Biology 2 Final Exam - Sample Question

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Basic biology exam covering basic biological principles, such as human physiology, plant biology, and genetics.
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Questão 1

Questão
A pseudocoelome is found in the following phylum
Responda
  • Cnidaria
  • Echinodermata
  • Annelida
  • Platyhelminthes
  • Nematoda

Questão 2

Questão
Which of the following have only one opening to the digestive tract (they do NOT have an anus)?
Responda
  • Cnidaria
  • Platyhelminthes
  • Annelida
  • Both Cnidaria and Platyhelminthes
  • Both Cnidaria and Annelida

Questão 3

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a member of the phylum Platyhelminthes?
Responda
  • Roundworm
  • Earthworm
  • Flukes
  • Tapeworms
  • Both roundworm and earthworm

Questão 4

Questão
Which phylum do we first see muscles and nerves in their simplest form?
Responda
  • Protozoa
  • Nematoda (roundworms)
  • Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
  • Sponges
  • Cnidaria (jellyfish, etc.)

Questão 5

Questão
Which are characteristics of vertebrates?
Responda
  • Open blood circulation
  • Pharyngeal (gill) slits
  • Dorsal hallow nerve cord
  • Open blood circlulation, pharyngeal slits, and dorsal hallow nerve cord.
  • Pharyngeal slits and dorsal hallow nerve cord

Questão 6

Questão
Which of the following does NOT possess an amniotic egg?
Responda
  • Fishes
  • Amphibians
  • Fishes and amphibians
  • Birds
  • Reptiles

Questão 7

Questão
The only taxonomic category that exists in nature is:
Responda
  • Species
  • Genus
  • Family
  • Class
  • Phylum

Questão 8

Questão
A new plant species is discovered in a tropical rain forest. It has flagellated sperms, xylem with vessels, separate gametophyte and sporophyte generations, and no seeds. Which plant is it most related to?
Responda
  • Mosses
  • Conifers
  • Ferns
  • Liverworts

Questão 9

Questão
Which of the following statements on the biology of mosses is FALSE?
Responda
  • They can grow in very harsh environments
  • A symbiosis between a moss and a fungus is known as lichen
  • They can tolerate drying out
  • Peat is a by-product of the growth of certain mosses
  • Mosses lack a vascular system

Questão 10

Questão
In the life cycle of all plants, there is alteration of generations. Which of the following is true?
Responda
  • Haploid sporophytes make haploid spores
  • Gametophytes produce spores that develop into gametes
  • Sporophytes and gametophytes are typically similar in appearance
  • Meiosis in sporophytes produces haploid spores
  • In plants, the gametophytes is diploid

Questão 11

Questão
Which of the following is an example of gill fungus?
Responda
  • Agaricus
  • Yeast
  • Rhizopus
  • Phytophthora
  • Ulva

Questão 12

Questão
The sexual stage of Rhizopus is called:
Responda
  • Sporangiophore
  • Zygosporangium
  • Septa
  • Hyphae
  • Zoospore

Questão 13

Questão
Laminaria belongs to the phylum:
Responda
  • Chlorophyta
  • Rhodophyta
  • Phaeophyta
  • Bryophyta
  • Anthophyta

Questão 14

Questão
Which of the following statements about the female reproductive cycle is FALSE?
Responda
  • Progesterone is mainly secreted by the corpus luteum
  • Testosterone is secreted by the posterior pituitary gland
  • LH triggers ovulation
  • LH and FSH are secreted by the anterior pituitary gland
  • Oestrogens and progesterone help maintain the endometrium (lining) of the uterus

Questão 15

Questão
The functional unit of the kidney is called:
Responda
  • Cortex
  • Vasa recta
  • Nephron
  • Bladder
  • Glomerulus

Questão 16

Questão
In the nervous system, the mylein sheath:
Responda
  • Is not a feature of the vertebrate nervous system
  • Wraps around a neurons dendrites
  • Is present on motor, but not sensory neurons
  • Helps electrical signals in neurons conduct more quickly
  • Produces electrical signals

Questão 17

Questão
The delay of 0.1 second at the AV node is:
Responda
  • To allow the ventricles to fill
  • To allow the atria to fill
  • To allow blood to get to the feet and arms before another contraction occurs
  • To allow the ventricles to empty
  • None of the above

