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CLEP Biology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Are cells involved in immunity and are produced in bone marrow as stem cells.
Lymphocytes
Biosphere
Gene Migration
Cenozoic era
2. Is a phylum that contains sponges.
Porifera
Midbrain
Vitamins
Successful reproduction
3. Is a compound fruit that develops from many ovaries of a single flower fusing together (raspberry).
Aggregate fruit
Color blindness
A lysosome
Internodal tissue
4. Breaking down
A species role in the food chain is part of its
Catabolism
Characteristics of water valuable to living organisms
Angiosperms
5. Super-class of vertebrae including organisms with jaws.
Gnathostomata
The cell's 'powerhouses'
Aggregate fruit
Share electrons
6. A reaction that adds water to another compound. (2 hydrogens - 1 oxygen).
Hydrolysis
A prosthetic group
Common elements found in proteins
Mature sporophyte
7. Are membrane-bound organelles that contain digestive enzymes that digest dead or unused material within the cell or materials absorbed by the cell for use.
Chlorophyll has the ability to
Cellular Respiration
Mesozoic era
Lysosomes
8. Between the endoderm and ectoderm - layer that will eventually form the muscles - and organs of the skeletal - circulatory - respiratory - reproductive - and excretory systems.
A sex linked recessive disease
Vitamin C
Mesoderm
Endocytic vesicles
9. Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - and Nitrogen
Lysosomes
Midbrain
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
Common elements found in proteins
10. 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.
Angiosperms
The Cell Theory
C ---OH
Simple fruits
11. The preservation of the integrity of genetic information from one generation to another.
Genome
Genetic maintenance
Phosphorous
A species role in the food chain is part of its
12. Are surrounded by capillaries that allow for carbon dioxide to diffuse into the lungs and oxygen to diffuse out.
Alveoli
Kingdom Plantae
Altruism
The cell membrane (plasma membrane)
13. Engages in both passive and active transport.
DNA replication
A sex linked recessive disease
Interphase
The cell membrane (plasma membrane)
14. 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.
Phosphorous gas
Sudden appearance and disappearance of fossil species
Bronchi
Lysosomes
15. The systematic search for individuals with a specific genotype in a delineated population.
Enzymes catalyze reactions
Genetic screening
Share electrons
Cerebrum
16. Is the outermost layer of cells of the stem.
Phloem tissue
Epidermal tissue
Sudden appearance and disappearance of fossil species
Nucleotides
17. The phylum of insects (bees).
Kingdom Animalia
Ionic bonds involve
pathogenic
Arthropoda
18. A cell will only remain stable if the surface area of the plasma membrane maintains a __________ with the volume of the cytoplasm.
Bronchi
Ecotone
Share electrons
Balance
19. The cells of a developing embryo (at the gastrula stage) differentiate into layers - that will later develop into different tissues and organs - including the mesoderm - ectoderm - and endoderm.
Share electrons
Trachea
Germ layers
Differential reproduction
20. Occurs when an individual from an adjacent population of the same species immigrates and breeds with a member of a previously locally isolated group - resulting in a change in the gene pool.
Gene Migration
The biosphere
pathogenic
Will increase the reaction rate
21. The phyla of round worms.
Anabolsim
Nematoda
Mesozoic era
Midbrain
22. Are organic cofactors or coenzymes that are required by some enzymatic reactions.
The cell membrane (plasma membrane)
Vitamins
Genetic screening
Ectoderm tissue
23. 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
Color blindness
Lysis
Isotonic Conditions
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
24. Controls sensory and motor responses - and controls memory - speech - and intelligence factors.
The nucleus
Aganatha
Cerebrum
Through nitrogen fixing bacteria and lighting
25. Is the earliest period of the Paleozoic era. Began with the Cambrian explosion - this explosion of life resulted in the representatives of most of the modern phyla being present.
The Cambrian Period
The evolution leading to Homo Sapiens...
Destroy most enzymes
Kingdom Animalia
26. Controls balance and muscle coordination
Non-protein
Multiple fruit
C ---OH
Cerebellum
27. Is the organelle where cellular reproductive processes occur.
Catabolism
The nucleus
Phototropism
Vascular bundles
28. In DNA Thymine pairs with...
Catabolism
Ecotone
Lysosomes
Adenine
29. Carbon - nitrogen - phosphorous - and water. These are all recycled through biogeochemical processes.
Recycled environmental factors
Gnathostomata
Gametocide
Hypothalamus
30. Layer that will become the skin - some endocrine glands - and the nervous system.
Chromatin
Lysosomes
Ectoderm
Vascular bundles
31. A sex-linked recessive disorder carried on the x chromosome in which an individual cannot perceive certain colors.
Color blindness
Balance
Vascular bundles make up the
Ectoderm tissue
32. Contains organisms that are multicellular eukaryotes including molds and mushrooms.
Ecological niches open up
Pharynx
Endoderm
Kingdom Fungi
33. Is the sugar that lactase acts upon.
Carbon
Prosthetic groups
A hydrogen bond
Lactose
34. Anabolism
Allopatric speciation
The synthesis of ATP molecules to store energy is an example of
The products of the Krebs cycle
The community
35. Is weaker than ionic - covalent - disulfide - or double bonds.
A hydrogen bond
Vitamin C
Genome
Genetic maintenance
36. Biotic (living) factors such as population and food source - and abiotic (non-living) factors such as weather - temperature - soil features - sunlight).
Genetic maintenance
Filtered by the liver
The habitat of an organism includes
Vitamin C
37. 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.
The cell membrane
Paleozoic era
The Nitrogen cycle
T Cells
38. (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
Saprophytic
Cerebellum
The cuticle
Ionic bonds involve
39. Enzymes are usually __________ to certain reactions.
The cell's 'powerhouses'
Genetic screening
Very specific
Chromosome
40. Sex-linked recessive disorder carried on the x chromosome defined by the absence of one or more proteins required for blood clotting
C ---OH
Angiosperms
The pancreas
Hemophilia
41. 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.
Anabolism
Filtered by the liver
Color blindness
Stomach secretions
42. The class composed of birds.
Non-protein
Blastula
Chordata
Aves
43. An opportunistic life strategy strategy. Lichens invading a bare rock area after a volcanic eruption is an example.
R-selection
Cellular Respiration
Cnidaria
The nucleus
44. The transfer of electrons.
Centrioles
Phosphorous gas
Ionic bonds involve
Mitochondria
45. Includes all living and nonliving components of the Earth to support living things.
The Nitrogen cycle
Silicon
Filtered by the liver
The biosphere
46. The solid mass of cells resulting from the cleavage of the ovum before the formation of a blastula.
The biosphere
Morula
Stem tissues
Carrying capacity
47. Are produced when water passes through the cell membrane by osmosis from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration - to equalize water concentration.
Mesoderm
Plasmodesmata
Isotonic Conditions
A sudden change in the amount of extracellular fluid will be corrected by events following the release of substances from this organ.
48. When stems bend toward the light it is due to _____________ the hormone auxin - in response to light - migrates from the light to the dark side of the shoot tip. The cells on the dark side now contain more auxin - which causes the cells on that side
Ectoderm tissue
The cell membrane
Aves
Phototropism
49. Nonvascular plants such as mosses which lack tissue for conducting food or water.
Mesoderm
Niche
Bryophytes
Recycled environmental factors
50. Protein synthesis
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
Chordata
Germ layers
Prothallus