HONORS BIOLOGY TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Competition - ✔✔the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited
resources
✔✔Stabilizing Selection - ✔✔Natural selection that favors intermediate variants by
acting against extreme phenotypes
✔✔Directional Selection - ✔✔Natural selection that favors individuals at one end of the
phenotypic range
✔✔Disruptive Selection - ✔✔Favors individuals at both extremes of the phenotypic
range
✔✔Vestigial Structures - ✔✔A structure that is present in an organism but no longer
serves its original purpose
✔✔Bottleneck effect - ✔✔A change in allele frequency following a dramatic reduction in
the size of a population
✔✔Founders effect - ✔✔genetic drift that occurs after a small number of individuals
colonize a new area
✔✔Hardy Weinberg Principle - ✔✔when allelic frequencies remain constant, a
population is in genetic equilibrium
✔✔Speciation - ✔✔Formation of new species
✔✔Convergent Evolution - ✔✔Evolution toward similar characteristics in unrelated
species
✔✔Taxonomy - ✔✔The scientific study of how living things are classified
, ✔✔Species - ✔✔The most specific category
✔✔Binomial Nomenclature - ✔✔Two part naming system in which Genus is capitalized
and species is not capitalized
✔✔Cladogram - ✔✔Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group
of organisms
✔✔Virus - ✔✔A tiny, NONLIVING particle that invades and then reproduces inside a
living cell.
✔✔Coccus - ✔✔Spherical bacterium
✔✔Spirilla - ✔✔Spiral bacterium
✔✔Bacillus - ✔✔Rod shaped
✔✔Animalia - ✔✔Eukaryotic
Multicellular
Heterotrophic
No Cell Wall
✔✔Plantae - ✔✔Eukaryotic
Multicellular
Autotrophic
Cell wall composed of Cellulose
✔✔Fungi - ✔✔Eukaryotic
Multicellular
Heterotrophic
Cell wall composed of Chitin
✔✔Protista - ✔✔Eukaryotic
Both
Both
Cell wall
✔✔Archaebacteria - ✔✔Prokaryotic
Unicellular
Both
Cell wall that is not composed of peptidoglycan
✔✔Eubacteria - ✔✔Prokaryotic
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Competition - ✔✔the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited
resources
✔✔Stabilizing Selection - ✔✔Natural selection that favors intermediate variants by
acting against extreme phenotypes
✔✔Directional Selection - ✔✔Natural selection that favors individuals at one end of the
phenotypic range
✔✔Disruptive Selection - ✔✔Favors individuals at both extremes of the phenotypic
range
✔✔Vestigial Structures - ✔✔A structure that is present in an organism but no longer
serves its original purpose
✔✔Bottleneck effect - ✔✔A change in allele frequency following a dramatic reduction in
the size of a population
✔✔Founders effect - ✔✔genetic drift that occurs after a small number of individuals
colonize a new area
✔✔Hardy Weinberg Principle - ✔✔when allelic frequencies remain constant, a
population is in genetic equilibrium
✔✔Speciation - ✔✔Formation of new species
✔✔Convergent Evolution - ✔✔Evolution toward similar characteristics in unrelated
species
✔✔Taxonomy - ✔✔The scientific study of how living things are classified
, ✔✔Species - ✔✔The most specific category
✔✔Binomial Nomenclature - ✔✔Two part naming system in which Genus is capitalized
and species is not capitalized
✔✔Cladogram - ✔✔Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group
of organisms
✔✔Virus - ✔✔A tiny, NONLIVING particle that invades and then reproduces inside a
living cell.
✔✔Coccus - ✔✔Spherical bacterium
✔✔Spirilla - ✔✔Spiral bacterium
✔✔Bacillus - ✔✔Rod shaped
✔✔Animalia - ✔✔Eukaryotic
Multicellular
Heterotrophic
No Cell Wall
✔✔Plantae - ✔✔Eukaryotic
Multicellular
Autotrophic
Cell wall composed of Cellulose
✔✔Fungi - ✔✔Eukaryotic
Multicellular
Heterotrophic
Cell wall composed of Chitin
✔✔Protista - ✔✔Eukaryotic
Both
Both
Cell wall
✔✔Archaebacteria - ✔✔Prokaryotic
Unicellular
Both
Cell wall that is not composed of peptidoglycan
✔✔Eubacteria - ✔✔Prokaryotic
