Biology 152 final exam with complete solutions
/The final breakdown of dead plant and animals is performed by - Answer-saprophytes
/.what is the function of the root - Answer-- Holds the plant to ground
- collects nutrients
- collects water
/.the characteristics that make an angiosperm different from the gymnosperms? -
Answer-they have fruits (from flowers)
/.The idea that each species consists of actually or potentially interbreeding individuals
called __. - Answer-biological theory of speculation
/.The phylogenetic system of classification of the organism unlike the artificial and
natural system refelects - Answer-evolutionary relationships
/.Changes in the frequency of alleles - Answer-microevolution
/.A population is defined as - Answer-individuals of the same species that occur
together at one place at one time
/.The bone structure of the forelimbs of horse, bats, and whales indicated that structures
with - Answer-different functions retain evidence of descent from a common form
/.Most of the nitrogen in the air enters the biosphere as useable nitrogen as a result of -
Answer-bacterial action
/.Biologists who accept the biological species concept and insist that classification must
reflect evolutionary history are called - Answer-cladists
/.For members of two different populations to be members of the same species -
Answer-be able to interbreed
/.Which group of gymnosperms has the only one species, which has survived human
cultivation - Answer-ginkgoes
/.The principle way for genetic variation to spread through a population is by - Answer-
sexual reproduction
/.Without genetic variability, a population cannot - Answer-evolve
/.Changes in a gene frequency that is not due to selection, mutation, or immigration is
called - Answer-genetic drift
, /.If a small group of individuals colonizes a newly formed island, the gene frequency of
the population is likely to be different than that which they came from. This is called -
Answer-founder effect
/.What effect do mycorrhizae have on the plants with which they are associated? -
Answer-symbionts, help the plants take in minerals
/.The evolutionary tendency is the alteration of generations is - Answer-reduction of
gametophyte to few cells, gametophyte is protected by saprophyte
/.The removal of ___ of a root abolishes its response to gravity - Answer-root cap
/.A population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and is polymorphic for only two alleles.
If the frequency of the dominant allele (A) is .07, the AA individuals have a frequency of
___. - Answer-.49
/.A population is polymorphic for only two alleles. If the frequency of the dominant allele
is .6, the frequency of the recessive allele is - Answer-.49
/.Deletion, inversion, duplication, and insertions are examples of - Answer-chromosomal
mutations
/.Vertebrates are ___ - Answer-coelomates/deuterostomes
/.The Hardy- Weinberg principal states that __ - Answer-sexual production alone would
not change the frequency of alleles
/.Protista cannot be - Answer-Prokaryotic
/.The wing of a bat is __ to the wing of an insect and __ to the flipper of the whale. -
Answer-analogous, and homologous
/.In plants with the alteration of generations, the __produce gametes by ___ - Answer-
gametophyte, by metosis
/.When we observe a flowering plant, the structures we see are part of the - Answer-
diploid sporophyte
/.The first law of thermodynamics states that the energy of the universe is - Answer-
constant
/.the biomass of an ecosystem would not include __. - Answer-water
/.In amniotic eggs the function of the allantois is to - Answer-aid in excretion
/The final breakdown of dead plant and animals is performed by - Answer-saprophytes
/.what is the function of the root - Answer-- Holds the plant to ground
- collects nutrients
- collects water
/.the characteristics that make an angiosperm different from the gymnosperms? -
Answer-they have fruits (from flowers)
/.The idea that each species consists of actually or potentially interbreeding individuals
called __. - Answer-biological theory of speculation
/.The phylogenetic system of classification of the organism unlike the artificial and
natural system refelects - Answer-evolutionary relationships
/.Changes in the frequency of alleles - Answer-microevolution
/.A population is defined as - Answer-individuals of the same species that occur
together at one place at one time
/.The bone structure of the forelimbs of horse, bats, and whales indicated that structures
with - Answer-different functions retain evidence of descent from a common form
/.Most of the nitrogen in the air enters the biosphere as useable nitrogen as a result of -
Answer-bacterial action
/.Biologists who accept the biological species concept and insist that classification must
reflect evolutionary history are called - Answer-cladists
/.For members of two different populations to be members of the same species -
Answer-be able to interbreed
/.Which group of gymnosperms has the only one species, which has survived human
cultivation - Answer-ginkgoes
/.The principle way for genetic variation to spread through a population is by - Answer-
sexual reproduction
/.Without genetic variability, a population cannot - Answer-evolve
/.Changes in a gene frequency that is not due to selection, mutation, or immigration is
called - Answer-genetic drift
, /.If a small group of individuals colonizes a newly formed island, the gene frequency of
the population is likely to be different than that which they came from. This is called -
Answer-founder effect
/.What effect do mycorrhizae have on the plants with which they are associated? -
Answer-symbionts, help the plants take in minerals
/.The evolutionary tendency is the alteration of generations is - Answer-reduction of
gametophyte to few cells, gametophyte is protected by saprophyte
/.The removal of ___ of a root abolishes its response to gravity - Answer-root cap
/.A population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and is polymorphic for only two alleles.
If the frequency of the dominant allele (A) is .07, the AA individuals have a frequency of
___. - Answer-.49
/.A population is polymorphic for only two alleles. If the frequency of the dominant allele
is .6, the frequency of the recessive allele is - Answer-.49
/.Deletion, inversion, duplication, and insertions are examples of - Answer-chromosomal
mutations
/.Vertebrates are ___ - Answer-coelomates/deuterostomes
/.The Hardy- Weinberg principal states that __ - Answer-sexual production alone would
not change the frequency of alleles
/.Protista cannot be - Answer-Prokaryotic
/.The wing of a bat is __ to the wing of an insect and __ to the flipper of the whale. -
Answer-analogous, and homologous
/.In plants with the alteration of generations, the __produce gametes by ___ - Answer-
gametophyte, by metosis
/.When we observe a flowering plant, the structures we see are part of the - Answer-
diploid sporophyte
/.The first law of thermodynamics states that the energy of the universe is - Answer-
constant
/.the biomass of an ecosystem would not include __. - Answer-water
/.In amniotic eggs the function of the allantois is to - Answer-aid in excretion
