BIOLOGY 101 and 102 FINAL EXAM SPRING 2002 NAME_______________________________
1) Analogous structures among organisms, such as bird 7) According to Mendel’s Principle of
wings and insect wings, are evidence of: Segregation____________________.
a) divergent evolution a) each pair of alleles stays together in each
b) convergent evolution gamete (egg or sperm)
c) random changes b) homologous chromosomes move to the same
d) prezygotic isolation gamete
e) common ancestry c) gametes are diploid
d) gametes have one copy of each chromosome
and thus, one copy of each allele
2) Which of the following is not a requirement for e) more gametes carrying the dominant allele are
natural selection? produced than gametes carrying the recessive
a) differential reproductive success allele
b) overproduction of offspring
c) genetic variation
d) catastrophic events 8) DNA differs from RNA because:
e) inheritance a) DNA has a sugar-phosphate backbone and RNA
has a nucleotide phosphate backbone
b) DNA has ribose sugar and RNA has
3) Which of the following is a hypothesis? deoxyribose sugar
a) My computer doesn’t work. c) DNA has guanine and RNA has adenine
b) My computer doesn’t work because it has a d) DNA has thymine and RNA has uracil
virus. e) DNA is single stranded and RNA is double
c) What is wrong with my computer? stranded
d) My computer is too old.
e) If I erase my hard drive, my computer will work
again. 9) If adenine makes up 30% of the bases in a DNA
double helix, what percentage of the bases are
guanine?
4) What is the #1 reason why species go extinct? a) 80%
a) habitat loss b) 60%
b) introduced species c) 40%
c) disease d) 20%
d) overhunting e) 30%
e) pollution
10) In an evolutionary sense, why is it dangerous to use
Joe is heterozygous for a widow’s peak and has the antibiotic drugs to treat patients with viral
genotype Ww. Use this information to answer questions infections?
5 and 6. a) it’s not- most people expect drugs when they go
to the doctor
5) The alleles represented by letters W and w are: b) by increasing your dependence on antibiotics,
a) on the X and Y chromosomes you are compromising the health of your
b) both dominant immune system
c) on homologous chromosomes c) you may become immune to antibiotics
d) both present in all Joe’s sperm cells d) antibiotics do not kill viruses and bacteria that
e) on the same chromosomes, but far apart are in your system can become resistant to
antibiotics
e) viruses become resistant to the antibiotics
6) Assume now that widow’s peaks are a dominant trait
and Joe marries Jane, who is also heterozygous.
What is the percent chance that Joe and Jane’s 11) What are alleles?
children will have widow’s peaks? a) homologous chromosomes
a) 0% b) environmental factors that affect gene
b) 25% expression
c) 50% c) alternate forms of a gene
d) 75% d) alternate phenotypes
e) 100% e) non-homologous chromosomes
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12) We are concerned that, sometime in the 21st century 18) Competition between two species can most likely
as the number of humans on Earth approaches 10 result in:
billion, that we may reach the limit of the number of a) mimicry
people that the planet can sustain. This idea is an b) resource partitioning
application of which principle? c) crypsis
a) ecological equilibrium d) chemical defense
b) niche separation e) mutualism
c) J curve
d) carrying capacity
e) exponential growth 19) The basic order of the steps of protein synthesis is:
a) DNA->translation->mRNA->transcription-
13) What type of reproductive isolating mechanism is >protein
demonstrated by a situation in which female frogs b) DNA->transcription->tRNA->translation-
will only mate with males that have a certain call? >protein
a) behavioral isolation c) mRNA->transcription->DNA->translation-
b) habitat isolation >protein
c) temporal isolation d) DNA->transcription->mRNA->translation-
d) post-zygotic isolation >protein
e) hybrid sterility e) DNA->mRNA->transcription->translation-
>protein
14) You are a farmer here in Palouse growing lentils and
wheat (what else?). You remember learning about
integrated pest management in Biology 102 class at 20) What is the main difference between stem cell
“Wazzu.” Ahem, I mean WSU. Which of the research and cloning?
