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Biology Quiz on Key Concepts

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 4hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why have a control group?

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What does a negative control tell you? What does a positive control tell you?

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3.

How to increase internal & external validity

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4.

How to interpret graphs, charts, etc.

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5.

Organic vs inorganic molecules

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6.

pH - what does it measure?

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7.

Properties of water and how they affect life

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8.

Dehydration synthesis/hydrolysis

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9.

4 types of organic compounds and the atoms they contain

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10.

Levels of protein structure & how amino acid properties affect folding

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11.

What is denaturing, and what can cause denaturing?

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12.

How amino acids are joined together (peptide bond formation)

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13.

Glycogen - Animal starch

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14.

ATP/ADP cycling, energy coupling of ATP to drive endergonic reactions

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15.

Differences between plant and animal cells

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16.

Prokaryotes vs Eukaryotes

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17.

Endosymbiosis evidence

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18.

Hypertonic/Hypotonic/Isotonic

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19.

How to calculate water potential

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20.

How to calculate SA:V ratio and why it matters

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21.

Cell membrane structure and what can pass through easily

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22.

Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic/Polar/Nonpolar

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23.

Osmosis/Facilitated diffusion/Active transport

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24.

Basic roles of organelles/cell structures

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25.

Bound vs. free ribosomes

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26.

Cell transport – active and passive transport.

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27.

Diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion

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28.

Na/K pump!

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29.

Co-transport

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30.

iso-/hypo-/hypertonicity

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31.

Basic viral structure

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32.

What are retroviruses? What is reverse transcriptase?

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33.

What are prions?

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34.

Understand graphs of enzyme function and energy diagrams

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35.

Role of ATP in cells

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36.

Chemiosmosis, redox , ATP synthase, NADH, FADH, NADPH!

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37.

Basic overview of respiration & photosynthesis. Break them down into stages, and know major products (including wastes), as well as where in the cell the various stages take place – go over old notes/diagrams/concept maps for this!

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38.

Role of fermentation

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39.

Photorespiration - why is it a problem?

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40.

Photosynthetic adaptations to dry climates - C4, CAM (rubisco & PEP carboxylase!)

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41.

The link between respiration & photosynthesis – how carbon is cycled and the role of energy in these processes.

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42.

How enzymes work and why they are important

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43.

Competitive vs Non-competitive (allosteric) inhibition

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44.

How metabolic heat is generated

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45.

How metabolic rate is regulated by ATP

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46.

Reception🡪Transduction🡪Response - what happens in each stage

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47.

Interpret diagrams, predict effects of change in one step on another

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48.

Difference between hydrophilic & hydrophobic ligands

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49.

Importance of ATP (phosphorylation)

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50.

Cell cycle stages

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51.

Major events/outcomes in mitosis – diagram it out!

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52.

Role of interphase before mitosis

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53.

Difference between chromatin vs chromosomes and Replicated chromosomes vs unreplicated chromosomes

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54.

Difference in mitosis between plant and animal cells

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55.

What is apoptosis?

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56.

Know the basics of replication including proteins

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57.

Basics of transcription (coding vs. template strand), translation

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58.

Basics of mRNA processing

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59.

What is alternative splicing?

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60.

Different types of gene mutations (insertions, etc) and how they might affect polypeptides & protein folding

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61.

In addition to the nucleus, which organelles contain DNA in plants and animals?

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62.

Protein domains – how does a mutation affect the function of a given domain?

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63.

If DNA is the same in somatic cells, why are eye cells and skin cells so different? What causes different gene expression in two different cells?

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64.

Epigenetics- histone modification, DNA methylation – how does this regulate expression?

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65.

Operons – how they function in prokaryotes

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66.

Enhancers - how they function in eukaryotes

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67.

What is a transcription factor/ what does it do?

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68.

What does a large vs small 95% Confidence Interval (+/- 2SEM) tell you? What does Standard Deviation tell you about the data?

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69.

What does this look like on a graph?

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70.

What do overlapping error bars indicate?

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