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SCI 135 - First Exam Spring 2016
Links in each number
connect to the pertinent sections of the
online book.
MULTIPLE CHOICE.
On the line to the left, place the letter of the choice
that best answers the question. Three Points Each. NOTE: "e" answers are never
the correct answer.
1.
The experimental variable
should vary
_______ a. Between the beginning and the
results
b. Among different experimental tests
c. Between the experimental test and the control test
d. Whenever you measure it
e. Because if it didn’t, it would be an invariable
2.
The confounding
factor associated with postmodernism is
_______ a. Artifacts
b. Chance c. Reproducibility
d. Bias
e. Is a post really that modern-?
3.
In a typical food
chain
_______ a. Materials are mostly recycled
but energy is mostly lost
b. Energy is mostly recycled but materials are mostly lost
c. Both energy and materials are mostly recycled
d. Both energy and materials are mostly lost
e. I think at this point I’m mostly lost
4. Which is defined from group behavior in the natural
habitat?
_______ a. Metabolism
b. Evolution
c. Species d. Confounding
factors
e. How viral a meme is
5. What important stage of
science often happens during the publishing phase?
_______ a. Funding
b. Statistical manipulation
c. Application of control test
d. Peer review
e. Increasing your Twitter following
6.
Molecular clocks
get their timing from
_______ a. Variation of features
b. Accumulation of mutations c.
Radioactive decay
d. Depth of fossil layer
e. The local cell phone towers
7. Researchers connect
fossils to living groups using mostly
_______ a. Radioactive dating
b. Analogy c. Homology
d. Genetic analysis
e. A really big dartboard
8.
The term metabolism is
concerned mostly with
_______ a. Synthesis
b. Energy c. Digestion
d. Breakdown e. Getting ready
for swimsuit season
9. Looking at cells through a
microscope is a type of
_______ a. Control test
b. Field test c. Indirect observation
d. Direct observation
e. Odd way to avoid an argument
10.
Reducing the impact of pure
chance on experimental results is usually done by
_______ a. Changing the control test
b. Selecting participants very carefully
c. Eliminating every other confounding factor
d. Using large numbers of test subjects
e. Betting on the results in Las Vegas
11. Which is an example of the null
hypothesis at work?
_______ a. Experimental results do not
support the hypothesis
b. There is no way to set up a control group
c. Testing can only be done in the field
d. There are no good ways to explain an observation
e. This guy named Dr. Null has an idea
12.
Populations typically evolve rapidly
when
_______ a. They need to improve
b. Conditions change around them
c. There are many mutations
d. Their variation is limited
e. They can get a big prize
SHORT ANSWER.
Answer any eight of the following questions for 4 Points
Each.
Note: if you answer more than eight, only the first eight
will be corrected.
You can get partial credit on these answers.
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1. For
the types of living things found most commonly as fossils,
give two different features they had when they were alive. Don't
just give general life features, but you can include where
they lived. |
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2.
Briefly explain how convergent evolution works.
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3.
For each, give one weakness for using - |
ANIMAL
MODELS
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COMPUTER
MODELS
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4. Briefly explain why the placebo effect is an
artifact.
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5. What, technically, is a gene?
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6. What are two different “features of Life” that typically
are not found in viruses? |
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7. What is the basic idea of
“ontogeny recapitulates
phylogeny”?
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8. Put, in order, the three levels of a typical food chain. |
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9. Carbon dating only works for objects up to about 60,000
years old. Why doesn’t it work for older things?
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10a. What widely-accepted idea was
challenged by Redi’s
experiment?
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10b.. What specific change was Redi trying to show
didn’t
happen?
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11. In disagreements about classification, what are
scientists - |
NOT USUALLY
ALLOWED
TO DO? |
ALLOWED
TO DO
EASILY? |
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12. Put the following groups
in order from the largest to
the smallest: Class, Family, Genus, Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Species, Subfamily,
Superclass. |
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13. In a double-blind drug test, what
two different groups
are blinded? |
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14. What feature would make a species
colonial?
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15. Briefly explain how respiration is a
second-level
transformation.
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16. Put these in order so that each one is made up of the
things before it: organs, tissues, cells. |
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17. The two major
advantages of quantitative data over
qualitative data: |
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LONG ANSWER.
Answer any four of the following questions for Eight
Points Each.
Note: if you answer more than four, only the first four
will be corrected.
You can get partial credit on these answers.
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1. For four of the six basic Kingdoms of Life, give the
name of the Kingdom and enough features to clearly set that Kingdom's members
apart from those of the other five. |
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2. Give the following for sexual reproduction - |
BASIC
DEFINITION
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ADVANTAGE
compared to asexual
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DISADVANTAGE
compared to asexual
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3. Two
different processes that take some energy from the
environment to make chemical bond energy in fuel molecules - |
Type of
environmental energy used by each named process - |
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4. What are
four basic features that all living things are
supposed to have? |
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5. Give two different rules that apply to
each in binomial
nomenclature: |
FIRST
WORD
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SECOND
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ENTIRE
NAME
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6. Put these in order so that each later level contains the
earlier ones: Community, Ecosystems, Individuals, Populations. |
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7. For each of these nuclear particles, give two basic
features, plus one overall feature that comes from their total number in an
atom. |
PROTON Feature
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PROTON Feature
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PROTON Feature
from Total
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NEUTRON Feature
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NEUTRON Feature
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NEUTRON Feature
from Total
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Link to
Answer Key
BONUS QUESTIONS.
Answer as many as you are able. Wrong answers will not
result in points being lost from the main exam. You can get partial credit on
these answers.
Why is variation such an important feature of groups? Three
Points.
For many discoveries reported in the internet, what
important step has not happened? Three Points.
Why should the word proof (or prove) not be used for
scientific results? Three Points.
How can one person’s experimental results be another
person’s observation? Three Points.
For triple-blind tests, what group is added? Three Points.
What turned out to be wrong with the aluminum produces
Alzheimer’s experiment? Three Points.
How can ethics be a confounding factor? Three Points.
Why is the classification guy known as Linnaeus if that
wasn’t his name? Three Points.
Some living things live in “extreme” environments. For Two
Points Each, what are examples of types of such environments?
What major is group is classified like regular Kingdoms but
not included in the basic Kingdom system? Three Points.
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