Mansi Chandra and Ankita Veta
Period 4
June 6, 2011
Purpose: To help students in their review of assessment materials.
Hypothesis: If this is done, then the students will perform better on the assessment.
Materials:
· Biology Honors textbook
· Biology Honors tests
· The internet
· Your own amazing brain
Procedure:
1. Produce 100 questions split up into 10 categories. (10 questions per category)
2. Following the “Jeopardy” format of : (spaced between numbers)
a. Question is expressed in the form of a statement
i. Ex. The movement of water from a high concentration to a low concentration.
b. Answer is expressed in the form of a question
i. Ex. What is osmosis?
3. The questions should be in order of complexity. The easiest question should be worth 10 points while the hardest question is worth 100 points.
4. Place the questions under a creative topic heading that is underlined.
Data and Observations:
This is the Life
10 This is the smallest unit of life that can live and reproduce on its own.
10 What is a cell?
20 This is the plant that receives no growth hormone in an experiment that tests different amounts of growth hormones.
20 What is a control?
30 An educated guess about the outcome of an experiment, made based on knowledge gained by researching.
30 What is a hypothesis?
40 In an experiment, three plants receive 3 hours, 6 hours, and 9 plants of sunlight respectively. They also receive 100 ml. of water each day. There is an independent variable in this experiment.
40 What is the amount of sunlight?
50 The observations about color, smell and luster taken during an experiment are qualitative or quantitative.
50 What is qualitative data?
60 Something that changes in your experiment and yields results.
60 What is a variable?
70 While graphing data, this is the variable represented by the y-axis.
70 What is the dependent variable?
80 These are the steps of the scientific method.
80 What are observe, state problem, form hypothesis, experiment, record data, form conclusion, and report results?
90 These are the themes of biology.
90 What are the process of science, levels of organization, unity and diversity, structure and function, adaptation and evolution, continuity of life, life forms are interconnected, and homeostasis?
100 This is level of organization from an atom to the biosphere (11 levels).
100 What are an atom, a molecule, a cell, a tissue, an organ, an organ system, a multi-celled organism, a population, a community, an ecosystem, and a biosphere?
React with Me
10 These are the sub-particles of an atom.
10 What are a proton, a neutron, and an electron?
20 This is a molecule that consists of two or more atoms of different elements bound together.
20 What is a compound?
30 A chemical bond in which electrons are shared between two atoms.
30 What is a covalent bond?
40 A chemical bond in which one atom gains an electron (non metals) and another loses an electron (metals).
40 What is an ionic bond?
50 These bonds connect nitrogenous bases in DNA.
50 What are hydrogen bonds?
60 The bond formed between amino acids in a protein.
60 What is a peptide bond?
70 The energy used to start a reaction.
70 What is activation energy?
80 This is what lands in the active site of an enzyme in order to be broken down.
80 What is a substrate?
90 The five nitrogenous bases found in DNA and RNA combined.
90 What are adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil?
100 The components of an amino acid.
100 What are a centralized carbon, an amine group, a carboxylic acid group, a hydrogen atom, and a variable group?
The Reaction Chamber
10 This is the chemical formula of photosynthesis.
10 What is 6H2O + 6CO2 + sunlightàC6H12O6 + 6O2 + ATP?
20 This is the chemical formula of cellular respiration.
20 What is C6H12O6 + 6O2à6H2O + 6CO2 + Ʃ(36-38 ATP)?
30 This is the type of cellular respiration that takes place in the presence of oxygen.
30 What is aerobic respiration?
40 These are the amounts of ATP that NADP and FADH2 carry, respectively.
40 What are 3 ATP and 2 ATP?
50 This is where glycolysis takes place.
50 Where is the cytoplasm?
60 This is when bundle sheath cells are surrounded by mesophyll cells in C4 plants.
60 What is Kranz anatomy?
70 This is when photorespiration occurs.
70 When is photorespiration used as a “band-aid” on dry, hot days when the stoma close and the amount of CO2 that enters the leaf is lower?
