The following questions CONTAIN material that is on the final. These are not the questions. However, if you can answer these questions you have understood the first semester's material and you should do well.
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Any scientific experiment begins with ____. Science relies on ____. Information gathered from an experiment is called ____. Hypotheses may arise from ____. When testing experiments, scientists never ____. A theory is ____. What is a population? Biology is the study of ____. What are the characteristics of life? What is homeostasis? What is an ecosystem? What is biosphere? What is a community? In the metric system, the basic unit of length is the ____. Do we use inches in the metric system? The basic unit of mass in SI is the ____. Atoms are made up of ____. If atom X had 10 protons and 10 neutrons, it would be called ____. If an atom contains 10 protons and 10 neutrons, its atomic number is ____. The most abundant compound in most living things is ____. What organic compound is the main source of energy for living things? What are enzymes? What is the cell theory? Does the cell theory apply to all life? What is the function of the cell membrane? What are prokaryotes? What is the function of the cytoskeleton? What is the function of the mitochondria? What is the function of the lysosome? What is the function of the Golgi apparatus? Which organelles would you expect to find in plant cells but not animal cells? What is the function of the cell wall? What regulates what enters and exits the cell? What is equilibrium? What is active transport? What is tissue? What is the level of organization in a multicellular organism from the simplest level to the most complex level? What is an autotroph? What is a heterotroph? What are examples of an autotroph? What are the three parts of an ATP molecule? How are you doing so far? When is energy released from ATP? What are the parts of an ADP molecule? How about now? Between which parts of the molecule must the bonds be broken to form an ADP molecule? What are pigments? Plants take in ____. The stroma is the space that surrounds ____. Where do the light-dependent reactions take place? The Calvin cycle is another name for ____. The Calvin cycle takes place in the ____. What is a product of the Calvin cycle? What affects the rate of photosynthesis? What is the correct sequence of events in cellular respiration? What is the correct equation for cellular respiration? What are the reactants in the equation for cellular respiration? The starting molecule for glycolysis is ____. What is a product of glycolysis? Cellular respiration is called an aerobic process because it requires ____. What organisms are not likely to carry out cellular respiration? The starting molecule for the Krebs cycle is____. Take your time. How are cellular respiration and photosynthesis almost opposite processes? Why do cells divide rather than grow bigger? The process by which a cell divides into two daughter cells is called ____. When during the cell cycle are chromosomes visible? When during the cell cycle is a cell’s DNA replicated? What are the events of the cell cycle? What is the cell cycle? During which phase(s) of mitosis are chromosomes visible? What are the phases of mitosis? The first phase of mitosis is called ____. What are the phases of mitosis in the order that they occur? What is the role of the spindle during mitosis? The two main stages of cell division are called ____. What is one difference between cell division in plant cells and in animal cells? During mitosis, a parent cell having four chromosomes will produce two daughter cells, each containing ____. What is cancer? What are genes? I hope these questions are helping you. If an organism’s diploid number is 12, its haploid number is ____. Gametes are produced by the process of ____. What is crossing over? Chromosomes form tetrads during ____. What happens between meiosis I and meiosis II that reduces the number of chromosomes? Unlike mitosis, meiosis results in the formation of ____. What is the structure of DNA composed of? What are nucleotides? What is the base pairing rule? DNA is copied during a process called ____. In eukaryotes, DNA is located in the ____. What nucleotides are found in both DNA and RNA? What is produced during transcription? How many codons are needed to specify three amino acids? Why is it possible for an amino acid to be specified by more than one kind of codon? What happens during the process of translation? Genes contain instructions for assembling ____. Which type of RNA functions as a blueprint of the genetic code? A mutation that involves a single nucleotide is called a(an) ____. What is shown in a karyotype? Wow, you have made it far! Human females produce egg cells that have ____. What percentage of human sperm cells carry an X chromosome? A human female inherits ____. The failure of chromosomes to separate during meiosis is called ____. Keep going…you are almost done! Scientists test for alleles that cause human genetic disorders by ____. Who was the first person to identify and see cells? Which cell structure contains the cell’s genetic material and controls the cell’s activities? Prokaryotes lack ____. The main function of the cell wall is to ____. Why is the nucleus important to cells? Which structures carry out cell movement? Which organelle makes proteins using coded instructions that come from the nucleus? What sequence correctly traces the path of a protein in the cell? What are the channels and pumps made of that move materials through a cell membrane? Diffusion is the movement of molecules from ____. The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane is called ____. What is an organ system? DNA replication results in ____. |
If you can answer these questions, you will do SUPER! Good Luck!