Supplemental Instruction
Iowa StateUniversity / Leader: / Alecia
Course: / Biology 211
Instructor: / Dr. Deitloff
Date: / 12/12/13
  1. Who wrote On the Origin of Species?
  2. Lamarck
  3. Linneas
  4. Cuvier
  5. Darwin
  6. The number of tree species on campus is an example of
  7. Species abundance
  8. Species Richness
  9. Relative Abundance
  10. Relative Richness
  11. The similarity of bees and wasps is an example of
  12. Cryptic coloration
  13. Batesian Mimicry
  14. Mullerian Mimicry
  15. Character displacement
  16. Mycorrhizae are example of
  17. Commensalism
  18. Parasitism
  19. Mutualism
  20. Herbivory
  21. The packs of wolves in Yellowstone National Park would be what kind of distribution pattern?
  22. Random
  23. Uniform
  24. Clustered
  25. Clumped
  26. If a red flower pollinates a white flower and produces pink flowered offspring, what inheritance pattern occurred?
  27. Complete Dominance
  28. Codominance
  29. Polygenic Inheritance
  30. Incomplete Dominance
  31. Which of the following is NOT a trait possessed by chordates?
  32. Notochord
  33. Vertebral column
  34. Muscular, post anal tail
  35. Pharyngeal slits
  36. What is cephalization?
  37. Division of the body into 3 distinct layers
  38. Development of a head
  39. An invagination of the blastula to form the gastrula
  40. The presence of radial cleavage
  41. The fusion of two compatible mycelia is called
  42. Karyogamy
  43. Mitosis
  44. Mycosis
  45. Plasmogamy
  46. The beneficial relationships between a fungus and plant roots are
  47. Lichens
  48. Molds
  49. Mycorrhizae
  50. Haustoria
  51. A plant embryo and nutrients inside a protective coat is called
  52. a spore
  53. a protonema
  54. a seed
  55. vascular tissue
  56. The flowering plants are called
  57. Bryophytes
  58. Seedless, Vascular plants
  59. Gymnosperms
  60. Angiosperms
  61. The closest relatives of land plants are
  62. the Oomycetes
  63. Green Algae
  64. Red Algae
  65. Golden Algae
  66. Sister chromatids separate in what phase of Meiosis?
  67. Anaphase II
  68. Anaphase I
  69. Metaphase II
  70. Metaphase I
  71. Which of the following increases genetic diversity?
  72. Synapsis
  73. Mitosis
  74. Shugoshin
  75. Crossing over
  76. Meiosis results in the production of daughter cells
  77. 4 unique, haploid
  78. 4 identical, haploid
  79. 2 genetically identical
  80. 2 unique, haploid
  81. Chromosomes with the same centromere position, staining pattern, and length are called
  82. Autosomes
  83. Homologs
  84. Genes
  85. Gametes
  86. Cytokinesis in animal cells is initiated by the formation of the
  87. Cell plate
  88. Nuclear Envelope
  89. Cleavage Furrow
  90. Mitotic Spindle
  91. Dwarf mistletoes are flowering plants that grow on certain forest trees. They obtain nutrients and water from the vascular tissues of the trees. The trees derive no known benefits from the dwarf mistletoes. Which of the following best describes the interactions between dwarf mistletoes and trees?
  92. Facilitation
  93. Competition
  94. Mutualism
  95. Parasitism
  96. Commensalism
  97. Which of the following is the unit of evolution? In other words, which of the following can evolve in the Darwinian sense?
  98. gene
  99. chromosome
  100. individual
  101. population
  102. species
  103. Which of the following is not an abiotic factor that shapes ecosystems?
  104. soil minerals
  105. predators
  106. fire
  107. rainfall
  108. volcanic eruptions
  109. Both echinoderm and cnidarian adults have radially symmetrical bodies. This is an example of:
  110. coevolution
  111. mutualism
  112. convergent evolution
  113. common ancestry
  114. competition
  115. In plants, spores are __ and produced by __; gametes are __ and produced by __.
  116. Haploid, mitosis; haploid mitosis
  117. Haploid, meiosis; haploid meiosis
  118. Diploid, mitosis; haploid, mitosis
  119. Haploid, meiosis; haploid, mitosis
  120. Fungi play the role of:
  121. Decomposers
  122. Pathogens
  123. Food source
  124. All of the above
  125. ____ compose the ____ of fungi.