Questão 18

Questão
Which of the following statements are FALSE?
Responda
  • As the partial pressure of oxygen decreases, haemoglobin gives up its oxygen more readily.
  • As the partial pressure of oxygen increases, haemoglobin gives up its oxygen more readily.
  • Higher temperature causes haemoglobin to give up oxygen more readily
  • Increased acidity causes haemoglobin to give up oxygen more readily
  • Each red blood cells contain about 280,000,000 haemoglobin molecules

Questão 19

Questão
Gastrin is a hormone that regulates:
Responda
  • Digestive secretions from the pancreas
  • Digestive secretions in the stomach
  • Glucose storage in the liver
  • Water re-absorption in the kidney
  • Heart rate

Questão 20

Questão
Type II diabetes is associated with:
Responda
  • Insulin deficiency or reduced response of target cells
  • Overproduction of glucagon
  • Overproduction of insulin
  • Inability to absorb glucose across the small intestine wall
  • None of the above

Questão 21

Questão
RNA differs from DNA, in that RNA:
Responda
  • Contains ribose as its sugar
  • Is found only in the cytoplasm
  • Contains uracil instead of thymine
  • Contains ribose as its sugar and contains uracil instead of thymine
  • Contains ribose as its sugar, is found only in the cytoplasm and contains uracil instead of thymine

Questão 22

Questão
If one strand of DNA molecule has the sequence of bases 5'-ATTGCA-3', the other strand would have the sequence:
Responda
  • 3'-TAACGT-5'
  • 3'-UAACGU-5'
  • 3'-TUUCGU-5'
  • 3'-TAAGCT-5'
  • 3'-TUUGCT-5'

Questão 23

Questão
A particular triplet of bases in the coding sequence of DNA is AGT. The corresponding codon for mRNA transcribed is:
Responda
  • AGT
  • UCA
  • TCA
  • AGU
  • Either UCA or TCA, depending on the wobble in the first base.

Questão 24

Questão
A recessive allele on the X chromosome is responsible for red-green color blindness in humans. A woman with normal vision whose father is color blind, marries a man whose color blind. What is the probability the couple's son will also be color blind?
Responda
  • 0%
  • 25%
  • 50%
  • 75%
  • 100%

Questão 25

Questão
In a population which is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the frequency of the allele a is 0.4. What is the percentage of the population which is heterozygous Aa for this allele?
Responda
  • 0.16
  • 0.20
  • 0.48
  • 0.60
  • Cannot tell with this information

Questão 26

Questão
Which of the following is associated with an open circulatory system?
Responda
  • Haemocoel
  • High pressure
  • Energetic flow
  • Blood, arteries, and veins

Questão 27

Questão
Which of the following is associated with a closed circulatory system?
Responda
  • Sluggish flow
  • Low pressure
  • Blood, arteries, and veins
  • haemocoel

Questão 28

Questão
The vena cava carries:
Responda
  • De-oxygenated blood away from the heart
  • Oxygenated blood towards the heart
  • De-oxygenated blood towards the heart
  • Oxygenated blood away from the heart

Questão 29

Questão
The aorta flows out from:
Responda
  • The right ventricle
  • The left ventricle
  • The right atrium
  • The left atrium

Questão 30

Questão
The vena cava flows into:
Responda
  • The right ventricle
  • The left ventricle
  • The right atrium
  • The left atrium

Questão 31

Questão
What vessel carries blood towards the lungs?
Responda
  • The vena cava
  • The pulmonary vein
  • The pulmonary artery
  • The aorta

Questão 32

Questão
Name the types of blood in your cells:
Responda
  • Red blood cells, White blood cells, Platelets
  • Red blood cells, White blood cells, haemoglobin
  • White blood cells, Platelets, haemocoel
  • White blood cells, haemocoel, Plasma

Questão 33

Questão
Name the order of layers that form in centrifuged blood?
Responda
  • Red blood cells on top, White blood cells and platelets in centre, plasma on the bottom
  • Red blood cells on the bottom, White blood cells and platelets in centre, plasma on the top
  • Red blood cells on top, White blood cells and platelets on the bottom, plasma in the centre
  • Red blood cells on top, White blood cells and platelets on the bottom, plasma in the centre There is no order when centrifuged and can vary

Questão 34

Questão
What is the main function of the red blood cells?
Responda
  • To enable clotting
  • To fight off infection
  • To carry oxygen
  • All of the above

Questão 35

Questão
Would red blood cells enable you to carry out DNA Analysis?
Responda
  • Yes
  • No

