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CLEP Biology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Controls sensory and motor responses - and controls memory - speech - and intelligence factors.
The community
Cerebrum
Protista
Successful reproduction
2. Is a kind of plain characterized by a warm climate - grassland - and seasonally dry climate conditions.
Hydrolysis
Did not evolve together
Savanna
Stem tissues
3. A suffix meaning 'to break apart.' O || ||
Lysis
Prothallus
An inhibitor
An enzyme
4. Are cells involved in immunity and are produced in bone marrow as stem cells.
Lymphocytes
Successful reproduction
Habitat
A species role in the food chain is part of its
5. Anabolism
Destroy most enzymes
Phototropism
The synthesis of ATP molecules to store energy is an example of
Vitamins
6. Is the number of organisms that can be supported within a particular ecosystem.
Carrying capacity
Internodal tissue
A sex linked recessive disease
Porifera
7. The role played by an organism in its food chain.
Habitat
Niche
A lysosome
Genetic screening
8. Is a compound fruit that develops from many ovaries of a single flower fusing together (raspberry).
Plasmodesmata
Aggregate fruit
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
Saprophytic
9. Is a compound fruit that forms from several ovaries of separate flowers that fuse together during ripening (strawberry - or pineapple).
Multiple fruit
Cuticle
Trachea
So it can be used over and over again.
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.
Will increase the reaction rate
Endocytic vesicles
The theory of punctuated equilibrium
The Cell Theory
11. Contain organisms that are multicellular eukaryotes including vertebrates and invertebrates.
Phototropism
Kingdom Animalia
Internodal tissue
Meristem tissue
12. Some energy is lost as heat and becomes unusable.
Spiracles
C ---OH
As energy is transferred through trophic levels
Plasmodesmata
13. Includes all living and nonliving components of the Earth to support living things.
Saprophytic
A catalyst
The biosphere
Ecological niches open up
14. Fossilized burrows from multicellular organisms begin to appear in the geological record approximately 700 million years ago during the Precambrian period. These multicellular animals had only soft parts and could not be fossilized.
Successful reproduction
Gymnosperms
Precambrian period
A species role in the food chain is part of its
15. Must be present for photosynthesis to occur - it is not used up in the process.
Chlorophyll
Kingdom Plantae
The evolution leading to Homo Sapiens...
Scurvy
16. Is a packet of digestive enzymes that destroy cellular wastes.
Savanna
A lysosome
Prosthetic groups
Internodal tissue
17. Produce adrenaline. This hormone is a well-known constrictor of blood vessels.
Filtered by the liver
The adrenal glands
The Hardy-Weinberg Law of Equilibrium
Interphase
18. The total amount of genetic information available for a given species.
Genome
Ionic bonds involve
Annelida
Bryophytes
19. Is a behavior that is learned during a critical point (often very early) in an individual's life. Imprinting enables the young the recognize members of their own species.
The Cell Theory
Imprinting
Phosphorous
Differential reproduction
20. 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.
Population
Habituation
The salivary gland
Pharynx
21. The preservation of the integrity of genetic information from one generation to another.
T Cells
Chlorophyll has the ability to
Anabolism
Genetic maintenance
22. The vocal cords are found in the larynx.
An enzyme
Larynx
Porifera
The Hardy-Weinberg Law of Equilibrium
23. 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.
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
Annelida
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
Simple fruits
24. (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
Saprophytic
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
Genetic maintenance
Porifera
25. Allows for the genetic code to be preserved in future generations of cells.
Enzymes catalyze reactions
DNA replication
A catalyst
Scurvy
26. Fruits that develop from a single ripened ovary (apple - olive - acorn - cucumber).
Simple fruits
A prosthetic group
Hemophilia
Restriction enzymes
27. Contains organisms that are multicellular eukaryotes including molds and mushrooms.
Kingdom Fungi
The nucleus
Plasmodesmata
Forebrain
28. The destruction of gametes - (sex cells such as sperm and eggs).
An enzyme
Cnidaria
The products of the Krebs cycle
Gametocide
29. Is a social behavior of an organism that is beneficial to the group at the individual's expense.
Altruism
Savanna
Porifera
Ectoderm tissue
30. Is the process that releases energy for use by the cell.
The cell membrane
Cellular Respiration
Genetic maintenance
Characteristics of water valuable to living organisms
31. The phylum of insects (bees).
Trachea
Arthropoda
Prosthetic groups
Recycled environmental factors
32. Is a phylum that contains sponges.
The cell membrane (plasma membrane)
Porifera
Carbon
Multiple fruit
33. 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
Catabolism
Trachea
Mature sporophyte
34. Is a coenzyme required in the synthesis of collagen.
Vascular bundles make up the
Vitamin C
A catalyst
Prosthetic groups
35. What phylum are snakes in?
Cytosine
Electron Transfer System (ETS)
Gene Migration
Chordata
36. Controls olfactory lobes (smell)
A species role in the food chain is part of its
Forebrain
R-selection
Ionic bonds involve
37. Nonvascular plants such as mosses which lack tissue for conducting food or water.
A prosthetic group
Paleozoic era
Bryophytes
Tundra
38. States that where random mating is occurring within a population that is in equilibrium with its environment - the gene frequencies and genotype ratios will remain constant from generation to generation. It is a mathematical formula that shows why re
Mesoderm
Trachea
Non-protein
The Hardy-Weinberg Law of Equilibrium
39. The size of a cell is limited by the ratio of its surface area to volume.
Genetic maintenance
Adenine
The key limiting factor on cell size
Annelida
40. A cell will only remain stable if the surface area of the plasma membrane maintains a __________ with the volume of the cytoplasm.
Balance
So it can be used over and over again.
Porifera
Anabolism
41. Process of breaking down complex materials (foods) to form simpler substances and release energy.
About five million years ago...
Stomach secretions
Centrioles
Catabolism
42. Is the organelle where cellular reproductive processes occur.
Cenozoic era
Centrioles
Endocytic vesicles
The nucleus
43. Is more like branching out of a tree with dead ends and new branches appearing simultaneously than like steps on a ladder.
The nucleus
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
The evolution leading to Homo Sapiens...
Restriction enzymes
44. 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.
Germ layers
Spiracles
Characteristics of water valuable to living organisms
R-selection
45. Is weaker than ionic - covalent - disulfide - or double bonds.
The hormone aldosterone
A hydrogen bond
Successful reproduction
Germ layers
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.
Mesozoic era
Isotonic Conditions
Aggregate fruit
The cell membrane
47. Is a phylum that contains jellyfish - hydra - etc.
Cnidaria
Kingdom Protista
Vascular bundles make up the
Pharynx
48. Plants and animals obtain usable nitrogen
Tundra
The salivary gland
The Nitrogen cycle
Through nitrogen fixing bacteria and lighting
49. 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.
Genome
Anabolism
Isotonic Conditions
Interphase
50. There was extensive radiation of fish during the Devonian and Silurian periods within the Paleozoic Era.
Paleozoic era
An enzyme
An inhibitor
Porifera