BIOL-1033 Final Exam
1. When a sharp pin gets stuck in your finger, your arm moves quickly
away. This is an example of which characteristic of life?: Living things
respond to stimuli
2. Which is the lowest level of biological organization that can be said to be
"alive"?: cell
3. A scientist hypothesizes that the temperature at which an alligator's egg
is incubated will determine whether the alligator will be male or female.
The dependent variable is: the temperature
4. All living things (i.e. grass, egrets, nutrias, shrimp, mold, bacteria...) in a
marsh plus physical factors (i.e soil, water, air ...) is an example of a(n):
ecosystem
5. Animals are made of a type of cell with a true nucleus and other
membranous organelles. Animals are categorized in Domain: Eukarya
6. A clownfish' scientific name is Amphiprion ocellaris; ocellaris is the:
species epithet
7. "All living organisms are composed of cells and all new cells come from
pre-existing cells." is a scientific statement of the ______theory: cell
8. Oxygen has an atomic number of 8. An oxygen atom with an atomic
mass of 17, has ________ protons, __________ electrons, and _________
neutrons: 8, 8, 9
9. The four most common elements in living things are CHON which stands
for: Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen
10. Which of the following statements about water is false?: Water has low
specific heat so it takes very little heat to change the temperature of water.
11. In living things, pH is an important factor. Which of the following
substances in our body has a strongly acidic pH?: stomach fluid- pH 2
12. Carbon has four electrons to share in its outermost electron shell. A
carbon atom can form _______ with other atoms.: all are correct
13. Because glucose will dissolve in water, glucose is a_______ ______ in an
aqueous solution.: hydrophilic, solute
14. Glucose, a ___________, may be joined together with other glucose
molecules by a ___________ reaction to make starch.: monosaccharide,
dehydration
15. Identify the incorrect pairing of carbohydrate molecule and its function.:
Chitin: polysaccharide that stores energy in liver and muscles of animals
16. Which of the following is not a function of lipids?: enzymes to speed up
the rate of chemical reactions in cells
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, 17. The figure below shows the sequence of amino acids in a protein. This is
the _______ level of protein structure: No answer is possible
18 A protein is made at a _______________ as part of the
___________________and then the protein travels via a transport vesicle to
the Golgi apparatus.: ribosome, rough endoplasmic reticulum
19. What is the importance of the cristae ("folds") of the inner membrane of
a mitochondrion?: to increase the surface area for specific reactions of cell
respiration
20. What is the function of the organelle in the image to the right?: capture
sunlight to make sugar and oxygen
21. Use the figure to the right to identify the organelle indicated with letter
Q: central water vacuole
22. Select Select the correct function for the organelle structure indicated by
Z.: Main storage of genetic information in chromosomes
23. What type of cell is shown in this figure?: eukaryotic plant
24. Which of these particles' crosses through the phospholipid bilayer of a
plasma membrane most easily?: a molecule of oxygen gas
25. Which of the following statements about the red blood cells labeled B is
correct? These red blood cells have ________ in response to a
_________external solution.: shrunken, hypertonic
26. During _____________, materials are moved across the plasma
membrane against their concentration gradient from low to high. This
requires addition of energy.: active transport
27. Which process involves a cell using its plasma membrane to engulf and
take in any solid particle by formation of a vacuole as occurs when a
white blood cell eats a bacterium?: phagocytosis
28. In the graph above there are two curves. The difference in energy
indicated by letter A is higher than that indicated by letter B. Letter B
represents the lower: activation energy with an enzyme.
29. The function of ATP in a cell is as: a short term high energy carrier
30. The ADP-ATP cycle is depicted in the image to the right. The formation of
ATP is an ______ reaction and formation of ADP is an _____ reaction.:
endergonic, exergonic
31. The first stage of cellular respiration splits glucose into two molecules of
pyruvate. This stage is called: glycolysis
32. During aerobic cellular respiration, which stage makes the most ATPs
per mole of glucose?: electron transport chain and chemiosmosis
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1. When a sharp pin gets stuck in your finger, your arm moves quickly
away. This is an example of which characteristic of life?: Living things
respond to stimuli
2. Which is the lowest level of biological organization that can be said to be
"alive"?: cell
3. A scientist hypothesizes that the temperature at which an alligator's egg
is incubated will determine whether the alligator will be male or female.
