Abby Tatter’s AP Biology Review

Photosynthesis

Respiration

Cells

Cell Division

Evolution and Classification

Molecular Genetics

Photosynthesis

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Evolution And

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Photosynthesis

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What is the name of the structure that gives plant leaves their green color ?

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chloroplasts

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Photosynthesis

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What is the name of the stack of elaboarate system of

interconnected membranous sacs nesescary for photosynthesis ?

Photosynthesis

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Thylakoid grana (singular, granum)

Photosynthesis

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The light reactions of photsynthesis occur in the thylakoid

memberane. Where is the site of the Calvin Cylce ?

Photosynthesis

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Stroma

Photosynthesis

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Light energy is originally converted to chemical

energy in the form of two compounds. What are

these compounds ?

Photosynthesis

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NADPH and ATP

Photosynthesis

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What range of wavelength of electromagnetic waves

(measured in nm) do most chloroplast pigments not

absorb ?

Photosynthesis

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(500nm-600nm)

Photosynthesis

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What molecule is most often degraded by cells to be used as

fuel ?

Respiration

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C6H12O6 (glucose)

Respiration

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What are the three stages of cellular respiration ?

Respiration

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Glycolysis, The Citric Acid Cycle, and

Oxidative phosphorylation

Respiration

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When pyruvate from glycolysis enter the citric acid cycle it is converted

into what compound ?

Respiration

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Acetyl CoA

Respiration

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In glycolysis, ATP is both used and formed. What is the net

value of ATP from gylcolysis ?

Respiration

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2 ATP (2 used, 4 formed)

Respiration

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What is the name of the structure that functions as an anchor in the cell membrane to hold the knob

(the location of the three catalytic sites) stationary when protons are passed through the proton pump in chemiosmosis ?

Respiration

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Stator

Respiration

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What are two different forms of local cell

signaling ?

Cells

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Paracrine signaling and synaptic signaling

Cells

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The nuclear side of the nuclear envelope is lined by what netlike array of protein

filaments that maintains the shape of the nucleus ?

Cells

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Nuclear lamina

Cells

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Which type of receptor in the plasma

membrane requires GTP to be present ?

Cells

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G-protein linked receptors

Cells

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What is the name of the process that is used to

take cells apart and separate the major organelles from one

another ?

Cells

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Cell fractionation

Cells

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What region of the rough ER do transport vesicles bud off from to travel to the golgi apparatus and

other destinations ?

Cells

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Transitional ER

Cells

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What nonmembrous organelle functions

throughout the cell to organize the cell’s

microtubules ?

Cell Division

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Centrosome

Cell Division

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In animal cells cytokinesis occurs via clevage. What is

the name of the process through which cytokinesis

occurs in plant cells ?

Cell Division

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Cell plate formation

Cell Division

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What happens to chromosomes in the

second stage of interphase (the S

phase) ?

Cell Division

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Chromosomes replicate

Cell Division

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What is the name of the fluctuating

activity of the cyclin-Cdk complex ?

Cell Division

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MPF

Cell Division

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To divide, most animal cells must be attached to a substratum

such as the inside of a culture jar or the extracellular matrix of a tissue. What is the name of this

condition ?

Cell Division

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Anchorage dependence

Cell Division

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What type of algae are the closest realtives

of land plants ?

Evolution and Classification

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Green algae

Evolution and Classification

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What structure do microspores develop into that contain the male gametopytes of seed

plants ?

Evolution and Classification

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Pollen grains

Evolution and Classification

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What is the name of the fungi that divereged

earliest in fungal evolution and are ubiquitous in lakes

and soil ?

Evolution and Classification

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Chytrids

Evolution and Classification

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What is the most common technique

for obtaining absolute dates for fossils ?

Evolution and Classification

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Radiometric dating

Evolution and Classification

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Protists in what two clades lack pastids, and their mitochondria

do not have DNA, electron transport chains or enzymes that are normally needed for the citric

acid cycle ?

Evolution and Classification

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Diplomonads and parabasalids

Evolution and Classification

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What type of RNA carries a genetic message from the DNA to the

protein-synthesizing machinery of the cell ?

Molecular Genetics

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mRNA

Molecular Genetics

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What is the start codon that signals for

ribosomes to begin translating mRNA ?

Molecular Genetics

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AUG

Molecular Genetics

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What is the process that occurs in the nucleus between transcription

and traslation ?

Molecular Genetics

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RNA processing

Molecular Genetics

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At what end of mRNA strands do enzymes add

poly-A tails ?

Molecular Genetics

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3 ‘ end

Molecular Genetics

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What is the name of the enzyme that adds

amino acids to the correct tRNA in

translation ?