80 The products of the Krebs cycle.
80 What are 4CO2, 6NADH, 2 FADH2 and 2 ATP.
90 The two types of anaerobic respiration and their products.
90 What are…
Lactic Acid fermentation: 2 lactic acid (2C3H6O3) + 2 ATP
Alcoholic fermentation: 2 carbon dioxide (2CO2) + 2 ethanol (2C2H6O)+ 2 ATP?
100 Name a practical application for photosynthesis, used in the cities, and how it works.
100 What is urban sprawl (plants grown on top of buildings) which mass produces oxygen and cuts costs by insulating the building?
Haters Get Mad
10 These are the expansions of DNA and RNA.
10 What are deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid?
20 The differences between DNA and RNA.
20 What are structure, sugar, nitrogen bases, and function?
30 The enzyme that unwinds the DNA molecule to be replicated.
30 What is helicase?
40 The names of the replicated fragments on the lagging strand.
40 What are Okazaki fragments?
50 The strand of DNA that is not transcribed, but is the code for the protein.
50 What is the antisense strand?
60 The two additions made in RNA processing and where they are added.
60 What are the methyl-guanosine cap is added to the 5’ end and a poly A tail is added to the 3’ end?
70 The number of total codons and how many code for amino acids.
70 What are the 64 total codons that exist, and of those only 61 code for an amino acid?
80 If a genome has 24% cytosine bases, what percentage of adenine bases does it have?
80 What is 26%?
90 For a DNA triplet of TCG, list the mRNA complement, the tRNA anticodon and the codon that codes for the amino acid.
90 What is the path UGC(mRNA)àACG(tRNA)àUGC (cysteine)?
100 The steps of translation, explained.
100 What are…
Initiation: ribosome looks for promoter to start translation
Elongation: tRNA brings amino acid to the ribosome and mRNA to elongate amino acid chain
Termination: ribosome reads the stop codon and releases the newly-created protein?
The Circle of Life
10 The difference between a producer and a consumer.
10 What is an autotroph that produces its own food and a heterotrophy that needs energy from other sources?
20 Only 10% of energy from the previous trophic level is transferred to the next consumer.
20 What is the 10% rule?
30 Name three abiotic cycles.
30 What are the carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, and water cycle?
40 Name three biomes.
40 What are the tundra, the savannah, and the forest?
50 An effect in which gases trap wavelengths of sun light on earth to keep the temperature suitable for living.
50 What is the greenhouse effect?
60 A combination of food chains and the interaction between them.
60 What is a food web?
70 Name two effects of global warming on the ecosystems of the world.
70 What are the movement of species towards the poles, where it is cooler, and an increase in insect populations due to warm climates?
80 The effect of a higher birth rate, and no factors that inhibit the survival of a species.
80 What is an exponential population growth?
90 In the 1960’s myxomatosis was ‘accidentally’ released killing approximately 90% of rabbits in the UK. What happened in the food chain below?
Carrotsàrabbitsàfoxes
90 What is the number of carrots increased and the number of foxes decreased?
100 Explain biomagnifications through an example.
100 What is biomagnification of non-degradable pesticides from eel grass to a mottled shorecrab to a King George whiting to a cormorant.
