Biology Unit 4 Study Guide

The major weakness of Darwin's theory during his lifetime was

____________ is the study of structure/form of an organism or any of its parts

Which of the following are required for something to be considered "living"?

Birds with extravagant plumage may be able to pass their genes to the next generation better than drab birds because

Because of the amount of surface area per unit volume, a large body size loses heat less rapidly than a smaller size of the same shape. Based upon your knowledge of natural selection what trend in deer size might you predict?

If the weather in Richmond Virginia changed to very cold (snow on the ground 8 months of each year) over the next few years what change might occur?

A population of deer was threatened with overpopulation until cheetahs were imported. After a couple of years, there were fewer deer but the average running speed of deer had increased. This is an example of

Evidence which supports the theory of evolution is found in studies of

Which of the following is the most important force in shaping evolution?

Many commercial pesticides become less effective after 2-3 years because:

Evolution explains all of the following EXCEPT

The theory of natural selection states that

Which of the following statements about evolution is false?

Which of these taxonomic categories is less specific than family and more specific than class?

In an organism's binomial scientific name, the first of the two names is the

Which of the following pairs of traits represent analogous characteristics?

Which pair of animals is probably most closely related evolutionarily?

Insect wings, bat wings, and the flaps of tissue between the limbs and body of "flying" squirrels are:

Which of these is a correct order of taxonomic categories from less specific to more specific?

Which kind of evidence would be of the least use to taxonomists?

Who is credited with developing the binomial system of scientific names?

The correct way to spell the scientific name of the human species is

Which of the following is not a source of variation within a species or population?

If an environment change happens too suddenly a population may go extinct because

Fruit fly species all look more or less alike. If you have a male and female fruit fly what would be the best way to determine that they are the same species?

Organisms that can interbreed with each other in nature but which are genetically isolated from all other organisms are a

The gene pool for a particular gene is

Which of the following would stop evolution by natural selection from occurring?

Which of the following is correct?

A bacterial cell has which of the following structures?

Which groups of organisms are most important as decomposers which decay dead organic matter and recycle its nutrients?

Which of the following areas/conditions would be favored by thermoacidophiles?

One type of bacterium that has a corkscrew shape and causes the disease syphilis is a/an

Cells occur singly, have a nucleus and other organelles but do not have chloroplasts or flagella. Even so the cells seem to move by a kind of oozing or flowing of the cytoplasm.

Cilia are

Algal protist groups differ from each other in terms of the

This organism is chemoheterotrophic, has a cell wall, is not mobile, has a nucleus, and is a decomposer

Fungi obtain food how?

Which groups of organisms are most important as decomposers which decay dead organic matter and recycle its nutrients?

Each of the following is a characteristic of at least some animals EXCEPT

Which of the following weather conditions would you expect to have the greatest NEGATIVE IMPACT on sexual reproduction of ferns and mosses?

Animals are divided into different phyla on the basis of

Which of the following is not a characteristic of all or nearly all plants?

If a plant such as an iris reproduces asexually most of the time, it probably

This organism is big and multicellular, is a photoautotroph and looks green

Lichens are

Single celled fungi are called

Guard cells swell and shrink, thus regulating the size of __________ that permit the diffusion of water vapor and other gasses into and out of leaves

Leaves are covered on the outside with ______ to reduce water loss

The fact that transfer cells have many mitochondria supports the statement that transfer cells move mineral ions by means of

You find a plant with open stomata. What is the plant doing?

It is important for all plants to be able to respond to all the physical factors in their environment EXCEPT

Which of the following forms from dermal tissue?

The vascular system in plants is analogous to the

Movement of water out of the leaves of a plant is known as

The plant tissue that moves carbohydrates from one part of the plant to another is

Loss of a little finger in an industrial accident

brown eye color as a result of pigment in the front part of the iris

copper colored skin of someone who is a native american

brown eye color as result of wearing contact lenses

tanned skin as a result of exposure to the sun

Cells occur singly and have no evidence of a nucleus

In your opinion which is more correct the two kingdom classification system or six?

Describe the difference between homologous and analogous structures in organisms and give an example of each.

A population of grasshoppers in the Kansas prairie has two color phenotypes, green and brown. Typically, the prairie receives adequate water to maintain healthy, green grass. Assume a bird that eats grasshoppers moves into the prairie. How will this affect natural selection of the grasshoppers? How might this change in a drought year?

In your opinion, who made a bigger contribution to the system of taxonomy, Aristotle or Linnaeus?