NYS Required Labs

Base your answer(s) to question(s) on the diagram below and on your knowledge of biology. The diagram shows the heads of four different species of Galapagos Islands finches. 
The four different types of beaks shown are most likely the result of 

• gene manipulation 
• natural selection 
• unchanging environmental conditions 
• patterns of behavior learned from parents 

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In members of a bird species living on a remote island, the greatest number of beak variations in the population would most likely be found when

• there is a high level of competition for limited resources

• homeostasis is limited by a severe climate

• they have a large and varied food supply

• they are prey for a large number of predators

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What did the beak type of finches on different islands tell Darwin?

• Finch populations evolved over time to favor beaks based on food type

• Finch populations had not evolved over time

• The finch beaks had no relationship to the available food on the islands

• Humans artificially selected finches based on their desired beak type

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Base your answer(s) to the following question(s) on the diagram below that shows variations in the beaks of finches in the Galapagos Islands and on your knowledge of biology.

The diversity of species seen on the Galapagos Islands is mostly due to

• gene manipulation by scientists

• gene changes resulting from mitotic cell division

• natural selection

• selective breeding

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Red onion cells undergo the change represented in the diagram below. This change is most likely caused by the cell being transferred from

• distilled water to starch indicator

• distilled water to salt water

• salt water to tap water

• salt water to distilled water

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Cell membranes are said to be selectively permeable. Which statement best explains what selectively permeable means?

• The cell membrane prevents any harmful substance from entering the cell.

• The cell membrane lets certain substances enter the cell and keeps certain substances out of the cell.

• The cell membrane allows only large molecules to diffuse into the cell.

• The cell membrane has pores that let only water and glucose into the cell and carbon dioxide out.

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Diffusion is the movement of molecules from an area of _____ concentration to an ______ concentration

• High, low

• Low, high

• Low, low,

• High, high

Which is true about active transport?

• It requires energy

• it does not require energy

• It moves substances down the concentration gradient

• it moves material from high to low concentration

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Which molecule is too large to cross the cell membrane?

• water

• glucose

• O₂

• starch

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Base your answer on the information and diagram below and on your knowledge of biology. Starch turns blue black in the presence of a starch indicator. Dialysis tubing tied at both ends and containing starch solution is placed in a beaker of water. Yellowish brown starch indicator is then added to the water. This laboratory setup would most likely be used to demonstrate the process of

• active transport
• replication
• diffusion
• cellular respiration