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CLEP Biology
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1. Is the period when the cell is active in carrying on the function it was designed to perform within the organism. Cells spend much more time in interphase than in cell division.
Arthropoda
Interphase
Lysis
Saprophytic
2. Is the organelle where cellular reproductive processes occur.
Attraction of atoms of different polarity
Successful reproduction
Catabolism
The nucleus
3. Is the major component of sand and is the most abundant element found in the lithosphere. It is not recycled.
Silicon
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
Kingdom Animalia
The evolution leading to Homo Sapiens...
4. 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.
Cenozoic era
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
Balance
Vitamins
5. Transfers water and does not require sieve plates to allow nutrients through.
An inhibitor
Arthropoda
Xylem tissue
Phyla
6. Produces the most ATP molecules - yielding 34 ATPs per glucose molecule.
A species role in the food chain is part of its
The Hardy-Weinberg Law of Equilibrium
Bronchi
Electron Transfer System (ETS)
7. Disease causing
Phosphorous
pathogenic
An enzyme
The habitat of an organism includes
8. The systematic search for individuals with a specific genotype in a delineated population.
Internodal tissue
Free ribosomes
Genetic screening
Bronchi
9. 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.
Isotonic Conditions
Paleozoic era
Plasmodesmata
Pi
10. 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.
Mesoderm
Carbon
The community
Stomach secretions
11. 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.
Vitamins
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
Mitochondria
Lysosomes
12. Are formed when the plasma membrane of a cell encloses a molecule outside the membrane - then releases a membrane bound sack containing the desired molecule into the cytoplasm. This process allows the cell to absorb molecules that are larger in size
Endocytic vesicles
Kingdom Fungi
A catalyst
Catabolism
13. Occurs when two populations are geographically isolated from each other. Over time this results in the production of two separate species.
Spiracles
Kingdom Protista
Allopatric speciation
Pharynx
14. An enzyme is unaffected by the reactions it catalyzes
Genome
Non-protein
Successful reproduction
So it can be used over and over again.
15. Provide rigidity to plant cells (and some bacteria) and are not found within animal cells.
Balance
Cell walls
Phosphorous gas
Cuticle
16. The vocal cords are found in the larynx.
Chlorophyll
Larynx
Cellulose - starch - lipid - and sugar molecules
Arthropoda
17. Contain organisms that are multicellular eukaryotes including vertebrates and invertebrates.
Catabolism
Multiple fruit
Kingdom Animalia
Saprophytic
18. Is a kingdom that includes algae and protozoa.
Vascular bundles make up the
Protista
The Nitrogen cycle
The hormone aldosterone
19. The number of organisms in a given community - can be above or below the carrying capacity.
Population
Sudden appearance and disappearance of fossil species
Successful reproduction
Anabolsim
20. Contains many genes and is a structure comprised of linear DNA and associated proteins.
Spiracles
Chromosome
Did not evolve together
Alveoli
21. This is a carboxyl group and is the signature group found within organic acids.
Larynx
C ---OH
Gametocide
Circadian rhythms
22. Is very rare and is not absorbed by plant leaves. Phosphorous is nearly always found in solid form.
Alveoli
Early hominids...
Phosphorous gas
Anabolsim
23. Controls balance and muscle coordination
Cerebellum
Plasmodesmata
Did not evolve together
DNA replication
24. Are surrounded by capillaries that allow for carbon dioxide to diffuse into the lungs and oxygen to diffuse out.
Recycled environmental factors
Alveoli
Non-protein
Stomach secretions
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
Stem tissues
A gene is
Free ribosomes
26. Enzymes are usually __________ to certain reactions.
Very specific
Desert
Vitamin C
Angiosperms
27. Occurs when an individual learns not to respond to a particular stimulus - for instance when a stimulus is repeated many times without consequence.
Gametocide
Genome
Habituation
Circadian rhythms
28. Develops from the morula as a thin layer of cells surrounding an internal cavity.
Circadian rhythms
Blastula
The cuticle
The products of the Krebs cycle
29. An orienting response to light.
The cell membrane
Phototropism
Morula
A sex linked recessive disease
30. A suffix meaning 'to break apart.' O || ||
Morula
R-selection
Lysis
Attraction of atoms of different polarity
31. 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.
Pi
Imprinting
parasitic
Recycled environmental factors
32. Allows for the genetic code to be preserved in future generations of cells.
Lactose
Chlorophyll
DNA replication
Anabolsim
33. Absorb a photon of light and is found in the grana of the chloroplast.
Endoderm
The cell membrane (plasma membrane)
Chlorophyll has the ability to
Lysis
34. Nonvascular plants such as mosses which lack tissue for conducting food or water.
Bryophytes
Cuticle
Cellular Metabolism
A mutation
35. Inorganic phosphate
Sudden appearance and disappearance of fossil species
Genetic screening
Pi
Centrioles
36. Are cells involved in immunity and are produced in bone marrow as stem cells.
Gene Migration
Ribonucleic acid
Lymphocytes
Carrying capacity
37. 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.
Mature sporophyte
Savanna
Characteristics of water valuable to living organisms
Precambrian period
38. Is when expression of genetic traits is determined by weather the trait is inherited from the mother or the father.
Phloem tissue
Kingdom Fungi
Genetic imprinting
Niche
39. A length of DNA (with corresponding histones) is responsible for the production of a certain protein that causes a particular trait to be expressed in an organism.
Habitat
Phosphorous
A gene is
Plasmodesmata
40. 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
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
Gametocide
Characteristics of water valuable to living organisms
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
41. Is secreted by the adrenal cortex to promote sodium reabsorption in the kidney.
Cellular Metabolism
The Cell Theory
Differential reproduction
The hormone aldosterone
42. 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.
An enzyme
Pharynx
Angiosperms
The theory of punctuated equilibrium
43. Is found on the stem between nodes.
Protista
Cnidaria
Internodal tissue
Vitamin C
44. 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
A lysosome
As energy is transferred through trophic levels
Anabolsim
45. Some energy is lost as heat and becomes unusable.
Cellulose - starch - lipid - and sugar molecules
As energy is transferred through trophic levels
Allopatric speciation
Ionic bonds involve
46. In order to become an established part of an island ecosystem there must be a populations large enough to ensure _________ - a food source - a suitable habitat - and a source of moisture.
The adrenal glands
Larynx
Successful reproduction
Arthropoda
47. The large brain and upright posture of Homo Sapiens...
Angiosperms
Did not evolve together
Carrying capacity
Mature sporophyte
48. Process of breaking down complex materials (foods) to form simpler substances and release energy.
Did not evolve together
Chromosome
The Hardy-Weinberg Law of Equilibrium
Catabolism
49. Channels is cell membranes that carry water between cells.
Genome
Phosphorous gas
Destroy most enzymes
Plasmodesmata
50. Cleave strands of DNA segments at certain sites.
Phloem tissue
The habitat of an organism includes
Restriction enzymes
Cenozoic era