What are two measurable indicators for the Environmental pillar to determine if something is sustainable?

Museum visits & Language diversity

Number of festivals & Sports attendance

Which statement best captures the key difference in method between selective breeding and genetic modification/bioengineering?

Selective breeding uses existing variation and controlled mating over many generations, while genetic modification directly changes an organism’s DNA and can create rapid, targeted traits.

Both selective breeding and genetic modification rely on natural cross-pollination without laboratory techniques.

Genetic modification and selective breeding are identical, but genetic modification is limited to traits already present within the species.

Selective breeding directly inserts genes using molecular tools, while genetic modification relies on random mutation from radiation.

What is genetic modification and how is it typically done? Choose the most accurate description.

It is altering an organism’s DNA by inserting, deleting, or editing sequences.

It is producing hybrids via cross-pollination without any change to DNA sequence.

It is changing traits by adjusting diet and environment with no genomic alteration.

It is creating random mutations using radiation or chemicals only, without targeted methods.

Protein synthesis: How is DNA used to make proteins?

DNA is transcribed into mRNA, which is translated by ribosomes to assemble amino acids into a polypeptide.

DNA directly binds amino acids to form proteins without RNA intermediates.

Lipids carry the genetic code to ribosomes, where proteins are assembled.

Proteins are synthesized when tRNA templates are transcribed into DNA.

Which pairing correctly defines transcription and translation in gene expression?

Transcription produces RNA from a DNA template; translation builds a polypeptide from an mRNA template.

Transcription builds proteins from RNA; translation copies DNA into RNA.

Transcription edits DNA sequences; translation transports mRNA out of the nucleus.

Transcription replicates DNA; translation replicates RNA.

Why is the shape of a protein important?

Its three-dimensional conformation determines how it interacts with other molecules and thus its biological function.

Shape only affects the color of a protein but not its function.

Protein shape is irrelevant; only amino acid count matters.

Shape influences stability but has no bearing on activity or binding.

Choose the option that correctly defines DNA.

DNA: the hereditary molecule storing genetic information

Choose the options that correctly define protein.

Protein: a folded polypeptide performing cellular functions

Protein: a chain of amino acids

Protein: a carbohydrate polymer

Choose the option that correctly defines trait.

Trait: an observable characteristic

Choose the option that correctly defines gene.

Gene: a DNA sequence encoding a product

Gene: an observable characteristic

Select all examples that correctly match the crop, modification, and benefit.

Bt corn expressing insecticidal Bt toxin to reduce insect damage.

Roundup Ready soybeans expressing EPSPS for glyphosate herbicide tolerance.

Drought-tolerant maize engineered to maintain yield under water stress.

Tomatoes engineered with fluorescent proteins to improve photosynthesis efficiency.

What are Roundup Ready soybeans? Why are they used?

Roundup Ready soybeans tolerate glyphosate herbicide to enable effective weed control.

Roundup Ready soybeans resist viral infection for improved shelf life and thus are ready for round up by customers for a longer time.

Roundup Ready soybeans increase oil content for better nutrition and thus don't need additional fertilizer like Roundup.

Roundup Ready soybeans fix nitrogen without rhizobia and thus don't need additional fertilizer like Roundup.

Why was corn genetically modified to create Bt corn?

Bt corn expresses a Bacillus thuringiensis toxin for insect resistance

Bt corn tolerates high salt in soil by expressing Bacterial consumer protein

Bt corn is engineered for drought resistance by expressing Better turgidity protein

Bt corn contains extra vitamins because it produces Beta toluene protein

How can the three pillars of sustainability be used to make decisions about sociocientific challenges such as GMO adoption? Choose the most appropriate approach.

Evaluate environmental impacts, economic costs/benefits, and social equity/acceptance to balance trade-offs.

Focus solely on maximizing yield because it improves the economy.

Prioritize cultural preferences over environmental or economic outcomes.

Make decisions based only on short-term financial gains.

Environmental challenges/risks and advantages related to GMOs: Select all statements that are accurate.

Potential gene flow to wild relatives and the evolution of resistant pests are recognized risks.

Reduced pesticide use and targeted pest control can be environmental advantages.

Improved yields under stress can lower land-use pressure, which can be an advantage.

GMOs invariably increase pesticide use in every case.

How are GMOs tested for safety, and which U.S. organizations are involved in reviewing GMO foods?

Safety is evaluated for food/feed and environmental impact; the FDA, USDA, and EPA share oversight responsibilities.

