Biology 1407 Exam test queries and
answers graded A+
What do protista use in order to move? - ANS✅✅Cilia
Pseudopod
Flagellum
(open ended)
What causes human diseases like "African Sleeping Sickness" and "Chagas Disease"? -
ANS✅✅Trypanosomes (open ended)
Apicomplexans contain the organism plasmodium- that causes... - ANS✅✅Malaria (bonus)
What are the common ancestors who gave rise to land plants? - ANS✅✅Green algae (multi-
choice)
What is NOT a structural composition in viruses? - ANS✅✅Cytoplasm (multi-choice)
What do viruses require in order to reproduce? - ANS✅✅A host cell (open ended)
Whats the difference between HIV and AIDS? - ANS✅✅HIV is the virus that causes AIDS
What is one of the most lethal viruses in human history, that has caused millions of lives in just 1
year? - ANS✅✅Influenza (open ended)
What are the two domains that prokaryotes fall into? - ANS✅✅Archaea & Bacteria (multi-choice)
Memorize the three shapes of bacteria using correct terms. - ANS✅✅Bacillus- rod-like shape
Coccus- spherical shape
Spirillum- looks like squiggly line
(label the picture)
, What do bacteria use for attachment and conjugation? - ANS✅✅Pili (multi-choice)
____ The sexually transmitted disease, can be transmitted by body fluids.
____ "Silent STD"
____ Transmitted through sex, has four stages - ANS✅✅Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Syphilis
(match)
Describe how the geologic time is divided and explain the subdivisons. - ANS✅✅Divided into four
eons, eons are subdivided into eras- which are further subdivided into periods (fill in blank..?)
How did the decrease of CO2 affect the earth? - ANS✅✅CO2 decreasing resulted into lower
temperatures and oceans freezing (multi-choice)
How is the O3 (ozone) formed? - ANS✅✅O2 interacting with ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the
sun (fill in blank)
What are the three domains of life? - ANS✅✅Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya
(fill in blank) (BAE)
During which period did the first multicellular animal appear? - ANS✅✅Cambrian Period (Bonus)
What are the names of the groups that organisms are classified into? - ANS✅✅Domain, kingdom,
phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species (fill in blank)
____ Long slender filaments
____ Grows and digest its substrate - ANS✅✅Hyphae
Mycelium
(fill in blank)
answers graded A+
What do protista use in order to move? - ANS✅✅Cilia
Pseudopod
Flagellum
(open ended)
What causes human diseases like "African Sleeping Sickness" and "Chagas Disease"? -
ANS✅✅Trypanosomes (open ended)
Apicomplexans contain the organism plasmodium- that causes... - ANS✅✅Malaria (bonus)
What are the common ancestors who gave rise to land plants? - ANS✅✅Green algae (multi-
choice)
What is NOT a structural composition in viruses? - ANS✅✅Cytoplasm (multi-choice)
What do viruses require in order to reproduce? - ANS✅✅A host cell (open ended)
Whats the difference between HIV and AIDS? - ANS✅✅HIV is the virus that causes AIDS
What is one of the most lethal viruses in human history, that has caused millions of lives in just 1
year? - ANS✅✅Influenza (open ended)
What are the two domains that prokaryotes fall into? - ANS✅✅Archaea & Bacteria (multi-choice)
Memorize the three shapes of bacteria using correct terms. - ANS✅✅Bacillus- rod-like shape
Coccus- spherical shape
Spirillum- looks like squiggly line
(label the picture)
, What do bacteria use for attachment and conjugation? - ANS✅✅Pili (multi-choice)
____ The sexually transmitted disease, can be transmitted by body fluids.
____ "Silent STD"
____ Transmitted through sex, has four stages - ANS✅✅Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Syphilis
(match)
Describe how the geologic time is divided and explain the subdivisons. - ANS✅✅Divided into four
eons, eons are subdivided into eras- which are further subdivided into periods (fill in blank..?)
How did the decrease of CO2 affect the earth? - ANS✅✅CO2 decreasing resulted into lower
temperatures and oceans freezing (multi-choice)
How is the O3 (ozone) formed? - ANS✅✅O2 interacting with ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the
sun (fill in blank)
What are the three domains of life? - ANS✅✅Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya
(fill in blank) (BAE)
During which period did the first multicellular animal appear? - ANS✅✅Cambrian Period (Bonus)
What are the names of the groups that organisms are classified into? - ANS✅✅Domain, kingdom,
phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species (fill in blank)
____ Long slender filaments
____ Grows and digest its substrate - ANS✅✅Hyphae
Mycelium
(fill in blank)