  126. Hyphae, spores
  127. Mycelium, hyphae
  128. Hyphae, mycelium
  129. Fruiting bodies, hyphae
  130. Sponges lack what defining characteristic?
  131. Choanocytes
  132. Cnidocytes
  133. True tissues
  134. Bilateral symmetry
  135. Meiosis II is similar to mitosis because
  136. Sister chromatids separate
  137. Homologous chromosomes separate
  138. DNA replication precedes the division
  139. They both take the same amount of time
  140. Eumetazoa are divided into the groups
  141. Protostome and deuterostome
  142. Metazoan and ametazoa
  143. Lophotrophozoa and ecdysozoa
  144. Radiata and bilateria
  145. Cryptic coloration could be renamed:
  146. Batesian mimicry
  147. Camouflage
  148. Mullerian mimicry
  149. You can’t see me
  1. All populations in an area plus the abiotic elements compose the:
  2. Community
  3. Biosphere
  4. Ecosystem
  5. Population
  1. If the birth rate is higher than the death rate:
  2. The population will remain the same
  3. The population will increase
  4. The population will decrease
  5. Not enough information
  6. Assemblage of populations of different species is considered to be a ______
  7. Community
  8. Ecosystem
  9. Population
  10. Organization
  11. What stage of interphase are the chromosomes replicated?
  12. G1
  13. S
  14. G2
  15. M phase
  16. A population is
  17. group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area
  18. a group of individuals that are genetically similar
  19. a single individual within a group of individuals that live in the same area
  20. a group of individuals that have become isolated over time
  21. Which is not a characteristic of a hypothesis?
  1. It is falsifiable.
  2. It is testable.
  3. It is a prediction.
  4. It is always correct.
  1. Which describes a Theory?
  2. It is a fact accepted by scientists.
  3. It can never be proven true.
  4. It is not supported well by evidence.
  5. A Phylogenetic tree is a theory.
  6. The field of biology that is concerned with the describing, naming, and classifying living and extinct organisms and viruses.
  7. Systematics
  8. Ontogeny
  9. Taxonomy
  10. Phylogeny
  11. A common ancestral species and its entire descendant species from a phylogenetic tree is called a ______
  12. Clade
  13. Family
  14. Ancestors
  15. Node
  16. ______is a change in frequency of genes in a natural population
  17. Mutations
  18. Descent with Modification
  19. Evolution
  20. Adaptation
  21. What resulted in the transfer of mitochondria, plastids, and many genes from bacteria to eukaryotes?
  22. Endosymbiosis
  23. Horizontal gene transfer
  24. Mitosis
  25. Binary Fission
  26. Which of the following is not part of the alteration of generations cycle?
  27. Haploid zygote
  28. Diploid sporophyte
  29. Haploid gamete
  30. Multicellular cells
  31. Which of the following is an example of microevolution
  32. Formation of a new species
  33. Crossing over in meiosis
  34. Asexual reproduction
  35. Cloning
  36. Which of the following is not a condition for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
  37. Extremely large population size
  38. No gene flow
  39. Mutations must occur
  40. No natural selection occurs
  41. All of the above are conditions for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
  42. Which of the following is the most important factor in the distribution of organisms in the environment?
  43. Light
  44. Temperature
  45. Salinity
  46. Water availability
  47. The greenhouse effect is
  48. A new phenomenon resulting from industrialization
  49. Due to the absorption of solar ration by atmospheric gas
  50. Responsible for the natural warming of the earth
  51. Both B & C
  52. An examination of the temperature tolerances of locusts would be best described by which ecological subdiscipline?
  53. Organismal ecology
  54. Population ecology
  55. Community ecology
  56. Ecosystem ecology
  57. Which distribution pattern does territoriality produce?
  58. Random
  59. Uniform
  60. Clumped
  61. None of the above
  62. The number of individuals per unit area determines a populations
  63. Survivorship
  64. Mortality
  65. Age distribution
  66. Density
  67. Niche
  68. In the equation for biotic potential (dN/dt = rN) what does N stand for?
  69. The carrying capacity for the environment
  70. The change in time
  71. The population size
  72. The intrinsic rate of natural increase of the population
  73. The age distribution of the population
  74. Which of these is not a density-dependent factor that could act to limit the population growth as population size increases?
  75. Waste accumulation
  76. Fire
  77. Inhibitory pheromones
  78. Lowered immune function due to stress
  79. Clumped patterns of dispersion are indicative of an environment in which resources are unevenly distributed
  80. True
  81. False
  82. Parents feeding chicks in a nest is a(n):
  83. Innate behavior
  84. FAP
  85. Classical conditioning
  86. Operant behavior
  87. The behavior of a Cuckoo newborn pushing eggs and young chicks out of a nest is an example of:
  88. Habituation
  89. FAP
  90. Classical conditioning
  91. Operant behavior
  92. Certain organisms have a limited time window when a behavior, such as speech production, can be learned. This critical period is known as
  93. Habituation
  94. Associative learning
  95. Imprinting
  96. Maturation
  97. A cuckoo may lay its eggs in a warbler’s nest. The cuckoo’s young will displace the warbler’s young and will be raised by the warbler. This is an example of
  98. Commensalism
  99. Mutualism
  100. Parasitism
  101. Herbivory
  102. Ostriches and gazelles feed next to each other. They both watch for predators and alert each other to danger. Since the visual abilities of the two species are different, they each can identify threats the other animal would not as readily see. This is an example of