GMOs are approved only by the NIH after clinical trials in humans.

Only the WHO conducts safety testing for all GMOs globally, with no national oversight.

No formal safety review is required; companies self-certify without government involvement.

CRISPR function and use: Which statement is most accurate?

CRISPR-Cas systems use guide RNA to direct a nuclease to a specific DNA sequence, creating targeted breaks for editing.

CRISPR randomly mutates DNA without guidance and cannot be used for targeted edits.

CRISPR is a protein that translates mRNA into proteins.

CRISPR is a plant hormone that improves drought tolerance without changing DNA.

What is gene editing in humans? Select examples that accurately show how it has been used and why.

Using CRISPR to edit somatic cells to treat a genetic disease by correcting a pathogenic variant.

Editing germline cells in embryos to introduce heritable changes, raising ethical and safety concerns.

Enhancing athletic performance by training, which is unrelated to gene editing.

Changing adult diet to modify gene sequences directly.

What is the key difference between genetically editing germline cells and somatic cells?

Germline edits are heritable and affect future generations, whereas somatic edits affect only the treated individual.

Somatic edits are heritable and passed to offspring, while germline edits are temporary in one organ.

There is no difference; both types affect only the immune system.

Germline editing changes behavior without genetic effects, while somatic editing changes the genome.

What are the pros and cons of genetically modified foods? Select all statements that accurately reflect evidence-based advantages and concerns.

Possible advantages include increased yield, improved nutrient content, and reduced pesticide use in some systems.

Potential concerns include allergenicity, ecological impacts such as resistance evolution, and market concentration affecting farmers.

GM foods always cause allergies and are unsafe in all cases.

GM foods never reduce pesticide use and cannot improve nutrition.

How could GMOs contribute to the sustainability of food production and/or global nutrition? Select all correct contributions.

Biofortification (e.g., increased micronutrients) to reduce deficiencies.

Traits for drought tolerance or stress resilience to stabilize yields.

Pest-resistance traits that can lower chemical inputs.

Increased food waste through shorter shelf life.

How do GMOs relate to the three pillars of sustainability? Select all statements that accurately connect GMOs to environmental, economic, and social considerations.

Environmental: reduced pesticide load and land-use pressure in some contexts

Social: public perceptions and regulatory debates

Economic: potential cost savings and yield gains

Environmental: guaranteed biodiversity increases in all cases

Economic: GMOs cannot affect costs of seeds or products

How would you explain whether a virus is considered living or non-living?

Viruses are not considered living because they lack cellular structure and metabolism and cannot reproduce independently.

Viruses are living because they evolve and replicate inside hosts, and living things do not require cells or independent metabolism.

Viruses are living because they respond to stimuli and maintain homeostasis without a host, which are the key traits of life.

Viruses are non-living primarily because they are extremely small; size is the defining criterion for life.

process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics

organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

Imagine you are explaining natural selection to a parent who hasn’t been in school for a while. What are the most important things about natural selection that they need to know?

Within populations, heritable variation affects survival and reproduction; individuals with beneficial traits leave more offspring, so trait frequencies change over generations without any predetermined goal.

Natural selection is when individuals intentionally adapt to new environments by choosing to develop traits they need during their lifetimes.

Natural selection causes individuals to change their genes so they can survive; learned behaviors are the primary driver of evolutionary change.

Evolution by natural selection occurs only during large environmental catastrophes; in stable environments, traits never change in frequency.

How do vaccines work to prevent the spread of infectious diseases?

Vaccines expose the immune system to harmless antigens to generate memory responses that reduce disease severity and transmission.

Vaccines cure infections by directly killing pathogens in the bloodstream.

Vaccines work by strengthening general health rather than targeting specific pathogens.

Vaccines prevent infection solely by blocking all exposure to pathogens.

Why is vaccination important for public health?

Vaccination contributes to herd immunity in the community.

Vaccines help treat individual illness and do not affect community-level transmission.

Public health benefits arise only from individual wellness.

Community vaccination has little effect on population-level spread.

How does antibiotic resistance demonstrate the process of natural selection in organisms?

In the presence of antibiotics, susceptible bacteria die while resistant variants survive and reproduce, increasing the frequency of resistance alleles over generations.

Antibiotics induce new resistance traits in all bacteria directly, so resistance appears uniformly without selection.

Bacteria learn to resist antibiotics through repeated exposure, and acquired behaviors, not heritable traits, are passed to offspring.

