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CLEP Biology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Contains optic lobes - controls sight.
Midbrain
Chromatin
Saprophytic
Mesozoic era
2. Proposes that those individuals within a population that are most adapted to the environment are also the most likely individuals to produce viable offspring.
Differential reproduction
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
Ecotone
Kingdom Protista
3. Ended with the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Successful reproduction
Meristem tissue
The biosphere
Mesozoic era
4. Produces the most ATP molecules - yielding 34 ATPs per glucose molecule.
Electron Transfer System (ETS)
Iisotonic state
Phototropism
About five million years ago...
5. Is disorganized - unravelled - DNA with histones attached.
A lysosome
Chromatin
Gymnosperms
The pancreas
6. Is a disease caused by lack of vitamin C in which the body is unable to build enough collagen (a major component of connective tissue).
Scurvy
Prosthetic groups
Habitat
Hydrolysis
7. A sex-linked recessive disorder carried on the x chromosome in which an individual cannot perceive certain colors.
Genetic screening
Color blindness
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
Bronchi
8. Becomes available for erosion as undersea sedimentary rocks are up-thrust by volcanic activity - erosion releases it from rocks into streams where it combines with oxygen to form phosphates in lakes that are then absorbed by plants - it is recycled t
Cellular Metabolism
Mesozoic era
Phototropism
Phosphorous
9. Most chemical pollutants accidentally ingested by humans are __________ - mixed with broken down pigments in the bile - then bile is secreted into the small intestine - proceeds to the large intestine - and is expelled in the feces.
Filtered by the liver
The synthesis of ATP molecules to store energy is an example of
Altruism
A prosthetic group
10. The total amount of genetic information available for a given species.
Forebrain
Very specific
A catalyst
Genome
11. Nonvascular plants such as mosses which lack tissue for conducting food or water.
Bryophytes
Cerebrum
Aves
Gnathostomata
12. Can be accounted for by the theory of punctuated equilibrium. The fossil record shows periods of stability with regard to appearance and disappearance of species as well as periods of sudden change.
Recycled environmental factors
Nucleotides
Sudden appearance and disappearance of fossil species
Plasmodesmata
13. Is composed of an anterior and posterior lobe. The stalk of the lobe is connected to the hypothalamus. Antidiuretic Hormone (AH) is produced in the hypothalamus and stored in the posterior pituitary. Upon nervous stimulation from the hypothalamus - t
Anabolism
The cell membrane
The pituitary gland
Did not evolve together
14. Are easily converted to ATP - but the main energy products of the Krebs cycle liberate electrons then used in the electron transfer reactions.
The products of the Krebs cycle
The cell membrane
Attraction of atoms of different polarity
Silicon
15. Disease causing
Adenine
pathogenic
Parenchyma tissue
Kingdom Animalia
16. A type of innate behavior (instinct.) The FAP is a preprogrammed response to a particular stimulus (known as a releaser stimulus). FAP's include courtship behaviors and feeding of young. These are not learned behaviors - they are automatically perfor
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
The cell's 'powerhouses'
Biosphere
About five million years ago...
17. Developed by the German scientists Schleiden and Schwann - States that all living things are made of cells - cells are the basic units of life - all cells come from pre-existing cells.
Mesozoic era
The Cell Theory
A species role in the food chain is part of its
Genetic imprinting
18. This is a carboxyl group and is the signature group found within organic acids.
Gametocide
C ---OH
Meristem tissue
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
19. The systematic search for individuals with a specific genotype in a delineated population.
Parenchyma tissue
Phyla
Genetic screening
The Hardy-Weinberg Law of Equilibrium
20. Allows for the genetic code to be preserved in future generations of cells.
Bryophytes
DNA replication
Niche
Phosphorous gas
21. Is the organelle where cellular reproductive processes occur.
Prosthetic groups
The synthesis of ATP molecules to store energy is an example of
The Cambrian Period
The nucleus
22. Are formed when the plasma membrane of a cell encloses a molecule outside the membrane - then releases a membrane bound sack containing the desired molecule into the cytoplasm. This process allows the cell to absorb molecules that are larger in size
Mesoderm
Stem tissues
Endocytic vesicles
Common elements found in proteins
23. Respiratory organs within insects
Spiracles
Tundra
An enzyme
Ectoderm
24. The pituitary gland.
A sudden change in the amount of extracellular fluid will be corrected by events following the release of substances from this organ.
