BIOL/BIO 1500 Bundled Exam Questions WITH CORRECT Answers

Biology Exam 1 (Nathan Mills Bio 1500) UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers biology is - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of life using the scientific method how is data collected and analyzed in biological sciences? - CORRECT ANSWER - observations, used to generate hypotheses and exper...

Bio 1500 Exam 2 (Nathan Mills) UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers what is the Cell Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - the cell is the fundamental structural and functional unit of life the activity of an organism depends on.... - CORRECT ANSWER - the individual and collective activit...

BIOL 1500 Exam 1 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Define Biology - CORRECT ANSWER - Study of life Define Science - CORRECT ANSWER - Derived from "scientists", means knowledge Define Discovery Science - CORRECT ANSWER - Aka qualitative science, aims to observe, explore, and disc...

BIOL 1500 Final Exam review UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers what properties of water enable life-giving properties - CORRECT ANSWER - cohesion, ability to moderate temp, expansion upon freezing (lower density of ice - floats), and versatility as a solvent what is cohesion...

BIOL 1500: Final Exam review UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What number and types of chromosomes are found in a human somatic cell? - CORRECT ANSWER - 44 autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes in a typical animal, mitosis produces __________ while meiosis produces _________ - CORRECT ANS...

BIOL 1500: Final Exam review UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers ATP, CO2, and ethanol - CORRECT ANSWER - Yeast cells grown anaerobically can obtain energy by fermentation, which results in the production of? NAD+ is reduced to NADH during glycolysis - CORRECT ANSWER - Which of...

biol 1500 exam 2 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers basic features of a cell - CORRECT ANSWER - plasm membrane; cytosol; chromosomes; ribosomes describe prokaryotic cells - CORRECT ANSWER - no nucleus; DNA in nucleoid; no membrane-bound organelles describe eukaryotic cells - C...

Bio 1500- Test 3 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Describe an effective experimental design to determine whether an environmental variable imposes selection on a trait - CORRECT ANSWER - - control group - manipulate the independent variable - record dependent variable results ...

BIOL 1500 Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Biological Diversity - CORRECT ANSWER - includes all species, genetic variation, and biological communities and their ecosystem-level interactions 3 goals of conservation biology - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Document biodiversity 2. I...

Biol 1500 Chapter 5 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What is the process by which monomers are linked together to form polymers? hydrolysis protein formation coiling monomerization dehydration reaction - CORRECT ANSWER - dehydration reactio

Biol 1500 Ch 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What is the appropriate term for an interacting group of individuals of a single type occupying a defined area? ecosystem species community habitat population - CORRECT ANSWER - populatio

Bio 1500 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Morphogensis - CORRECT ANSWER - the development of the form of an organism and its structures. This stage begins differentiating organs. Protoderm will become the - CORRECT ANSWER - epidermis which will protect the plant ground meris...

BIO 1500 - TEST 7 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Describe the likely response of Andean hummingbirds to climate change. - CORRECT ANSWER - -species with high-alt HB become more favorable, species with low-alt HB become least favorable -species migrate to higher elevations as sea l...

Bio 1500 - Test 7 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Structure of viruses - CORRECT ANSWER - - RNA or DNA - capsid (protein) - no cellular machinery optional: envelope (lipid bi-layer), protein receptors Features by which viruses categorized - CORRECT ANSWER - - shape/size of ca...

BIO 1500 Test 4 BUSH UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Explain how circular processes of photosynthesis & cellular respiration result in the cycling of carbon within ecosystems - CORRECT ANSWER - Increase in PS relative to CR will increase O2. All carbon in organic molecules c...

Bio 1500 test 3 (schul) UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Describe an effective experimental design to determine whether an environmental variable imposes selection on a trait - CORRECT ANSWER - - control constants (temperature, environment, food, etc.) - manipulate independe...

Bio 1500 Test 3 Schul UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers - Explain how the relationship between phenotype and fitness determines the mode of selection. - CORRECT ANSWER - Phenotype: observable traits Fitness: ability to survive & reproduce in an environment Directional Selection...

