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Biology 205 (BIOL 205-UCAL) Midterm II
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Question 1 |
A | I. Eukaryota II. Primates |
B | I. Eukaryota II. Chordata |
C | I. Primates II. Homininae |
D | I. Archaea II. Primates |
E | I. Chordata II. Primates |
Question 2 |
A | They both produce slime when threatened and it can be used for manufacturing textiles. |
B | They both lack endoskeleton. |
C | Hagfishes lack jaws and lampreys lack endoskeleton. |
D | They both lack jaws. |
Question 3 |
A | Resting neurons have a zero charge inside the cell. |
B | Resting neurons have a slightly negative charge inside the cell. |
C | Resting neurons for humans is about +/- 5 mV. |
D | Resting neurons have a slightly positive charge inside the cell. |
Question 4 |
A | ...mammals are part of the primate group. |
B | ...mammals have thick notochords. |
C | ...mammals do not produce eggs. |
D | ...mammals have hair and mammary glands. |
E | ...mammals are also tetrapods. |
Question 5 |
A | While it is possible to live a healthy life without minerals, all humans must requires vitamins. |
B | They are organic substances which human do not produce its' own. Mostly acquired from food sources. |
C | They are compounds usually acquired from food sources. Vitamins are organic compounds while minerals are inorganic compounds. |
D | They are chemicals produced by the monosccharies and absorbed through amino acids. |
E | There are thirty essential vitamins requirements for humans according to Health Canada guidelines. |
Question 6 |
A | The HIV genome is composed of fast self replicating DNA that produce a new evolutionary trait at an exponential rate. |
B | The modern HIV virus is derived from an ancestor that have the exact same characteristics as the current HIV-1M virus. |
C | The rate at which the HIV genome evolve is consent at all times. |
D | The HIV virus originated from primates and transferred to human. |
Question 7 |
A | Fifteen |
B | Ten |
C | Five |
D | Eight |
E | Three |
Question 8 |
A | Nucleotides |
B | Amino acids |
C | Monosaccharides |
D | Glycerol |
E | Fatty acids |
Question 9 |
A | Bonobos |
B | Chimpanzees |
C | Gibbons |
D | Monkeys |
E | Orangutans |
Question 10 |
A | Homo habilis |
B | Homo ergaster |
C | Homo neanderthalensis |
D | Homo sapiens |
E | Homo erectus |
Question 11 |
A | Pumping water for movement. |
B | Catching or killing the prey. |
C | Breathing by exchanging oxygen atoms from the water. |
D | Trapping suspended food particles. |
E | Crushing and grinding of food particles. |
Question 12 |
A | This situation most likely caused by genetic drift. |
B | The population has experienced an allopatric speciation. |
C | The species most likely increased in diversity and their hybrid population. |
D | Species experienced a punctuated equilibrium. |
Question 13 |
I. Cranial nerves
II. Spinal nerves
III. Brain
IV. Spinal cord
A | III and IV |
B | All of the listed items. |
C | II and IV |
D | I and II |
E | None of the listed items. |
F | I, II and III |
Question 14 |
A | All tissues in a healthy human body have the ability to regenerate. |
B | Cecum of a cow is much larger than that of a human. |
C | Integration of sensory data occurs within the Central Nervous System. |
D | Food molecules are chemical broken down by specialized enzymes. |
E | Humans are generically closer to Chimpanzees than to Gorillas. |
Question 15 |
A | Monotremes |
B | Marsupials |
C | Euterians |
D | Biotremes |
Question 16 |
A | Planarians |
B | Annelids |
C | Molluscs |
D | Cnidarians |
E | Arthropods |
Question 17 |
A | South Asia |
B | New Zealand |
C | China |
D | Antarctic region. |
E | Russia and Canada |
Question 18 |
A | RNA |
B | DNA |
C | rRNA |
D | mtDNA |
Question 19 |
A | The flight and feathers evolved at the same time. |
B | It is difficult to prove the connection between feathers and flight due to lack of scientific evidence. |
C | The feathers evolved first as an insulation mechanism and later the flight was evolved. |
D | The flight evolved first then feathers evolved to insulate high flying birds from old air masses. |
E | There is no relationship between them because feathers are just skin protectors. |
Question 20 |
A | ...vertebrates with complex lungs. |
B | ...fishes that dragged themselves from one pool of water to another. |
C | ...sting rays with gas exchange lungs. |
D | ...fishes with necks and four limbs. |
Question 21 |
A | -70 mV |
B | 100 mV |
C | +50 mV |
D | -30 mV |
E | 10 mV |
Question 22 |
A | Controlling temperature, pressure and chemical compounds for the embryo. |
B | Gas exchange for breathing. |
C | Diffusion of nutrients from mother's blood to embryo's blood. |
