PRHS BIOLOGY
Performance Final
Review Spring 2010
Practice Questions
Practice Question # 1
Look at the graph…
What type of growth is occurring at
point A?
Exponential
Explain what is happening to the
population at
B
point B.
The pop is decreasing,
exceeded carrying capacity
Overall, this graph is
Exponential (J curve) or
Logistic (S curve)?
S curve
A
Practice Question # 2
Label the following
parts and give the
function of each…
Part # 9
Coarse adjustment
Part # 8
fine adjustment
Part # 11
arm
Part # 1
eye piece
Part # 2
objective lenses
Practice Question # 3
How do you calculate total
magnification?
eye piece times objective lens
What does a compound microscope
use to see the image?
a light source
Practice Question # 4
What does the following equation represent?
6O2 + C6H12O6  6CO2 + 6H2O + E
List the reactants.
6O2 + C6H12O6
List the products.
6CO2 + 6H2O + E
What if the reaction was reversed?
6CO2 + 6H2O + E  6O2 + C6H12O6
Enzymes (Liver lab!!!!)
chemical reactions in the body
Function to speed up _________
substrate
 Enzyme connects to ________that
fits the
enzyme’s active site.
 Chemical reaction can then proceed at a
faster
________rate
than it would on its own
 Smaller fragments (crushing the liver) would
allow greater enzyme activity because there
increased
surface area to connect to the enzymes
___________
 Enzymes are reusable, specific and special
proteins that often end in _______
ASE
______
 Enzymes very are sensitive to changes
Temperature and pH
_______________
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Practice Question # 5
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In dragons, green scales are dominant to yellow
scales. Imagine that you crossed a heterozygous
green scaled dragon with a homozygous yellow
dragon.
What are the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of the
offspring?
G
g
Homo. Dom: hetero.: homo rec g
0:2:2
50% green hetero &
50% yellow homo
g
Gg
gg
Gg
gg
Practice Question # 6
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Animal / Plant Cell?
Plant
Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic
Cell?
Eukaryotic
What is # 5? What is the
function?
Chloroplast and photosynthesis
What is # 3?
nucleus
What is # 2?
cell membrane
What is # 1?
Cell wall
Practice Question # 7
How do you test for simple sugars
(name of test)?
Benedict’s
Which test did we use for polysaccharides?
iodine
Which of the tests below did we use for monosaccharides?
A
A
B
#7 Biochemistry continued
Bendict’s reagent is for
_______________(blue negative &
yellow/gold/green positive)
 Iodine tests for __________________
(yellow negative & black/purple is
positive)
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Brown paper test for __________think greasy
stain on french fry bag is a positive test for
lipids
Know that _______do not dissolve in water,
they will form two layers
Practice Question # 8
26.
Who is the
secondary
consumer in this
food chain?
27.
Who is the final
consumer in this
food chain?
Why?
28.
Which organism
is an herbivore?
Practice Question # 9
Transcribe the following sequence of DNA
into mRNA…
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AAA CTG AGC GGG TTA CGA CCC TGA
UUU GAC UCG CCC AAU GCU GGG ACU
29.
30.
How many codons make up this strand? 8
Once you have the mRNA, how would you
find the amino acid? Codon chart
Practice Question # 10
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A
Microbiology
31. Which
is a virus?
32. Which is a
bacteria?
33. Which is a
protist?
34. Which is a
fungus
C
B
D
Microbes and Relative Size
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Which is usually biggest?
protists
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Which is the smallest?
viruses
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What are the bacteria shapes?
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What about fungi?
Unicellular=yeast otherwise BIG
Be able to ID:
Diatoms,
Paramecium
& Amoebas
Amoeba
Paramecium
Diatoms
ALGAE
Rhodophyta
Chrysophyta
Phaeophyta
Chlorophyta
ID: Phaeophyta,
Rhodophyta,
Chlorophyta,
Chrysophyta
Practice Question # 10 (cont.)
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Microbiology
What are the Kingdoms of bacteria
and the Domains?
Archaebacteria (ARCHAEA) &
Eubacteria (BACTERIA)
Which group(s) most commonly
helps and causes illness in
humans?
Eubacteria (BACTERIA)
Practice Question # 11
List the phases
of mitosis in
order.
36. What phase of
mitosis is this
cell in?
35.
Mitosis Review
anaphase
prophase
metaphase
telophase
Mitosis vs Meiosis
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Which is requires 2 divisions and your end up
with gametes? MEIOSIS
Which occurs only in body or somatic MITOSIS
cells?
Which increases genetic variety and increase
potential to survive? MEIOSIS
Which produces haploid cells with unpaired
chromosomes? MEIOSIS
Which is used for repair and growth? MITOSIS
Which is used to after cloning? MITOSIS
What is the human genome project?
MEIOSIS
Which one can nondisjunction occur in? MITOSIS
Practice Question # 12
37.
38.
39.
The dependent (responding)
variable is plotted on the
_____________axis.
The independent (manipulated)
variable is plotted on the
______________axis.
The ________variable is the data the
experimenter is looking for.
Practice Question # 13
40.
What Kingdom are these organisms in?
Animalia
41.
What Phyla are they in?
Echinodems
Practice Question # 13 (cont.)
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Know the 8 invertebrate phyla we looked at in
the animal survey lab and common examples.
Porifera
Cnidarians
Platyhelimenthes
Nematoda
Annelids
Mollusks
Arthropoda
Echinodermata
Practice Question # 14
42.
What are the two types of vascular tissue
in plants?
Xylem and Phloem
42.
What are the male parts of a flower,
female parts?
Male: Stamen (anther& filament)
Female: Carpel{pistil}(stigma, style, & ovary)
Practice Question # 15
44.
Read this graduated cylinder
21.5 mL
45.
What unit do you use with the electronic balance?
grams (g)
Practice Question # 16
Genetics
46.
What is the type of inheritance occurs in ABO blood
types?
multiple alleles and codominance
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If a type B man marries a type A women, is it
possible for them to have a type O child?
25% if both are heterozygous, otherwise NO
If possible, what must the parents’ genotypes be?
AO and BO
What is a karyotype?
a picture of arranged chromosomes
What is a pedigree?
a chart used to predict inherited disorders
Practice Question # 17
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Know how to read a dichotomous key
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Online Key
http://students.ed.qut.edu.au/n2364379/MDB377/DichotomousKey.html
Performance Review
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Remember:
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STUDY !!! but get a good night's sleep!
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Review old labs using your packets.
USATESTPREP has great graph questions, be
prepared…
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Read the entire question at the station and
THINK LOGICALLY!!!
Bring a calculator, if possible!
GOOD LUCK and may the Force be with You!!!