Bio 1500 Final Mizzou (Bush and Schul) UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Roughly how old are the oldest fossils on Earth? - CORRECT ANSWER - 3.8 billion years According to scientific evidence, approximately when did Earth form? - CORRECT ANSWER - 4.6 billion years ago

BIO 1500 Test 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What is the heritable variation among individuals of a single population or within the species as a whole? - CORRECT ANSWER - Genetic Diversity What makes heritable variation possible? - CORRECT ANSWER - Genetic mutations Natura...

Bio 1500 Test 6 - Bush & Schul UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Recognize what it means if a gene is expressed vs not expressed, turned on vs turned off, or upregulated vs down-regulated. - CORRECT ANSWER - you can be be a carrier of a gene but it's not shown- expressed v...

Bio 1500 Final Mizzou (Bush and Schul) UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Roughly how old are the oldest fossils on Earth? - CORRECT ANSWER - 3.8 billion years According to scientific evidence, approximately when did Earth form? - CORRECT ANSWER - 4.6 billion years ago

Bio 1500 Schul and Bush Test 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Order odanata characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER - Dragonflies First fossils found 325 mya (Carboniferous) First 3 years of life --> water Lay eggs and catch insects in flight Meganeura: 3 feet long wingspan (...

Bio 1500 Mizzou Schul TEST 4 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers residual lung volume - CORRECT ANSWER - amount of air left in the lungs after exhaling Explain why residual lung volume exists - CORRECT ANSWER - keep the alveoli open even after maximum expiration which allows ...

Bio 1500 Mizzou Schul TEST 2 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Categorize different energy forms as 'kinetic' or 'potential' - CORRECT ANSWER - Kinetic energy: the energy of movement □ Includes heat, light, electricity Potential energy: stored energy □ Includ...

BIO 1500 Lab Practical 1 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers 1) petal 2) filament 3) anther stamen (2 & 3) 4) stigma 5) style 6) ovary 7) ovule 8) carpel sepal --> green leaf under petal

BIO 1500 Lab Practical 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers fascicle -bunches of 1-8 needles (conifers) covered in thick waxy cuticle - CORRECT ANSWER - cross section of pine stem - CORRECT ANSWER -

Bio 1500 Lab Practical Kahoot UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers The most ideal color of light for green leaves to absorb would be ___ while the least ideal would be ___ - CORRECT ANSWER - ideal red, least ideal green Most enzymes found in humans have an optimum temperature of ...

Bio 1500 Final Exam Mizzou 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Recognize dragonflies as formidable aerial and aquatic predators - CORRECT ANSWER - Dragonflies live in water for the first two years of their life. After this adult dragonflies hunt other flying insects while the...

Bio 1500 FINAL: Learning Objectives UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Identify dragonflies as ancient insects (which, what, why) - CORRECT ANSWER - o Carboniferous period (325 million years ago) o Among first insects to fly o meganeura

Bio 1500 Final Exam Study Guide UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers The fruiting bodies formed by Myxobacteria are an example of... - CORRECT ANSWER - multicellular organization The fruiting bodies formed by many Fungi and Myxobacteria are an example of... - CORRECT ANSWER - Homoplasy

Bio 1500 Final Exam Study Guide UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Think of the concept of deep time. How would you describe the distribution of events over time? Are they evenly distributed? If not, how then? - CORRECT ANSWER - There is an uneven distribution of life formatio...

Bio 1500 Final Exam Review ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Levels of Bloom's Taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER - remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create remember - CORRECT ANSWER - recall basic facts key words: memorize, state, define etc. understand - CORRECT ANSWER - ex...

Bio 1500 Final Exam Review UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Suppose you worked very hard and have earned a 100% average for lab this semester. You have unexcused absences for many Discussions, though, giving you a Discussion average of 60%. How is your combined 'Lab and Discussion...

Bio 1500 Final Exam Review UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Look at the formula below, which was in your lecture on diffusion. What important point is illustrated by this formula? t=x^2/2D - CORRECT ANSWER - Small increases in the distance over which particles travel by di...

Bio 1500 Final Exam REVISED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Types of hydrogen bonds formed by water - CORRECT ANSWER - -Polar covalent bonds: different charges share electrons -Cohesion: same substance attraction, forms water molecules (high surface tension) -Adhesion: different sub...

Bio 1500 Final Exam UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Dragonflies - CORRECT ANSWER - Formidable aerial and aquatic predators Identify dragonflies as ancient insects (when, what, why) - CORRECT ANSWER - Carboniferous period (360 - 300 mya) Identify huge body size as the outstanding char...

