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WorksheetsQuan Quizz (MS Bio 2022)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which is a valid cladistic grouping?
Sharks, salmon, and cetaceans
Pigeons, pelicans, and platypuses
Turkeys, toucans, and pterodactyls
Primates, prosimians, and pygmy marmosets
Tamarins, Treadwells, and Tasmanian devils
What's the problem with this clade:
Angiosperms, anemones, aspens, and Australian kauri pines
Anemones live in the sea, therefore don't belong with the others listed (which are land organisms).
Anemones aren't vascular plants, therefore don't belong with the others listed.
Anemones aren't plants, they are Cnidarian animals (like jellyfish and corals).
The last one belongs to a mutually exclusive clade (not from the same phylogenetic branch).
"Kauri" is Māori for "black pine tree," therefore the name is redundant (like "chai tea" or "naan bread")
What is the conventional definition of a gene?
Greek Break®: that word ^^^ is derived from γενεά ("birth")
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A persistent natural quality that can be inherited by descendants
Nucleotides that compose a chromosome
The dominant variant of a heritable trait
A specific sequence in a DNA chain encoding a biological function
Eukaryotes descended from prokaryotes (bacteria or archaea).
True
False
Likely but indeterminate, without fossil evidence of their primordial ancestor.
Are bacteria and archaea even very different from each other, fundamentally speaking?
Not really, they're both single-celled and mostly found as microbiota (living inside other organisms).
Archaea are older (fossils from over 3 Ga) but more similar internally to eukaryotes.
There are regulations against distribution of archaea, however, most bacteria forms are legally permitted.
Bacteria, unlike archaea, can't live on volcanic vents or in salt water,
Fill in the blank:
Kingdom > _ > Class > Order > Family
e.g.: Animalia > Nematoda > Enoplea > Mermithida > Mermithidae
(a)
If this species, P. stipticus (glowing fungus, left), belongs to the family Mycenaceae, which comprises the class Agaricomycetes along with members of Agaricales (gilled mushrooms) and of non-Agaricales groups, what is Mycenaceae's relationship to Agaricales?
Same order
Same genus
Same kingdom
How many pairs of chromosomes does a human cell normally have?
(a)
This karyotype (left) shows the full set of human chromosomes. Except for the last space in the bottom row, what term describes this cell type that copies itself as paired pieces?
(Hint: mitosis)
(a)
Mosquitoes sure are annoying. Select the byproduct of cellular respiration from live prey that is detected by a neuron receptor of the female mosquito.
C₆H₁₂O₆
H₂O
CO₂
O₂
What is the role of the fungi in this food web?
producer
consumer
decomposer
presumer
What is the role of the mineral soil in this environment?
population
ecosystem
community
Servals are native to the African savanna, typically weighing between 10 to 18 kg each. They hunt small rodents, birds, and reptiles weighing between 300 to 600 g each. Compared to grasses, insects, and elephants, what is the relative fraction of biomass the serval adds or subtracts from the ecosystem?
More than each insect; less than each local grass population or elephant
Less than an elephant; more than insects or grass
Less than grasses, insects, and elephants
Less than the grass adds; more than the insects and elephants subtract
This mammal of family Mephitidae, somewhat resembling the distantly related mustelid (badger), sprays noxious chemicals but you can't say it didn't warn you, going by the color of its fur. What is the term for this type of environmental signal?
mutualism
parasitism
aposematism
symbiosis
Pharyngeal arches in vertebrate animals -- near the gills in fish; behind the ears in humans -- are an example of what kind of anatomical structure?
analogous feature
vestigial feature
homologous feature
heterozygous feature
Which word is least relevant to the others?
organelle
membrane
allele
tissue
What is expected probability of getting the white string beans from this group of plants?
1 out of 2
1 out of 4
1 out of 16
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between B and C
2 out of 3
About how long ago did vascular plants evolve?
70 million years ago
400 million years ago
550 million years ago
1.1 billion years ago
How about old are the oldest fossils of photosynthetic algae?
500 million years ago
1 billion years ago
2 billion years ago
3 billion years ago
Please draw some quark cheese.
