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BIO 120 Final Exam

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The atomic number of oxygen is 8. How many valence electrons does an atom of oxygen have in its outer shell? 6
For a bond to be considered polar, it needs to be.... asymmetrical in charge and geometric shape
The Lake Effect Snow that Allendale experiences is due to what property of water? High specific heat
Why are hydrocarbons insoluble in water? the majority of their bonds are nonpolar covalent carbon-to-hydrogen linkages
Research indicates that ibuprofen, a drug used to relieve inflammation and pain, is a mixture of two enantiomers; that is, molecules that are _____. mirror images of each other
Ice floats because... of the hydrogen bonds, ice is less dense when frozen
If the pH of a solution is 9. What does this mean? it has more OH- ions in the solution than H+ ions
Water is considered the universal... solvent
True or False: a hydrophilic substance does not have an affinity for water false
The complexity and variety of organic molecules are due to___. the chemical versatility of carbon atoms
Why is +NaCl- able to become a solution with water? +NaCl- is able to disrupt the hydrogen bonds between the water molecules
Why is carbon so important in biology? it can form a variety of carbon skeletons and host functional groups
Which of these carbohydrates is not made up of monomers? -Glucose -Lactose -Cellulose -Starch Glucose
Lactose, a sugar in milk, is a disaccharide composed of one glucose molecule joined to one galactose molecule. The linkage is best classified as: glycosidic
What is the best explanation for why vegetable oil is liquid at room temperature while animal fats, like butter, are solid? Vegetable oil has more double bonds than animal fats
If you disrupted all the hydrogen bonds in a protein, what level of organization would be unchanged? primary structure
Testosterone and estradiol are male and female sex hormones, respectively, in many vertebrates. In what ways(s) do these molecules differ from each other? Testosterone and estradiol___. Have different functional groups attached to the same carbon skeleton
What are the building blocks of proteins called? amino acids
A glycosidic linkage is analogous to which of the following in proteins? a peptide bond
Which biological molecule is not a polymer, and therefore not made up of monomers? lipids
Fatty acids are linked to glycerol to form triglyceride by an ester linkage
Phospholipids and triglycerides both___. have a glycerol backbone
How do phospholipids interact with water molecules? the polar heads interact with water, the nonpolar tails do not
Saturated fats____. contain more hydrogen than unsaturated fats that consist of the same number of carbon atoms
Denatured proteins... are unfolded and biologically inactive
What component of amino acid structure varies among different amino acids? the components of the R group
Nucleotides are the monomers of nucleic acids, what are the 3 parts of a nucleotide? sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base
What determines if the nucleic acid is DNA or RNA? the sugar
What is the pathway taken by a newly synthesized protein that will be secreted by a cell? Rough ER- Golgi- Transport Vehicle- Plasma Membrane
_____ do not contain membrane-bound organelles. prokaryotes
The endomembrane system... synthesizes proteins
Which of the following are found in the plant, animal, and bacterial cells? -Mitochondria -Ribosomes -Chloroplasts -Endoplasmic Reticulum Ribosomes
The liver is involved in the detoxification of many poisons and drugs. Which of the following structures is primarily involved in this process, and therefore is abundant in liver cells? -Rough ER -Smooth ER -Golgi Apparatus -Nuclear Envelope Smooth ER
What is the structure within the cell that receives vesicles, packages them, and then ships the finished product to various parts of the cell? Golgi Apparatus
The cytoskeleton of a cell... organizes the cells structures, provides structural support, and helps in mobility
This organelle function is the conversion of light energy to chemical potential energy... mitochondrion
What structure is the site of protein synthesis? Ribosomes
Suppose a cell has at least the following molecules and structures: enzymes, DNA, ribosomes, plasma membrane, and mitochondrion. It could be a cell from____. Nearly any eukaryotic organism
A substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by ordinary chemical procedures is a(n)____. element
A water molecule can bond to up to ___ other water molecules by ____bonds. four...hydrogen
The tendency of an atom to pull electrons toward itself is referred to as its ____. electronegativity
Suppose a young boy is always tired and fatigued, suffering form a metabolic disease that decreases the amount of ATP produced,. Which organelle is most likely involved with this? mitochondria
Tay-Sachs disease is a human genetic abnormality that results in cells accumulating and becoming clogged with very large, complex, undigested lipids. Which organelle is most likely involved? lysosome
___molecules can easily pass through the phospholipid bilayer; whereas___ molecules cannot easily pass through the membrane. nonpolar;polar
Which best describes a biological membrane? two layers of phospholipids with proteins either spanning the layers or on the surface of layers
Which statement about osmosis is correct? the presence of aquaporins (proteins that form water channels in the membrane) should speed up the process of osmosis
A correct distinction between facilitated diffusion and active transport is that.... facilitated diffusion depends on existing energy gradient acting on the transported substance, while active transport makes such a gradient
A patient was involved in a serious accident and lost a large quantity of blood. In an attempt to replenish bodily fluids, distilled water only is added to the patient directly via a vein. What will be the most probable result of this transfusion? The patient's red blood cells will shrivel up because the blood has become a hypertonic solution compared to the cells.