following are part of an integrated pest management a) Pre-embryos are “harvested” at the zygote stage
strategy? in stem cell research
a) careful use of pesticides b) Pre-embryos are “harvested” at the blastocyst
b) use of natural predators of crop pests stage in stem cell research
c) use of natural competitors of crop pests c) stem cell research involves a surrogate mother
d) bioengineering crops that are resistant to pests d) cloning produces tissues, stem cell research
e) all of the above produces new individuals
e) cloning involves replacing nuclei of eggs, stem
15) Which of the following are prokaryotes? cell research involves replacing nuclei of sperm
a) bacteria
b) fungi
c) plants 21) How did scientists tell that illegal whale meat was
d) insects being sold in Japan?
e) mammals a) they aligned DNA sequences of random
samples collected from Japanese markets with
16) Which of the following is not evidence of descent those collected from known species in the ocean
with modification? b) they saw fisherman catching whales
a) relatedness of life forms (e.g., hierarchy) c) they compared VNTR loci of “fish” being sold
b) change through time (e.g., pepper moth) in markets and whales and found a match with
c) transitional forms in the fossil record illegal species
d) life on earth is old (geological evidence) d) they tasted the meat of whales and those sold in
e) giraffes that stretched to reach higher leaves Japanese markets
have offspring with longer necks e) none of the above
17) One reason not to cut down the tropical rainforest is
because a plant species may hold a cure for cancer. 22) Which of the following is a practical application of
This idea represents which way that biodiversity can cloning?
be valued, according to lecture? a) Dolly the sheep
a) economic b) Gene therapy
b) potential c) making crops resistant to pests
c) aesthetic d) Glow in the dark rabbit
d) ecological e) all of the above are applications of cloning
e) intrinsic research
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23) Why do some doctors suggest a period where no 28) Which of the following is not a potential reason why
drugs should be used when treating patients with we see so many different species on the Earth (think
HIV? about angiosperms and Cambrian Explosion).
a) the patient’s immune system can rebound and a) plate tectonics and continental drift
fight off the infection b) all life has a nucleus as a component of cells
b) HIV evolves drug resistance and susceptible c) climate fluctuates regularly, causing big freezes
strains of HIV will rebound when drugs are and then glacial recession
removed d) mass extinctions
c) drugs mutate quickly e) complex predator-prey relationships
d) HIV causes only the strongest T cells in the
patient to survive; when drugs are removed, the
patient is healthy again 29) Which of the following is a key characteristic of
e) all of the above chordates?
a) they include insects
b) they are pseudocoelomates
c) they have a notochord
24) The age structure of humans in Mexico is as d) they include the gastropods
follows: 50% pre-reproductive age, 30% e) they are radially symmetrical
reproductive age, 20% post-reproductive age. What
do you predict will happen to the number of people
in Mexico? 30) Which of the following most closely resembles a
a) increase population in the biological sense?
b) decrease a) the human population
c) remain stable b) the Snake River fish population
d) decrease, then increase c) the Costa Rican bird population
e) decrease, then remain stable d) the Palouse White-Tailed Deer population
e) the Flying purple people eater population
25) William Paley is responsible for which idea?
a) intelligent design 31) Grazing animals such as horses and cows are:
b) natural selection a) Producers
c) “conditions of existence” b) Primary consumers
d) “Scala Naturae” c) Secondary consumers
e) hierarchical classification of organisms d) Tertiary consumers
e) Quaternary consumers
26) Approximately how long ago did Homo sapiens
(modern humans) evolve? 32) An organism feeding at multiple trophic levels is
a) 100,000 years called a/an:
b) 500,000 years a) Producer
c) 1.8 million years b) Secondary consumer
d) 2.5 million years c) Omnivore
e) 4.4 million years d) Quaternary consumer
e) Herbivore
27) Allopatric speciation could be caused by:
a) a volcano or other geographic barrier
b) salmon that breed in the same stream but at 33) How much chemical energy (stored as biomass) is
different times available to primary consumers from 10,000 kcal of
c) gall flies that breed in the same field, but on primary productivity?
