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Biology EOC Review and Biological Principles: 132 Questions and Answers, Exams of Biology

A comprehensive review of key concepts in biology, covering topics such as the scientific method, cell structure and function, energy transfer, and the characteristics of living things. It includes 132 questions and answers, designed to help students prepare for the biology eoc exam. Well-organized and provides clear explanations of important biological principles.

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Biology EOC Review and Biological
Principles 132 questions and actual
answers.
Biology EOC Review and Biological
Principles 132 questions and actual
answers.
List and describe the steps of the SCIENTIFIC METHOD - ANSWER •Observation- thoughtful and careful
recognition of an event or a fact
• Hypothesis- propose possible solutions to question based on what is already understood, must be
testable
• Experimentation- test if the hypothesis can be supported or rejected
•Repeat experiments
Why do many experiments make use of a control group? - ANSWER Something to compare to
What are the characteristics of a good experiment? - ANSWER Many tests, all parts of an experiment
present
What is the difference between an inference and a prediction? - ANSWER Inference = based on
observation
Prediction= is a hypothesis
What are the differences between hypothesis, theory and law? - ANSWER Hypothesis= educated guess
Theory= based on experiments
Law= proven the same over and over
What is the differences between an independent and dependent variable? - ANSWER Independent
Variable= things you test or change
Dependent Variable= things you measure
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Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

Biology EOC Review and Biological

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

List and describe the steps of the SCIENTIFIC METHOD - ANSWER •Observation- thoughtful and careful recognition of an event or a fact

  • Hypothesis- propose possible solutions to question based on what is already understood, must be testable
  • Experimentation- test if the hypothesis can be supported or rejected

•Repeat experiments

Why do many experiments make use of a control group? - ANSWER Something to compare to

What are the characteristics of a good experiment? - ANSWER Many tests, all parts of an experiment present

What is the difference between an inference and a prediction? - ANSWER Inference = based on observation

Prediction= is a hypothesis

What are the differences between hypothesis, theory and law? - ANSWER Hypothesis= educated guess

Theory= based on experiments

Law= proven the same over and over

What is the differences between an independent and dependent variable? - ANSWER Independent Variable= things you test or change

Dependent Variable= things you measure

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

Interpret graphs. Which axis has the independent variable? Which axis has the dependent variable? - ANSWER Independent Variable= x axis

Dependent Variable= y axis

How do you determine the magnification of the field of view for a microscope? - ANSWER Power of lens

Power of objective= magnification

What happens to the diameter of the field of view when you change from low to high power? - ANSWER Less to high magnification

How do you estimate the size of a cell or a cell structure when using a microscope? - ANSWER Consider magnification and original size

What do you adjust first on a microscope? What do you then adjust when on the highest power? - ANSWER 1. Course adjustment

  1. Fine adjustment

You have measured the rate at which a fish breaths at various temperatures by counting the rate at which its gills open, the data is below graph data. - ANSWER Breathing rate temperatures:

19/ min 5°C

25/ min 10°C

30/ min 20°C

34/ min 30°C

37/ min 35°C

What is the independent variable? The dependent variable? - ANSWER Independent = Temp.

Principles 132 questions and actual

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What should you always wear when around chemicals in the lab? "Think eyeballs" - ANSWER Goggles

How should broken glass be disposed of?

"a.k.a what type of trash can" - ANSWER Glass disposable box

First thing if an accident happens in the lab, what should you do first? - ANSWER Tell the teacher

The experiment above was done on rats, is there any reason to think that it might apply to humans? - ANSWER Rats are similar to humans both in DNA and metabolism

What else would you like to know about this topic before you start eating spinach everyday? - ANSWER

  • Are there negative effects of eating spinach daily?
  • Has this been tested on humans?

