Quiz 1

What are the steps of the scientific method? Define them.
Name the levels of organization from smallest to largest.
Which structure is the basic unit of life?

What does the pH scale tell us? What does it mean if it is above 7.0? What does it mean when it is below 7.0
What is the difference between polar and nonpolar?

What are the differences between DNA and RNA?

Quiz 2 review:

Describe the following cellular structures.

Nucleus

Endoplasmic Reticulum, smooth and rough
Ribosome
Golgi apparatus
Chloroplast
Cell wall
Nucleoid

Name the types of passive transport. Use examples
Describe active transport. When is it used?
What are gap junctions? Where are they used?
Which structures are found in both prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells?

Quiz 3 study guide

Where in the plant does photosynthesis take place?

What gas does a plant consume during photosynthesis? What gas does a plant release?

What is the product of photosynthesis?

What is the product of glycolysis? (Glucose is broken down into _____________ during glycolysis)

What is an autotroph? What is a heterotroph? What is a photoautotroph?

What is an enzyme?

What is ΔG? What does it mean when ΔG is positive or negative? Which is spontaneous? Which requires energy?

Where in the mitochondria does glycolysis take place?

Quiz 4

What are the phases of mitosis and what happens during those stages?
o How many cells are made as a result of mitosis?

What is an autosome? How many pairs of autosomes do humans have?
· What is a sex chromosome? How many pairs of sex chromosomes do humans have?
o Which sex chromosomes do females have? Males?

What are the phases of meiosis and what happens during those stages?
o How many cells are made as a result of meiosis?

What is a diploid?
· What is a haploid?

What is a gene?
· What is an allele?
· What is phenotype vs genotype?

Quiz 5

Define the following terms:
gene,
allele,
Trait:
Analogous trait
Homologous trait
Gene pool
gene flow,
genetic drift,

Homologous evolution:
Biogeographic evolution:
Convergent evolution:
What is the difference between Homologous trait and an analogous trait?
Know the steps of transcription/translation
Know the difference between transcription and translation and know where each occurs in the cell
Know the 3 types of RNA involved in gene expression
What is a codon?
What are the DNA base pairs and with which base to they pair? (A/T; C/G)
How does this change with RNA molecules?

Quiz 6

What is ecology? What do ecologists study?

What is an ecosystem?
What is a population?
What are the three primary ecosystem types?
How does the tilt of the Earth affect solar radiation? How does it affect weather and day length?
What are the different forms of coloration?
What does competition mean in ecology? Commensalism?
What does parasitism mean? Predation?
What are the biomes? What are their characteristics? Where are they found?
What is a quadrat? A Transect?
What is primary succession?
What is a heterotroph? An autotroph?
What is the pattern of species richness?
What is allopatric competition?
Why would temperature be the most important factor in the distribution of organisms?