Intro to Biology
Chapters 1 & 2  

1.  ____________________ would be an example of an autotroph. 

2.  A water molecule is said to be ___________ because it has an uneven pattern of charge on it.

      polar           non-polar           Organic           unicellular

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3. This molecule is a(n) ____________________. 4. This molecule could be joined with others like it to make a        ______________________.

5. The proteins with sugars attached that help cells to "recognize self" are called ________________________

6. Which part of this phospholipid molecule is POLAR?                          A                 B

7.  DNA and RNA are ___________________
        A. carbohydrates
        B. nucleic acids
        C. lipids
        D. proteins

Cell Structure and Function & Transport
Chapter 7

8.  What does a lysosome do?

9.  Which of these organelles is missing in bacteria?
        cell membrane
        nuclear membrane
        cell wall
        ribosomes

10. Cells with NO nuclear membrane or membrane bound organelles are called _____________________

           prokaryotes                  eukaryotes

11.  The function of this organelle is   to ________________________

12.  Molecules always want to move from _____________________
  a.) an area of higher concentration to lower concentration
  b) an area of lower concentration to higher concentration

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13.  This diagram shows a cell placed in a solution. Black dots represent solute molecules.
       The cell in this picture is in a _______tonic  solution.

14. What will happen to the cell above?
        It will shrink
        It will swell and explode
        It will stay the same size

15. Transport proteins that move water across a cell membrane are called _______________  

16.  Tell the cell part involved in APOPTOSIS        

Cell Reproduction
Chapter 10

17.  As a cell increases in size, its surface area to volume ratio (SA/V) ____________.                       increases       decreases

18.  The area of an animal cell membrane that pinches in during cytokinesis the ___________________.

19.  The phase of the cell cycle which follows G₁ phase is

            S            M            C            G₂

_{20. Which phase of mitosis could also be called "reverse prophase"?}

_{21.  Plant cells undergo cytokinesis by forming a _______________ instead of a cleavage furrow.}

Genetics
Chapter 11

22. Tall (T) peas are dominant over short (t) peas. 
If you cross homozygous tall peas with homozygous short peas, what percent of the offspring will be short?

        none         25%        50%        100%

23. The way an organism looks is its ________________

            genotype             phenotype

24. Crossing a PURE RED flowered plant with a PURE WHITE flowered plant and getting ALL PINK flowered offspring is a example of _________________ 

        Codominance
        Complete dominance
        Incomplete dominance

25. If you crossed parents that were heterozygous for 2 traits, what phenotypic ratio would you expect to see in the offspring?

26. How are telomeres in cancer cells different than normal cells?

27. Harmful genetic disorders (like sickle cell anemia) stay in populations even though they harm some individuals because they are helpful to people who only have one copy of the gene.  This is called _______________   ________________

28.  The diagram above that is used to show how traits are passed on is called a _________________.

29.   Genes carried on the X chromosome are said to be _________________

DNA, RNA, and PROTEINS
Chapter 12
        

30. Name the mutation shown in the picture at the left.

Codon wheel from: BIOLOGY by Miller and Levine; Prentice Hall Publishing©2006

31. Tell the amino acid sequence coded for by this mRNA        U A C G C A G G U

33. Making an RNA message from a sequence of DNA is called _________________

34. Tell the kind of RNA that has an ANTICODON region and is attached to an amino acid.

35. Name this subunit used to make nucleic acids.   36. If you were using this to make DNA what kind of sugar would be in the sugar spot?

37. Another name for transposons is _______________________

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38. E = ? 39. F = ? 40. G = ?

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ANSWERS

1. green plant
2. polar
3. amino acid
4. protein
5. glycoproteins
6. A- the head is polar
7. DNA & RNA are nucleic acids
8. contain digestive enzymes
9. nuclear membrane
10. prokaryotes
11. burn glucose and store energy as ATP
12. A. higher to lower
13. HYPERtonic
14. It will shrink
15. aquaporins
16. lysosomes
17. volume increases faster than surface area- IT DECREASES.
18. cleavage furrow
19. S
20. telophase is reverse prophase
21. cell plate
22. none will be short/100% will be tall 
23. phenotype
24. incomplete dominance
25. 9:3:3:1
26. Cancer cells replace their lost telomeres so they can keep on dividing.
     Telomere length in normal cells decreases with age (number of divisions).
27. heterozygote advantage
28. pedigree chart
29. sex linked
30. deletion
31. tyrosine-alanine-glycine
32. introns
33. transcription
34. transfer RNA  or t-RNA
35. nucleotide
36. deoxyribose
37. jumping genes
38. anticodon
39. codon
40. amino acid