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Biology
Undergraduate 3
12/09/2010
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1. Viruses are
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Not considered living organisms
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2. Two animals in the same order would not have to be in the same
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family
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A prophange or provirus would occur during the
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Lysogenic cycle
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A virus is
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composed of nucleic acid and a protein capsid
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Once HIV is inside a T-cell, the first thing that occurs is
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Copy DNA is produced from its RNA
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In cladistic systematic, organisms are grouped by
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Apomorphic characters
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7. Stanley Miller was the first to show that
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Amino acids and other organic molecules could have been generated on a lifeless Earth
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8. Which of the following groups is at the gamma taxonic level?
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birds
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9. The Father of Taxonomy (who came up with binominal nomenclature) is:
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Linnaeus
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10. Light colored peppered moths resemble
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Lichens
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11. In which of the following particular life cycles do bacteriophages produce numerous prophages?
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Lysogenic cycle
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12. The first life on earth consisted of
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Heterotrophic or chemotrophic bacteria
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13. Acting at all levels of a food web are the
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Detritovores
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14. The evolution of photosynthetic organisms during the “Age of Microbes” caused which of the following to occur?
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b. An increase in free oxygen in atmosphere
c. The appearance of aerobic organisms
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15. Which of the following taxonomic categories contains all the others?
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class
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16. The amount of energy available at successively higher trophic levels passing through a food web or chain
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decreases
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17. Prokaryotes called ______ are similar in many ways to eukaryotic organisms
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Archaea
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18. The first disease discovered to be virally induced was
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tobacco mosaic disease
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19. A spreading red ring around what appears to be an insect bite is symptomatic of:
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Lyme disease
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20. Cladistic analysis attempts to make sure that all taxa:
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monophyletic
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21. Viruses that attack bacteria are called
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Baceriophages
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22. The Father of Cladistics (who came up with phylogenetic systematic) is:
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Hennig
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23. The biological species concept is based on
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Reproductive isolation
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24. Viruses do not
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Metabolize
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25. Mad cow disease is caused by a
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Prion
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26. In a hypothetical food chain of grass, grasshoppers, sparrows, and hawks, the grasshoppers are:
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primary consumers
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27. The ozone layer consists of:
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O3
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28. Anaerobic swamps, salt lakes, acidic hot springs, etc. are habitats where one would find:
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members of the domain Archaea
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29. Rounded, sphere-like bacteria are called
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Cocci
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30. In which of the following choices are levels of organization arranged from most to least inclusive?
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b. Ecosystem, community, population, individual
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31. Prokaryotes that “bloom” in polluted aquatic environments consist of:
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Cyanobacteria
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32. Numerical taxonomy was used to classify organisms by using:
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Similarities
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33. The morphological species concept is based on
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a shared gene pool
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34. Viruses can invade:
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Eukaryotic cells
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35. The first trophic (foundation) level in a food web contains:
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producers
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36. Cladistic analysts indicates that crocodiles are more closely related to _____ than to _____
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birds, lizards
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How many domains are there
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3
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38. Which of the following was probably not present in the primitive (prebiotic) Earth’s atmosphere?
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O2
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39. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has a latency period that lasts a minimum of
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5 years
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40. A temperate virus is one which:
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Exhibits the lysogenic cycle
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41. Which of the following taxonomic categories contains all of the others?
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Class
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42. One of the major contributors to the greenhouse effect is:
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Carbon Dioxide
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43. The oldest fossils of bacteria date back to:
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3.5 billion years ago
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42. One of the major contributors to the greenhouse effect is:
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carbon dioxide
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44. Cyanobacteria are:
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Photosynthetic
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45. Viruses that only utilize a lytic cycle are often called _______ viruses.
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Virulent
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CFC's
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c. Deplete the ozone layer a. Were once used in aerosols (spray cans)
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