Biology Honors

1.

1 point

A _________ ______ is used to tell how long ago two species diverged.

2.

1 point

A group of ecosystems that have the same climate and communities is called a ______.

3.

1 point

A ________ is a heterotroph that obtains energy by eating only decaying plants and animals.

4.

1 point

_____ ____________ is a process by which many genetically identical cells can be produced.

5.

1 point

A similar feature that evolved through convergent evolution is called an ____________ ______________.

6.

1 point

Carbon in the atmosphere is in the form of ______ ________.

7.

1 point

_______ recycle.

8.

1 point

_______ is the basic need for all life in its interaction with the environment.

9.

1 point

The six-kingdom organization kingdoms include:

Archaebacteria

eubacteria

fungi

plantae

animalia

protista

10.

1 point

______ only flows in one way

11.

1 point

A __________ is a model used to represent evolutionary history among species.

12.

1 point

In order for an area to be called a desert, it needs to have a PET/P ratio of _____ or ______

13.

1 point

The tissue in a plant where most mitosis happens is called ________.

14.

1 point

The discovery of ___ __________ had led most directly to advanced in the identification of suspects in criminal investigations in the identification of genetic diseases.

15.

1 point

A ________ ____ shows the sites in a fragment of DNA where particular restriction enzymes cut the DNA

16.

1 point

_______ group kingdoms.

17.

1 point

A _______ succession is where an ecosystem grows from nothing.

18.

1 point

DNA fragments cut by a restriction enzyme can pair up and join any other DNA fragments cut with the same ___________ ___________.

19.

1 point

The scientific breakthrough, “What genes really are, and where variation comes from,” gave us a more complete understanding of how _______ ________ works.

20.

1 point

____% of the energy in a food chain or food web is passed up through each trophic level

21.

1 point

Classes with similar characteristics are grouped together into a ______.

22.

1 point

The _________ __________ is the largest stable population of a particular species that a particular ecosystem can support.

23.

1 point

Organisms that accumulate the highest concentration of pollutants such as PCB’s are the ________ level consumers

24.

1 point

_________ use is the concept of using resources in a way which does not deplete them.

25.

1 point

A ________ is a small circular DNA fragment that can be found naturally in many bacteria.

26.

1 point

____ ________ is the enzyme that makes a permanent connection in the backbone of a DNA molecule (connecting the sugar of one nucleotide to the phosphate of another nucleotide – called a phosphodiester bond)

27.

1 point

Inducing a __________ in the source chromosome is not a common step in a genetically engineering experiment.

28.

1 point

Discovery of _________ chemicals had a big effect on medicine and happened in the mid-1900s

29.

1 point

Mountain lions and domestic cats are members of the same ______, the same _____, and different ______.

30.

1 point

Scientists are studying __________ in their attempts to develop gene therapy methods because retroviruses can be used to insert DNA (such as a therapeutic gene) into a human chromosome.

31.

1 point

The parts of the taxonomic classification of an organism that are used as its scientific name are its _______.

32.

1 point

An ________ species is a species that enters an area where it has not previously lived and out competes a similar native species.

33.

1 point

A _______ characteristic is a unique physical trait used to construct a cladogram.

34.

1 point

_____ is specialized tissue that transports water and nutrients from the roots to the rest of the plant.

35.

1 point

The main indicator plant of the Mojave Desert is the _______.

36.

1 point

A ______ is an artificial vehicle that can carry a DNA fragment into another cell.

37.

1 point

A ____ _____ is the collection of all alleles of all individuals in a population

38.

1 point

Humans belong to the _______ domain.

39.

1 point

The __________ __________ ____________ states that no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time

40.

1 point

A group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities is called a ______.

41.

1 point

A gene that codes for Bt toxin has been added to the genome of several plant species. These plants will produce toxins that will ___ ____________ trying to eat them.

42.

1 point

A group of interbreeding organisms in an area describes a ___________.

43.

1 point

A step in a food chain or food web is calls a ______ ______.

44.

1 point

_______ is a method used to find out the exact order of nucleotide bases that makes up a gene.

45.

1 point

If you look at a microscope slide that has a cross section of a plant stem and see organized bundles of vascular tissue only near the outer surface of the stem, the plant is most likely a _____.

46.

1 point

a _________ succession is when the primary ecosystem dies off and another ecosystem grows where is originally was located.

47.

1 point

The science of naming, organizing, and classifying organism is called ________.

48.

1 point

Plants are _________.

49.

1 point

During a DNA sequencing reaction, heating to 96ºC causes the
_________ _____of the base-pairs to break.

50.

1 point

_________ is the sum total of all organisms in the biosphere.