different gall plants with different predators a) 1 kcal
d) an error in cell division of a plant that causes it b) 10 kcal
to be reproductively incompatible with c) 100 kcal
neighboring plants d) 1000 kcal
e) none of the above e) 10,000 kcal
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34) The Gulf Stream and Japan currents both move 40) The by-products of cellular respiration are:
clockwise from a southerly point of origin in the a) Glucose and oxygen
northern hemisphere. What is the result of these b) ADP and ATP
currents? c) Carbon dioxide and water
a) Warming at northern latitudes d) ATP and glucose
b) Warming at southern latitudes e) A phosphate group and water
c) Stabilization at all latitudes
d) Cooling at northern latitudes 41) The principle known as ‘Conservation of Energy’
e) Cooling at southern latitudes states that:
a) Energy is either created or destroyed
b) Energy can neither be created nor destroyed
c) 25% use of alternative energy sources must be
35) The Humbolt current might most directly be achieved by 2013
associated with: d) Kinetic energy is the product of motion
a) Warming Western Australia e) Energy cycles and chemicals flow
b) Cooling Eastern Africa
c) Warming the British Isles 42) Which of the following would not be a potential
d) Cooling western South America result of increasing temperature in an aquatic
e) Cooling Eastern South America biosystem?
a) Reduce available oxygen
b) Increase the rate of evaporation
36) Which of the following is/are not directly associated c) Increase the metabolism of phytoplankton
with ascending (rising) moist air in the tropics: d) Change in the community composition
a) Release of moisture into the tropics e) Reduce salinity in the system
b) An area of calm called the “doldrums”
c) Polar ice caps
d) Descending dry air over the tropics 43) Which of the following is/are true of cellular
e) Dry and Tropical rainforests respiration?
a) Cells use oxygen to help harvest the energy
potential of organic food molecules
37) Seasons are a direct result of: b) Light generation from cellular metabolism
a) The distance between Earth and the sun accounts for about 60% of the energy released
b) The tilt of the planet as it orbits the sun c) Heat generated from fuel consumption in cells
c) The orientation of the nine planets of solar is rarely used by terrestrial mammals
system d) This process builds organic fuel molecules from
d) The angle of the sun relative to the equator inorganic materials.
e) Global warming e) In the absence of oxygen, Nitrogen may be
substituted
38) According to lecture, of the following abiotic 44) An aerobic process (such as cellular respiration…):
factors, which has the most significant impact on a) Requires nitrogen
producers? b) Requires carbon dioxide
a) Disturbance c) Requires light
b) Sunlight d) Requires oxygen
c) Temperature e) Requires water
d) Wind
e) Rocks 45) Which statement is not correct?
a) The metabolic pathway for cellular respiration
includes Glycolysis, the Krebs Cycle, and
electron transport
39) Which of the following is a secondary consumer? b) Cellular respiration is responsible for the
a) An herbivorous insect conversion of energy used to do cellular work
b) A detritivore c) Cellular respiration is a single reaction
c) A seed eating bird d) Cellular respiration requires the intake of
d) A carnivorous plant protein
e) An insect eating bird (insectivore) e) Cellular respiration occurs within the
cytoplasm, the interior of the mirochondria, and
though the membranes of mitochondria
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46) Energy is made directly available for cellular work 53) The temperate deciduous forest is characterized by
when: a) Its presence near the poles
a) ATP is released by fatty acids b) The strong influence of trade winds
b) ATP gains a phosphate group c) Permafrost and the presence of tall trees
c) ATP is energized by light d) Dense stands of deciduous trees
d) ATP loses a phosphate group e) Large herbivores and their predators
e) ADP is energized by light
47) Of the foods humans consume, which group can be 54) Which of the following biomes are heavily
used as fuel for cellular respiration? influenced by, or dependent on fire?
