Bio 10 Spring 2011

Review Session
Bio-Jeopardy

Rules
Questions will alternate
between the left and right
side of the room
If a side cannot answer a question
correctly when it is that sides turn, the
opposing side gets a chance to
answer

Rules
If it is your sides turn and
you know the answer, raise
your answer to be called on
If neither side can answer the
question correctly, the professor
scores a point <cue evil laugh>

Question 1
What is the biological
definition of evolution?
A change in the allele frequency of
a population over time.

Question 2
What is a population?

A group of organisms belonging to

the same species living in a
specific area

Question 3
What is a species?

Organisms which can interbreed to

have viable offspring

Question 4
What is an allele?

Genes located at the same

position on homologous
chromosomes which code for the
same characteristic

Question 5
Darwin graduated from
Cambridge with a degree in
what field?
Divinity (aka Religion)

Question 6
Darwin in famous because he
A) discovered how heredity works
B) was the first to put forth the idea that
organisms change over time
C) came up with the idea of Natural
Selection
D) All of the above are true
E) None of the above is true

Question 7
Blood in the right side of the
heart is
A) High in O2 and low in CO2
B) High in both O2 and CO2
C) Low in both O2 and CO2
D) Low in O2 and high in CO2
E) None of the above is true

Question 8
What is Natural Selection?
When the environment affects
which genes get passed on with
more frequency than others

Question 9
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck is
famous for what?
He published a book in 1809 in
which he put forth the idea that
organisms change over time

Question 10
What is the reason that genetic
variation exists in a population?
Mutations

Question 11
What is evolution due to gene
flow?
When a group of individuals either
enters or leaves a population
causing a change in the allele
frequency of it

Question 12
When evolution occurs due to
random chance, what is it
called?
Genetic drift

Question 13
What types of populations are
more likely to be significantly
affected by genetic drift?
Smaller populations with fewer
individuals

Question 14
Why would it be incorrect to say that
evolution is moving organisms to a
more perfect being?
Evolution is any change (good or
bad), and there is no universal
perfect trait (it depends on the
environment

Question 15
Why would it be incorrect to say that
evolution is moving organisms to a
more perfect being?
Evolution is any change (good or
bad), and there is no universal
perfect trait (it depends on the
environment

Question 16
Females of a species of bird are
most attracted to brightly colored
males (even though the bright colors
make it harder to survive) causing
more brightly-colored babies to be
born This is an example of what?
Sexual selection

Question 17
Besides facilitating gas exchange
between the blood and outside air,
what is another function of the
respiratory system?
Helping to maintain pH (acidity)
Vocal communication

Question 18
Besides the lungs, what is another
component of the respiratory
system?

Airways
Rib cage and muscles of respiration

Question 19
The surface area of the human
lungs is about equivalent to the
surface area of what?

A tennis court

Question 20
The lungs are composed of millions
of tiny air pockets called what?

Alveoli

Question 21
The air we breathe is composed
mostly of just two elements. What
are they and in what percentages
are they found?
Nitrogen (79%)
Oxygen (21%)

Question 22
In order to inhale, the diaphragm
contracts. How does this
contraction cause air to come into
the lungs?
It causes the volume of the chest
cavity to increase which decreases
the pressure, sucking in air

Question 23
What are the two systems which
animals use to have cells from
different parts of the body to
communicate with each other?
Nervous System
Endocrine System

Question 24
What is the part of a neuron which
receives the input for the cell?

The dendrites

Question 25
Our bodies contain sensory, motor,
and interneurons. Of these three
types, which is the most numerous?

Interneurons

Question 26
What are the names of the chemical
signals released from the nervous
and endocrine systems?

Neurotransmitters
Hormones

Question 27
What is the name of the class of
hormones which is made from
cholesterol?

Steroid hormones

Question 28
What are the three components of
the cardiovascular system?

Heart
Blood vessels
Blood

Question 29
What is the purpose of the
cardiovascular system?

To transport substances around

the body

Question 30
Besides oxygen and carbon dioxide,
what are three other things
transported by the cardiovascular
system?
Wastes, nutrients, hormones,
heat

Question 31
Blood only moves around the
circulatory system in one direction.
What structures are responsible for
this and where are they located?
One-way valves in the heart
and veins

Question 32
What is the specific name of the
circulatory system which delivers
blood from the heart to the lungs,
and then back to the heart again?
Pulmonary circulation

Question 33
After blood returns to the heart from
the systemic circulation, what heart
chamber does it first enter?

Right atrium

Question 34
What is the name of the blood
vessels which supply the heart
tissue with oxygen and nutrients?

Coronary blood vessels

Question 35
These blood vessels do not have
diffusion occur across them and do
not return blood to the heart. What
are they?
Arteries

Question 36
What is plasma and what
percentage of the blood does it
constitute?

Mostly water (some ions and

nutrients)
~55%

Question 37
What is one aspect of mature red
blood cells that is different than most
other cells of the body?

Either: no nucleus, no
mitochondria, or
biconcave shape

Question 38
What is one problem that multicellular organisms have to face that
isnt much of a problem for singlecelled organisms?
Surface area-to-volume ratio too small
Transportation within the organism
Coordination of all of the cells

Question 39
In Natural Selection, the fittest
describes individuals who
A) are able to survive the best
B) live the longest
C) have the most grandchildren
D) are the healthiest
E) are the biggest, strongest, and fastest

Question 40
If the predominant
blood type in the
U.S. changed from
A+ to O- over a 60
year period but
nobody knew why,
which of the
following could be
said for sure?

A) Natural Selection
occurred
B) Evolution occurred
C) The change was
caused by a mutation
D) The change was
caused by gene flow
E) None of the above

Question 41
What is the carrying capacity of a
population?

The largest size of the population

that the available resources can
support

Question 42
What is the definition of an
ecosystem?

All of the populations and non-living

things in a specific area

Question 43
What is definition of total fertility
rate?

The average number of children that

a woman in a population has

Question 44
What is the relationship between
two species if one benefits and the
other is neither benefited or
harmed?
Commensalism