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Insect Study Guide

 

 

Insect Study Guide

 

  1. How many wings and legs do most insects have?
  2. How many body regions do most insects have?
  3. To which body region are a) most sensory organs attached?  b) wings attached?  c) legs attached?
  4. Most insects are ______ in size compared to other animals.
  5. The insect has what type of skeleton?
  6. Where is the skeleton found?
  7. What makes up the skeleton?
  8. Give one problem insects cause.
  9. How do insects help farmers & gardeners?
  10. What is the largest group of animals on Earth?
  11. Sketch a grasshopper & label the antenna, mandibles, abdomen, & thorax.
  12. What sensory structures are located on a grasshopper’s head?
  13. Insect jaws are called ________.
  14. The _______ of an insect is segmented.
  15. Legs and wings are attached to the _________.
  16. Name the stages in the life cycle of a butterfly.
  17. Does a butterfly go through complete or incomplete metamorphosis?
  18. What is a caterpillar?
  19. What is a pupa?
  20. What structures are found on an adult butterfly that aren’t on the immature caterpillar?
  21. Know what order each of these insects belongs in — bees, beetles, fleas, termites, dragonfly, butterfly, silverfish, and housefly.
  22. Name the 2 reproductive members of a honeybee hive.
  23. Name the stages in incomplete metamorphosis.
  24. Name an insect that goes through complete metamorphosis.

 

Introduction to Animals Study Guide BI

Introduction to Animals Study Guide

How are most animals classified?
What are the main characteristics of chordates?
How are vertebrates classified?
What are heterotrophs & give some examples.
In what ways do animals differ from plants?
What are tissues?
What determines an animal’s body plan?
In what habitat do you find most species of animals?
What is bilateral symmetry?
What does bipedal mean?
Where are the dorsal & ventral surfaces on a bipedal organism?
What is radial symmetry?
Name invertebrates that are asymmetrical, radial symmetry, & bilateral symmetry.
What does cephalization mean?
What invertebrate group was first to show cephalization?
Describe the “surfaces” of animals with radial symmetry.
Why is cephalization an advantage for animals?
What is a postanal tail & give examples of adult chordates with this characteristic?
Describe the “skeletal” support found in roundworms.
What is segmentation, & what animals exhibit this characteristic?
What is the function of kidneys, and what organisms have these organs?
How do closed & open circulatory systems differ?
How are terrestrial animals protected against water loss?
What structures show segmentation in vertebrates?
What is the advantage of having a long intestinal tract?
How are nutrients moved through a cnidarian’s body?
Describe how spiral cleavage occurs.
Describe the embryo at the start of gastrulation.
What forms from endoderm in cnidarians.
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Homeostasis & Transport Study Guide B1

 

 

Homeostasis & Transport Study Guide

 

What effect does diffusion have on the concentration of substances on either side of a membrane?
In which direction does diffusion take place?
The dispersal of ink in a beaker of water is an example of what process?
By what process do sugar molecules enter a cell?
In which direction do channels using facilitated diffusion work?
Does facilitated diffusion occur against or with a concentration gradient?
Besides energy, what else is needed for facilitated diffusion to occur?
What happens to the shape of carrier proteins in facilitated diffusion?
Electrical or chemical signals may control the movement of _________ across cell membranes.
Which of these processes requires energy to occur — chemiosmosis, active transport, or a sodium-potassium pump?
Does diffusion require energy?
A potassium ion would enter a cell by what process?
What is osmosis?
Sugar dissolving in water is an example of what process?
Ridding a cell of waste by discharging it in sacs from the cell surface is known as ______.
__________ is used to remove materials from a cell that are too large to pass through the cell membrane.
Large molecules that can’t pass through the cell membrane enter a cell by a process called ________.
What is turgor pressure?
What is plasmolysis?
Explain solute concentration and water movement for cells in hypotonic solutions solution.
Explain solute concentration and water movement for cells in hypertonic solutions solution.
If solute concentration is lower outside a cell than inside a cell, where is their the greatest concentration of water? Which direction will water move?

 

Fungi Study Guide B1

Fungi Study Guide

 

Know the following:

 

  • general characteristics of all fungi
  • how fungi get their nutrients
  • what makes up the cell walls of fungi
  • are fungi heterotrophic or autotrophic & why
  • can fungi carry on photosynthesis
  • how fungi growing on the roots of plants help them
  • what causes ringworm
  • what are sporangia
  • know the parts of a mushroom & which parts acquire food for the organism
  • how fungi obtain their energy
  • where fungi digest their organic matter
  • what is a hyphae
  • What mats of hypha are called
  • steps in the life cycle of a mold
  • what part of a mold releases enzymes & absorbs digested food
  • what must happen for sexual reproduction to occur between mold hypha
  • examples of club fungi
  • phylum for mushrooms
  • characteristics of sac fungi or ascomycetes
  • what type of spores allow molds to remain dormant during harsh conditions
  • most common member of the zygomycete group
  • what are sporangia & what forms inside them
  • what is an example of a unicellular fungus
  • how do yeasts asexually reproduce
  • what 2 things make up the body of a lichen
  • why are fungi so important to the environment

Genetics Study Guide

Genetics Study Guide 

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.
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