  103. Commensalism
  104. Mutualism
  105. Parasitism
  106. Herbivory
  107. Why doesn’t an area, such as tundra, support the area hypothesis for latitudinal gradient?
  108. The tundra is a large area with high species richness
  109. The tundra is a large area with low species richness
  110. The tundra is a small area with high species richness
  111. The tundra is a small area with low species richness
  112. Which of these is not an example of a disturbance?
  113. Fires
  114. Flood
  115. Volcanic activity
  116. Humans
  117. All of the above are examples of disturbance
  118. Which of the following is a characteristic of Prokaryotes, but NOT Eukaryotes
  119. They have DNA
  120. They have mitochondria
  121. They have ribosomes
  122. They do not have organelles
  123. According to recent molecular data, Area are most closely related to
  124. Bacteria
  125. Eukarya
  126. Which of the following is NOT an adaptation for plants to move into terrestrial environments?
  127. Vascular tissue
  128. Alteration of generations
  129. Seeds
  130. Flower and fruits
  131. None of the above are adaptations of plants to move to land
  132. All of the above are adaptations of plants to move to land
  133. Which of the following is NOT an adaptation of animals to move into terrestrial environments?
  134. Aerobic cellular respiration
  135. Respiratory systems improved for extracting oxygen from atmosphere
  136. Resistance to desiccation
  137. Modifications to limbs or appendages for movement on land
  138. None of the above are adaptations of animals to move to land
  139. All of the above are adaptations of animals to move to land
  140. The gametophyte generation of plants produces ______and is ______
  141. Gametes, diploid
  142. Gametes, haploid
  143. Spores, diploid
  144. Spores, haploid
  145. The sporophyte generation of plants is ______and produces______
  146. Diploid, gametes
  147. Haploid, gametes
  148. Diploid, spores
  149. Haploid, spores
  150. Photosynthetic organisms belong in which of the following groups?
  151. Bacteria
  152. Protista
  153. Plantae
  154. Fungi
  155. A, B and C only
  156. All of the above
  157. If a diploid cell undergoes ______the resulting cells are haploid
  158. Mitosis
  159. Meiosis
  160. Cell Cycle
  161. Cancer
  162. Homologous chromosomes for a tetrad and line up at the metaphase plate during
  163. Mitosis
  164. Meiosis I
  165. Meiosis II
  166. Cell Cycle
  167. Genetic diversity increases due to which of the following processes?
  168. Sexual reproduction
  169. Crossing over
  170. Independent assortment during meiosis
  171. Chromosomes segregation during meiosis
  172. A,B,C only
  173. All of the above
  174. An alternative version of a gene is called ______
  175. A loci
  176. An allele
  177. Codominance
  178. A sex chromosome
  179. The theory of biological evolution describes ______
  180. How the universe began
  181. How organisms have diversified from the first living organisms to the diversity of life we see today
  182. How life began
  183. A and B only
  184. A and C only
  185. B and C only
  186. All of the above
  187. None of the above
  188. According to the phylogenetic tree, which group of plants is most closely related to flowering plants?
  189. Conifers and Gnetophytes
  190. Ginkgo
  191. Cycads
  192. Pteridophytes
  193. A, B, and C and equally related to flowering plants
  194. Within Protostomia, invertebrates are divided into two groups ______and ______
  195. Radiata and Bilatera
  196. Lophotrochozoa and Ecdysozoa
  197. Parazoa and Eumetazoa
  198. Protostomia and Deuterostomia
  199. Reptiles are a ______group
  200. Monophyletic
  201. Paraphyletic
  202. Polyphyletic
  203. ______describes an evolutionary process whereby bacterial genes can be incorporated into the DNA material of another bacteria and eukaryote
  204. Vertical gene transfer
  205. Horizontal gene transfer
  206. Natural Selection
  207. Genetic Drift
  208. ______describes an evolutionary process whereby parent pass genetic material onto their offspring
  209. Vertical gene transfer
  210. Horizontal gene transfer
  211. Natural Selection
  212. Genetic Drift
  213. ______describes an evolutionary process whereby allele frequencies within a population change randomly
  214. Vertical gene transfer
  215. Horizontal gene transfer
  216. Natural Selection
  217. Genetic Drift
  218. ______describes an evolutionary process whereby allele frequencies within a population change due to some alleles having differential survival and reproductive success
  219. Vertical gene transfer
  220. Horizontal gene transfer
  221. Natural Selection
  222. Genetic Drift