Which molecules will diffuse most quickly across a lipid bilayer membrane? -H20 -O2 -H2PO4 -C6H12O6 O2
At a cocktail party with people moving around the doors to the room are like... membrane proteins
You are studying a pump protein in the lab. What should you order to make sure the pump will operate? ATP
When a white blood cell moves an entire virus across its plasma membrane to consume it, what type of transport is this called? Exocytosis
A decrease in entropy is associated with what type of reaction? Dehydration
Which statement about anabolic pathways is true? They consume energy to build up polymers from monomers
What is an important consequence of the first law of thermodynamics for a living organism? an organism ultimately must obtain all of the necessary energy for life from its environment
Living organisms increase in complexity as they grow, resulting in a decrease in the entropy of an organism. How does this relate to the second law of thermodynamics? as a consequence of growth, the decrease in entropy of the organism is associated with a corresponding decrease in entropy of the universe
If you saw a ball spontaneously roll uphill without any extra input, this would be like... ATP being spontaneously synthesized from ADP and Pi
What can cause a reaction to occur spontaneously? Negative ΔG
The relationship between catabolism and anabolism is most similar to the relationship of what? exergonic and endergonic
Why do hydrolysis reactions occur more readily in solutions than dehydration reactions? Hydrolysis reactions are exergonic and increase entropy
How do living organisms create macromolecules, organelles, cells, tissues, and complex higher-order structures living organisms create order locally, but the energy transformations generate waste heat that increases the entropy of the universe
Which of the following statements describes a central role that ATP plays in cellular metabolism? ATP provides energy coupling between exergonic and endergonic reactions
Zinc, an essential trace element for most organisms, is present in the active site of the enzyme carboxypeptidase. The zinc most likely functions as... A cofactor necessary for enzymatic activity
If you're not getting enough vitamins in your food, what are you missing? coenzymes
Which of the following statements of enzyme function is true? enzymes increase the rate of chemical functions by lowering activation energy barriers
The food we eat provides the ___ energy flow needed for ___ to become ___ to then provide the ___ energy flow needed to power cellular work within our bodies. Exergonic; ADP + Pi; ATP; endergonic
The oxygen consumed during aerobic cellular respiration is involved directly in which process or event? accepting electrons at the end of the electron transport chain
What are the results of this reactions? C6H12O6 + 6 O2 --> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Energy C6H12O6 is oxidized and O2 is reduced
Cellular respiration can best be described as: taking electrons from food and giving them oxygen to make water, using the energy released to drive ATP formation
What statement about glycolysis is true? it occurs in the cytosol
Which molecule results from glycolysis? Pyruvate
What is formed by the removal of a carbon (as CO2) from a molecule of pyruvate Acetyl CoA
What is true about the citric acid cycle? it makes ATP through substrate-level phosphorylation
ATP synthase at the inner mitochondrial membrane makes ATP and water from ADP and phosphate by coupling this to which other process? allowing H+ to move down its electrochemical gradient
During intense exercise, muscles lack sufficient oxygen, so which process will these muscles mainly use? lactic acid fermentation
Which of the following events takes place in the electron transport chain? the harnessing of energy from high-energy electrons derived from glycolysis and the citric acid cycle
This product is made as a result of the protons flowing through the synthase molecule during chemiosmosis ATP
Early investigators thought that oxygen produced by photosynthetic plants came from carbon dioxide. In fact, it comes from... water
Under what conditions do photosynthesis and cellular respiration occur in plants? Photosynthesis occurs only in the light, cellular respiration occurs in both the dark and the light
What provides the energy for Photosystem II and I to pass electrons through a series of protons? Photons
Suppose you were preparing to visit a space station that uses photosynthesis to provide you with oxygen. What color lightbulbs should you take with you? Red and blue
What is split to help create an electrochemical gradient to perform redox reactions to produce ATP? C6H12O6
What molecule accepts carbon dioxide as it enters in the Calvin Cycle? rubisco
Carbon dioxide is ___ to produce ____ (the end product of the Calvin cycle) Produced; G3P
NADPH and ATP are ____ during the Calvin Cycle and are sent back to the Light Dependent reactions to be ____ again. Oxidized; reduced