D | Protection of embryo from any external forces; chemical and physical. |
E | Storing and processing nutrients. |
Question 23 |
A | 500 billion |
B | 800 million |
C | 100 million |
D | 100 billion |
E | 800 billion |
Question 24 |
A | Gorillas and Chimpanzees |
B | Orangutans and Gibbons |
C | Orangutans and Gorillas |
D | Gibbons and Orangutans |
E | Tarsiers and Gibbons |
Question 25 |
A | Animalia |
B | Tetrapods |
C | Cordatas |
D | Bipedal vertebrates |
Question 26 |
A | Not enough evidence to support either way. |
B | Both around the same time |
C | Large brains |
D | Bipedalism |
Question 27 |
A | ...attack prey. |
B | ...funnel in water for suspension feeding. |
C | ...move on the seabed and for sediment filtering. |
D | ...swim against the currents. |
Question 28 |
A | To communicate with each other. |
B | For altruism and mimicry where one individual or more benefited by changing appearance, |
C | To blend into the surrounding environment. |
D | To warn the predators. |
Question 29 |
A | I. Old World monkeys II. New World monkeys III. Gibbons IV. Orangutans |
B | I. Tarsiers II. New World monkeys III. Old World monkeys IV. Gibbons |
C | I. Tarsiers II. New World monkeys III. Gibbons IV. Orangutans |
D | I. New World monkeys II. Old World monkeys III. Tarsiers IV. Chimpanzees |
E | I. New World monkeys II. Old World monkeys III. Gibbons IV. Chimpanzees |
Question 30 |
A | Common homologous and analogous features. |
B | Ability to interbreed and reproduce viable offspring. |
C | Common ancestral based decedents. |
D | Ability to interbreed among individuals. |
E | Fossil record indicating similar characteristics. |
Question 31 |
A | Lugs evolved from swim bladders. |
B | They have no evolutionary connection because they are analogous features. |
C | Both developed at the same time under same environmental conditions. |
D | Swim bladders evolved from lungs. |
Question 32 |
A | Competition for food can drive evolutionary changes and adaptations. |
B | Darwin's finches are unique because they are the only population to have a large variation in beak sizes. |
C | Hybrids have better survival rate than the others in a population. |
D | The response to environmental changes often result in dramatic shift in phenotypes. |
Question 33 |
Image Credit: Campbell Biology Concepts & Connections by Reece, Taylor, Simon, Dickey and Soctt
A | Arrow D |
B | Arrow C |
C | Arrow B |
D | Arrow A |
Question 34 |
A | Protection of the embryo from the outside environment through temperature regulation. |
B | Structure for the shell in which the honeycomb allantois attached itself to chorion. |
C | Production and processing of nutrients for the embryo. |
D | Enables the embryo to obtain oxygen from air and dispose carbon dioxide. |
Question 35 |
A | Suspension feeders |
B | Fluid feeders |
C | Bulk feeders |
D | Substrate feeders |
Question 36 |
A | axon hillock |
B | myelin sheath |
C | myelin sheath and glia |
D | glia |
E | cell body |
Question 37 |
A | Polyploidy |
B | Adaptive radiation |
C | Temporal isolation |
D | Zygotic barriers |
E | Sympathetic speciation |
Question 38 |
A | Allantois |
B | Amnion |
C | Embryo |
D | Yolk |
E | Chorion |
Question 39 |
A | Nucleic acids |
B | Protein |
C | Fat |
D | Saccharides |
Question 40 |
Image Credit: Campbell Biology Concepts & Connections by Reece, Taylor, Simon, Dickey and Soctt
A | Part B |
B | Part A |
C | Part C |
D | Part D |
Question 41 |
A | Organisms with ectothermic metabolism. |
B | Organisms that can store high volume of water within their bodies. |
C | Organisms with lungs instead of a skin-bases gas exchanges. |
D | Organisms that have the ability to fly therefore allowing them to migrate to locations with more food/water. |
E | Organisms with endohermic metabolism. |
Question 42 |
A | ...experiencing a reduced hybrid fertility. |
B | ...in gametic isolation state. |
C | ...in temporal isolation state. |
D | ...experiencing a hybrid breakdown. |
E | ...experiencing a reduced hybrid viability. |
Question 43 |
A | Monosaccharides |
B | Glycerol |
C | Amino acids |
D | Nucleotides |
E | Hydrochloric acid |
Question 44 |
A | Homo neanderthalensis |
B | Homo erectus |
C | Homo sapiens |
D | Homo habilis |
E | Homo ergaster |
Question 45 |
A | Visual pigments and epithelial tissues |
B | Amino acid metabolism |
C | Blood clotting |
D | Collagen synthesis |
E | Synthesis of fat |
Question 46 |
A | Cellulose-digesting microbes are equally abundant both in carnivores and herbivores. |
B | Meat is more difficult to digest than vegetable matter because of its high protein content. |
C | All vertebrates process hard solid foods in the Gizzard before the nutrients are absorbed by the intestine. |