Questão 36

Questão
What is the main function of the red blood cells?
Responda
  • Where oxygen pressure is high, Hb takes up oxygen
  • Where oxygen pressure is low, Hb gives up oxygen
  • Where oxygen pressure is high, Hb gives up oxygen

Questão 37

Questão
What are the two main types of White blood cell?
Responda
  • neutrophils and lymphocytes
  • neutrophils and basophils
  • basophils and lymphocytes
  • basophils and monocytes

Questão 38

Questão
If I am blood group A , what type of blood group(s) can I receive and who can I donate blood to?
Responda
  • Receive from A,O Donate to A, AB
  • Receive from A,B Donate to A, AB
  • Receive from A,AB, Donate to A,O
  • Receive from AB, O, Donate to AB, O

Questão 39

Questão
What blood group is the universal donor and what group is the universal recipient?
Responda
  • Universal Donor O, Universal Recipient O
  • Universal Donor AB, Universal Recipient O
  • Universal Donor O, Universal Recipient AB
  • Universal Donor AB, Universal Recipient AB

Questão 40

Questão
Which is the correct flow through the heart?
Responda
  • Vena cava, left atrium, left ventricle, lungs, right atrium, right ventricle, Aorta, body/brain
  • Vena cava, right atrium, right ventricle, lungs, left atrium, left ventricle, Aorta, body/brain
  • Aorta, left atrium, right ventricle, lungs, right atrium, left ventricle, Vena cava, body/brain
  • Aorta, right atrium, right ventricle, lungs, left atrium, left ventricle, Vena cava, body/brain

Questão 41

Questão
What are the first 2 major divisions of the nervous system?
Responda
  • Voluntary and Involuntary
  • Sympathetic Division and Parasympathetic Division
  • Somatic and Autonomic
  • Central and Peripheral

Questão 42

Questão
Which are the following statements is FALSE?
Responda
  • Neurons carry electrical signals
  • Glial cells support the neurons in a variety of ways
  • Glial cells can also carry electrical signals
  • A Schwann cells is a type of Glial Cell

Questão 43

Questão
I touch a hot surface and immediately withdraw my hand, how is this best described?
Responda
  • An afferent reaction
  • An efferent reaction
  • An efferent reaction first and then a afferent reaction
  • An afferent reaction first and then a efferent reaction

Questão 44

Questão
Briefly explain the term ‘Resting Potential’
Responda
  • There is mainly Na+ outside cell & mainly K+ inside
  • There is mainly K+ outside cell & mainly Na+ inside
  • There are equal amounts of K+ & Na+ outside & inside the cell
  • The Resting Potential is not influenced by K+ & Na+

Questão 45

Questão
What are the connections between neurons?
Responda
  • Synapses
  • Dendrites
  • Axon
  • Neurotransmitter

Questão 46

Questão
What is sensory transduction?
Responda
  • The ability of the eye to change its focus from distant to near objects (and vice versa).
  • The conversion of a sensory stimulus from one form to another.
  • Different sensitivities due to different photopigments.
  • An action potential in presynaptic cell causes it to release neurotransmitter e.g. acetylcholine (ACh)

Questão 47

Questão
Explain the term accommodation (regarding sight)
Responda
  • My humble abode :)
  • The ability of the eye to change its focus from distant to near objects (and vice versa).
  • Having Rods and Cones residing in your eyes
  • Having different sensitivities due to different photopigments

Questão 48

Questão
Explain the difference between a cone and a rod?
Responda
  • Cones are for colour vision and rods are for black and white
  • Cones are for summer and rods are for fishing
  • Cones are for black and white vision, rods are for colour
  • Cones are for bright lights and rods are for dim lights

Questão 49

Questão
Which of the following is in the correct order?
Responda
  • Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
  • Kingdom, phylum, order, class, family, genus, species
  • Kingdom, class, order, phylum, family, genus, species
  • Kingdom, order, phylum, class, family, species, genus Kingdom, phylum, order, family, class, genus, species

Questão 50

Questão
Who introduced the method of scientific naming called binomial nomenclature?
Responda
  • Linnaeus Mayr Watson Crick
  • Darwin
  • Mayr
  • Watson
  • Crick

Questão 51

Questão
The biologist who proposed the biological species concept is:
Responda
  • Linnaeus
  • Darwin
  • Mayr
  • Watson
  • Crick