Photosynthetic and mitochondrial electron transport are distinct processes that conceptually have some common features. This process generates a proton gradient: Mitochondrial Electron Transport (Respiration)
Photosynthetic and mitochondrial electron transport are distinct processes that conceptually have some common features. This process extracts electrons from water: Photosynthetic Electron Transport
Photosynthetic and mitochondrial electron transport are distinct processes that conceptually have some common features. This process extracts electrons from FADH2 Mitochondrial Electron Transport (Respiration)
Photosynthetic and mitochondrial electron transport are distinct processes that conceptually have some common features. This process depends upon a series of sequential oxidative phosphorylation reduction reactions: Mitochondrial Electron Transport (Respiration)
Photosynthetic and mitochondrial electron transport are distinct processes that conceptually have some common features. This process occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum: Neither mitochondrial or photosynthetic electron transport
Which metabolic pathway is common to both fermentation and cellular respiration of a glucose molecule? Glycolysis
If a cell at metaphase of mitosis contains 20 sister chromatids, how many chromosomes will be present in a G1 cell? 10
Which of the following statements accurately describes the structure of a eukaryotic chromosome? It is a single linear molecule of double-stranded DNA plus proteins
In what way do kinetochore microtubules facilitate the process of splitting the centromeres? they create tension by pulling toward opposite poles
In a diploid cell with 5 chromosome pairs (2n=10), how many sister chromatids will be found in a nucleus at prophase of mitosis? 20
Which of the following characteristics do homologous chromosomes exhibit? They carry information for the same characters
Which of the following triggers the cell's passage past the G2 checkpoint into mitosis? MPF
Through a microscope, you can see a cell plate beginning to develop across the middle of a cell and nuclei forming on either side of the cell plate. This cell is most likely____. a plant cell in the process of cytokinesis
Which of the following events occur during interphase at the cell cycle? replication of DNA
Which of the following statements is true of a species that has a chromosome number of 2n=16? each cell has 8 homologous pairs
Which of the following processes occur when homologous chromosomes cross over in meiosis I? corresponding segments of non-sister chromatids are exchanged
During what phase of meiosis do daughter cells first become haploid? Meiosis I
Motor proteins require which of the following structures or molecules to function in the movement of chromosomes towards the poles of the mitotic spindle? ATP as an energy source
Which of the following events happen at the conclusion of meiosis I? Homologous chromosomes of a pair are separated from each other
Which of the following statements describe a major difference between mitosis and meiosis I in a diploid organism? sister chromatids separate in mitosis, while homologous pairs of chromosomes separate in meiosis I
Sexual reproduction has a genetic advantage over asexual reproduction becaues? sexual reproduction provides more genetic variability
Meiosis II is similar to mitosis in that... sister chromatids separate
Semiconservative replication involves a template, What is the template? one strand of the DNA molecule
Cytosine makes up 42% of the nucleotides in a sample of DNA from an organism. Approximately what % of the nucleotides will be thymine? 8%
Within a double-stranded DNA molecule, adenine forms hydrogen bonds with thymine, and cytosine forms hydrogen bonds with guanine. What is the significance of the structural arrangement? it permits complementary base pairing
In the polymerization of DNA, a covalent bond is formed between a phosphate group of the new nucleotide being added and which of the following atoms or molecules of the last nucleotide in the polymer? the 3' OH
Nucleotides are made up of a 5-carbon sugar, a ___ group, and a nitrogenous base phosphate
What is the enzymatic protein that uses DNA as a template to add new nucleotides to it? DNA polymerase
What is the enzyme that functions in joining Okazaki fragaments in the lagging strand? ligase
Codons are part of the molecular structure of.... mRNA
What form of nucleic acid can exist both in the nucleus and in the cytoplasm? RNA
Translation requires... mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA
How many genes are necessary for a simple metabolic pathway to function? 2
When the mRNA is being edited during transcription, these are spliced out____ and these sections called _____ stay in the final product introns; extrons
tRNA uses ____ to match up with mRNA's ___ anticodon; codon
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