PreAP Taxonomy Study Guide

 

Taxonomy Review     

 

DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions below as completely and as thoroughly as possible. Answer the question in essay form (not outline form), using complete sentences. You may use diagrams to supplement your answers, but a diagram alone without appropriate discussion is inadequate.

1. Describe one way in which embryos of vertebrates and echinoderms are fundamentally different from the embryos of other orders.

2. What are the six kingdoms recognized today? What do plants and fungi have in common with animals?

3. What is Taxonomy?

4. Compare and Contrast Aristotle’s system of classification with that of Linnaeus.

5. The kingdom Protista includes a wide variety of organisms that are more distantly related to each other than plants are to animals. Why are they grouped together in one kingdom?

6. What criterion do modern taxonomists use to classify organisms?

7. What is cladistics and What is it use for?  How do we show these relationships?

8. What is systematic taxonomy, and what kinds of data are used by systematic taxonomist?

9. Why do protests, fungi, plants, and animals share a domain in the six-kingdom system?

10. Explain how embryological evidence helps to define phylogeny.

11. Explain how we name a species and what this process is called. Give or use an example in your answer. Why are species names important is scientific work?

12. List the levels of Classification developed by Linnaeus, from the broadest category to the most specific. What is the difference between a subspecies and a variety?

13. Define the term phylogenic tree. What is a phylogenic tree? What does is show and represent?

14. Compare and Contrast the six-kingdom system with the three-domain system. What evidence prompted the development of the three-domain system? What are the three domains?

Be able to identify organisms using a dichotomous key!

 

 

Protein Synthesis Puzzle

 

Protein Synthesis
Across 2. a series of three mRNA nucleotides that codes for an amino acid 3. coded for by DNA and made of amino acids 7. process of assembling amino acids into polypeptides in the ribosomes 9. RNA that copies DNA in the nucleus 10. use to translate mRNA transcripts into proteins 11. UGA, UAA, and UAG codons 12. RNA that carries amino acids to be linked together to make proteins 15. site of transcription Down 1. both DNA and RNA are these types of compounds 2. where ribosomes are found 4. series of three bases on tRNA that code for an amino acid 5. base on RNA that replaces thymine 6. holes in the nuclear membrane where mRNA leaves to move to the ribosome 8. methionine codon (AUG) 13. RNA that makes up ribosomes along with proteins 14. site of protein synthesis

 

PreAP Virus Study Guide

 

Viruses Review   

 

Are viruses made of cells?
Do viruses make their own energy?
Can viruses make their own proteins?
Why are nonliving viruses included in a study of biology?
When is the only time that viruses are active?
What 2 things are found in the core of a virus?
What is the coating around a virus’s core made of?
What is the protective outer coat of a virus called?
Name 3 things that the envelope around some viruses can be made of?
Do viruses contain cell organelles such as cytoplasm, ribosomes, mitochondria, or chloroplasts?
What is the TMV virus & what does it attack?
How does a tobacco mosaic virus compare in size to a bacterium?
Can the TMV be crystallized? How is this helpful?
In nanometers, how large is the biggest known virus?
What viruses use reverse transcriptase to make DNA from RNA?
Viroids contain only what?
Prions are composed of only what substance?
A protein coat & a nucleic acid core makes up a typical what?
When is the only time viruses reproduce?
Sketch a bacteriophage & label the nucleic acid — DNA or RNA.
Do viruses have a nucleus or organelles?
Are viruses cellular?
Animal viruses only attack animal cells because they recognize what on the host cell?
In what viral life cycle does the viral DNA become part of the host cell’s DNA?
___________ don’t work on viruses because viruses don’t perform certain metabolic processes.
Name  several viral diseases of humans.
Name several viruses that have been linked to cancer.
Does Ebola virus cause cancer?
Many new viruses are emerging because of which activity of humans?