Hydrolysis
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
Scurvy
25. Protein synthesis
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
Genetic maintenance
Will increase the reaction rate
Cell walls
26. Controls olfactory lobes (smell)
pH of Water
Forebrain
Pi
Lymphocytes
27. Contains the chromosomes and is the site of reproduction through mitosis and meiosis.
Xylem tissue
North America
The nucleus
Cuticle
28. Channels is cell membranes that carry water between cells.
Plasmodesmata
Common elements found in proteins
The cuticle
The Cambrian Period
29. The size of a cell is limited by the ratio of its surface area to volume.
Restriction enzymes
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
Filtered by the liver
The key limiting factor on cell size
30. Is an abundant element found in protoplasm. Together with oxygen - hydrogen - and nitrogen - it composes over 90% of cellular structure.
Carbon
Epidermal tissue
Porifera
About five million years ago...
31. Is a substance that changes the speed of a reaction without being affected itself.
A catalyst
Phosphorous
Iisotonic state
Gametogenesis
32. Fruits that develop from a single ripened ovary (apple - olive - acorn - cucumber).
Simple fruits
Lymphocytes
Non-protein
The Nitrogen cycle
33. Where protein synthesis occurs. They float unattached in the cytoplasm. They contain RNA that is specific to their function in protein formation.
Multiple fruit
Population
Pi
Free ribosomes
34. Refers to the birthrate of a population.
parasitic
Carbon
Natality
Pharynx
35. Develops from the morula as a thin layer of cells surrounding an internal cavity.
Common elements found in proteins
The biosphere
Blastula
Cellulose - starch - lipid - and sugar molecules
36. The vocal cords are found in the larynx.
Lysosomes
Successful reproduction
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
Larynx
37. Covalent bonds
Share electrons
Interphase
Kingdom Animalia
Filtered by the liver
38. A suffix meaning 'to break apart.' O || ||
Lysis
Chordata
Aves
Blastula
39. In order to become an established part of an island ecosystem there must be a populations large enough to ensure _________ - a food source - a suitable habitat - and a source of moisture.
Phyla
Gregor Medel
Successful reproduction
Cellular Respiration
40. Transfers water and does not require sieve plates to allow nutrients through.
Lactose
Kingdom Protista
Xylem tissue
Recycled environmental factors
41. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
Phosphorous gas
Multiple fruit
Prosthetic groups
Circadian rhythms
42. Is the period when the cell is active in carrying on the function it was designed to perform within the organism. Cells spend much more time in interphase than in cell division.
C ---OH
Interphase
Mature sporophyte
The key limiting factor on cell size
43. Is a kind of plain characterized by a warm climate - grassland - and seasonally dry climate conditions.
Isotonic Conditions
The nucleus
Characteristics of water valuable to living organisms
Savanna
44. Assumes that there are periods of stability during which little evolutionary change occurs - and that speciation can occur rapidly over a very short period of time.
So it can be used over and over again.
The theory of punctuated equilibrium
Common elements found in proteins
Multiple fruit
45. Synthesis
Anabolism
A lysosome
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
So it can be used over and over again.
46. Is composed of a double layer (bilayer) of phospholipids with protein globules imbedded within the layers. The construction of the membrane allows it to aid the function of the cell by permitting entrance and exit of molecules as needed by the cell.
An enzyme
Habitat
Phloem tissue
The cell membrane
47. Sex-linked recessive disorder carried on the x chromosome defined by the absence of one or more proteins required for blood clotting
Hemophilia
Larynx
A species role in the food chain is part of its
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
48. Stood upright before there was an increase in brain size.
Habitat
Anabolsim
Early hominids...
The products of the Krebs cycle
49. What phylum are snakes in?
Chordata
Characteristics of water valuable to living organisms
Arthropoda
R-selection
50. Is a molecule that stores information for protein synthesis and genetic coding.
Ribonucleic acid
Will increase the reaction rate
North America
Larynx