Biology Final

Question 1

what is the balanced chemical equation for photosynthesis?

Answer 1

6 CO2 + 6 H2O → C6H12O6 + 6 O2

Question 2

What is the word equation for photosynthesis

Answer 2

carbon dioxide + water → sugars + oxygen

Question 3

What is removed when energy in ATP is released?

Answer 3

a phosphate group

Question 4

Where do the light-dependent reactions take place in photosysnthesis?

Answer 4

the thylakoid membrane

Question 5

why do plants appear green?

Answer 5

chlorophyll reflects green light

Question 6

What is NADP+ in photosynthesis?

Answer 6

it is an electron carrier

Question 7

How are the electrons for the light-dependent reactions obtained?

Answer 7

by splitting water molecules.

Question 8

What is the correct order for cellular respiration?

Answer 8

Glycolysis → Krebs Cycle → The Electron Transport Chain

Question 9

What does the Krebs Cycle need to occur?

Answer 9

oxygen

Question 10

Where does electron transport take place in eukaryotes?

Answer 10

the innner mitochondiral membrane

Question 11

The air bubbles and apongy bread are due to what?

Answer 11

alcoholic fementation

Question 12

When is DNA replicated?

Answer 12

during the S-phase of the cell cycle

Question 13

What is the advantage sexual reporduction has over asexual reproduction?

Answer 13

provides more genetic diversity

Question 14

What are the differnt forms of a gene called?

Answer 14

alleles

Question 15

What is codominace?

Answer 15

When an organisn has two dominant alleles. The offspring will show both alles instead of one.

Question 16

What happens at the end of miosis?

Answer 16

4 genitcally different cells

Question 17

Where is DNA found in eukaryotes?

Answer 17

in the nucleus

Question 18

What molecule stores information in the cell?

Answer 18

DNA

Question 19

What scientist took x-ray diffraction pictures of DNA?

Answer 19

Rosalind Franklin

Question 20

Chargaff’s Rule

Answer 20

Adenin(A) = Thymine(T) and Guanine(G) = Cytosine(C)

Question 21

What does the the enzyme DNA Polymerase do?

Answer 21

it joins nucleotides together to sythesize a new complimentary strand of DNA

Question 22

Characteristics of RNA

Answer 22

• single-stranded
• uses the sugar ribose
• uses the base uracil

Question 23

How many nucleotides are needed to code for 1 amino acid?

Answer 23

3

Question 24

What is the process by which mRNA is made from DNA?

Answer 24

transcription

Question 25

What is the Central Dogma of molecualr biology?

Answer 25

DNA → RNA → Protein

Question 26

What did Charles call fitness?

Answer 26

the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment

Question 27

What did Charles Darwin call Natural Selection?

Answer 27

the process by which evolution occurs

Question 28

What is a trait that passed on through generations?

Answer 28

derived charactertic

Question 29

What is similar DNA sequences in genes possible evidence of?

Answer 29

common ancestry

Question 30

What type of evidence did Charles and Wallace not use in order to support their claims of common ancestry?

Answer 30

genetic ancestry

Question 31

What does each node of a cladogram represent?

Answer 31

where two groups share a common ancestor

Question 32

What is a Vestigial Strucure?

Answer 32

a structure that is no longer needed in an organsims but was used in ancestors of that organism

Question 33

What Domain are the Kingdoms Protista, Animalia, Plantae and Fungi from? What does that make them?

Answer 33

They are in the Eukarya Domain and they are eukaryotes?

Question 34

What principla does the Grant’s investigation of finch adaption in the Galapagos Islands best support?

Answer 34

Natural Selection

Question 35

What does is the Classification order?

Answer 35

Kingdom
Phylumm
Cordatta
Order
Family
Genus
Species