Ms. G’s
Life Science Final Exam Study Guide
1)What three things does the cell theory state?
2)List the stages of mitosis in order and describe what happens in each stage.
3)List 5 examples of organs.
4)What is the pattern of organization found in all living organisms starting with the most complex?
5)What kingdom of life has organisms that are solely decomposers?
6)Which kingdom(s) has (have) only prokaryotes in it?
7)List the eight levels of the classification.
8)To produce fertile offspring, animals must be from the same _____
9)What process is used when a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food?
10)A plant eater is also called a ______
11)What type of relationship occurs when one organism kills and eats another?
12)How have animals adapted to live in the desert?
13)What kind of trait helps organisms survive and reproduce?
14)The genetic material that is passed from parent to offspring is called what?
15)Where are genes located?
16)An organism’s genetic makeup is its
17)What kinds of things has genetic engineering produced?
18)Gregor Mendel is known as the Father of what?
19)What does it mean to become extinct?
20)Should you use grams, liters, or meters to measure water?
21)What organelle transports proteins, and where in the cell is it located?
22)During photosynthesis, plants take in energy in the form of
23)In terms of classification, what is the broadest most inclusive level?
24)What characteristics are considered when placing organisms into kingdoms?
25)What are the differences between angiosperms and gymnosperms?
26)What common characteristic do all plants share?
27)What are the raw materials of photosynthesis?
28)The green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants is called
29)What process is used to produce most of the oxygen in the atmosphere?
30)What is another term for hybrid? (not the car…)
31)What does phenotype refer to?
32)What habitat would you most likely find a monkey? What is an adaptation?
33)Describe the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
34)What piece of equipment is used to determine the mass of an object?
35)What piece of equipment is used to determine the volume of an object?
36)What are the functions of the following organelles? Ribosomes, vacuoles, cytoplasm, cell membrane.
37)What is the difference between a control and a constant in an experiment?
What is the type of data that involves numbers?
38)What are the steps of the scientific method
39)Who was the first scientist to observe living organisms with a microscope?
40)What is the function of the cell wall?
41)What is the term that means a variation of a trait?
42)What process creates gametes?
43)What is a gamete?
44)What are components of a scientific name? (hint: what are the levels of the hierarchy used). Give an example of a scientific name.
45)What are two things found in a plant cell, but not an animal?
46)What are the stages of the cell cycle?
47) Which stage of the cell cycle lasts the longest?
48)What is DNA replication?
49)A genetically identical organism is called a what?
50)Mendel experimented on what type of organism?
51)What is a nematocyst and what type of organism has it?
52)What is another term for producer?
53)What is the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction?
54)Describe the following body symmetries and give examples of organism for each:
55)Which animal phylum would you classify squid?
56)Which animal phylum has jointed appendages and an exoskeleton?
57)What organelle contains DNA?
58)What is another term for endotherm?
59)What phylum contains segmented worms and leeches?
60)What kingdom of life would you classify halophiles?
61)What is the main difference between the Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdom?
62)Give three ways to describe the shape of DNA?
63)What phylum would you classify sea urchins?
64)What is the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
65)Which kingdoms of life are made up of prokaryotic cells?
66)If black hair is dominate to purple hair cross a heterozygous male with a homozygous recessive female?
67)What is the genotype for a male?
68)What are the short hair-like extensions of the cell membrane that aid in movement?
69)What type of environment does members of the protist kingdom live?
70)How many chromosomes are in a human body cell?
71)What do scientists use to determine the outcome of a genetic cross?
72)What is the phrase that describes the altering on DNA in order to improve the organism?
73)What are the nitrogenous bases found in DNA?
74)How do the nitrogenous bases pair up?
75)Who developed binomial nomenclature?
76)What language is used when classifying organisms?
77)What do we use to represent a dominate allele?
78)What is the whip like extension of the cell membrane that is used for locomotion?
79)What type of structure help amoebas move?
80)What are the components of DNA?
81)What are the three shapes of bacteria?
82)Slime molds are found in which kingdom of life?
83)What is a dichotomous key?
84)What is the layer surrounding Earth that supports life called?
85)List four traits that are inheritable and four that are not.
86)Which cell cycle produces two daughter cells with the same amount of DNA as the parent cell?
87)What organelle is located inside then nucleus that makes ribosomes?
88)What does DNA stand for?
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and are not the questions on the test.