Questão 52

Questão
The eukaryotes belong to 3 monophyletic Kingdoms & 1 paraphyletic kingdom, name these
Responda
  • Prokaryotes, Plantae, Fungi, Animalia
  • Plantae, Fungi, Animalia, Protists
  • Protists, Prokaryotes, Fungi, Plantae
  • Protists, Prokaryotes, Fungi, Animalia

Questão 53

Questão
What distinguishes a protist from a protozoan?
Responda
  • Protists are single celled
  • Protists are a type of protozoan
  • Protozoans are a type of protist
  • Protists are prokaryotes

Questão 54

Questão
Which of the following characteristics of the Protists are correct?
Responda
  • Can be single celled or multicellular
  • Groups include protozoans and algae
  • Specific single celled examples include amoeba, paramecium and plasmodium
  • Slime moulds are part of this group
  • All the above are true

Questão 55

Questão
What phylum do the sponges belong to?
Responda
  • Cnidaria
  • Annelida
  • Protists
  • Animalia
  • Porifera

Questão 56

Questão
Which of these only includes terms associated with the Cnidaria
Responda
  • Hydra, medusa, spicules, polyp, nerve net, muscles
  • Polyp, medusa, collar cells, protist
  • Cnidoblasts, unicellular, single celled, polyp, nerve net, muscles,
  • Cnidoblasts, medusa, polyp, hydra, nerve net, muscles, multicellular

Questão 57

Questão
Animals found within the Phylum Cnidaria include:
Responda
  • Jellyfish, coral, sponge, starfish, Urchin
  • Coral, anemone, Hydra, sea cucumber
  • Jellyfish, coral, sponge,anemone, hydra
  • Anemone, jellyfish, coral, hydra,
  • Jellyfish, Anemone, Coral and Nemo

Questão 58

Questão
What method of reproduction do green algae use under optimum conditions?
Responda
  • Sexual
  • Asexual
  • Nonsexual
  • Bisexual

Questão 59

Questão
What is the dominant phase in the life cycle of Lamina digitata?
Responda
  • Sporophyte
  • Gametophyte
  • Phaeophyte
  • Chorophyte
  • Rhodophyte

Questão 60

Questão
Which of the following are correct?
Responda
  • Fungi is able to photosynthesise like plants
  • Fungi are white
  • Fungi does not live off the shores of Dingle
  • Fungi is a kingdom with both unicellular and multicellular species
  • Fungi have a prokaryotic cell structure

Questão 61

Questão
What is Karyogamy?
Responda
  • Fusion of the cytoplasm
  • Fusion of the nuclei
  • Fusion of the cell wall
  • Fungi fusion

Questão 62

Questão
Eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotes by a process of:
Responda
  • Exosymbiosis
  • Entersymbiosis
  • Indosymbiosis
  • Symbiosis
  • Endosymbiosis

Questão 63

Questão
Explain the ‘Alternation of Generations’
Responda
  • Haploid organism (sporophyte) makes zygote diploid organism (gametophyte), which makes sex cells haploid organism (gametophyte)
  • Haploid organism (gametophyte) makes sex cells diploid organism (sporophyte), which releases spores haploid organism (gametophyte)
  • Haploid organism (gametophyte) makes sex cells diploid organism (sporophyte), which releases zygotes diploid organism (gametophyte)
  • None of these are correct

Questão 64

Questão
Which of the following are not reliant on water to reproduce?
Responda
  • Bryophytes
  • Ferns
  • Angiosperms
  • Gymnosperms
  • Both Angiosperms and Gymnosperms

Questão 65

Questão
I lack true conducting tissues, leaves and roots. My gametophyte is my dominant phase and my sporophyte is dependent upon it. I require water for fertilization so I need to grow in moist or seasonally moist habitats. What am I?
Responda
  • Algae
  • Angiosperm
  • Bryophyte
  • Fern
  • Gymnosperm

Questão 66

Questão
I have true conducting tissues (xylem and phloem), leaves, stems and roots. My sporophyte is the dominant phase and the gametophyte is much reduced. What am I?
Responda
  • Algae or a Angiosperm
  • Bryophyte or a fern
  • Gymnosperm or Fern
  • Angiosperm

Questão 67

Questão
What is an example of a seedless, vascular plant?
Responda
  • Algae
  • Fern
  • Bryophyte
  • Angiosperm
  • Gymnosperm

