UMKC Bio 108 Exam 2 Study Guide questions well answered to pass 2025/2026

UMKC Bio 108 Exam 2 Study Guide
questions well answered to pass
2025/2026
Correctly identify the description to the Law of Thermodynamics.

1st Law - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔energy is neither created nor destroyed



Correctly identify the description to the Law of Thermodynamics.

2nd Law - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔entropy of the universe always increases



Enzymes are not consumed (destroyed) in a chemical reaction. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Correct



Enzymes decrease the free energy change of a reaction. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Incorrect



The potential energy of a molecule is _________. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔due to location or
structure



Select the correct cellular locations for the following pathways.

1.) The Kreb's cycle

2.) Glycolysis

3.)Fermentation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔1.) Matrix

2.) Cytosol

3.) Cytosol



Provide one example of a catabolic pathway. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔glycolysis, or
fermentation, or cellular respiration

, If a molecule becomes oxidized, it ______. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔loses electrons



Where do the light reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplast? - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔thylakoids



What products will be produced if the reactants are 3 CO2, 9 ATP, and 6 NADPH? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔glyceraldehydes-3-phospate (G3P)



During photosynthesis, light is absorbed by ___________ pigments. - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔chlorophyll



These pigments are found in ___________ membranes. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔thylakoid



For each type of organism, identify the mechanism used for cell division.

1.) Animals

2.)Bacteria

3.)Plants - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔1.)mitosis

2.)binary fission

3.)mitosis



At what stage of mitosis does the nuclear envelope fragment (disappear)? - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔prometaphase



After chromosomes are replicated, they stay attached to each other until later stages of mitosis
at the _________. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔centromere



Provide one example of a haploid cell. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Gamete