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CLEP Biology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Is the process that releases energy for use by the cell.
Cellular Respiration
Cerebrum
Ecological niches open up
Desert
2. Is found in the root cap and is responsible for quick growth in the roots.
Meristem tissue
The salivary gland
Lysis
Phototropism
3. Occurs when an individual learns not to respond to a particular stimulus - for instance when a stimulus is repeated many times without consequence.
Population
Allopatric speciation
Habituation
Cellular Metabolism
4. Produce antibodies into the bloodstream that find and attach themselves to foreign antigens (toxins - bacteria).
B Cells
Savanna
Lysosomes
Pi
5. Includes all living and nonliving components of the Earth to support living things.
The biosphere
Meristem tissue
parasitic
Cell walls
6. Is a phylum that contains jellyfish - hydra - etc.
Sudden appearance and disappearance of fossil species
Very specific
Tundra
Cnidaria
7. 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
Morula
Multiple fruit
A species role in the food chain is part of its
8. Covalent bonds
Cerebrum
The key limiting factor on cell size
The biosphere
Share electrons
9. Most fossils of Hominids are from continents other than...
Phyla
Circadian rhythms
North America
A lysosome
10. Contains organisms that are multicellular eukaryotes including molds and mushrooms.
Kingdom Fungi
Phototropism
Cellulose - starch - lipid - and sugar molecules
Saprophytic
11. Secretes insulin to lower blood sugar and maintain equilibrium. A person eats three candy bars. Within minutes this endocrine gland affects blood-glucose homeostasis.
Gregor Medel
The pancreas
Lysis
Population
12. Provide rigidity to plant cells (and some bacteria) and are not found within animal cells.
Ionic bonds involve
A mutation
Cell walls
The key limiting factor on cell size
13. Contains the chromosomes and is the site of reproduction through mitosis and meiosis.
Porifera
Meristem tissue
The nucleus
Chlorophyll
14. Is the outermost of the three main layers of an embryo.
Ectoderm tissue
The cell membrane (plasma membrane)
The habitat of an organism includes
Kingdom Protista
15. 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
Precambrian period
The pituitary gland
A sex linked recessive disease
Phototropism
16. The preservation of the integrity of genetic information from one generation to another.
Balance
Genetic maintenance
Silicon
An enzyme
17. Must be present for photosynthesis to occur - it is not used up in the process.
Porifera
The Cambrian Period
Chromatin
Chlorophyll
18. Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - and Nitrogen
Savanna
Cerebellum
Kingdom Animalia
Common elements found in proteins
19. 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
Cellular Metabolism
Gene Migration
Arthropoda
20. Mitochondria - they constitute the center of cellular respiration.
21. Plants and animals obtain usable nitrogen
pH of Water
Through nitrogen fixing bacteria and lighting
Xylem tissue
The cell's 'powerhouses'
22. The phyla composed of segmented worms.
Ectoderm tissue
Tundra
Annelida
Arthropoda
23. May be ions or non-protein molecules - they are similar to cofactors - but differ in that they are tightly attached by covalent bonds to the enzyme - rather than being separate atoms or molecules.
Prosthetic groups
Hydrolysis
Parenchyma tissue
Vitamins
24. Layer that will become the skin - some endocrine glands - and the nervous system.
Chlorophyll
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
Ectoderm
Cellular Metabolism
25. Controls balance and muscle coordination
The products of the Krebs cycle
Ectoderm
Annelida
Cerebellum
26. Energy transformations that occur as chemicals are broken down or synthesized within the cell.
Niche
Cellular Metabolism
Saprophytic
The biosphere
27. It secretes saliva which enters the digestive tract and aids the digestive process.
Common elements found in proteins
The salivary gland
DNA replication
Catabolism
28. Is an ion that binds to an enzyme making it more able to catalyze a reaction.
The primary role of DNA in the cell
The nucleus
A prosthetic group
Prosthetic groups
29. The process of forming eggs and sperm cells in the reproductive organs.
Gametogenesis
North America
Color blindness
A prosthetic group
30. Biotic (living) factors such as population and food source - and abiotic (non-living) factors such as weather - temperature - soil features - sunlight).
The habitat of an organism includes
Genome
A hydrogen bond
Lysosomes
31. Attaches to an enzyme and blocks the enzyme reaction rather than enhancing it - like a prosthetic group would.
Cenozoic era
An inhibitor
An enzyme
Aves
32. This is a carboxyl group and is the signature group found within organic acids.
C ---OH
Plasmodesmata
Natality
The evolution leading to Homo Sapiens...
33. Consists of undifferentiated cells capable of quick growth and specialization. It is responsible for elongation of the stem.
Vitamins
Meristem tissue
Isotonic Conditions
Electron Transfer System (ETS)
34. Process in which elements - chemical compounds - and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another.
Xylem tissue
Biogeochemical cycles
Vascular bundles make up the
Kingdom Animalia
35. 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)
Carbon
A lysosome
A mutation
36. Sex-linked recessive disorder carried on the x chromosome defined by the absence of one or more proteins required for blood clotting
So it can be used over and over again.
Hemophilia
Protista
T Cells
37. 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
Aganatha
Phosphorous
Phototropism
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
38. Contain organisms that are multicellular eukaryotes including vertebrates and invertebrates.
Kingdom Animalia
Germ layers
Angiosperms
Circadian rhythms
39. Enzymes are usually __________ to certain reactions.
Very specific
Catabolism
The Hardy-Weinberg Law of Equilibrium
Multiple fruit
40. Is an abundant element found in protoplasm. Together with oxygen - hydrogen - and nitrogen - it composes over 90% of cellular structure.
Phloem tissue
A lysosome
Carbon
As energy is transferred through trophic levels
41. In DNA Guanine pairs with...
Cytosine
The primary role of DNA in the cell
The products of the Krebs cycle
Ecotone
42. Has an equal (50%) chance of being passed from a carrier mother to a son or a daughter.
Kingdom Animalia
A sex linked recessive disease
Electron Transfer System (ETS)
Nematoda
43. Include: Vascular tissue - including both xylem and phloem - and sieve plates existing between cells of the stem.
Ribonucleic acid
Adenine
Stem tissues
Ionic bonds involve
44. The phyla of sponges.
Porifera
Saprophytic
Biogeochemical cycles
Phosphorous gas
45. In both living and non-living environments.
Enzymes catalyze reactions
Imprinting
Free ribosomes
Recycled environmental factors
46. An opportunistic life strategy strategy. Lichens invading a bare rock area after a volcanic eruption is an example.
R-selection
Chlorophyll has the ability to
Morula
The habitat of an organism includes
47. Is a protein - which is a polymer of amino acids. They generally have the suffix -ase- like lactase.
Imprinting
Aves
Chromosome
An enzyme
48. Channels is cell membranes that carry water between cells.
Kingdom Animalia
Habitat
Recycled environmental factors
Plasmodesmata
49. Develops from the morula as a thin layer of cells surrounding an internal cavity.
Ectoderm tissue
Blastula
Hemophilia
Habituation
50. Is very rare and is not absorbed by plant leaves. Phosphorous is nearly always found in solid form.
Genetic imprinting
Cell walls
Biosphere
Phosphorous gas