D | Omnivores have longer digestive track then carnivores of similar body size because vegetation is more difficult to break digest. |
Question 47 |
A | They are suspension feeders. |
B | They are omnivores that feeds on both seaweeds and fishes. |
C | They are substrate feeders. |
D | They are herbivores and the primary diet is eat seaweed. |
E | They are fluid feeders. |
Question 48 |
A | It includes only the evidence from fossils record. |
B | It includes a common ancestor and all its decedents. |
C | It includes the new classification categories such as sub-phylums and sub-domains. |
D | It includes only the evidence from DNA and other genetic materials. |
Question 49 |
A | The lack of timing for each lineage event. |
B | The rapid evolutionary events are poorly recorded and therefore often not included in phylogenetic trees. |
C | The lack of fossil record to trace the phylogenetic sequence to a common accessory. |
D | The lack of DNA evidence to support most of the lineage events, |
Question 50 |
A | Pons midbrain in the Brain Stem. |
B | Medulla oblongata in the Brain Stem. |
C | Cerebellum. |
D | Cerebrum. |
E | Hypothalamus. |
Question 51 |
A | Monkeys |
B | Humans |
C | Gorillas |
D | Gibbons |
E | Tarsiers |
Question 52 |
A | ...motor system of the peripheral nervous system. |
B | ...sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system. |
C | ...enteric division of the autonomic nervous system. |
D | ...sympathetic division of the motor nervous system. |
E | ...central nervous system. |
Question 53 |
A | ...limited food supply. |
B | ...vulnerability to dehydration. |
C | ...limited viable offspring. |
D | ...large number of predators. |
Question 54 |
A | Protect the eggs from predators. |
B | Reduce the zygote breakdown. |
C | Adaptation to terrestrial environments. |
D | As a counteraction to balance the pressure and temperature conditions of the zygote. |
Question 55 |
A | ...ancestral character. |
B | ...shared derived character. |
C | ...genetically evolved character. |
D | ...genetically modified character. |
E | ...shared ancestral character. |
Question 56 |
A | Chordates, Vertebrates, Jawed vertebrates, Tetrapods |
B | Chordates, Vertebrates, Jawed vertebrates, Amniotes |
C | Chordates, Vertebrates, Jawed vertebrates |
D | Chordates, Vertebrates |
E | Chordates, Vertebrates, Jawed vertebrates, Tetrapods, Amniotes |
Question 57 |
A | drifted organisms |
B | derived organisms |
C | outgroup |
D | ingroup |
Question 58 |
A | Skeletal structure of the body is made up of about 90% cartilages. |
B | They are considered to be made up of nonliving materials, but bones are cartilages are generated by living cells. |
C | Exoskeleton doesn't grow at the same rate as the physical growth of an organism. |
D | Primary function of the cartilages is to support mechanical movements of organisms. |
Question 59 |
A | Crows |
B | Raccoons |
C | Gorilla |
D | Cockroaches |
E | Human |
Question 60 |
A | Based on the DNA structure of arthropods. |
B | Based on the size of the exoskeleton. |
C | Based on the placement of spinal cord opening on the skulls. |
D | Based on the type of tools utilized by the arthropods. |
E | Based on the length ratio of limbs to arms. |
Question 61 |
A | Sensory receptor takes in the information and passed to the integration section of the Peripheral Nervous System through Central Nervous System. Once the information is processed, it is passed to organs through Peripheral Nervous System. |
B | Sensory receptor takes in the information and passed to the integration section of the Peripheral Nervous System through Central Nervous System. Once the information is processed, it is passed to organs through Central Nervous System. |
C | Sensory receptor takes in the information and passed to the integration section of the Central Nervous System directly. Once the information is processed, it is passed to organs through Peripheral Nervous System. |
D | Sensory receptor takes in the information and passed to the integration section of Central Nervous System directly. Once the information is processed, it is passed to organs through Central Nervous System. |
E | Sensory receptor takes in the information and passed to the integration section of the Central Nervous System through Peripheral Nervous System. Once the information is processed, it is passed to organs through Peripheral Nervous System. |
Question 62 |
A | Vitamin A |
B | Vitamin B12 |
C | Vitamin B6 |
D | Vitamin K |
E | Vitamin B1 |
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Credits: Based on the excellent class notes provided by, Dr. K. Ruckstuhl during Fall 2014.
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