a) The macronutriens; Fat, carbohydrates, and a) Savanna, Chaparral, and desert
protein b) Tropical forest, Chaparral, and temperate
b) The micronutrients; zinc, calcium, and grasslands
phosphorus c) Temperate grasslands, chaparral and Savanna
c) Sugar, starch, and iodine d) Chaparral, Desert, and tundra
d) Only carbohydrates e) Coniferous forest, deciduous forest, and tropical
e) Only fatty acids forest.
48) Cellular reproduction is most closely associated with
which of the following? 55) Heterotrophs include
a) Fertilization of oocytes a) All plants
b) Insuring genetic variability in the next b) All protists
generation c) All animals
c) Replacing lost or damaged cells d) All bacteria
d) Metastasis e) All eukaryotes
e) Production of gametes
56) Which of the following results in an interruption to
49) The Cell Cycle, which includes interphase and electron transport?
mitosis, is found in: a) Food poisoning
a) Eukaryotes and prokaryotes b) Trisomy 21
b) Prokaryotes only c) Non-hodgkins lymphoma
c) Archaea only d) Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide poisoning
d) Eukaryotes only e) Neural tube defects
e) Phytoplankton only
57) Grain plants such as soybeans, oats, and wheat:
50) Disruption during interphase will most directly a) Take CO2 directly from the air
affect: b) Increase sugar production at night
a) Cytokinesis c) Open stomata to decrease water loss
b) Duplication of DNA d) Have adaptive enzymes that allow collection of
c) Spindle formation CO2 from air spaces in leaves
d) Formation of the cell wall e) Store CO2 for release to the Calvin cycle
e) Distribution of organelles
58) Plants located in the desert are likely to:
51) Carcinomas and melanomas include: a) Take CO2 directly from the air during day and
a) Cancers of the non-neural brain cells night
b) Cancers of the blood-forming tissues b) Bank CO2 by night
c) Cancers of the connective tissue c) Collect CO2 from air spaces in the leaves by
d) Cancers of the skin and pigment way of specialized enzymes
e) Cancers of the brain and thyroid d) Have decreased productivity in dry weather
e) Stop sugar production to conserve energy
52) Epithelial cancers are the most common
malignancies and are called: 59) Which of the following is/are directly related to
a) Carcinomas wind as an abiotic factor?
b) Melanomas a) Slowing metabolism in plants
c) Gliomas b) Concentration of urine in kidneys
d) Sarcomas c) Ground level competition
e) Leukemias d) Patchiness of the landscape
e) Dispersal of pollen and seeds
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60) Wind results most directly from: 67) Animals found in the slower, wider downstream
a) Global warming portion of a stream with a high-mountain source are
b) Uneven heating of air masses generally:
c) Uneven heating of water a) More dependent on vision than those upstream
d) Ocean currents b) At the producer level of this ecosystem
e) Seasons c) Easily moved from fresh to saltwater
ecosystems
61) Winds in the temperate region of the northern d) Those that can burrow in mud
hemisphere blow e) More dependent on taste and smell than
a) East to West organisms in the clear water upstream
b) West to East
c) More strongly in the summer than in the winter
d) More weakly at night than by day 68) Which of the following is not considered a human
e) Based on the amount of moisture in the air impact on the environment?
