BIO109 EXAM REVIEW GUIDE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Which of the following statements concerning malaria or the malaria parasite is
false?
a) The parasite that causes malaria is an apicoplexan.
b) The definitive malarial host is the tsetse fly.
c) Malaria involves both human liver and blood cells.
d) The diploid stage of the malaria parasite is restricted to the definitive host.
e) All of the above are true statements. - ANSWER-b) The definitive malarial host is
the tsetse fly.
Of the following diseases, which are caused by a kinetoplastid?
1. Chagas Disease
2. Malaria
3. African Sleeping Sickness
4. Leishmaniasis
5. Trichinosis
a) 1, 3, and 4
b) 1, 2 and 3
c) 1 and 2
d) 2, 4 and 5
e) 3 and 4 - ANSWER-a) 1, 3, and 4
When a mosquito infected with Plasmodium first bites a human, the Plasmodium
________.
a) cells cause lysing of the human red blood cells
,b) gametes fuse, forming an oocyst
c) cells infect the human liver cells
d) oocyst undergoes meiosis
e) none of the above - ANSWER-c) cells infect the human liver cells
the underground proportion of this fungus...
a) releases spores
b) absorbs nutrients through the fruiting body
c) absorbs nutrients through the mycelium
d) allows for asexual reproduction
e) all of the above - ANSWER-c) absorbs nutrients through the mycelium
Which of the following represents the correct sequence of events in the sexual life
cycle of fungi
a) Karyogamy-Plasmogamy-Meiosis
b) Karyogamy-Meiosis-Plasmogamy
c) Plasmogamy-Meiosis-Karyogamy
d) Plasmogamy-Karyogamy-Meiosis
e) Meiosis-Karyogamy-Plasmogamy - ANSWER-d) Plasmogamy-Karyogamy-
Meiosis
You have been assigned the task of locating living members of the phylum
Glomeromycota. Where is the best place to look?
a) under rocks
b) in a brewmeister's vat
c) between the toes of a person with athelete's foot
d) on the wings of a honeybee
e) in the roots of vascular plants - ANSWER-e) in the roots of vascular plants
How are the vascular plants that are involved in mycorrhizae and the photosynthetic
cells that are involved in lichens alike?
, a) They provide organic nutrients to fungal partners.
b) They secrete acids that keep the fungal partner from growing too quickly.
c) They are in intimate association with chytrids.
d) They are digested by fungal enzymes while still alive.
e) They produce zygosporangia. - ANSWER-a) They provide organic nutrients to
fungal partners.
The probable sequence in which the following animal clades originated (from earliest
to latest)?
1. radiata
2. coelomates
3. deuterostomia
4. parazoa
5. bilateria
a) 1, 4, 5, 2, 3
b) 4, 1, 5, 2, 3
c) 5, 3, 4, 2, 1
d) 1, 3, 2, 4, 5
e) 4, 5, 2, 1, 3 - ANSWER-b) 4, 1, 5, 2, 3
A graduate student finds an organism in a pond and thinks it is a freshwater sponge.
A postdoc thinks it looks more like an aquatic fungus. How can they decide whether
it is an animal or a fungus?
a) See if it reproduces sexually.
b) Determine whether it is unicellular or multicellular.
c) Look for cell walls under a microscope.
d) if it is a eukaryote or prokaryote.
e) Figure out whether it is autotrophic or heterotrophic. - ANSWER-c) Look for cell
walls under a microscope.
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Which of the following statements concerning malaria or the malaria parasite is
false?
a) The parasite that causes malaria is an apicoplexan.
b) The definitive malarial host is the tsetse fly.
c) Malaria involves both human liver and blood cells.
d) The diploid stage of the malaria parasite is restricted to the definitive host.
e) All of the above are true statements. - ANSWER-b) The definitive malarial host is
the tsetse fly.
Of the following diseases, which are caused by a kinetoplastid?
1. Chagas Disease
2. Malaria
3. African Sleeping Sickness
4. Leishmaniasis
5. Trichinosis
a) 1, 3, and 4
b) 1, 2 and 3
c) 1 and 2
d) 2, 4 and 5
e) 3 and 4 - ANSWER-a) 1, 3, and 4
When a mosquito infected with Plasmodium first bites a human, the Plasmodium
________.
a) cells cause lysing of the human red blood cells
,b) gametes fuse, forming an oocyst
c) cells infect the human liver cells
d) oocyst undergoes meiosis
e) none of the above - ANSWER-c) cells infect the human liver cells
the underground proportion of this fungus...
a) releases spores
b) absorbs nutrients through the fruiting body
c) absorbs nutrients through the mycelium
d) allows for asexual reproduction
e) all of the above - ANSWER-c) absorbs nutrients through the mycelium
Which of the following represents the correct sequence of events in the sexual life
cycle of fungi
a) Karyogamy-Plasmogamy-Meiosis
b) Karyogamy-Meiosis-Plasmogamy
c) Plasmogamy-Meiosis-Karyogamy
d) Plasmogamy-Karyogamy-Meiosis
e) Meiosis-Karyogamy-Plasmogamy - ANSWER-d) Plasmogamy-Karyogamy-
Meiosis
You have been assigned the task of locating living members of the phylum
Glomeromycota. Where is the best place to look?
a) under rocks
b) in a brewmeister's vat
c) between the toes of a person with athelete's foot
d) on the wings of a honeybee
e) in the roots of vascular plants - ANSWER-e) in the roots of vascular plants
How are the vascular plants that are involved in mycorrhizae and the photosynthetic
cells that are involved in lichens alike?
, a) They provide organic nutrients to fungal partners.
b) They secrete acids that keep the fungal partner from growing too quickly.
c) They are in intimate association with chytrids.
d) They are digested by fungal enzymes while still alive.
e) They produce zygosporangia. - ANSWER-a) They provide organic nutrients to
fungal partners.
The probable sequence in which the following animal clades originated (from earliest
to latest)?
1. radiata
2. coelomates
3. deuterostomia
4. parazoa
5. bilateria
a) 1, 4, 5, 2, 3
b) 4, 1, 5, 2, 3
c) 5, 3, 4, 2, 1
d) 1, 3, 2, 4, 5
e) 4, 5, 2, 1, 3 - ANSWER-b) 4, 1, 5, 2, 3
A graduate student finds an organism in a pond and thinks it is a freshwater sponge.
A postdoc thinks it looks more like an aquatic fungus. How can they decide whether
it is an animal or a fungus?
a) See if it reproduces sexually.
b) Determine whether it is unicellular or multicellular.
c) Look for cell walls under a microscope.
d) if it is a eukaryote or prokaryote.
e) Figure out whether it is autotrophic or heterotrophic. - ANSWER-c) Look for cell
walls under a microscope.
