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CLEP Biology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Studied the relationships between traits expressed in parents and offspring and the genes that caused the traits to be expressed.
Precambrian period
Meristem tissue
Gregor Medel
The primary role of DNA in the cell
2. Covalent bonds
The Cambrian Period
Gregor Medel
Share electrons
Characteristics of water valuable to living organisms
3. Where protein synthesis occurs. They float unattached in the cytoplasm. They contain RNA that is specific to their function in protein formation.
Morula
Free ribosomes
Alveoli
Trachea
4. 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
Tundra
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
The adrenal glands
Meristem tissue
5. Has extreme cold temperatures - low precipitation - modified grassland - perma-frost - a short growing season and some plants and animals.
Kingdom Plantae
Vitamins
Tundra
Plasmodesmata
6. Veins in the leaf and are also distributed throughout the stem
Vascular bundles make up the
Recycled environmental factors
Pi
Electron Transfer System (ETS)
7. In DNA Thymine pairs with...
Lysis
Aves
The community
Adenine
8. Disease causing
Attraction of atoms of different polarity
pathogenic
A species role in the food chain is part of its
Allopatric speciation
9. 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
Cerebrum
Iisotonic state
The salivary gland
Phototropism
10. Includes all living and nonliving components of the Earth to support living things.
The biosphere
Biosphere
Ribonucleic acid
Xylem tissue
11. Process of breaking down complex materials (foods) to form simpler substances and release energy.
Vitamin C
The Cell Theory
Xylem tissue
Catabolism
12. There was extensive radiation of fish during the Devonian and Silurian periods within the Paleozoic Era.
Paleozoic era
A sudden change in the amount of extracellular fluid will be corrected by events following the release of substances from this organ.
A sex linked recessive disease
Protista
13. Contains the chromosomes and is the site of reproduction through mitosis and meiosis.
Kingdom Plantae
The adrenal glands
Electron Transfer System (ETS)
The nucleus
14. Mitochondria - they constitute the center of cellular respiration.
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15. The role played by an organism in its food chain.
Forebrain
Gametogenesis
Niche
The cell membrane
16. The pharynx is between the nasal passage and the trachea. Air passes into the body via the nasal passage - then passes through the pharynx and on to the trachea.
Larynx
Pharynx
Cell walls
Through nitrogen fixing bacteria and lighting
17. The large brain and upright posture of Homo Sapiens...
Endocytic vesicles
Did not evolve together
Midbrain
Color blindness
18. Contains optic lobes - controls sight.
North America
Lysis
Multiple fruit
Midbrain
19. Absorb a photon of light and is found in the grana of the chloroplast.
Chlorophyll has the ability to
Meristem tissue
Carbon
Chromosome
20. Breaking down
Biosphere
Catabolism
Hypothalamus
Aganatha
21. Transfers water and does not require sieve plates to allow nutrients through.
Xylem tissue
Phloem tissue
The key limiting factor on cell size
Vascular bundles make up the
22. The number of organisms in a given community - can be above or below the carrying capacity.
Population
Habitat
Nucleotides
Alveoli
23. Are organic cofactors or coenzymes that are required by some enzymatic reactions.
Vitamins
Plasmodesmata
Protista
Gnathostomata
24. Decomposition of living matter for consumption.
Lysis
An inhibitor
Kingdom Animalia
parasitic
25. Occurs when two populations are geographically isolated from each other. Over time this results in the production of two separate species.
Scurvy
An enzyme
Allopatric speciation
Gymnosperms
26. Anabolism
The synthesis of ATP molecules to store energy is an example of
Midbrain
Savanna
The Cambrian Period
27. It secretes saliva which enters the digestive tract and aids the digestive process.
The salivary gland
The Nitrogen cycle
Germ layers
Porifera
28. Is a packet of digestive enzymes that destroy cellular wastes.
Meristem tissue
Trachea
R-selection
A lysosome
29. Chlorophyll pigments absorb photons of light - leaving the chlorophyll in a higher energy (excited) state - these then supply energy to reactions that produce ATP from ADP and Pi.
Lysosomes
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
A prosthetic group
Hypothalamus
30. The part of the earth that contains all living things - including the atmosphere (air) - the lithosphere (earth) - and the hydrosphere (water).
Biosphere
A gene is
Alveoli
Meristem tissue
31. 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.
Attraction of atoms of different polarity
Gnathostomata
Sudden appearance and disappearance of fossil species
A species role in the food chain is part of its
32. Are surrounded by capillaries that allow for carbon dioxide to diffuse into the lungs and oxygen to diffuse out.
Free ribosomes
Alveoli
Meristem tissue
Phloem tissue
33. (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
Saprophytic
Gametocide
Multiple fruit
Bryophytes
34. Digestive enzymes - hydrochloric acid - and gastric juices which aid in digestion. The mucous secreted by the stomach protects the stomach lining from the acids and juices.
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
Stomach secretions
Cerebellum
Share electrons
35. Plants and animals obtain usable nitrogen
An inhibitor
Through nitrogen fixing bacteria and lighting
Mitochondria
Imprinting
36. 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.
Forebrain
Interphase
The Cell Theory
37. What phylum are snakes in?
Chordata
Parenchyma tissue
Chromatin
Cuticle
38. Some patrol the blood for antigens - but are also equipped to destroy antigens. They may regulate immune responses as well.
Kingdom Fungi
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
T Cells
As energy is transferred through trophic levels
39. 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.
Genetic maintenance
Gene Migration
R-selection
A catalyst
40. The bronchi lead to the two lungs where they branch out in all directions into smaller tubules known as bronchioles.
Very specific
Xylem tissue
Multiple fruit
Bronchi
41. Occurs when an individual learns not to respond to a particular stimulus - for instance when a stimulus is repeated many times without consequence.
Habituation
Recycled environmental factors
The pituitary gland
Nucleotides
42. Small - green - heart-shaped gametophyte plant form of a fern that can make its own food and absorb water and nutrients from the soil
Prothallus
Plasmodesmata
Angiosperms
Habitat
43. A cell will only remain stable if the surface area of the plasma membrane maintains a __________ with the volume of the cytoplasm.
Balance
Electron Transfer System (ETS)
Genetic maintenance
Pi
44. 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.
Lysosomes
Cnidaria
Prosthetic groups
Did not evolve together
45. The preservation of the integrity of genetic information from one generation to another.
Hydrolysis
The Nitrogen cycle
Bronchi
Genetic maintenance
46. A sex-linked recessive disorder carried on the x chromosome in which an individual cannot perceive certain colors.
Kingdom Animalia
Mesozoic era
pathogenic
Color blindness
47. The solid mass of cells resulting from the cleavage of the ovum before the formation of a blastula.
Morula
Gymnosperms
The salivary gland
Phosphorous gas
48. Is a phylum that contains jellyfish - hydra - etc.
The products of the Krebs cycle
parasitic
Cnidaria
Color blindness
49. Secretes insulin to lower blood sugar and maintain equilibrium. A person eats three candy bars. Within minutes this endocrine gland affects blood-glucose homeostasis.
A sudden change in the amount of extracellular fluid will be corrected by events following the release of substances from this organ.
Plasmodesmata
The pancreas
Cerebellum
50. Is the process that releases energy for use by the cell.
Protista
Chlorophyll has the ability to
Cellular Respiration
Hypothalamus