Bio 108 sept oct

Question 1

What is total magnification?

Answer 1

Ocular + Objective

Question 2

What is water known as due to its properties?

Answer 2

Universal solvent

Question 3

What is the valence of Carbon?

Answer 3

4

Question 4

What reaction synthesizes polymers?

Answer 4

Dehydration reaction

Question 5

What is the central component of proteins?

Answer 5

Central carbon

Question 6

What are the levels of Linnaean classification?

Answer 6

Domain, Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Question 7

What is Plesiomorphy?

Answer 7

Shared ancestral trait

Question 8

What is Darwin’s theory of evolution based on?

Answer 8

Traits passed on through natural selection

Question 9

What does biogeography study?

Answer 9

Distribution of species

Question 10

What traits do we have when developing in the womb?

Answer 10

Pharyngeal pouches and post-anal tail

Question 11

Steps of speciation?

Answer 11

1. Same place 2. Barrier 3. Separation 4. Change

Question 12

What is genotype?

Answer 12

Genetic makeup of an organism

Question 13

Which property of water allows mammals to cool down by sweating?

Answer 13

Absorption of heat

Question 14

What is a characteristic acquired during an organism’s life?

Answer 14

Not passed through genes

Question 15

What is the criterion for being considered alive?

Answer 15

Must be a cell

Question 16

What causes ocean acidification?

Answer 16

CO2 dissolving in ocean

Question 17

What are the four most important macromolecules for life?

Answer 17

Proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids

Question 18

What is hydrolysis?

Answer 18

Produces water to break bonds

Question 19

What type of bond forms between amino acids?

Answer 19

Peptide bond

Question 20

Monophyletic group

Answer 20

Ancestor + all descendants

Question 21

Define Apomorphy.

Answer 21

Anynew evolved trait

Question 22

What is ‘Descent with Modification’?

Answer 22

Unity of organisms

Question 23

How can we learn about evolution?

Answer 23

Fossil record

Question 24

What is biological speciation?

Answer 24

Viable fertile offspring

Question 25

What determines the visible trait when dominant and recessive alleles are present?

Answer 25

Dominant always wins

Question 26

What does phenotype represent?

Answer 26

Actual name of the genotype

Question 27

What is the synthesis of organic polymers called?

Answer 27

Dehydration

Question 28

What kind of isolation is behavioral isolation?

Answer 28

Prezygotic

Question 29

Why aren't viruses considered alive?

Answer 29

Not a cell

Question 30

What is being depleted due to acidification?

Answer 30

Calcium

Question 31

Define a monosaccharide.

Answer 31

One sugar (glucose, etc.)

Question 32

Which base is only found in DNA?

Answer 32

Thymine

Question 33

Analogy

Answer 33

Similar traits, different species

Question 34

What is Synapomorphy?

Answer 34

Apomorphy in others

Question 35

What did Darwin publish?

Answer 35

First

Question 36

Why didn't the cecum mutation kill humankind?

Answer 36

Diet change

Question 37

What is temporal isolation?

Answer 37

Different reproductive windows

Question 38

What organisms use binary fission?

Answer 38

Prokaryotes

Question 39

What process breaks down organic polymers into monomers?

Answer 39

Hydrolysis

Question 40

How do vaccines work?

Answer 40

Make antibodies

Question 41

What is the effect of acid on coral?

Answer 41

Dissolving coral

Question 42

Define a disaccharide.

Answer 42

Two sugars (sucrose, etc.)

Question 43

Which bases pair together in DNA?

Answer 43

Adenine-Thymine, Cytosine-Guanine

Question 44

Homology

Answer 44

Similar traits, common ancestor

Question 45

Define Parsimony in evolution.

Answer 45

Fewest evolutionary events

Question 46

What is behavioral isolation?

Answer 46

Species-specific mating dances

Question 47

What is heat of vaporization?

Answer 47

Heat to evaporate water

Question 48

Define a polysaccharide.

Answer 48

Ten or more sugars

Question 49

What is taxonomy?

Answer 49

Classifying species

Question 50

What is uniformitarianism?

Answer 50

Slow processes over time