a) Natural levels of greenhouse gases
62) Which abiotic factor has the most limiting effect in b) Loss of biodiversity
lakes? c) Increased global warming since the industrial
a) Sunlight revolution
b) Wind d) Depletion of atmospheric ozone
c) Temperature e) Distribution of exotic (introduced) species
d) Wind
e) Rocks
69) Seasonal mixing in freshwater biomes serves to:
63) Salivary glands release enzymes important to the a) Replenish dissolved nutrients in the benthic
digestion of zone
a) Beef b) Increase the amount of available light in the
b) Peanuts photic zone
c) Butter c) Increase solute concentrations throughout the
d) Pasta water column
e) Milk d) Replenish dissolved oxygen in the benthic zone
e) Equalize temperatures from the surface to the
64) Energy pyramids represent: bottom of the lake
a) The rate of biomass production
b) The amount of digestible protein
c) The level of biomass storage at each trophic 70) The open ocean or pelagic zone…
level a) Supports mainly motile animals
d) The recommended balance of foods in the b) Supports mainly detritivores
human diet c) Is dependent on mixing with freshwater
e) The relative abundance of lean muscle to fat d) Consists mainly of attached algae and fungi
e) Provides a rich food source of rooted plants
65) Phytoplankton and rooted plants are most likely to
be found:
a) In the photic zone of freshwater biomes
b) In the absence of phosphorus 71) The biggest abiotic reservoir for carbon is:
c) In marine systems that are subject to seasonal a) Fossil fuels
turnover b) Soil
d) As a result of artifical input of fertilizers c) Decaying organic debris
e) In coral reefs d) The atmosphere
e) Plants
66) The benthic zone of a freshwater system
a) Represents a transitional zone between salty and
fresh extremes 72) Pregnancy is most likely to occur:
b) Is rich with algae eating insects such as mayfly a) Near the end of the cycle (Days 21-28)
larvae b) At the middle of menstrual cycle (Days 12-17)
c) Is dominated by detritovores c) At the beginning of the menstrual cycle (Days
d) Is dominated by motile animals and passive 1-7)
drifters d) Only with female orgasm
e) Is usually cool, clear, and low in nutrients e) Just prior to the date when a period is expected
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73) The recommended food intake for most people 77) According to lecture and our text, the most fertile
includes: soil is associated with:
a) About 60% grains a) Deserts
b) About 40% protein b) Deciduous Forests
c) At least 12% fat c) Grasslands
d) No more than 50% carbohydrates d) Tundra
e) 6-11 serving of fruits and vegetables e) Tropical forests
78) Where would I find a Chaparral biome?
74) The Body Mass Index: a) At northern-most latitudes
a) Includes a factor for athletic ability b) At southern-most latitudes
b) Is a direct measure of your percentage of lean c) Near the equator
muscle to fat d) In mid-latitude coastal areas
c) Is measured in a doctor’s office by using e) At the edge of a deciduous forest
calipers
d) Establishes a guide for weight relative to height 79) Select the correct pair:
e) Remains constant throughout adulthood a) March equinox and equator facing the sun
directly
b) March equinox and the northern hemisphere
75) What factor has the most significant contribution to tilting toward the sun
the nutrient richness of a temperate deciduous c) December solstice and the equator facing the
forest? sun directly
a) The burning of grasses d) June solstice and the northern hemisphere tilting
b) Wastes from grazing animals away from the sun
c) Decaying leaves e) September equinox and the northern hemisphere
d) Direct input of nutrients from rainfall tilting toward the sun
e) Vertical stratification
80) What would you expect to be the effect on primary
76) Desert animals may demonstrate which adaptive consumers if large numbers of secondary consumers
strategy? disappeared?
a) Acclimation a) An increase due to loss of predators
b) Behavioral adaptation b) No change, the system would immediately
c) Physiological adaptation rebalance
d) Structural adaptation c) A decrease due to loss of production
e) All of the above are possible d) A change in the main diet of primary consumers
e) Migration to a more stable ecosystem
Did you write you name on the scantron?
Did you write your number on the scantron?
Did you fill in the bubbles for your name and student number?
Did you answer all 80 questions?
Did you erase completely when you changed answers?
Best wishes for a safe and happy summer!
Dr. Storfer, Dr. Marshall, and the biology TA team
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