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Biology End of Course Assessment Flash Cards

List the Steps of the Scientific Method

State Biology’s Central Dogma

State The Characteristics

of Life

Define Homeostasis

Carbohydrates


DNA – RNA – Protein - Trait

Steps of the Scientific Method (Hint: OHEDCR)

1. Observations

2. Hypothesis

3. Experiment

4. Data

5. Conclusion

6. Repeat

Homeostasis

Organisms respond to their environment in order to maintain internal balance or homeostasis

State the characteristics of life (hint: MMRRED)

All living things are …..

1. Made of cells

2. Metabolise

3. Reproduce

4. Respond to stimuli

5. Evolve

6. Die

1. What is this thing called? The periodic table

2. What is it used for? Chemistry

Carbohydrates

1. Name the monomer. (monosaccharides)

2. Name the polymer. (Polysaccharides)

3. Give one example of a monomer of carbohydrates (glucose, fructose, lactose)

4. Give one example of a polymer of carbohydrates (starch, cellulose, glycogen)


Proteins

Nucleic Acids

Name this picture

This is a picture of?

7.

8.

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10.

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5.

2.

3.

6.

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Proteins

1. What are the monomers of proteins?

– Amino Acids

2. What are the polymers of proteins?

– Polypeptides

3. Name one example of an enzyme?

– Peroxidase, catalayse, amylase, protease or any word that ends in “ase”

1. Use one sentence to explain this graph?

– Peroxidase activity increases up to aproximately 420 Celsius then begins to decrease as temperature rises above 40o

2. What is the optimal temperature for peroxidase enzyme activity?

– Apx 42o C

Picture of DNA

Nucleic Acids

1. Name the monomer of nucleic acids?

– Nucleotide

2. Name the polymer of nucleic acids

– Polynucleotide

3. List the two types of nucleotides

– RNA and DNA

Correctly Label this picture

1. G1

2. S

3. G2

4. Mitosis

5. Interphase

6. Prophase

7. Metaphase

8. Anaphase

9. Telophase

10.Cytokinesis

Picture of a Nucleotide


List the three most important factors

affecting the performance of

enzymes.

1 4

2

3

Define Detritivor


Label the enzyme image

1. Substrate

2. Enzyme

3. Enzyme – substrate complex

4. Product

Factors affecting enzymes

1.Temperature

2.pH

3.Availability (amount) of substrate present

This is a picture of a… (food web)

1. Point to the autotroph (plants)

2. Point to a heterotroph (any animal)

3. Point to the herbivore (any animal that is eating plants)

4. Point to the carnivore (any animal that is eating animals

This is a picture of a… (food chain)

1. Point to the primary producer (plants)

2. Point to the primary consumer (deer)

3. Point to the secondary consumer (wolf)

1. Who are these guys? (James Watson and Francis Crick)

2. What did they do? (discovered the structure of the DNA molecule in the 1950’s)

Detritivore

A detritivore is a plant or animal that feeds on the decaying matter of dead plants and animals.

Earthworms would be good examples of detritivores.


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6.

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4. 3.

2. 1

4 3 (green)

2


Label the plant cell

1. Cell Wall

2. Nucleus or Nucleolus

3. Chloroplast

4. Vacuole

5. Is this a plant or animal cell and how can you tell?

Label the animal cell

1. Cytoplasm

2. Mitochondria

3. Centrioles

4. Golgi

5. E.R.

6. Nucleus

7. Cell Membrane

8. Is this a plant or animal cell, how can you tell

Chloroplast

1. What is this organelle (it is green)? Chloroplast

2. Can it be found in plant cells, animal cells, or both? (Plant cells)

3. What is its function? (Photosynthesis)

Cladogram

1. What is this? A Cladogram

2. What is it used for? Determine evolutionary relationships

3. Which pair are more closely related pigeon and chimp or mouse and chimp

Darwin

1. Who is this guy? (Charles Darwin)

2. What did he do? (Develop the theory of evolution by natural selection)

Mitochondria

1. Name this organelle. (mitochondria)

2. Is it found in plant cells, animal cells, or both? (both)

3. What is the function of this organelle? (Respiration)


ATP Define

Diffusion

Name the levels of organization

Name 3 differences between DNA and

RNA


This is a picture of… (meiosis)

1. What type of cell undergoes this process? (gamete or sex cell)

This is a picture of…. (mitosis)

1. What type of cell undergoes this process? (somatic or body cell)

Movement of molecules from an area of high concentration

to an area of low concentration

What is this? (adenosine

triphosphate)

What does it do for a cell? (provides energy for the cell)

1.DNA has T, RNA has U

2.DNA is double-stranded, RNA is single-stranded

3.DNA sugar is deoxyribose, RNA sugar is ribose

Cell-Tissue-Organ-System


Define cancer

Name some abiotic factors

Name some biotic factors


What is this? (pedigree)

1. What it is used for?

2. What are the circles & squares? (females, males)

3. What does it means when one of them is filled in? (has the trait)

4. How you would write to identify the starred individual? (II-5)

uncontrolled cell growth

Name and describe the chromosomal mutations shown

(deletion, duplication, inversion,translocation)

What is this? (Punnett square)

1. What is it used for? (determine outcome of crosses)

2. Point to the parents’ genotypes

3. Point to the offspring genotypes

4. What is the genotypic ratio? (1:2:1)

5. What is the phenotypic ratio? (3:1)

Name and describe these diagrams (water cycle, nitrogen cycle, carbon

cycle)

1. How do nutrients move through them? (flow in one direction)

Abiotic: water, soil, temperature, wind etc.

Biotic: anything living-plants, animals etc.

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