SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Bio 101: Harvard
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
science
,
biology
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Ability to compete for mates
Genetic Drift
Gluconeogenesis
Intrasexual Selection
Aldosterone
2. The body's resting rate of energy expenditure
Basal Metabolic Rate
Genetic Drift
Bowman's capsule
Leptin
3. High denisty of mitochodira abnd blood vessels (good at non shivering thermogensis)
Brown fat
Nitrogenous wastes
Basal Metabolic Rate
Gene pool
4. Environments where species can survive within their geographic range
Metanephridia
Adaptation
Habitat
Metabolic rate
5. Two or more homologous genes found in different species
Leptin
Orthologs
Molecular Evolution
Mutation
6. Sum of all alleles
Feedforward information
Selfing
Gene pool
Hypoglycemia
7. Trait with true indicator of ability to survive in local environment ie bull frogs lifespan can be determined by its size which determines how low it's voice is
Chief monomers absorbed
Nephron
Honest signal
Ketones
8. 1. Filtration 2. Reaborption 3. Secretion (Kidney can perform well with only 10% of nephrons functioning)
Absorbed triglycerides
Nitrogenous wastes
Psuedogenes
Excretory organs
9. Inherited but no use (whale pelvis)
Vestigial structures
Genetic structure
Phenotype
Hemodialysis
10. Hormone - stimulates active transport of 3 Na+ out for every 2 K+ into tubule
Aldosterone
Lateral gene transfer
Intrasexual Selection
Hemodialysis
11. Continuous within Bowman's capsule - Loop of Henle
Hypoglycemia
Endotherms
Absorptive phase
Tubule
12. Low glucose level in blood
Adaptation
Sexual recombination vs asexual reproduction
Habitat patches
Hypoglycemia
13. MR= K(Tb-Ta) K is the slope of thermal conductancce - how readily the animal loses heat
MR equation
Muscle tissue
Conduction
Allele frequency
14. Reuglated rise in body temp caused by a rise in the hypothalamic set point for metabloic heat production (fights pathogrens - and increased production of white blood cells)
Population density
Fever
Bowman's capsule
Silent substitution
15. Some animals move around to increase decrease temperature (pray themselves with water/dust - find shade - put on clothing)
Hardy Weinberg equilibrium
Behavioral thermoregulatory adaptation
Evaporation
Excretory system functions
16. 1. Most variation caused by neutral changes - do not confer advantage or disadvantage. 2. Since netural mutation is constant - can be used as a molecular clock to calculate divergence btwn species. 3. Neutral mutations not dependent on population siz
Osmoconformers
Neutral Theory
Secretion
Nephron
17. Glycogen hodrolysis in liver
Loop of Henle
Sexual recombination vs asexual reproduction
Glycogenolysis
Satiation
18. Some animals move around to increase decrease temperature (pray themselves with water/dust - find shade - put on clothing)
Behavioral thermoregulatory adaptation
Radiation
Heterotopy
Sexual recombination vs asexual reproduction
19. Conversion of chemical bond energy in nutrients into the chemical bond energy in ATP - and use of ATP to do work produces heat as byproduct
Daily torpor
Metabolism
Connective tissue
Vasa recta
20. Change in a single nucleotide in a DnA sequence
Gene duplication
Evaporation
Heterozygote populations
Nucleotide Substitution
21. Individuals interacting at a given time and place
Population
Orthologs
Founder effect
Dobzhansky Muller Model
22. Actively regulate osmolarity of their extracellular fluid (300 Mosm/L)
Radiation
Aldosterone
Osmoregulators
Cold fish vs hot fish
23. Taken up by all body cells - used to synthesize proteins - excess converted into fatty acids and then triglycerides
Meiosis
Habitat
Absorbed amino acids
Nucleotide Substitution
24. Populations do
Individuals do not evolve
Chief monomers absorbed
Genetic structure
Heat budget equation
25. Insects have these which transport uric acid - postassium ions and sodium ions into tubules - but ercovers water (allows insects to live in dry environments
Epithelial tissue
Excretory system functions
Malpighian tubules
Interstitial fluid
26. The differential survival and reproduction of individuals in a population based on variation in their traits
Fitness
Natural selection
Missense Substitution
Conduction
27. Trait with true indicator of ability to survive in local environment ie bull frogs lifespan can be determined by its size which determines how low it's voice is
Interstitial fluid
Honest signal
MR equation
Heterochrony
28. Favors the mean - selection against any deleterious mutations (baby size)
Dobzhansky Muller Model
Phenotype
Stabilizing Selection
Genome size
29. 2NAA + NAa/2N is p and 2aa + NAa/2N is q (however similar frequencies can have very different genotype frequencies)
Behavioral thermoregulatory adaptation
Conduction
Satiation
Allele frequency formula
30. Rate at which an organism uses energy to power these reactions
Metabolic rate
Excess Glucose
Excretory organs
Size in BMR
