Acc Biology Fall Semester Review

When lions hunt, the energy (kcal) they expend is...

• a negative number

• a positive number

• gained

• Stored

An antelope costs -5,000 kcal to hunt. The antelope provides +10,000kcal of total energy. What is the net energy provided from hunting and eating one antelope?

• -5,000 kcal

• +5,000 kcal

• -15,000 kcal

• +10,000 kcal

• +15,000 kcal

A group of 4 lions has a hunting budget of 60,000kcal.

What is the hunting budget for each lion?

• 60,000 kcal

• 10,000 kcal

• 15,000 kcal

• unknown

Which statements about heredity are TRUE?

• Every organism has two copies of every gene.

• Males are XX and females are XY

• Offspring inherit one gene (one chromosome) from each parent.

• Parents pass on all their genes to their offspring.

Which is an example of a genotype?

• G / G

• G

• Blue

• All of these are examples of genotypes.

True or False: All the alleles at a gene locus of an offspring must be accounted for in the genotypes of its mother and father.

• FALSE

• TRUE

True or False: One allele from each parent is passed to the offspring for each gene locus.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Why are elephant populations decreasing in size?

This question is...

• OPEN

• CLOSED

• TESTABLE

How much grass does an African elephant eat in one day?

• OPEN

• CLOSED

• TESTABLE

• NOT TESTABLE

How does the elephant population size in an area impact the population sizes of other organisms in the trophic levels above and below it?

• OPEN

• CLOSED

• TESTABLE

• NOT TESTABLE