The dependent variable is: the temperature
4. All living things (i.e. grass, egrets, nutrias, shrimp, mold, bacteria...) in a
marsh plus physical factors (i.e soil, water, air ...) is an example of a(n):
ecosystem
5. Animals are made of a type of cell with a true nucleus and other
membranous organelles. Animals are categorized in Domain: Eukarya
6. A clownfish' scientific name is Amphiprion ocellaris; ocellaris is the:
species epithet
7. "All living organisms are composed of cells and all new cells come from
pre-existing cells." is a scientific statement of the ______theory: cell
8. Oxygen has an atomic number of 8. An oxygen atom with an atomic
mass of 17, has ________ protons, __________ electrons, and _________
neutrons: 8, 8, 9
9. The four most common elements in living things are CHON which stands
for: Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen
10. Which of the following statements about water is false?: Water has low
specific heat so it takes very little heat to change the temperature of water.
11. In living things, pH is an important factor. Which of the following
substances in our body has a strongly acidic pH?: stomach fluid- pH 2
12. Carbon has four electrons to share in its outermost electron shell. A
carbon atom can form _______ with other atoms.: all are correct
13. Because glucose will dissolve in water, glucose is a_______ ______ in an
aqueous solution.: hydrophilic, solute
14. Glucose, a ___________, may be joined together with other glucose
molecules by a ___________ reaction to make starch.: monosaccharide,
dehydration
15. Identify the incorrect pairing of carbohydrate molecule and its function.:
Chitin: polysaccharide that stores energy in liver and muscles of animals
16. Which of the following is not a function of lipids?: enzymes to speed up
the rate of chemical reactions in cells
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, 17. The figure below shows the sequence of amino acids in a protein. This is
the _______ level of protein structure: No answer is possible
18 A protein is made at a _______________ as part of the
___________________and then the protein travels via a transport vesicle to
the Golgi apparatus.: ribosome, rough endoplasmic reticulum
19. What is the importance of the cristae ("folds") of the inner membrane of
a mitochondrion?: to increase the surface area for specific reactions of cell
respiration
20. What is the function of the organelle in the image to the right?: capture
sunlight to make sugar and oxygen
21. Use the figure to the right to identify the organelle indicated with letter
Q: central water vacuole
22. Select Select the correct function for the organelle structure indicated by
Z.: Main storage of genetic information in chromosomes
23. What type of cell is shown in this figure?: eukaryotic plant
24. Which of these particles' crosses through the phospholipid bilayer of a
plasma membrane most easily?: a molecule of oxygen gas
25. Which of the following statements about the red blood cells labeled B is
correct? These red blood cells have ________ in response to a
_________external solution.: shrunken, hypertonic
26. During _____________, materials are moved across the plasma
membrane against their concentration gradient from low to high. This
requires addition of energy.: active transport
27. Which process involves a cell using its plasma membrane to engulf and
take in any solid particle by formation of a vacuole as occurs when a
white blood cell eats a bacterium?: phagocytosis
28. In the graph above there are two curves. The difference in energy
indicated by letter A is higher than that indicated by letter B. Letter B
represents the lower: activation energy with an enzyme.
29. The function of ATP in a cell is as: a short term high energy carrier
30. The ADP-ATP cycle is depicted in the image to the right. The formation of
ATP is an ______ reaction and formation of ADP is an _____ reaction.:
endergonic, exergonic
31. The first stage of cellular respiration splits glucose into two molecules of
pyruvate. This stage is called: glycolysis
32. During aerobic cellular respiration, which stage makes the most ATPs
per mole of glucose?: electron transport chain and chemiosmosis
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