BIO 1500 Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Which of the following is the best modern definition of evolution - CORRECT ANSWER - change in allele frequencies in population over time Which of the following is not a correct version of one of Darwin's four postulates ...

BIO 1500 Exam 4 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers 1. Centipedes: a. have a hundred pairs of legs. b. have venomous fangs. c. are herbivores. d. have two pair of legs per segment. e. love to fetch sticks. - CORRECT ANSWER - b. have venomous fangs

bio 1500 final exam UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What is diffusion? - CORRECT ANSWER - the spontaneous movement of molecules away from areas of highest density One area in a cell has a higher density of a certain type of molecule compared to a neighboring area. This situ...

Bio 1500 Final Exam- Banks Test 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Until the late 1800's disease the basis for infection was that it spread by miasma or air contaminated poisonous vapors... Robert Koch. Which philosophical view is represented in the passage? - CORRECT ANSW...

Bio 1500 Final Exam (Mizzou) UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers dragon fly size - CORRECT ANSWER - -high O2 levels in carboniferous allowed them to grow big -later in history predators constrained the max size O2 levels in atomosphere - CORRECT ANSWER - cyanobacteria and gree...

BIO 1500 Exam #2 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Some functions of _____ include: anchorage, absorption of water and minerals for the plant. - CORRECT ANSWER - roots Some functions of ______ include: photosynthesis, support, transport of water + minerals, and reproduction. - ...

Bio 1500 Exam 5 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers explain how the bird respiratory system differs from that of mammals - CORRECT ANSWER - -parabronchi: site of gas exchange (comparable to our alveoli); fixed shape -air sacs: store fresh and used air -lungs: gas-exchange surface...

bio 1500 exam 5 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers In his work with pneumonia-causing bacteria and mice, Griffith found that __________. - CORRECT ANSWER - some substance from pathogenic cells was transferred to nonpathogenic cells, making them pathogenic What is the basis for t...

bio 1500 exam 5 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers In his work with pneumonia-causing bacteria and mice, Griffith found that __________. - CORRECT ANSWER - some substance from pathogenic cells was transferred to nonpathogenic cells, making them pathogenic

BIO 1500 EXAM 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Formulate a hypothesis about the factors that allowed insects to be so big, based on the findings of Clapham and Karr. - CORRECT ANSWER - No aerial predators Temperature Describe and interpret Figure one of...

BIO 1500 Exam 4 ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Crustacea - CORRECT ANSWER - a large class of arthropods, including crabs, crawfish and lobsters Holothuroidea - CORRECT ANSWER - sea cucumbers; "dynamic" marine organism that respires through its anus

Bio 1500 Exam 3 ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What are the four classes of macromaolecules? - CORRECT ANSWER - Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, & nucleic acids If a molecule is described as 'organic,' then what must be true? - CORRECT ANSWER - It contains carbon What are t...

Bio 1500 Exam 3 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What is fermentation? - CORRECT ANSWER - Making ATP w/out oxygen What is step one of fermentation? - CORRECT ANSWER - glycolysis (sugar breaking) What is glucose broken into? - CORRECT ANSWER - pyruvate What does pyruvate yield? - CORRE...

Bio 1500 Exam 3 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Overview: The Key Roles of Cell Divisions 1. What is the cell cycle? - CORRECT ANSWER - the life of a cell from its formation to its own division 2. What are three important functions of cell division? - CORRECT ANSWER - (a) R...

BIO 1500 Exam 2 ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers T/F Unlike angiosperms, gymnosperms do not produce seeds having endosperm - CORRECT ANSWER - TRUE Phytochrome is a plant pigment that at least partially controls... - CORRECT ANSWER - Monitoring of photoperiod Biological inactivity at...

BIO 1500 Exam 2 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Plant Body Organization - CORRECT ANSWER - A vascular plant consists of: -Root System: anchors the plant and absorbs water/ions -Shoot System: consists of supporting stem, photosynthetic leaves, and reproductive flowers; repetitive unit...

BIO 1500 Exam 2 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Leaves - CORRECT ANSWER - Initiated as primordia by the shoot apical meristems Expand by cell enlargement and cell division Determinate in structure (growth stops at maturity) Classified into microphylls and megaphylls Parts of ...