 

Protist Study Guide B1

Protist Study Guide 

  1. What type of environment are slime molds found?
  2. Describe the body of a slime mold.
  3. What is so unusual about a euglena?
  4. Give main characteristics of Chlorophyta.
  5. How is quinine used?
  6. What plasmodium stage do mosquitoes inject into humans?
  7. Where are Autotrophic protists found?
  8. Where can algae be found?
  9. What are zoospores?
  10. Why are Bacillariophytes so important?
  11. List some specializations of algae.
  12. How do algae differ from other protists?
  13. Which type of algae is most like plants?
  14.  In what phylum are these algae placed?
  15. How do the sporophyte & gametophyte generations of protists differ?
  16. Name several characteristics used to identify algae.
  17. Name characteristics of all protozoa.
  18. Which type of protozoan serves as an energy source for other organisms in its environment?
  19. What insect spreads African sleeping sickness?
  20. What causes malaria?
  21. How do micronuclei & macronuclei differ genetically from each other?
  22. List human diseases caused by protists.
  23. What is conjugation?
  24. What protist uses pseudopodia & how are they used?
  25. What are cysts & why are they formed?

PreAP Weekly Assignments

 

Updated May 2007

First Nine Weeks

 

Week of August 20 assignments:
Issue textbooks class rules, needed materials; Start answering chapter 1 worksheet; PowerPoint: Introduction to Biology; Set up notebooks

Week of August 27 assignments:
Explain website & work on & complete chapter 1 worksheet ; PowerPoint on scientific method; Scientific Method & Safety; Safety & equipment worksheet and TEST; Handout: Writing lab reports

Week of September 3 assignments: 
Lab: Heart Rate & the Scientific Method;  *Chapter 1 Test; Read & outline chapter 2 on Chemistry

Week of September 10 assignments:
PowerPoint: Chemistry; Symbols & Formula handout; chapter 2 outline due; Worksheet on atoms & molecules; *Symbol & Formula TEST

Week of September 17 assignments:     Interims   

Lab: Chromatography of Inks; Chapter 2 Chemistry TEST; Read & outline chapter 3 on Biochemistry; start PowerPoint: Biochemistry

Week of September 24 assignments:
Lab write up due!; Chapter 3 outline due; Assign nucleotide model; complete Biochemistry ppt

Parent-Teacher Conference – 3 to 7 pm!

Week of October 1 assignments:
Video: Organic Compounds; Lab: Building Organic Molecules; chapter 3 study guide; TEST on chapter 3 Biochemistry; Read & outline chapter 4 on Cells; Organic Model due!

Week of October 8 assignments:
Lab: Water Properties; Assign Chapter 4 Cell drawings; chapter 4 outline due; start PowerPoint on Cells

 

Week of October 15 assignments:
Continue ppt on Cells; Work on cell drawings

End of First Nine weeks

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Second Nine Weeks

Week of October 22 assignments:     

Assign Cell Model; Cell drawings due; chapter 4 study guide; TEST on chapter 4 Cells; Lab: McMush; Read & outline chapter 5 on Homeostasis & Transport

Week of October 29 assignments:    

Cell models due; PowerPoint: Homeostasis & Transport; McMush lab write up due

Week of November 5 assignments:

Chapter 5 outline due; study guide for chapter 5 test; Lab: Egg Osmosis; TEST on chapter 5 Homeostasis & Transport; Read & outline chapter 6 on Photosynthesis

 

Week of November 12 assignments: Interims
PowerPoint: Photosynthesis; Video Photosynthesis; Chapter 6 outline due; Lab:  Chromatography of Plant Pigments; chapter 6 study guide

Week of November 24 – 28:    

Thanksgiving Vacation!

Week of November 26 assignments:
Chapter 6 TEST on Photosynthesis; Read & outline Chapter 7 on cellular respiration, Start Cellular Respiration PowerPoint: Chromatography lab write up due

Week of December 3 assignments:
Lab: Making Root beer; Complete chapter 7 cell respiration PowerPoint; study guide for chapter 7 test; *TEST on Chapter 7 Cellular Respiration; Read & answer chapter 9 worksheet

Week of December 10 assignments:
Cover cell cycle, chromosomes, mitosis & meiosis; chapter 9 worksheet due; TEST on Chapter 9 Cell Division; Review for Semester Test

Week of December 17 assignments:
Review for semester test!

Semester Tests Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday!  

           End of First Semester

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