Resistance spreads only because antibiotics make all bacteria stronger; selection does not play a role in changing trait frequencies.

The diagram below shows a single bacterial colony before, shortly after, and one hour after exposure to an antibacterial gel. Which statement best explains why the antibacterial gel did not eliminate the entire bacterial colony?

Genetic diversity within the bacterial colony allowed some of the bacteria to survive the treatment and reproduce.

Exposure to the antibacterial gel caused some of the bacteria to become highly resistant to its effects.

Natural resistance to the antibacterial gel allowed most of the bacteria in the colony tosurvive the treatment.

Inconsistent application of the antibacterial gel caused some of the bacteria to receive a lower dose than others.

organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics

Which is an example of selective breeding?

Cross breeding a labrador retriever with a poodle .

Clipping a horse's tail so it's not too long.

Training a horse to run faster.

Why is the mouse population changing over time?

The hawks eat more light mice than dark mice because they can see the light mice more easily

The light mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark mice

The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because the dark mice taste better

The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily

Which of the following is a major cause of water scarcity in many regions?

Overuse of groundwater for agriculture and industry

Excessive rainfall throughout the year

What is one potential consequence of water scarcity for human populations?

Increased risk of disease due to poor sanitation

Unlimited access to clean drinking water

Improved agricultural productivity

Which strategy can help reduce water scarcity in urban areas?

Implementing water recycling and conservation programs

Ignoring leaks in public water systems

Increasing water wastage in households

Relying solely on bottled water imports

Which of the following is an example of coastal flooding?

Flooding caused by storm surges and high tides in areas near the ocean

Flooding due to heavy rainfall in mountainous regions

Flooding caused by melting snow in spring

Flooding from overflowing rivers in inland areas

What is the main cause of flash flooding?

Sudden, intense rainfall over a short period

Overflowing lakes due to drought

Gradual snowmelt over several weeks

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Why is a decision-making framework needed for socioscientific issues?

Because these issues involve complex trade-offs, multiple stakeholders, and uncertainty, so a framework helps structure evidence, values, and choices.

Because laws mandate using a single standardized procedure for all scientific questions.

To eliminate disagreement by identifying one universally correct answer to social questions.

To speed up data collection by ignoring stakeholder values and focusing only on numerical results.

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What key fact should you know about the role of water in photosynthesis and cellular respiration?

In photosynthesis, water is a reactant that supplies electrons and protons; in cellular respiration, water is a product formed when oxygen accepts electrons.

In both processes, water only acts as a solvent and has no chemical role.

In photosynthesis, water is a product; in cellular respiration, water is a reactant consumed.

Water is irrelevant to electron transport in both processes.

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How can flooding have a negative impact on the environment and people?

Negative: contaminates water, destroys habitats, displaces people.

Negative: reduces pollution and increases biodiversity.

Negative: increases tax revenue.

Negative: lowers groundwater levels.

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How can flooding have a positive impact on the environment and people?

Positive: deposits nutrients, recharges floodplains and wetlands.

Positive: erodes soils and damages infrastructure.

Positive: permanently dries wetlands.

Positive: blocks nutrient movement to soils.

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What are the three pillars of sustainability?

Environmental, Social, Economic

Political, Cultural, Technological

Earth, Water, Space

Physical, Biological, Chemical

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What are two measurable indicators for the Economic pillar to determine if something is sustainable?

Profitability & Employment/income stability

Biodiversity index & Water quality

Rainfall totals & Soil texture

Public health outcomes & Equity/access to services

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What are two measurable indicators for the Social pillar to determine if something is sustainable?

Biodiversity index & Water quality

Public health outcomes & Equity/access to services

GDP growth & Stock prices

Profitability & Employment/income stability

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Final Exam Review

Why is a decision-making framework needed for socioscientific issues?

What key fact should you know about the role of water in photosynthesis and cellular respiration?

How can flooding have a negative impact on the environment and people?

How can flooding have a positive impact on the environment and people?

What are the three pillars of sustainability?

What are two measurable indicators for the Economic pillar to determine if something is sustainable?

What are two measurable indicators for the Social pillar to determine if something is sustainable?

What are two measurable indicators for the Environmental pillar to determine if something is sustainable?

Which statement best captures the key difference in method between selective breeding and genetic modification/bioengineering?

Which method produces more rapid genetic change; selective breeding or genetic modification/bioengineering?

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