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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!

 

 

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 Genetics Study Guide

Genetics Review  

The two genes or alleles that combine to determine a trait would be the organism’s _______________.
Type AB blood, having two genes dominant for a trait, is an example of ________.
State Mendel’s law of segregation.
Rr x Rr is an example of what type of cross —– P1, F1, or F2?
If both alleles are the same in a genotype, is the genotype homozygous or heterozygous?
Which cross is a cross between two hybrids —– P1, F1, or F2?
__________ dominance results in the blending of genes in the hybrid. Give an example using flower color.
What is another term for a heterozygous genotype?
The _____________ is the physical feature such as round peas that results from a genotype.
How many traits are involved in a monohybrid cross?
What type of organism was used in the first genetic studies done by Gregor Mendel?
What is a karyotype?
The two genes for a trait represented by capital & lower case letters are called __________.
How many traits are involved in a dihybrid cross?
Which of Mendel’s laws states that the dominant gene in a pair will be expressed?
If both alleles are the same, is the genotype homozygous or heterozygous? Write an example.
Write an example of a hybrid or heterozygous genotype.
The genes for sex-linked traits are only carried on which chromosome?
Who is considered to be the “father of genetics”?
A second filial or F2 cross is also called a ____________ cross.
The failure of chromosomes to separate during meiosis (egg & sperm formation) is known as _________________.
A cross between two pure or homozygous organisms is called what type of cross —– P1, F1, or F2?
What genetic disorder results from a sex-linked trait that affects color vision?
The genetic disorder called _______________ is known as the “free bleeders” disease.
Having three 21st chromosomes causes the genetic disorder known as _________.
A person suffering from the genetic disorder called ______________ can not digest fats.
_____________________ disease is a genetic disorder where red blood cells carry less oxygen.
Work a P1 cross for plant height in peas.
Work an F1 cross for plant height in peas.

 

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 or pictures to supplement your answers, but a diagram or picture alone without appropriate discussion is inadequate.

1. State the two laws of heredity that resulted from Mendel’s work.

2. What happens during meiosis that would allow genes located on the same chromosome to separate independently of one another?

3. List the steps in Mendel’s experiments on pea plants. Include the P generation, F1 generation, and F2 generation.

4. Write the equation for probability.

5. Distinguish between codominance and incomplete dominance. Give an example of each type of inheritance.

6. Define the terms, dominant and recessive.

7. Relate the events of meiosis to the law of segregation.

8. Explain the difference between a monohybrid cross and dihybrid cross. Give an example of each.

9. Explain how you would use a Punnett square to predict the probable outcome of a monohybrid cross. Draw a Punnett square to demonstrate your monohybrid cross.

10. Explain the terms genotype and phenotype.

11. Explain the terms homozygous and heterozygous.

 

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