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IB 104 study guide
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
09/24/2013

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who proposed the binomia naming system for species in his book Systema Nature?
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Carl Linneaus
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the total number of species both living and extinct is in the...
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millions
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Which of the following is an analogous character, NOT reliale and informative character in building a phylogeny?
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swimming fins of penguins and whales
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the increase in complexity of animal embryos during early development is reflected in these three names in this order...
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morula, blastula, gastrula
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earliest convincingly animal fossils are from the _____ period roughly___--____MYA
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Ediacaran 600-550
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only two phyla exhibit no symmetry of any kind...
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Placozoa and Porifera
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sponges have survived for 500 million years, they defend themselves, amongs other things by...
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having carbonate spicules and chemical defenses
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Phylum Cnidaria includes?
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  • hydras
  • jellyfish
  • coral
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huge circular coral reef atolls in the ocean result from...
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complete erosion of the original island around which the circuling coral reef formed
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The Bilateral or triploblastic animals can confidently be divided up into the superphyla...
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protostomes and deuterostomes
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the flatworms that Philip Newmark at UIUC studies fro thier remarkable regenerative abiliteis are...
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Turbellaria or planarians
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Elephantiasis is an extreme un-treated form of filariasis which is cause by___transmitted by___
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nematodes:mosquitoes
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the phylum name tardigrada literally means...
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slow walker
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when you go to a seafood restaurant and order a seafood platter that includes fish, scallops, lobster and squid you are eating representatives of ___animal phyla?
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3
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features of molluscs
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  • a radula for feeding
  • muscular foot for moving
  • mantle cavity containing gills and anus

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Leeches (class Hirudina) belong to what phylum?
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Annelida
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The arthropod class Trilobita are perhaps most famous for
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having gone extinct approximately 220 Myr ago
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My favorite insects ore the order Odonata, the...
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damselflies and dragonflies
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the Deuterostomes compris the ___ and ____
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echinoderms and chordates
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the Urochordates, also known as tunicates and sea squirts, only look like chordates when they are...
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motile larvae
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Lampreys and hagfish are the only living representiatives of a class of vertebrates know as the...
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Agnathans
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Which vetebrate class is distinguished by the evolution of the amnion, a specialized membrane surrounding the developing egg that prevents desiccation?
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reptiles
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A student that came to our university from a striclty molecular and cellular bioloby background once asserted to me that a turtle ahd to be an invertebrate because it has its skeletonon the outside. Instead it is a vertebrate belonging to the...
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reptiles
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which of these sugars is a monosacharide?
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fructose
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in animals while carbohydrates are primarily for energy storage they can also be structural in the form of...
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chitin
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waxes have fatty acid chains that are _____ usual for sorage fats such as triglycerides
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longer than
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the secondary structures of proteins (alph helixes and beta-pleated sheets) are maintained by...
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hydrogen bonds
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the ribose sugar in a nucleotide has ___carbon
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5
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in a transmission electron microscope the electrons
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to through a thin section fo cell or tissue
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Large protozoa like ciliates approach the upper limits of cell size (excepting neurons) of around ___micron(s) across
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100
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most animal cells have...
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one nucleaus and many mitochondria
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nuclear pores in the double membrane that surround the nucleus are...
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composed of multiple proteins forming a large complex
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A protein destined for secretion from a cell has a special string of 15-20 hydrophobic amino acids at the N-terinus, called a signal sequence, leading it to enter the ____as it is produced by a ribosome.
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endoplasmic reticulum
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phhospholipids consist of...
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a phosphate group and two fatty acid chains
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water is capable of moving freely across all living cell membrane, because...
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all cells have aquaporins or water channels embedded in their cell membranes
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cystic fibrosis involves mutation of the gene encoded a chanel/transporter that moves___ions across membranes
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chlorine
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aminmals are multicellular at least in part through the action of a special group of proteins called____, which generally tend to interact with_____
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cadherins;cadherins
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Degradation or "burning" of glucose would lead to releas of...
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carbon dioxide and water
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what is not true about protein enzymes?
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  • they drive reactions toward productin of more product
  • they are consued while catalyzing a reaction
  • they are not affected by temperature
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which class of biochemical seems most likely to be capable of both enzymatic catalysis and serving as a template for replication, hence is currently thought to be the first form of selp-replicating entity that led to life?
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RNA
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an enzymatic pathway includes four chemical reactions, each catalyzed by a particular enzyme. which enzyme is likely to have an allosteric binding site for the final produc of pathway, allowing negative feedback to control the pathway?
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the first
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glycolysis occurs inthe ...
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cytoplasm
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Glycolysis is limited in that there is a need to recycle...
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NADH to NAD
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the efficiency of energy trapping in the form of ATP by aerobic respiration is roughly
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40%
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if you run out of sugars to burn, you will resort to lipids, in which case they fatty acids are cut into pieces and fed into...
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the citric acid cycle
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