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Unit 1
1. Compare and contrast hypothesis, theory, and fact.
Handout Title: Final Exam
Overview
Cody
Biology 211 (1)
Dr. Serb
12/7/10
2. What is the sequence that represents the hierarchy of biological organization from least to
most complex?
3. What is the significance of using taxonomy to classify organisms?
4. What are different organisms that are contained in the three domains: Eukarya, Archaea,
Bacteria.
5. What are the differences between gram positive and gram negative prokaryotes. How
might antibiotics work on gram positive bacteria.
6. What is the significance for horizontal gene transfer and conjugation?
7. Describe the Endosymbiotic Theory.
8. Name the different groups and/or include an example for each clade
Clade
Euglenozoa
Alveolota
Stramenopila
Rhodophyta
Chlorophyta
Groups and/or examples
9. What adaptations did plants need to evolve to sustain life on land?
10. What is the importance of fungi? What is the difference between plasmogamy and
karyogamy?
11. What is the difference between pollination and fertilization?
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12. Name an example of each group of plants
Anatomy of Plant
Example
Nonvascular, seedless
Vascular, seedless
Vascular, “naked” seeds
Vascular, covered seeds
13. How many of all calories consumed by humans come from 6 species of angiosperms?
14. Sporophytes produce
and gametophytes produce
.
Unit 2
15. What is the difference between protostomes and deuterstome?
16. What are the differences between coelomates, acoelomates, and pseudocoelomates?
17. Describe where to look for the final host and the intermediate host on a CDC life cycle
chart?
18. Why is the amniotic egg considered an important evolutionary breakthrough?
19. What characteristics do all chordates share at some point in their life cycle?
20. Quiz time: Phylogenitic tree
Unit 3
21. What is mitosis used for in vertebrates?
22. What is the overall end result of mitosis and meiosis?
23. What things increase genetic variation in humans?
24. What is Mendel’s Law of Independent Assortment?
25. What is Mendel’s Law of Segregation?
26. What are “true-breeding” plants? How are they useful?
27. What is incomplete dominance? Co-dominance? Complete dominance? How can Punnett
squares help find the genotype and phenotype?
28. Do individuals evolve? What is the unit of evolution?
29. In the equation p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1, what does p2 represent? 2pq? q2?