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SCI 135 - First Exam Fall 2018
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.
Decomposers recycle what for
the producers?
_______ a. Nothing – only consumers can
use recycled things. b. Materials
only.
c. Energy only.
d. Materials and energy.
e. Do they take plastic bags? I need to get rid of some…
2. What is the
biggest reason why a test should be done with as many
subjects as possible?
_______ a. It’s more quantitative
b. It’s more qualitative c.
Reduces the impact of chance
d. Reduces artifacts e. Gives
you more subjects to talk to during long testing days
3. What’s the
added level (above single blind) for
a double-blind test?
_______ a. Administering doctors
b. Treatment manufacturers c.
Patients
d. Statisticians
e. Can they get this many service dogs?
4.
Chemistry is pretty much all a function of
_______ a. Protons
b. Electrons c. Neutrons
d. Photons
e. Eeenyon, meenyon, mineyon, mo-on…
5. After the
suggestion that abortion availability led eventually to reduced crime rates,
folks opposed to the hypothesis were supporting what’s known as the
_______ a. Counter hypothesis
b. Negative variable c. Null
hypothesis
d. Opposite variable
e. “Oh hell no!” proposal
6.
Postmodernism has to do with
_______ a. How up-to-date the equipment
is
b. What sort of bias a researcher may bring to the science
c. What the next development after the current one is
d. All of the above
e. Eh, how modern can a post be? It's a post!
7.
Radioactivity can change one element into another by
changing the number of
_______ a. Gluons
b. Electrons c. Neutrons
d. Protons e. Twitter followers
8.
Respiration very often moves energy from _____ to
_____.
_______ a. Oxygen…carbon dioxide
b. Glucose…ATP c. Sunlight…glucose
d. Electrons…protons
e. Where it was…where it is now
9. The “ticks”
of the molecular clock used in evolution studies are
_______ a. Point mutations
b. Living generations c. Radioactive
half-lives
d. Shared embryo structures e.
Do any clocks even go “tick” any more?
10. A
molecule is the smallest functional part of
_______ a. An atom
b. An element c. A compound
d. A chemical e. Something made
of molecules
11.
Research done at universities most often hits
peer review at what stage?
_______ a. Hypothesis development
b. Testing c. Result gathering and
analysis
d. Publication
e. Do the peers actually hit the researchers?
12. Two species
seem very different, but share a common
ancestor group. This is an example of
_______ a. Homologous patterning
b. Convergent evolyution c. Analogous
patterning
d. Divergent evolution
e. A basic lack of imagination
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.
| 1. What are two different reasons why an
experiment has to be done as a field test? |
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| 2. Give two different advantages
that quantitative data has over qualitative data. |
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| 3. What are the two major
first-level energy transformation processes used on Earth by
our producers? |
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4. What exactly makes it wrong to say your
experimental results prove your hypothesis?
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5. What does “ontogeny recapitulates
phylogeny” mean?
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6. What, technically, is a
gene?
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7. The current best approach for determining
if a group is a separate species –
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8. Briefly explain how “sexual selection”
works for asexual reproducers.
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| 9. Put the following
groups
in
order from the largest to
the smallest: Class, Family, Genus, Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Species, Subclass,
Superfamily. |
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10. What makes a species colonial?
(whether single-celled or not)
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11. For most
fossils, what happened to the original specimen
very soon after its death?
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| 12. Put
in order these levels of organization
within individual organisms, small to large: cells, organs,
organ systems, tissues. |
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| 13. Two different general
features of living things that viruses also
have. |
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| 14. Two different general
features of living things that viruses do
NOT have. |
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15. Carbon dating is only useful
for things up to about 50,000 years old. Why not
for older things?
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| 16. Pick one type of research
model, and give one way that it’s not really like the
real thing. |
MODEL
TYPE:
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WEAKNESS:
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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. All for the most common
isotope – |
40.08
Ca
Calcium
# 20
Column 2
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How
many
protons?
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How
many
neutrons?
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Typical
ion
form?
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How
many
electrons?
(Radical
/ uncharged
form)
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2.
Give the following for
asexual reproduction - |
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BASIC
DEFINITION
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STRENGTH
compared to sexual
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WEAKNESS
compared to sexual
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COMPENSATION
FOR
WEAKNESS |
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| 3. Answer
the following about classic Scientific Method: |
Two features a good
hypothesis should have
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Role served by the
experimental variable
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Purpose of the
control test
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| 4. Give two different rules
that apply to each specifically in
binomial nomenclature: |
FIRST
WORD |
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SECOND
WORD |
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ENTIRE
NAME |
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5. Put these
in order so that
each later level contains the earlier ones: Community, Ecosystems,
Individuals, Populations. |
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6. 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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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.
What are the main type of proteins in our protein-based
chemistry? Three Points.
What major biological discovery was made at deep-sea
hydrothermal vents? Three Points.
Why are there so few dinosaur fossils in New York State?
Three Points.
What feature of HIV makes it more treatable than a typical
virus? You don’t have to be too specific. Three Points.
Explain why the placebo effect is an artifact. Three
Points.
If a test is criticized as anecdotal, what’s wrong with it?
Three Points.
Who was Karl von Linne? Three Points.
What’s meant by a biological (not an atomic) half-life?
Three Points.
When Mendeleev, the Russian kid, put the first Periodic
Table together –
- What did the columns represent?
- What was it eventually found they also represent?
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