
Knowledge
Cell Division Questions & Answers
1. Uncontrolled cell division occurs in
a. cancer
b. mitosis
c. cytokinesis
d. cyclin
Answer: a
5
1
2
3
6
Comprehension
4
7
8
2. In the diagram above, cells 3, 5, 6, and 7 represent
a. sperms
b. eggs
c. polar bodies
9
d. oocytes
3. In the diagram, cell 9 represents a _______ and in humans it is released _______.
a. mature ovum; every month
c. secondary oocyte; every month
b. polar body; every week
d. sperm; constantly
Answer: c
Answer: a
Application 4. Complete the following cycle diagram of the cell cycle.
a
Answers:
a. cells grows and replicates its DNA
b. chromosomes line up across the
middle of the cell
c. sister chromatids separate into
individual chromosomes and move
apart
d. cell membrane pinches the
cytoplasm in half
d
chromatic
condenses into
chromosome
chromosomes
gather at opposite
end of the cell
b
c
Analysis
5. How many chromosomes will be in the body cell of an organism if there are 20 chromosomes
in the organism’s unfertilized egg?
a. 10
b. 20
c. 40
d. 80
Synthesis
6. Design and complete a table to compare and contrast major points in meiosis and mitosis.
Answer: tables/representations will vary, but should include the following characteristics.
MITOSIS
MEIOSIS
Answer: c
# of cells produced
Type of cell
Chromosome #
Type of reproduction
Evaluation
2
body/somatic
diploid (2N)
Asexual reproduction
4
sex/gamete
haploid(N)
Sexual reproduction
7. Does mitosis or meiosis occur more frequently in your body? Explain your answer.
Answer: mitosis occurs everyday and probably my lifetime in my body because many cells are needed to grow, many cells such as
blood and skin cells need to be replaced, and in the case of injury cells are damaged and also need to be replaced. Meiosis only
occurs to produce sex cells and in human females, only one cell completes meiosis every month for a number of years.
Afrodita Fuentes – Fall 07/SED 525S Assignment 1
Bloom’s Levels of Reasoning Questions - Biology/High School
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Mendelian and Applied Genetics Questions & Answers
Levels of
Reasoning
Knowledge
1. Define polygenic inheritance and give an example of a character that is polygenic.
Answer: polygenic inheritance means that a trait is the influence of many genes. Example. Height in the
human population is polygenic trait because there are many different heights and not just tall or short.
Comprehension 2. List the possible allele combinations in the gametes of an individual with genotype AaBb.
a. AB, Ab, aB, ab
b. aa, AA, bb, BB c. Aa, Ab, aA,BB
d. Aa, Bb, AA, BB
Answer: a
Application
3. What is normally used to predict the genotype percentages of offspring?
a. Punnett square b. karyotype c. Genetic mapping d. pedigree
Answer: a
Analysis
4. A man with hemophilia and a homozygous non-hemophiliac woman have a son. Is it
possible that the son will inherit hemophilia? Explain
a. Yes, the son will have hemophilia because sons inherit traits from their fathers
b. Yes, the son will have hemophilia because the gene is in the Y-chromosome
c. No, because the father gives his son a Y-chromosome and the hemophilia gene is his
X-chromosome, which he does not give to his son.
d. No, because the individual needs to have 2 genes. Hemophilia is recessive
Answer: c
Synthesis
5. Construct your family tree/pedigree using the standard symbols in genetics. Also try to
trace a trait in your family and identify the pattern of inheritance of that trait.
Answer: A family tree may look very similar to the one bellow with the following additions: generation
numbers with roman numerals (this pedigree has I, II, III, IV generations), names of each individual bellow
each symbol (circles for females and squares for
males), marriages (circles and squares connected by
lines), and offspring connected by a vertical line to
the marriage. The trait traced is represented by
darkened circles and squares; this appears to be
recessive because it does not show frequently in the
pedigree and it also autosomal because males and
females are equally showing the trait.
Afrodita Fuentes – Fall 07/SED 525S Assignment 1
Bloom’s Levels of Reasoning Questions - Biology/High School
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Evaluation
6.
In pedigree I, if person 1 marries person 2 (first
cousins, this is unadvisable), what is the probability
their first child will be affected by this trait?
a. 2/3 b. 1/4
c. 1/2 d. 3/4
Answer: c
7. What pattern of inheritance is shown in pedigree III?
a. sex-linked dominant
b. sex-linked recessive
Answer: b
c. autosomal dominant
d. autosomal recessive
8. If individual 6 is not showing the trait, what is the
probability that she is a carrier if the mother is
neither affected nor a carrier?
a. 0% b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 100%
Answer: d