There is conflicting data from the 1970's how do you decide what is most scientifically accurate? - ANSWER The most current would be most accurate due to improvement in technology

Gregor Mendel - ANSWER I found that by combing amino acids and electrical current, I could create protocell

Robert Hooke - ANSWER I coined the term "cells" by look at a cork in the microscope

James Watson & Francis Crick - ANSWER Together we determined the double helix shape of DNA

Theodore Schwaan - ANSWER I was first to look at animal cells underneath the microscope

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

Matthias Schleiden - ANSWER I was first to look at plant cells underneath the microscope

Charles Darwin - ANSWER I developed the theory of natural selection and I am known as the father of evolution

Anton van Leeuwenhoek - ANSWER I invented the first simple light microscopes in the 1700

Francesco Redi - ANSWER I disapprove the idea is spontaneous generation by using covered and uncovered jars of rotting meat

Louis Pasteur - ANSWER I supported the idea of biogenesis by my curved flask experiment. My name is process to keep milk fresh

Alexander Oparin - ANSWER I hypothesized that life originated in the early oceans

Stanley Miller & Harold Urey - ANSWER We found that methane, ammonia, hydrogen gases from early earth changed with electricity can form amino acids

Carolus Linnaeus - ANSWER I created the system of binomial nomenclature using Latin

Jean Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWER I am the scientists who erroneously came up with the idea that traits are acquired from animals from their use or disuse

Rudolf Virchow - ANSWER I am one of the first to see the cell structure for cell division

What are the differences between living and non-living things? List 8 characteristics - ANSWER •Made of cells

•Reproduce

Principles 132 questions and actual

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Subunits: Amino acids

Lipids - ANSWER Function: Long Term Energy storage, Protection, Insulation

Subunits: Glycerol, 3 fatty acid chains

Nucleic Acids - ANSWER Function: Store Genetic Information

Subunits: 5-Carbon sugar, Nitrogen base, phosphate group

Starch - ANSWER Function: A macromolecule of sugar used for short term or quick energy

Cellulose - ANSWER Function; A macromolecule of sugar used to make cell walls in plants

Insulin - ANSWER Function: A protein used in the breakdown of sugar made by the pancreas. Without it, causes Diabetes

Glycogen - ANSWER Function: Storage of excess sugar in the liver and used when glucose levels in the blood is low

Glucose - ANSWER Function: A molecule used to create Glycogen, sugars needed by the brain for life functions

Enzymes - ANSWER Function: Proteins used to lower activation energy to cause chemical reactions to occur

Hemoglobin - ANSWER Function: The protein used to bind to oxygen to carry it in the red blood cells

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

Fats - ANSWER Long term energy storage, protection and insulation

DNA - ANSWER Genetic code of life used in replication & transcription

RNA - ANSWER Genetic code of life used in transcription & translation

Starch - ANSWER It is used to test for iodine when it is present it goes from brown to red an example of this is Pasta

Lipids - ANSWER It is used to test for paper bag test, when it is present it causes a greasy stain an example of this is chips, and butter

Monosaccharides - ANSWER It is used to test Benedicts, when it's positive heat turns from blue to orange, an example of this is milk and fruit

Protein - ANSWER It is used to test for biurets, when present turns from blue to purple, an example of this is meats, and some legumes

A. What does the term "membrane bound organelles mean?"

B. What cell type are they found in? - ANSWER A. "Tiny organs" with unique functions covered in a membrane.

B. They are found in Eukaryotes cells only

What are the three parts of cell theory? - ANSWER 1. All living things are composed of cells

  1. Cells are the basic units of all living things

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

How do hormones travel throughout a body? - ANSWER Since many hormones are lipids, they pass through cell membranes

How do hormones travel throughout a body? - ANSWER Since many hormones are lipids, they pass through cell membranes

Nucleus - ANSWER Structure: Located near the center of the cell, it is large and surrounded by the ER

Function: Contains DNA or the molecule of heredity in the cell

Plasma Membrane - ANSWER Structure: Surrounds the cell in animal cells, inner membrane of a plant cell

Function: Allows only certain molecules to pass through, the bouncer

Cell wall - ANSWER Structure: Not found in animal cells, it

surrounds the outside of plant

cells

Function: Acts as a barrier to keep

water in plant cells

Mitochondria - ANSWER Structure: Looks like a pea with wavy lines

inside of it.

Function: Acts as the energy production

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

area of the cell.

"Powerhouse."

Vacuoles - ANSWER Structure: A very large and empty area in a

plant cell, are smaller in animal

cells.

Function: Used as storage for the cell

for food, water, etc.

Chloroplasts - ANSWER Structure: Not found in Animal cells, they

are circles with small stacks

within them

Function: Used in the process of making

energy (photosynthesis) for

plants.

Ribosomes - ANSWER Structure: Found as small dots located on

the ER or in the cytoplasm.

Function:Sites of proteins synthesis,

they read RNA to assemble

proteins

2.02 in Biology Packet

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

Why did the large dark molecules NOT move to the left? - ANSWER They are too large to pass through the semi-permeable

membrane.

