Pre-AP Biology Final Review
Chapters 2, 17, 18, 19, & 20
Chapter 2 – Ecology:
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What is ecology?
What are ecologists?
What is a biosphere? How big is it?
What are biotic factors? Give 2 examples.
What are abiotic factors? Give 2 examples.
What are the 6 levels of organization?
What is the lowest level of organization
What is a population?
What is a biological community?
What is an ecosystem?
What is a biome?
What is a habitat?
What is a niche?
What is competition?
What is predation?
What is a symbiotic relationship?
What are the three types of symbiotic relationships?
What is mutualism?
What is commensalism?
What is parasitism?
What is an autotroph?
What is a heterotroph?
What are detritivores?
What are the two models used to show energy flow?
What is each step in a food chain called?
What is a food chain? What does a food chain show?
What is a food web? What does a food web show?
What are ecological pyramids?
What are the three types of ecological pyramids and what do they show?
What is matter?
What is a nutrient?
What is transformed into usable forms to support the functions of an ecosystem?
How does weathering transform usable substances to be used by organisms?
What is the water cycle?
What is constantly occurring within the water cycle?
How do all organisms rely on freshwater? (including ocean-dwelling organisms)
What molecule are all living things composed of?
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What are the three types of carbon and oxygen cycles discussed?
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Why must this cycle occur?
What happens in the nitrogen cycle?
What is denitrification?
What is the phosphorous cycle?
Explain both the short-term and long-term cycles.
Chapter 17 Review
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What is classification?
How was Aristotle’s classification system arranged?
How was Linnaeus’s classification system arranged?
What is taxonomy?
What is binomial nomenclature?
What is a taxon?
What are the 8 categories of classification?
What is genus?
What is a family?
What is an order?
What is a class?
What is a phylum?
What is a kingdom?
What is a domain?
What is the typological species concept?
What is the biological species concept?
What is the phylogenic species concept?
What is phylogeny?
What are characters?
What are the two types of characters discussed in class?
What is the difference between morphological characters and biochemical characters?
What is a molecular clock?
What is cladistics?
What is a cladogram? What is it used for?
What are the three types of domains?
What are the six types of kingdoms?
What is archaea?
What are protists?
What is a fungus?
Chapter 18 Review
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What is bacteria?
What are they two domains that bacteria are divided into?
What is Archaea?
What are some of the differences between bacteria and Archaea?
What are thermoacidophiles?
What are halophiles?
What are methanogens?
What is unique about the chromosomes found in prokaryotes?
What is the purpose of the capsules of prokaryotes?
What is the purpose of the pili of prokaryotes?
What is unique about the size of prokaryotes?
What are the three shapes of prokaryotes?
What are some of the differences in cell walls of different prokaryotes?
What is unique about the movement of prokaryotes?
What are the two methods of replication in prokaryotes
What is binary fission?
What is conjugation?
What are heterotrophs?
What are photoautotrophs?
What are chemotrophs?
What are endospores? How are they formed?
What is a virus? What is unique about its size?
What is the origin of a virus?
What is the structure of a virus?
What is a capsid?
How does a viral infection occur?
What is the lytic cycle?
What are the steps of the lytic cycle?
What is the lysogenic cycle?
What are the steps of the lysogenic cycle?
What is a retrovirus? How is it different from other viruses?
What are prions?
What is unique about prions?
Chapter 19 Review
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What is a protist?
What domain are protists found?
What kingdom are protists found?
How are protists classified?
What are the three types of protists?
What is a protozoan? How does it obtain nutrients?
What is the habitat of a protist like? Where are they usually found?
What is the origin of protists? What do scientists think protists emerged from?
What is the theory of endosymbiosis?
What are ciliates?
What are Paramecia?
What is a pellicle?
What is the function of a contractile vacuole?
What is a pseudopod? What’s its purpose?
What is an amoeba?
What are the protists that are a part of the phylum Apicomplexa called?
What is unique about sporozoans?
What is unique about zooflagellets
What is Algae?
What are Diatoms?
What are Dinoflagellets?
What is unique about dinoflagellets?
What are slime molds?
What are the cell walls of Fungi composed of?
Why are fungus-like protists considered fungus like?
Chapter 20 Review
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What is Fungi?
What domain is Fungi in?
What kingdom is Fungi in?
What is an example of multicellular Fungi?
What is an example of unicellular fungi?
What is the main component in the cell walls of fungi?
What is Hyphae?
What is mycelium?
What is a fruiting body?
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What is the difference between septate and aseptate
What is Saprophytic Fungi?
What is parasitic Fungi?
What is mutualistic Fungi?
What are the three types of reproduction
What is unique about spore production
What are Chytrids?
What is unique about chytrids?
What are stolons?
What are rhizoids
What is the phylum name for chytrids?
What is the phylum name for common molds?
What is the phylum name for sac fungi?
What is the phylum name for club fungi?
What is the phylum name of imperfect fungi?
What is a lichen?
Why are lichens called pioneer species?
What is a bioindicator?
What is mycorrhiza?
What is bioremediation?
How can fungi be beneficial?
How can fungi be harmful?