Compilation of questions from the May 2017 Bio subject test. Add to the list in the format “#) Question? Answer.”
1-5) Match the term to the example: phototropism, photorespiration, photosynthesis, phototaxism, __one more
6-8) Identify differences in products and reactants in cellular respiration and photosynthesis
7) What do ligaments connect to? Bones to bones
8) What role do fungi play in an ecosystem? Decomposer
9) Why is NaCl essential in the body? Needed for muscle contraction?
10) Why does a tree branch never grow taller with the trunk? Tres grow up from the apical meristems in their shoots.
11) What is influenza? Virus.
12) What to vertebrates and insects have in common? Either chitin exoskeleton or six appendages.
1-5) Match the term to the example: phototropism, photorespiration, photosynthesis, phototaxism, __one more
6-8) Identify differences in products and reactants in cellular respiration and photosynthesis
7) What do ligaments connect to? Bones to bones
8) What role do fungi play in an ecosystem? Decomposer
9) Why is NaCl essential in the body? Needed for muscle contraction?
10) Why does a tree branch never grow taller with the trunk? Tres grow up from the apical meristems in their shoots.
11) What is influenza? Virus.
12) What to vertebrates and insects have in common? Either chitin exoskeleton or six appendages.
13-15) Match the term with its example: of symbiosis,
Commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, mimicry.
16). What adaptations allowed plant to transition from an aquatic environment to land ??? “Waxy cuticle ??”
17) Why was Gregor Mendel considered the “father of genetics”? Described the reproductive behavior of pea plants?
18) Best example about the “survival of the fittest”?
19) Adaptations to prevent water loss in plants? Guard cells on the undersides of leaves
20) Identify a correct sequence of DNA among different pictures-had to be antiparallel and A had to match with T
21) What did Watson and Crick do? DNA helix structure
22) Which of the following doesn’t have a nucleus? Amoeba or cyanobacterium
23) Rats fetus resorption graph: what do the points on it represent? the percentage of resorption when exposed to the certain amount of DES
24) Rats fetus resorption graph: What does the oil represent?The rate of resorption with only the oil
25) What brings nucleic acids to the ribosome? tRNA
26) What’s false about the phosphorus cycle?
27) If two organisms have the same amount of guanine, then what’s also true? Same amount of other bases
28) What does a string of amino acids form? A polypeptide
29) What do neuron impulses, cellular resp in the mitochondria, and photosynthesis in the chloroplasts have in common? Ion concentration/membrane stuff, oxidation, or ADP + P
30) Down syndrome caused by what? Nondisjunction during meiosis
31) What phase is this cell, which has chromosomes lining down the middle, in? Metaphase
- M: how is plant growth controlled on a cellular level? Electrical signals or plant hormones
- M: identify the number of bases in a PCR sample. 1400
32-34) List of breeding results from serrated and smooth plants.
32) Which of the following is true? Serrated is dominant
33) The parents are SsXss for 50serrated-60smooth
34) The parents are SsXSs for 110serrated-15 smooth
35) 1. Polydiploidy is dominant and somatic. What’s the chance that the kid of a heterozygous gal and a homozygous recessive will be polydiploidy? 50%
36) Which of the following molecule catabolyzes stuff? A protein?
- Something converts a form of nitrogen (?) into a form that plants can use. What is this doing? Dentrification (?)