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Bisc 104 Final Study Guide 1 What kind of fungi can colonize a dead tree branch and chemically break it down 2 Who was the first to outline that fossils were evidence of the remnants of past organisms 3 What is the smallest unit of life 4 How do prokaryotes reproduce 5 In natural selection the idea that members of a population differ in inherited traits is best described as what 6 One species of plant pollinates from July to August and another species flowers and pollinates between Mayamd June and as a result do not cross pollinate with each other This is an example of what 7 In the Hardy Weinburg equilibrium formula the frequency of the homozygous dominats is represented by what 8 When scientific naming animals the order is then 9 Who was the first individual to propose the concept of evolution but got it wrong 10 What was Robert Hooke the first to do 11 Name a level of organization of life would fall under the study of ecology 12 Define translation 13 What is not a mechanism of microevolution 14 Define and give an example of allopatric speciation 15 What is the term for studying the similarities in anatomy in organisms during early development 16 In natural selection the idea that organisms produce more offsprings than the enviroment can support is best described as 17 What is the oldest organism found in the fossil record 18 Name the plants who do not have vascular tissue 19 What is the first major branching point in animal evolution 20 This group of plants has sperm that must travel through water 21 What event occurred approximately 542 million years ago 22 Yeast infections are attributed to an infection of 23 In echninoderms symmertry as adults and symmetry as larvae 24 Name a characteristic that all chordate embryos doesn t share 25 Planarians are examples of 26 Name an example of an organism that is typically involved in a mutualistic relationship 27 Name a characteristic of roundworms 28 Name an organism that undergoes molting 29 In what group does the conifer fall into 30 Name the parts of the carpel 31 Give an example of an organism that is involed in a mutualistic relationship 32 Name a reduced male gametophyte 33 What gives the plants structures and allows them to stand up 34 Name a group of protozoa 35 What order of insects makes up approximately 25 of all known life 36 What are the simplest animals with bilateral symmetry 37 What are the structures that allow for gas exchange 38 What has a reduced gametophyte 39 What group did plants primarily descend 40 Define parasitism When one organism feed off of another and only one benefits 41 Name an organism that moves with a psuedopodium 42 Define granum 43 Name the elements that make up 98 of dry weight in plants 44 Give an example of a monotreme Duck billed platypus 45 What is the plant hormone that is responsible for causing fruits to ripen 46 What is the purpose of the cuticle on a plant 47 How do plants prevent water loss at night 48 Give an example of a petiole 49 Give an example of a sugar source 50 Give an example of a sugar sink 51 Name a part of the dermal system in plants 53 Where are auxins produced 54 What is the purpose of the apical meristem 55 Give an example of a taproot 57 Name some fleshy fruit 52 What is the name of the organelle responsible in helping a plant maintain firmness 58 Give the equation for photosynthesis Distinguish between reactants and products 59 What group of organisms include members that are placental 60 What is an element iportant to plants that is found in nucleic acids 61 Define adhesion 62 Define cohesion 63 What are the feathers of birds derived from 64 What group of bacteria can convert atmospheric nitrogen to ammonium 65 Give an example of a chordate invertebrate 66 Define cartenoids 67 Name a part of ground tissue tissue system in plants 68 What type of bond causes water molecules to stick together 69 What form of nitrogen can a plant use 70 In angiosperm sexual reproduction after the spem cell fertilizes the egg cell what is produced 71 What is the name for a plant that can reproduce for many years 72 What is the name for a plant that can only reproduce once a year 73 What is the plant cell type that provides support and elongates 74 In photosynthesis what is the name of the group of pigments that captures light 75 Define ectothermic 76 Define endothermic 77 Which bud is on the side of the plant stem 78 What is the site of food storage in roots 79 Which bud is on the end of the plant stem 80 What is an imput in the Calvin Cycle 81 What is the purpose of the endosperm 83 Define phototropism 84 Define gravitropism 85 Define thigmotropism 82 What is the loss of water from leaves driven by evaporation 85 Name the two types of vascular tissue 86 Where in the chloroplast do the light reactions of photosynthesis take place 87 Give the characteristics of a eudicot 88 Give the characteristics of a monocot 89 One of the main functions of this plant structure is anchoring 90 What are the three main elements that make up glucose in plants 91 Give the sequence of strucutres emerging when a seed germinates 92 What is the outer protective covering of a seed called 93 Ecology is defined as 94 In this level of ecology we study how organisms adapt to the enviroment 95 In this level of ecology we study what affects population growth and density 96 In this level of ecology we study interactions between different organisms 97 In this level of ecology we study living and nonliving factors 98 Define abiotic factors 99 Define biotic factors 100 Give three examples of abiotic factors 101 Give an example of a physiological response 102 Give an example of an anatomical response 103 Define biomes 104 This kind of biome includes lakes ponds rivers streams and wetlands 105 Organisms that swim float in water 106 Give an example of phytoplankton 107 Give an example of zooplankton 108 Organisms that live on bottom of water body 109 Give an example of a benthic organism 110 What is the major difference between standing and floating water 111 The pelagic zone is water 112 The littoral zone is the area around 113 Why does the lake freeze from the top down 114 What is the difference between upstream and downstream 115 What is a wetland 116 Give an example of a marine biome 117 What is an intertidal zone 118 What is the difference between the photic and aphotic zone 119 What zone does photosynthesis take place 120 What is the abyssal zone 121 Warm shallow water boundary of continents or islands 122 Where rivers


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