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CLEP Biology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An opportunistic life strategy strategy. Lichens invading a bare rock area after a volcanic eruption is an example.
Color blindness
R-selection
Hydrolysis
Altruism
2. The physical place where a particular organism lives. It must include all the factors that will support its life and reproduction.
Ecological niches open up
Habitat
Cytosine
Share electrons
3. The systematic search for individuals with a specific genotype in a delineated population.
Vitamin C
Cytosine
Genetic screening
Internodal tissue
4. Veins in the leaf and are also distributed throughout the stem
Angiosperms
Will increase the reaction rate
Gene Migration
Vascular bundles make up the
5. Includes all living and nonliving components of the Earth to support living things.
Chlorophyll has the ability to
The pituitary gland
Imprinting
The biosphere
6. Are the organelles where cellular respiration occurs.
Bryophytes
Mesozoic era
Mitochondria
A prosthetic group
7. Process of breaking down complex materials (foods) to form simpler substances and release energy.
The products of the Krebs cycle
Vascular bundles
Chromatin
Catabolism
8. A sex-linked recessive disorder carried on the x chromosome in which an individual cannot perceive certain colors.
About five million years ago...
Blastula
Ectoderm
Color blindness
9. Produce adrenaline. This hormone is a well-known constrictor of blood vessels.
The adrenal glands
Adenine
Phyla
Bronchi
10. Refers to the birthrate of a population.
A species role in the food chain is part of its
Natality
Vascular bundles make up the
A sudden change in the amount of extracellular fluid will be corrected by events following the release of substances from this organ.
11. 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.
A catalyst
Nucleotides
Mesozoic era
12. A suffix meaning 'to break apart.' O || ||
DNA produces particular genetic traits through
Endoderm
Lysis
Hydrolysis
13. 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.
Biogeochemical cycles
Common elements found in proteins
Nucleotides
A gene is
14. Are surrounded by capillaries that allow for carbon dioxide to diffuse into the lungs and oxygen to diffuse out.
Alveoli
Endoderm
Multiple fruit
Phyla
15. Occurs when two populations are geographically isolated from each other. Over time this results in the production of two separate species.
Non-protein
Allopatric speciation
Cytosine
Lysosomes
16. In DNA Guanine pairs with...
Chimpanzees
Meristem tissue
Cytosine
The pancreas
17. Is weaker than ionic - covalent - disulfide - or double bonds.
DNA replication
A hydrogen bond
Gene Migration
The primary role of DNA in the cell
18. Contain organisms that are multicellular eukaryotes including vertebrates and invertebrates.
Filtered by the liver
Kingdom Animalia
Biogeochemical cycles
An inhibitor
19. In both living and non-living environments.
T Cells
Enzymes catalyze reactions
The cuticle
The hormone aldosterone
20. The phyla composed of segmented worms.
Annelida
Internodal tissue
Tundra
R-selection
21. 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.
The hormone aldosterone
A mutation
pH of Water
Isotonic Conditions
22. 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
Epidermal tissue
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
The Cambrian Period
Carrying capacity
23. Absorb a photon of light and is found in the grana of the chloroplast.
Chlorophyll has the ability to
parasitic
Biogeochemical cycles
Germ layers
24. Most fossils of Hominids are from continents other than...
As energy is transferred through trophic levels
Through nitrogen fixing bacteria and lighting
Niche
North America
25. Is a compound fruit that forms from several ovaries of separate flowers that fuse together during ripening (strawberry - or pineapple).
Vascular bundles make up the
North America
Multiple fruit
Destroy most enzymes
26. 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.
Did not evolve together
Trachea
The pancreas
Precambrian period
27. Is the outermost of the three main layers of an embryo.
Ectoderm tissue
Chromosome
An enzyme
Germ layers
28. The large brain and upright posture of Homo Sapiens...
Did not evolve together
Morula
The adrenal glands
A mutation
29. Small - green - heart-shaped gametophyte plant form of a fern that can make its own food and absorb water and nutrients from the soil
T Cells
Catabolism
Prothallus
Anabolism
30. Is when expression of genetic traits is determined by weather the trait is inherited from the mother or the father.
Saprophytic
Protista
Genetic imprinting
Chimpanzees
31. It secretes saliva which enters the digestive tract and aids the digestive process.
The salivary gland
Gametogenesis
Isotonic Conditions
parasitic
32. Allows for the genetic code to be preserved in future generations of cells.
Epidermal tissue
DNA replication
Pi
Plasmodesmata
33. Contains optic lobes - controls sight.
Biogeochemical cycles
The cuticle
Midbrain
The evolution leading to Homo Sapiens...
34. The process of forming eggs and sperm cells in the reproductive organs.
Annelida
Habitat
Mitochondria
Gametogenesis
35. This is a carboxyl group and is the signature group found within organic acids.
C ---OH
Genetic imprinting
A lysosome
The Nitrogen cycle
36. Decomposition of living matter for consumption.
R-selection
A gene is
parasitic
Destroy most enzymes
37. Is a coenzyme required in the synthesis of collagen.
The Cambrian Period
Midbrain
Vitamin C
Gene Migration
38. Produce seeds without flowers. They include conifers (cone-bearers) and cycads.
The community
Porifera
Phyla
Gymnosperms
39. Layer that will become the skin - some endocrine glands - and the nervous system.
Ectoderm
Phototropism
Lactose
The evolution leading to Homo Sapiens...
40. 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.
Gene Migration
Stomach secretions
R-selection
Lysosomes
41. The destruction of gametes - (sex cells such as sperm and eggs).
A mutation
B Cells
Porifera
Gametocide
42. A reaction that adds water to another compound. (2 hydrogens - 1 oxygen).
Chromatin
Gregor Medel
Stem tissues
Hydrolysis
43. Contains many genes and is a structure comprised of linear DNA and associated proteins.
Mesoderm
The pancreas
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
Chromosome
44. The class composed of birds.
Biosphere
Aves
Catabolism
Chromatin
45. Is the control of protein synthesis. Genetic traits are expressed and specialization of cells occur as a result of the combination of proteins produced by the DNA of a cell.
Gene Migration
The primary role of DNA in the cell
Genetic maintenance
A mutation
46. Develops from the morula as a thin layer of cells surrounding an internal cavity.
Saprophytic
Blastula
A species role in the food chain is part of its
Parenchyma tissue
47. Is the process that releases energy for use by the cell.
Genetic maintenance
The biosphere
Cellular Respiration
Catabolism
48. Plants and animals obtain usable nitrogen
Cell walls
pH of Water
Through nitrogen fixing bacteria and lighting
Cerebrum
49. Controls sensory and motor responses - and controls memory - speech - and intelligence factors.
The Cell Theory
Cerebrum
Phosphorous gas
Isotonic Conditions
50. Is a phylum that contains sponges.
Habitat
Mature sporophyte
Porifera
Circadian rhythms