Biology 1 Spring 2009 Summative Exam

Short Answer

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The pedigree shows the inheritance of free earlobes and attached earlobes in five generations of a family. Attached earlobes are caused by a recessive allele (f).

Figure 14–2

	1.	How would the genotype of individual 5, 8, and 14 in Figure 14-2 be described?

	2.	How would the phenotype for individual 14 be described?  The box has a question mark inside, which is not to be assumed to be not shaded.

Figure 11–3

	3.	What is the process shown in Figure 11–3?

	4.	Unlike mitosis, meiosis results in the formation of

Figure 12–2

	5.	What does Figure 12–2 show?

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		T	t	

Tt
	
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T	=	 Tall	
t	=	 Short	

Figure 11–1

	6.	In the Punnett square shown in Figure 11–1, which of the following is true about the offspring resulting from the cross?

	7.	What is the genotypic ratio of the offspring shown Figure 11-1?

	8.	What is the phenotypic ratio of the offspring shown in Figure 11-1?

	9.	If Figure 11-1 shows the offspring of the F2 generation, what would be the genotypes of the P generation that produced the parents shown in Figure 11-1?

	10.	A change in a sequence of DNA is called a

	11.	What must occur in a population for it to grow?

	12.	Organisms that have two identical alleles for a particular trait are said to be

	13.	Genes contain instructions for assembling

	14.	Limiting factors are described as

Figure 3–1

	15.	The algae at the beginning of the food chain in Figure 3–1 are

Figure 14-9

	16.	What information can be discovered about the individual by looking at the structures in Figure 14-9?

	17.	The term that describes small genetic changes that a population within a species experiences is

	18.	What animals eat both producers and consumers?

	19.	Which organism has become the most important source of environmental change on Earth?

	20.	Which of the following organisms does NOT require sunlight to live?

	21.	A DNA molecule produced by combining DNA from different sources is known as

	22.	What is the original source of almost all the energy in most ecosystems?

	23.	What is NOT recycled in the biosphere?

	24.	Competitive Exclusion Principle is the result of

	25.	The chemical factors that determine traits are called

	26.	All the genes of all members of a particular population make up the population’s

	27.	In eukaryotes, DNA

	28.	In taxonomy, a group at any level of organization is referred to as a

	29.	Most sex-linked genes are located on

	30.	Why are fossil fuels nonrenewable?

	31.	When organisms move out of the population, this is known as

	32.	The branch of biology dealing with interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment is called

	33.	Colorblindness is more common in males than in females because

	34.	Which are the main points of Darwin’s theory of evolution?

	35.	Which of the following is a nucleotide found in DNA?

	36.	How many codons are needed to specify three amino acids?

	37.	What principle states that during gamete formation genes for different traits separate without influencing each other’s inheritance?

	38.	Which type of pyramid shows the amount of living tissue at each trophic level in an ecosystem?

	39.	Nitrogen fixation is carried out primarily by

	40.	The maximum number of individuals of a species that a given environment can sustain indefinitely defines

	41.	A change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations is called

	42.	If an organism’s diploid number is 12, its haploid number is

	43.	All of the members of a particular species that live in one area are called a(an)

	44.	An organism's niche is analogous to its

	45.	Which type(s) of RNA is(are) involved in protein synthesis?

	46.	The newest fossil is located in layer

	47.	Populations are limited in size by

	48.	Natural selection acts directly on

	49.	A factor that is necessary for the formation of a new species is

	50.	What are examples of abiotic and biotic factors in the environment 

	51.	The interaction between two species in which one species benefits and the other species is harmed is

	52.	The X and Y chromosomes are called the

	53.	When a farmer breeds only his or her best livestock, the process involved is

	54.	When a bigger fish eats a fish from a trophic level immediately below the larger fish’s level, how many times greater on average is the concentration of DDT or Mercury is going to be found in the larger fishes tissue compared to the fish from the lower trophic level?

	55.	In a population, the sum of the relative frequencies of all alleles for a particular trait is

	56.	Human females produce egg cells that have

	57.	A biotic or an abiotic resource in the environment that causes population size to decrease is a

	58.	Variation in human skin color is an example of

	59.	The combined portions of Earth in which all living things exist is called the

	60.	Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere by and removed by 

	61.	When natural selection shifts allelic frequencies toward the extremes of a range of genetic expressions for a particular trait, an evolutionary biologist would credit

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Figure 12–5

	62.	What is the process shown in Figure 12-5?

	63.	If an allele makes up one fourth of a population’s alleles for a given trait, its relative frequency is

	64.	Although they often live in the same habitat, the American toad breeds earlier in the spring than the Fowler’s toad does. What can be inferred from this information?

	65.	The sulfur and nitrogen compounds in smog combine with water to form

	66.	What is the hierarchical system of classification from the most inclusive taxon to the most exclusive taxon?

	67.	RNA contains the sugar

	68.	Gametes are produced by the process of

	69.	Which of the following descriptions about the organization of an ecosystem is correct?

	70.	How many chromosomes are shown in a normal human karyotype?

	71.	When Gregor Mendel crossed true-breeding tall plants with true-breeding short plants, all the offspring were tall because

	72.	You study fossils of giraffes. Although there appears to be considerable variability in lengths of necks, there appears to be a definite shift to longer necks over the course of time. You conclude that this species is undergoing what type of natural selection?

	73.	Several species of warblers can live in the same spruce tree ONLY because they

	74.	Organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down dead and decaying plants and animals are called

	75.	In genetic drift, allele frequencies change because of

	76.	If a man with blood type A and a woman with blood type B produce an offspring, what might be the offspring’s blood type?

	77.	What is an organism that feeds only on plants called?

	78.	An interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism is called

	79.	The failure of chromosomes to separate during meiosis is called

	80.	The relationship between an insect and the plants it pollinates is best described as

	81.	What is an ecological model of the relationships that form a network of complex interactions among organisms in a community from producers to decomposers?

	82.	Using renewable resources while ensuring that they are not depleted is a practice called

	83.	The movements of energy and nutrients through living systems are different because

	84.	Plants are

	85.	Charles Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment

Figure 12–1

	86.	Figure 12–1 shows the structure of a(an)

	87.	What is the approximate probability that a human offspring will be male?

	88.	The situation in which allele frequencies of a population remain constant is called

	89.	The process of DNA fingerprinting is based on the fact that

	90.	You are an evolutionary biologist studying a population of bats in the rainforest of Brazil. Most of the population possesses moderate length wings, although some individuals have long wings and some individuals have short wings. Over the course of time, you notice that the frequency of moderate-length wings increases. You conclude that the most likely cause of this development is

	91.	Overexposure to UV radiation can

	92.	The interaction between two species in which both species may be harmed is known as

	93.	In a population of finches in which one group of birds has a short, parrot-like beak and another group has a long, narrow beak, what process has probably occurred?

	94.	The lowest level of environmental complexity that includes living and nonliving factors is the

	95.	Genetic drift tends to occur in populations that

	96.	The greenhouse effect is

	97.	In humans, a male has what sex chromosomes?

	98.	No two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time

	99.	During DNA replication, a DNA strand that has the bases CTAGGT produces a strand with the bases

	100.	An endangered species is