SC 135 - Third Exam Spring 2011

 

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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.   What structures pretty much have to work together?

 

_______                a.  Nucleus and cell membrane                b.  Chloroplast and contractile vacuole                c.  Lysosome and food vacuole

d.  Ribosome and peroxisome                                    e.  The ones that signed the contracts they didn=t read

 

 

 

2.   Chromatin is made up of

 

_______                a.  DNA and RNA                             b.  DNA and membrane                        c.  Membrane and protein

                             d.  DNA and protein                                        e.  Sounds like a pretty metal box - for candy?

 

 

 

3.   Disease-causing prions are

 

_______                a.  Viruses                              b. Infective protein molecules                    c.   Bacteria

                            d. Bacterial plasmids                            e.  Probably a bad name for a new snack food

 

 

 

 

4.    Two genes on the same chromosome are said to be

 

_______                a.   Homologous                    b.  Shared                               c.  Linked                    d.  Sisters                     e.  Cheap bums

 

 

 

 

5.   Which type of mutation shifts the Areading frame@?

 

_______                a.  Addition               b.  Polyploidy                       c.  Substitution                d.  Redundancy        

                                                                    e.  Ones you get from reading with a Kindle

 

 

 

 

6.   A mathematical relationship is used to explain why there seems to be a size limit to cells.  The relationship is about

 

_______                a.  DNA length and nucleus size                b.  Cell volume and surface area                c.  How many different organelles there are

          d.  The smallest multicelled systems                            e.  It=s math, so I thought we were going to ignore it

7.    Chaperonins are used
 

_______                a.  To proofread DNA copying                                                b.  To proofread DNA transcription to RNA

c.  To check amino acid sequences                                          d.  To get proteins to form the right shapes

                                    e.  When cells hold proms in teensy gymnasiums

 

 

 

 

8.   A karyotype is found by examining

 

_______                a.  Cell organelles                     b.  DNA sequences                   c.  Cell types                d.  Chromosome groups

                                                                                              e.  Who Kary hits on

 

 

 

 

9.  Apoptosis would result in a cell

 

_______                  a.  Losing a chromosome                b.  Gaining a chromosome                c.  Dying                    d.  Eating food

                                                                                                   e.  Giggling

 

 

 

 

10.   Different alleles would have to have different

 

_______                a.  Functions              b.  Nucleotide sequences                c.  Proteins                d.  Amino acid sequences               e.  ID cards

 

 

 

 

11.   Which would not be enclosed in its own membrane?
 

_______                a.  Nucleolus             b.  Mitochondrion                c.  Peroxisome                    d.  Golgi body

                                                                       e.  Does it have to have the receipt?

 

 

 

 

                     12.   Which is true about gametes?

 

_______                a.  They are produced by mitosis            b.  Even organisms without genders have them                c.  They are haploid

d.  All of the above are true                                e.  They are a word I recognize...sort of...

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.   How can you use concentration levels to recognize that movement through a membrane is active transport?

2.   Draw a double-stranded chromosome, and label two different parts.

3.   What are two different functions performed by proteins embedded in cell membranes?

4.    What are two organelles found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes?

5.   Which two high-funding research areas are interested in telomeres?

6.   Describe or draw and label the hydrophobic and hydrophilic layers in a typical cell membrane.

7.    What are histones?

9.   The presence of golgi bodies indicates that a cell is doing what function?

10.   What two functions are commonly found in surfaces covered with microvilli?

11.   Position effects -
What   are  they?	Why do they happen?

12.    Two chromosomes are labeled as homologous - what does that mean?

13.   What two different sorts of Abits@ make up the non-coding part of a chromosome?

14.    Briefly explain how root pressure moves water into and up a plant.

15.   What are two different structures that can make up cytoskeleton?

16.   What is polyploidy?

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.

 

1.   Give 3 sets of differences between -
FLAGELLA	CILIA

2a.   Briefly explain the endosymbiont theory.
2b.  What two structures are associated with the endosymbiont theory?

4.   Given here is one side (strand) of DNA.  Starting with this strand, and using the table, show:   Starting   ______________________________________________________________________________ Strand        T  A  C  A  C  G  C  G  T  G  C  A  T   C  G  C  T  T  G  G  A  A  T  C                     ______________________________________________________________________________                                                          Messenger  RNA from 1st strand                   _______________________________________________________________________________                                                                 Amino Acid Sequence

5.   What are the four statements of the Cell Theory?

6.   Give three sets of differences between -
EUKARYOTES	PROKARYOTES

7.   What are three different ways that fresh-water organisms protect themselves from osmosis damage?