How is the semi-permeable membrane like a cell

membrane? - ANSWER Allows some substances through while keeps others out.

If the dark molecule is starch, where is the starch

concentration greatest (left or right)? - ANSWER Neither, Equal

If the white molecule is water, where is the water concentration greatest at first? - ANSWER It is highest on the left

In osmosis, water moves from an area of __________ concentration of substrate to an area of


concentration of substrate. (higher/lower) - ANSWER lower/higher

If the dark molecules could move, in what direction would they move? Why? - ANSWER To the left, it is lower there.

In diffusion, molecules move from an area of ________ to an area of ________ concentration. (higher/lower) - ANSWER higher/lower

Which way water will move in each of the following situations:

a. Salt inside the cell 65% and outside the cell 40%.

b. Sugar inside the cell 27% and outside 80%. - ANSWER a.Water will move inside the cell

b.Water will move outside the cell

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

What is homeostasis? - ANSWER Maintaining a balance of chemicals, fluid, etc inside of a living organism.

How do cells maintain homeostasis? Consider pH, temperature, blood glucose, water balance - ANSWER They use the cell membrane (cell wall in plants) as well as stimulus/response, buffers, hormones, cell

organelles, and internal feedback loops.

PASSIVE TRANSPORT:

  1. Requires energy?
  2. Low to high concentration or

high to low concentration?

  1. Example - ANSWER 1. NO
  2. High to Low
  3. Osmosis

ACTIVE TRANSPORT:

  1. Requires energy?
  2. Low to high concentration or

high to low concentration?

  1. Example - ANSWER 1. YES
  2. LOW to HIGH
  3. Muscle pumps

What cellular process produces ATP? - ANSWER ATP synthesis in mitochondria

What is ATP energy used for? Give examples. - ANSWER Making proteins replicating DNA, cell responses, pumps working, muscle contraction

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

  1. Tired Muscles, yeast

Which reaction makes the most ATP? - ANSWER Aerobic Respiration

What gas is the final electron acceptor? - ANSWER Oxygen

How do factors such as pH, temp., light and food availability affect these reactions? - ANSWER Extremes may decrease the effectiveness of this reaction

2.05 Biology packet

Label the following molecules in these equations (water, glucose, oxygen, carbon dioxide, ethyl alcohol)

  • ANSWER (water (H2O), glucose (C6H12O6) oxygen (O2), carbon dioxide (CO2), ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH)

What are the reactions in photosynthesis? - ANSWER A. 6H2O+6CO2-----> C6H12O6+6O

What are the reactions for fermentation (anaerobic cellular respiration)? - ANSWER C. C6H12O6-----> 2C2H5OH + 2CO

What are the reactions is cellular respiration (aerobic)? - ANSWER B. C6H12O6 + 6O2 -----> 6CO2+ 6H2O

Which reaction(s) requires or stores energy? - ANSWER All require some form of energy, A stores it

Which reaction(s) release energy (ATP)? - ANSWER All release some form of energy, mostly B and C

Which reaction releases the most energy? - ANSWER B because it uses oxygen

Which reaction requires chlorophyll? - ANSWER A, chlorophyll traps light energy for photosynthesis

Principles 132 questions and actual

answers.

Which reaction requires light? - ANSWER A, light is required for light dependent reaction for photosynthesis

Which organisms carry out process A? - ANSWER Plants, Autotrophs, and other producers (algae)

Which organisms carry out process B? - ANSWER Most animals, heterotrophs, and consumers

Which organisms carry out process C? - ANSWER Yeast and other anaerobic organisms

Which process uses chloroplasts in eukaryotes? - ANSWER Process A only (Plant Cells)

Which process uses mitochondria in eukaryotes? - ANSWER Processes A and B (Plant and Animal Cells)

Compare and contrast: Alcoholic Fermentation and Lactic Acid Fermentation. (# ATP, where it occurs) - ANSWER Alcoholic Fermentation occurs in yeast and releases alcohol as a byproduct whereas lactic acid

fermentation occurs in tired muscle cells deprived of oxygen resources. Both produce only 2 ATP.

What is the function of enzymes in cells? (Or, what is a catalyst?) - ANSWER Enzymes speed up chemical reactions in cells

Explain the importance of shape to enzyme function. - ANSWER "Work like locks and keys."