BIO113 Questions for review. Your most important resource is your notes.
UNIT 1
- What is biology? What is science?
- What are the 5 characteristics that all living things share?
- What is the difference between homeostasis and metabolism?
- What is a cell?
- Provide at least one example of binomial nomenclature
- What is taxonomy?
- What is a mass extinction? What might have caused mass extinctions?
- What are the 3 domains of living organisms? What are the 4 kingdoms within the domain, Eukarya?
- What are the characteristics of members in the kingdom, Animalia? Provide an example of an animal useful to humans
- What are the characteristics of members in the kingdom, Plantae? Provide an example of a plant useful to humans
- What is photosynthesis? Write the reaction
- List 3 types of organisms in the kingdom, Fungi. Identify 2 types of fungi that have provided useful medicines to humans. How are these medicines used?
- What is the difference between a producer and a consumer?
- What is a protist (protozoa)?
- What is the difference between a prokaryotic and a eukaryotic cell? Which are the most ancient?
- What domain contains extremophilic unicellular organisms?
- What is entailed in the process of science?
- What is meant by falsifiable, testable, educated guess with respect to a hypothesis?
- What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?
- What is an experimental variable? controlled variables? control treatment? What is measured?
- How are placebos and double blind experiments used to minimize bias and preconceived notions in a scientific experiment? Why should an experiment be performed multiple times?
- What is the definition of evolution? Speciation? Microevolution? Descent with modification?
- What is a species? Provide an example of a group that has undergone much evolution in the past 40 million years and one that has undergone little
- What are the differences between the theory of natural selection and that of the inheritance of acquired characteristics?
- Who was Charles Darwin? Where did he travel? What is the name of his most famous book? About when was it written?
- What is the relationship between mutation, sexual reproduction, and random genetic variation?
- What is meant by a neutral mutation? Harmful mutation? Adaptive mutation?
- What is survival of the fittest? How does it lead to genetic change in a population over time?
- Review example of adaptations provided in lecture – snakes, peacocks……
- What do geological studies tell us about the age of the earth? How old is the earth?
- How to processes like erosion, wind, rain, and rivers affect the landscape of the earth?
- How are fossils formed? Why is the fossil record incomplete?
- Fossils covered in lecture include Hadrosauras, coelecanths, giant rodents in South America, Lucy, glyptodonts, jellyfish imprints, dinosaur footprints, and archaeopteryx
- What is the difference between homologous and vestigial structures?
- What do embryology and DNA data tell us about the relatedness of organisms?
- What is phylogeny?
- How does Pangaea compare to the position of the continents today?