31. A favored trait that evolves through natural selection (more organisms with that trait survive than those without)
Alleles
Insulin
Reabsorption
Adaptation
32. If directional selection occurs for generations - however can be stopped due to change in environment or when optimal phenotype reached (then stabilizing)
Hemodialysis
Heterochrony
Lower critical temperature
Evolutionary trend
33. Occurs when ingested nutrients enter the blood stream from the GI tract
Absorptive phase
Connective tissue
Endemic
Cold fish vs hot fish
34. Occurs when GI tract is empty of nutrients so body's stores are used
Post absorptive stage
Convection
Calorie
Ectotherms
35. Functional unit of kidney - millions per - renal corpuscle forms filtrate - tubule performs secretion and reabsorption
Glomerular Filtration Rate
Absorbed triglycerides
Selfing
Nephron
36. Change in relative frequency of the genotype from one generation to the next
Fitness
Cold fish vs hot fish
Endotherms
Obligatory Exchanges
37. BMI of 30 or greater
Absorptive phase
Intracellular fluid
Obesity
Metabolic rate
38. The Origin of Species 1859
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
39. 1. Regulate volume of fluid in body 2. regulate osmolarity - 3. Maintain Ca2+ - H+ - NA+ (ionic regulation) 4. eliminate nitrogenous wastes produced by protein and nucleic acid catabolism (URINE)
Excretory system functions
3 disadvantages of endotherms
Nonsynonymous vs synonymous
Obligatory Exchanges
40. Blood into dialyzer (acts as filtrater) to create artificaill countercurrent exchange system
Obligatory Exchanges
Excess Glucose
Hemodialysis
Why Hardy Weinberg is Important
41. Amplifies deviation frokm set point
Positive feedback
Intrasexual Selection
Intracellular fluid
Temperature sensitivity
42. Prolonged energy source for many tissues - and brain - less protein breakdown required
Ketones
Disruptive selection
MR equation
Post absorptive stage
43. Below TNZ must increase metabolic heat production (shivering increase four times above BMR)
Lower critical temperature
Thermal insulation
Acclimatization
Genome size
44. 1. Both copies retain original function 2. Both copies able to produce original gene product - but expression diverges in different tissues or at different times in development 3. One copy may become psuedogene 4. One copy maintains function and seco
Gene duplication
Connective tissue
Interstitial fluid
Heterotopy
45. Glycogen hodrolysis in liver
Glycogenolysis
Osmoconformers
Chief monomers absorbed
Hardy Weinberg equilibrium
46. Populations do
Individuals do not evolve
Sexual recombination vs asexual reproduction
Metanephridia
Vasa recta
47. Does not change the encoded amino acid. Occurs at highest rate (also synonymous substitution)
Artificial selection
Nitrogenous wastes
Absorbed amino acids
Silent substitution
48. Major cell movement - 3 germ layers form
Glycogenolysis
Gene Flow
Nitrogenous wastes
Gastrulation
49. Creates new genes by inserting exons and flanking introns into a different gene sequence - there by introducing a new domain in the gene product
Nervous tissue
Tubule
Exon shuffling
Missense Substitution
50. A sudden change to population that causes large changes in allele frequencies over time ie population bottleneck
Genetic Drift
Three theories of Darwin
Disruptive selection
Ketones
Sorry!:) No result found.
Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?
Let me suggest you:
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests
Major Subjects
Tests & Exams
AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT
Certifications
CISSP go to https://www.isc2.org/
PMP
ITIL
RHCE
MCTS
More...
IT Skills
Android Programming
Data Modeling
Objective C Programming
Basic Python Programming
Adobe Illustrator
More...
Business Skills
Advertising Techniques
Business Accounting Basics
Business Strategy
Human Resource Management
Marketing Basics
More...
Soft Skills
Body Language
People Skills
Public Speaking
Persuasion
Job Hunting And Resumes
More...
Vocabulary
GRE Vocab
SAT Vocab
TOEFL Essential Vocab
Basic English Words For All
Global Words You Should Know
Business English
More...
Languages
AP German Vocab
AP Latin Vocab
SAT Subject Test: French
Italian Survival
Norwegian Survival
More...
Engineering
Audio Engineering
Computer Science Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Structural Engineering
More...
Health Sciences
Basic Nursing Skills
Health Science Language Fundamentals
Veterinary Technology Medical Language
Cardiology
Clinical Surgery
More...
English
Grammar Fundamentals
Literary And Rhetorical Vocab
Elements Of Style Vocab
Introduction To English Major
Complete Advanced Sentences
Literature
Homonyms
More...
Math
Algebra Formulas
Basic Arithmetic: Measurements
Metric Conversions
Geometric Properties
Important Math Facts
Number Sense Vocab
Business Math
More...
Other Major Subjects
Science
Economics
History
Law
Performing-arts
Cooking
Logic & Reasoning
Trivia
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests