BIO 110 EXAM 1 (Tutorials 1-6)
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
CORRECT
metacognition - ANSWERSawareness and understanding of one's own thought
processes; A person who is metacognitive knows what they know and what they don't
know
metacognitive cycle - ANSWERS- Assessing the task by determining what you need to
know or be able to do (this should be based on the learning objectives your instructor
has provided)
- Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses by: Taking the time to understand what you
already know about the topic, Figuring out what you need to learn about the topic,
Realizing what you have already learned in the course (or somewhere else) that will
improve your understanding of the current topic
- Plan how you will approach mastering the task
- Apply evidence-based learning strategies; and
- Reflect! Evaluate how well your plan and strategies worked by: monitoring your
understanding during an activity or lesson, choosing which learning strategy to employ
and when, evaluating whether a learning strategy was successful
six learning strategies - ANSWERS1. Spaced Practice: Start planning early for exams
and set aside a little bit of time every day. Five hours spread out over two weeks is
better than the same five hours all at once.
2. Retrieval Practice: Put away your class materials and write or sketch everything you
know. Be as thorough as possible. Then, check your class materials for accuracy and
important points you missed.
3. Elaboration: Ask yourself questions while you are studying about how things work
and why, and then find the answers in your class materials and discuss them with your
classmates.
4. Interleaving: Switch between ideas during a study session. Don't study one idea for
too long.
5. Use Concrete Examples: Collect examples your teacher has used and look in your
class materials for as many examples as you can find.
6. Use Dual Coding: Look at your class materials and find visuals. Look over the visuals
and compare to the words.
fixed mindset - ANSWERSbelieve that their intelligence or talent are fixed traits - that
they were either born with an ability to be good at a subject or they were not
, growth mindset - ANSWERSbelieve that they can change their intelligence and abilities
through hard work and focused effort; Growth mindset individuals tend to enjoy learning
and see challenges and failures as opportunities to improve their knowledge and skills
features of living things - ANSWERScells, genetic material, order, the need for energy,
growth and development, regulation of one's internal environment, the ability to
reproduce, the ability to respond to one's external environment, and evolutionary
adaptation
Why aren't viruses living? - ANSWERS- They are not able to reproduce on their own;
they require a living host cell for reproduction
- They also do not have their own metabolism; they rely on their hosts' metabolic
abilities.
natural selection - ANSWERSprocess by which a population becomes better adapted to
its' environment over time
"differential reproduction" - the best adapted individuals are more likely to reproduce
then less well adapted individuals, these better adapted individuals pass on more of
their genes to the next generation than individuals without these advantageous traits
Conditions for natural selection - ANSWERS- overproduction of individuals that results
in competition for resources
- variation within the population (a population of identical individuals cannot be acted
upon by natural selection)
- variation must be heritable (in other words, due to genes)
- can only act on available genetic variation within a population at any given time
- can only cause organisms to adapt to the environmental conditions at that time (if the
environment changes, then the selective pressures may change, and different alleles
may be favored)
Humans developed from monkeys. True or false? - ANSWERSFalse; It's a common
misconception that humans evolved from monkeys. In fact, we both evolved from a
common ancestor, which lived millions of years ago. Humans and chimps share more
than 90% of their genetic sequence. Thus, they are our closest living relatives, but they
are not our great-great-great ancestors.
The giraffe's long neck is an example of evolution. True or false? - ANSWERSTrue;
Charles Darwin argued long ago that the giraffe's long neck comes from "natural
selection". This is where individuals that have inherited characteristics which help them
to survive and reproduce pass on the genes that make them successful. In the case of
the world's tallest living land animals, the giraffes, those with long necks were more
likely to survive hard times and pass on their genes to the next generation than their
short-necked rivals, who weren't as good at reaching food from high branches.
relative dating - ANSWERSThe location of fossils in sedimentary rock is indicative of
their relative age. This means that one fossil can generally be classified as older than
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
CORRECT
metacognition - ANSWERSawareness and understanding of one's own thought
processes; A person who is metacognitive knows what they know and what they don't
know
metacognitive cycle - ANSWERS- Assessing the task by determining what you need to
know or be able to do (this should be based on the learning objectives your instructor
has provided)
- Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses by: Taking the time to understand what you
already know about the topic, Figuring out what you need to learn about the topic,
Realizing what you have already learned in the course (or somewhere else) that will
improve your understanding of the current topic
- Plan how you will approach mastering the task
- Apply evidence-based learning strategies; and
- Reflect! Evaluate how well your plan and strategies worked by: monitoring your
understanding during an activity or lesson, choosing which learning strategy to employ
and when, evaluating whether a learning strategy was successful
six learning strategies - ANSWERS1. Spaced Practice: Start planning early for exams
and set aside a little bit of time every day. Five hours spread out over two weeks is
better than the same five hours all at once.
2. Retrieval Practice: Put away your class materials and write or sketch everything you
know. Be as thorough as possible. Then, check your class materials for accuracy and
important points you missed.
3. Elaboration: Ask yourself questions while you are studying about how things work
and why, and then find the answers in your class materials and discuss them with your
classmates.
4. Interleaving: Switch between ideas during a study session. Don't study one idea for
too long.
5. Use Concrete Examples: Collect examples your teacher has used and look in your
class materials for as many examples as you can find.
6. Use Dual Coding: Look at your class materials and find visuals. Look over the visuals
and compare to the words.
fixed mindset - ANSWERSbelieve that their intelligence or talent are fixed traits - that
they were either born with an ability to be good at a subject or they were not
, growth mindset - ANSWERSbelieve that they can change their intelligence and abilities
through hard work and focused effort; Growth mindset individuals tend to enjoy learning
and see challenges and failures as opportunities to improve their knowledge and skills
features of living things - ANSWERScells, genetic material, order, the need for energy,
growth and development, regulation of one's internal environment, the ability to
reproduce, the ability to respond to one's external environment, and evolutionary
adaptation
Why aren't viruses living? - ANSWERS- They are not able to reproduce on their own;
they require a living host cell for reproduction
- They also do not have their own metabolism; they rely on their hosts' metabolic
abilities.
natural selection - ANSWERSprocess by which a population becomes better adapted to
its' environment over time
"differential reproduction" - the best adapted individuals are more likely to reproduce
then less well adapted individuals, these better adapted individuals pass on more of
their genes to the next generation than individuals without these advantageous traits
Conditions for natural selection - ANSWERS- overproduction of individuals that results
in competition for resources
- variation within the population (a population of identical individuals cannot be acted
upon by natural selection)
- variation must be heritable (in other words, due to genes)
- can only act on available genetic variation within a population at any given time
- can only cause organisms to adapt to the environmental conditions at that time (if the
environment changes, then the selective pressures may change, and different alleles
may be favored)
Humans developed from monkeys. True or false? - ANSWERSFalse; It's a common
misconception that humans evolved from monkeys. In fact, we both evolved from a
common ancestor, which lived millions of years ago. Humans and chimps share more
than 90% of their genetic sequence. Thus, they are our closest living relatives, but they
are not our great-great-great ancestors.
The giraffe's long neck is an example of evolution. True or false? - ANSWERSTrue;
Charles Darwin argued long ago that the giraffe's long neck comes from "natural
selection". This is where individuals that have inherited characteristics which help them
to survive and reproduce pass on the genes that make them successful. In the case of
the world's tallest living land animals, the giraffes, those with long necks were more
likely to survive hard times and pass on their genes to the next generation than their
short-necked rivals, who weren't as good at reaching food from high branches.
relative dating - ANSWERSThe location of fossils in sedimentary rock is indicative of
their relative age. This means that one fossil can generally be classified as older than
