Quiz Preview 5; Biology & Microbiology - General Biology

Which type of macromolecule is present in enzymes?

Which of the following occurs first during an action

A population of squirrels is preyed on by small hawks at maturity. The smaller adult squirrels can escape into burrows. The larger adult squirrels can fight off the hawks. After several generations, the squirrels in the area tend to be very small or very large. This is an example of __________.

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Why can eggs be larger than other cell types?

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The diffusion of water molecules across a selectively permeable membrane is called

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The island fox, Urocyon littoralis, is only found on the Channel Island off the coast of California. This species is not found on the mainland where the gray fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, lives. This species would be considered to be

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Body cells that respond to insulin include

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Which of the following is a posterior pituitary hormone?

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Which of the following stimuli most directly causes the Venus flytrap to catch an insect?

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Osteoclasts function in bone remodeling to

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Which of the following is not an autoimmune disease?

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What is consistent about the structure of all of the different types of neurons shown above (Fig. 35.5)?

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Control of gene expression in eukaryotes includes all of the following except:

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Zoologists extracted the chemical that the Japanese beetle uses to attract a mate, and used it in a trap to reduce the beetle population. Scientists were using a(n)

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You are bitten by a mosquito that carries Plasmodium. Decide whether each statement is true or false

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Which cells secrete mucus?

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Some animals have no gills when young, but then develop gills that grow larger as the animal grows larger. What is the reason for this increase in gill size?

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Which one of the following terms applies to the phylum Nematoda?

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The main function of the endomembrane system is building and modifying _____ and _____

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What name is given to the collection of traits exhibited by an organism?

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Enzymes are specialized ________ that catalyze chemical reactions within the body

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Compare the differences between the biological species concept and the morphological species concept used by

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In the figure above, which of the following conclusions is most logical based on the data?

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Which of the following organelles is not surrounded by a membrane?

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Cellular respiration is a series of _____ reactions

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Antibodies are classified in the group of chemicals known as

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Influenza infections themselves are usually more annoying than deadly, but the flu can be accompanied by which of the following more serious secondary infections?

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The most common kind of dispersion in nature is

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Latent heat of vaporization

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When auditory hair cells bend they ____

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Referring to the above diagram of the brain, F

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The early amniotes

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Between which individuals would an organ transplant have the least chance of rejection?

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Products of the Calvin cycle include: Check all that apply.

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Research is Colorado’s San Juan Mountains has illustrated that in comparison to stands of lodgepole pine and Englemann spruce, stands of trembling aspen have all of the following EXCEPT

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The 9 + 2 complex refers to ____

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In the first stage of the ovarian cycle, what gamete cell starts to develop?

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The background extinction rate is estimated to be about ___ per million species years (E/MSY).

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In mice, the allele for colored fur (C) is dominant to the allele for albinism (c). The allele for normal behavior (W) is dominant to that for waltzing movement (w). Give the probable genotypes of the parents if a colored normal crossed with a white waltzer produced 10 colored normal, 8 colored waltzers, 2 white waltzers, and 11 white normal.