ASU BIO 181 GENERAL BIOLOGY EXAM
SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉After a cell is pancake shaped in a cell culture dish, the order of events
that occurs as a cell walks is? ANSWER: - filapodia, lamellipodia, cell
muscle, retraction fiber
◉T/F It is presumed that the peroxisomes evolved in these primitive,
proto-eukaryotes to remove oxygen, which was toxic to the primitive
cells. ANSWER: - true
◉T/F In an extant prokaryotic cell the outer boundary of life is the
capsule. ANSWER: - false
◉T/F When cancer cells are crowded by surrounding cells, the cancer
cells become spherical and they can still go through cell division.
ANSWER: - true
◉T/F Loss of the cell wall was required for the endomembrane system
theory. ANSWER: - true
◉T/F Fluorescence microscopy is form of light microscopy ANSWER: -
true
, ◉T/F Loss of the cell wall is required for the endosymbiotic theory.
ANSWER: - true
◉T/F TEM provides a thin, two-dimensional section of the object being
studied. ANSWER: - true
◉T/F The sytoskeleton enabled the primitive cell to become motile.
ANSWER: - true
◉T/F the ancient earth did not contain much oxygen ANSWER: - true
◉A normal cell is _____ and ____ for growth. ANSWER: - mortal,
anchorage dependent
◉T/F Ribosomes bound to some of the membrane invaginations in the
endomembrane theory ANSWER: - true
◉T/F the cytoskeleton gave rise to the nuclear envelope ANSWER: -
false
◉What limits how big a cell can be? ANSWER: - the surface area to
volume ratio
◉T/F DNA in extant prokaryotic cells is circular. ANSWER: - True
SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉After a cell is pancake shaped in a cell culture dish, the order of events
that occurs as a cell walks is? ANSWER: - filapodia, lamellipodia, cell
muscle, retraction fiber
◉T/F It is presumed that the peroxisomes evolved in these primitive,
proto-eukaryotes to remove oxygen, which was toxic to the primitive
cells. ANSWER: - true
◉T/F In an extant prokaryotic cell the outer boundary of life is the
capsule. ANSWER: - false
◉T/F When cancer cells are crowded by surrounding cells, the cancer
cells become spherical and they can still go through cell division.
ANSWER: - true
◉T/F Loss of the cell wall was required for the endomembrane system
theory. ANSWER: - true
◉T/F Fluorescence microscopy is form of light microscopy ANSWER: -
true
, ◉T/F Loss of the cell wall is required for the endosymbiotic theory.
ANSWER: - true
◉T/F TEM provides a thin, two-dimensional section of the object being
studied. ANSWER: - true
◉T/F The sytoskeleton enabled the primitive cell to become motile.
ANSWER: - true
◉T/F the ancient earth did not contain much oxygen ANSWER: - true
◉A normal cell is _____ and ____ for growth. ANSWER: - mortal,
anchorage dependent
◉T/F Ribosomes bound to some of the membrane invaginations in the
endomembrane theory ANSWER: - true
◉T/F the cytoskeleton gave rise to the nuclear envelope ANSWER: -
false
◉What limits how big a cell can be? ANSWER: - the surface area to
volume ratio
◉T/F DNA in extant prokaryotic cells is circular. ANSWER: - True