TLC: Tender, Love, and Cells
10 The longest stage of the cell cycle.
10 What is Interphase?
20 The random movement of sister chromosome pairs.
20 What is Independent Assortment?
30 Known as the genetic material that condenses into chromatids.
30 What is Chromatin?
40 Formation of this allows for the separation of plant cells during mitosis.
40 What is the cell plate?
50 The process of homologous Chromosomes coming together.
50 What is synapsis?
60 The period of rest during mieosis.
60 What is interkinesis?
70 The protein that allows cytokenisis to occur.
70 What is actin?
80 Spindle fibres attach to this on chromosomes.
80 What are the kinetochores?
90 During spermatogenesis, spermatids develop into this.
90 What are sperm cells, or spermatozoa?
100 The reason for the production of polar bodies during oogenesis.
100 What is the uneven distribution of cytoplasm?
The Meaning of Life
10 The scientific term for ‘non-living’.
10 What is ‘abiotic’?
20 Reaction to this is a characteristic of life.
20 What is a stimulus?
30 Ability to sustain balance between internal and external environments.
30 What is homeostasis?
40 The chemical process that is necessary for an organism to maintain life.
40 What is metabolism?
50 Mieosis, mitosis, and binary fission are all forms of this.
50 What is reproduction?
60 The metabolic process to breakdown molecules.
60 What is catabolism?
70 All biotic organisms have organization, which can be clearly seen due to this characteristic of life.
70 What is ‘has cells’?
80 Evolution is closely associated with this characteristic of life.
80 What is adaption to environment?
90 The seven characteristics of life are these.
90 What is homeostasis, growth and development, reaction to stimuli, adaption to environment, has cells, metabolism, and reproduction?
100 Preceding the modern view of the characteristics of life, scientists such as Aristotle believed in this incorrect theory: POOF!
100 What is spontaneous generation?
The Darwin Awards
10 Darwin’s theory is composed of these two concepts.
10 What is natural selection and dissent with modification?
20 System of naming organisms formed by Carl Linnaeus.
20 What is binomial nomenclature?
30 Lynn Margulis followed this theory about the formation of life.
30 What is the Endosymbiant theory?
40 An equilibrium that measures gene frequency under a controlled population.
40 What is the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
50 A pattern of evolution in which two or more related species become more and more dissimilar.
50 What is divergence?
60 Reproductive isolation in which time, such as breeding seasons, play a role.
60 What is temporal isolation?
70 This is the order of classification starting with ‘Domain’.
70 What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
80 The mass extinction that occurred due to the formation of Pangaea.
80 What is the Permian extinction?
90 The relationship between all groups of organisms as understood by ancestor/descendant relationships.
90 What is phylogeny?
100 A rate of speciation founded by Stephen Jay Gould in which long periods of no change is followed by short and quick evolution.
100 What is punctuated equilibrium?
It’s A Small World After All
10 This organelle is known as the ‘power house’ of the cell.
10 What is the mitochondria?
20 This is known as the term for the space between the hollow tube structure of both Endoplasmic Reticulum.
20 What is lumen?
30 The center part of the nucleus; it’s function is produce a certain type of RNA.
30 What is the nucleoulus?
40 Stringy components of the cytoskeleton made up of glogular protein actin.
40 What are microfilaments?
50 Vacuole in animals cells involved with osmoregulation.
50 What is the contractile vacuole?
60 When placed in this environment, a cell exhibits the loss of water, making it appeared shriveled.
60 What is a hypertonic environment?
70 The trans face of Golgi apparatus faces this.
70 What is the plasma membrane?
80 These are the two types of proteins within the plasma membrane.
80 What are integral and peripheral proteins?
90 Organs such as the small intestine us this type of transport, allowing it to push molecules against the concentration gradient.
90 What is active transport?
100 Organelle that terminates the command of Autophagy.
100 What are the lysosomes?
Billie Gene Is Not My Lover
10 This scientist is known as the ‘Father of Modern Genetics’
10 Who is Gregor Mendel?
20 In this point mutation, a different amino acid is created but with a similar structure.
20 What is conservative point muation?
30 Mendel never gave a thought to these types of chromosomes, but they contribute to many genetic inheritances such as ‘red-green colorblindness’.
30 What are sex linked chromosomes?
40 In the modern day, this method has become extremely efficient in observing chromosomal defects.
40 What is karyotyping?
50 This type of DNA is genetically engineered by joining fragments of DNA from other organisms.
50 What is recombinant DNA?
60 This tool can help decipher the long line of hemophiliacs in Queen Victoria’s royal family.
60 What is a pedigree?
70 Alteration in chromosome number represented by n+1 or n-1.
70 What is aneuploidy?
80 DNA to RNA, RNA to....DNA? Something's terribly wrong in this type of “jumping gene”.
80 What is retrotransposons?
90 In the pGLO lab, the addition of this molecule allowed the bacteria to glow because of its interaction with the repressor molecule.
90 What is arabinose?
100 This is the genotypic ratio of a dihybrid cross.
100 What 1:2:2:4:1:2:1:2:1?