Molecular Genetics

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Aminoacyl-tRNA synthase

Molecular Genetics

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Abby Tatter’s AP Biology Review

Plant Systems

Animal Systems

Ecology

Labs

Biotechnology

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Plant Systems

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Animal Systens

Ecology Labs Biotechnology Things we didn’t cover

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In what tissue layer of plants do water and minerals move up from the roots ?

Plant Systems

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xylem

Plant Systems

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What is the name of the root system that consists of one main

vertical root that develops from an embryonic root ?

Plant Systems

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Taproot system

Plant Systems

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What is the method of long-distance transport in plants that is the movement of a fluid driven by pressure ?

Plant Systems

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Bulk flow

Plant Systems

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What are the three routes available for

short-distance transports in plants ?

Plant Systems

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Transmembrane, symplastic, and

apoplastic routes

Plant Systems

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What is the function of sulfur in soil as a form of nutrients for

plans ?

Plant Systems

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Component of proteins and coenzymes

Plant Systems

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What is the name of the conidtion that results if the

diet of a human or other animal is chronically deficient

in calories ?

Animal Systems

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Undernourishment

Animal Systems

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What intestianl adaptation to herbivores and omnivores

have (as oposed to carnivores) that allow them to

more easily digest vegetaion ?

Animal Systems

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Longer alimentary canals

Animal Systems

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In what type of digestion do animals recover some

of their nutrients by regurgitating and then rechewing their food ?

Animal Systems

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Ruminant digestion

Animal Systems

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In the nervous system, what is the name of the narrow gap

that separates the presynaptic neuron from the

postsynaptic cell ?

Animal Systems

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Synaptic cleft

Animal Systems

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What hormone secreted by the small intestine after meals,

acts as an appetite supressant ?

Animal Systems

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PYY

Animal Systems

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What type of ecology concentrates mainly on factors that affect how many individuals of a particular

species live in an area ?

Ecology

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Population ecology

Ecology

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In what type of behavior is there a ritualized contest that determines which competitor gains access to a resource ?

Ecology

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Agonisitic behavior

Ecology

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What is the equation for the change in

population size during a fixed time interval ?

Ecology

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Births during time interval – Deaths

during time interval

Ecology

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What hypothesis proposes that long food chains are less

stable than short food chains ?

Ecology

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Dynamic stability hypothesis

Ecology

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What is the equation for net primary production ?

Ecology

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NPP= Gross primary production (GPP) –

respiration (R)

Ecology

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What are two abiotic factors that affect enzyme function ?

Labs

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Temperature and pH

Labs

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What are the cells called that help to regulate the rate of

transpiration by opening and closing the stomata ?

Labs

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Guard cells

Labs

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What is the term for an organism that shows

the normal phenotype ?

Labs

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Wild type

Labs

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What is the name of the equillibrium that exists under these coniditions : No immigration or emmigration, no

natural selection, no change in allelic frequency due to mutation, must

have random mating, must have a large breeding population ?

Labs

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Hardy-Weinberg equillibrium

Labs

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What color does DPIP change from when light strikes the chloroplasts and the DPIP is

reduced by the excited electrons from chlorophyll ?

Labs

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blue

Labs

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What is the name of the transgenic variety of rice with

a few daffodil genes that increase quantities of vitamin

A ?

Biotechnology

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Golden rice

Biotechnology

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What is the most fundamentla debate

on the risk of GMOs ?

Biotechnology

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Potential harm to human health or the

environment

Biotechnology

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What method do biotechnologists use

to produce new hybrid species ?

Biotechnology

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Protoplast fusion

Biotechnology

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What type of major industry was saved in

Hawaii due to transgenic plants 

Biotechnology

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Papaya industry

Biotechnology

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What type of maize at one point produced pollen with high toxic concentration ?

Biotechnology

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Bt maize (a transgenic type)

Biotechnology

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What is the name of a seaweed body that is plantlike but lacks true roots, stems, and leaves ?

Things We Didn’t Cover

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Thallus

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What is the technical term for clusters of sporophylls known commonly as cones, found in most gymnosperms and some

seedless vascular plants ?

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Strobili

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What is the is the name of the flat, tie-like shape of a type of epithelial cell ?

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squamous

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What is the name of the arrangement of two noncarbon atoms, each bound

to one of the carbons in a carbon-carbon double bond, where the two noncarbon atoms are on the same side relative to the carbon bond ?

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cis

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What is the name of a specialized plastid in plants that contains dense starch grains and may

play a role in detecting gravity ?

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Statolith

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In the life cycle of fungi, what type of cell is it after heterokaryotic stage?

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diploid

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