Questão 68

Questão
Is a Daffodil is a Monocot or a Dicot?
Responda
  • Monocot
  • Dicot

Questão 69

Questão
What is the function of Lignin?
Responda
  • Transports water and dissolved minerals
  • Transports food
  • Plays a role in conducting water in plant stems
  • Allows gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapour, and oxygen to move rapidly into and out of the leaf

Questão 70

Questão
Which of these is False?
Responda
  • The dominant stage of an angiosperm is the sporophyte The dominant stage of a bryophyte is the gametophyte The dominant stage of a gymnosperm is the sporophyte The dominant stage of a fern is the gametophyte
  • The dominant stage of an angiosperm is the sporophyte
  • The dominant stage of a bryophyte is the gametophyte
  • The dominant stage of a gymnosperm is the sporophyte
  • The dominant stage of a fern is the gametophyte

Questão 71

Questão
The Base G always bonds to Base C ?
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 72

Questão
Ribose is.....
Responda
  • A basic amino acid
  • The building block of DNA
  • The sugar in RNA nucleotides
  • The sugar in DNA nucleotides
  • A fatty acid incorporated into triacylglycerols

Questão 73

Questão
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
Responda
  • In DNA the base A pairs with the base T
  • In DNA the base C pairs with the base G
  • In DNA the base U pairs with the base A
  • In RNA the base U is used instead of base T
  • In DNA base pairing follows Chargaff’s rule

Questão 74

Questão
What is the difference between a nucleoside and nucleotide?
Responda
  • Nucleotides have phosphates
  • Nucleosides have phosphates
  • Nucleotides have 2 bases
  • Nucleosides have 2 bases

Questão 75

Questão
Where would you find an anticodon?
Responda
  • mRNA
  • tRNA
  • in a protein
  • in a ribosome

Questão 76

Questão
Where would you find a codon?
Responda
  • mRNA
  • tRNA
  • in a protein
  • in a ribosome

Questão 77

Questão
What does tRNA help to do?
Responda
  • Copy mRNA
  • Join the large and small subunits
  • Carry genetic information
  • Put amino acids in the right place

Questão 78

Questão
At which site does tRNA enter the large subunit?
Responda
  • A
  • P
  • E
  • None

Questão 79

Questão
Which sections carry genes?
Responda
  • Introns
  • Exons

Questão 80

Questão
Which statement is FALSE?
Responda
  • Mitosis results in 2 diploid cells
  • Meiosis results in 4 haploid cells
  • Meiosis results in 2 haploid cells
  • Mitosis occurs in somatic cells

Questão 81

Questão
An Allele is...
Responda
  • The position of a gene on a chromosome
  • An alternative form of a gene
  • The sum of an individual’s genetic information
  • Only visible in the F1 generation

Questão 82

Questão
A locus is....
Responda
  • The position of a gene on a chromosome
  • The position of an allele on a chromosome
  • Singular of loci
  • The same for two alleles of the same gene on homologous chromosomes

Questão 83

Questão
The frequency of crossing over between any two linked genes is:
Responda
  • Higher if they are recessive
  • Difficult to predict
  • Determined by their relative dominance
  • The same as if they were not linked
  • Proportional to the distance between them

Questão 84

Questão
Platyhelminthes are:
Responda
  • Tripoblastic coelomates
  • Dipoblastic coelomates
  • Tripoblastic acoelomates
  • Dipoblastic acoelomates

Questão 85

Questão
What is true of Nematoda?
Responda
  • They have a circulatory system
  • They lack an alimentary canal
  • Includes earthworms
  • Have an alimentary canal, but lack a circulatory system

Questão 86

Questão
Nematoda are...
Responda
  • Tripoblastic acoelomates
  • Dipoblastic acoelomates
  • Dipoblastic psuedocoelomates
  • Tripoblastic psuedocoelomates

Questão 87

Questão
Annelida are...
Responda
  • Tripoblastic coelomates
  • Dipoblastic acoelomates
  • Dipoblastic psuedocoelomates
  • Tripoblastic psuedocoelomates

Questão 88

Questão
Annelida are...
Responda
  • Radially symmetrical
  • Asymmetrical
  • Bilaterally symmetrical

Questão 89

Questão
Molluscs are.....
Responda
  • Dipoblastic acoelomates
  • Tripoblastic coelomates
  • Dipoblastic psuedocoelomates
  • Tripoblastic psuedocoelomates

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