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Biology Division, LCC

 

 

Kabi R. Neupane, Ph.D.

Instructor, Biology and Biotechnology, LCC, Hawaii

 

 

 

              

 

 

Second Midterm Examination: Sample answers

(Note: Although presentation sequence of questions in the actual test may not match this list, the set of questions are the same) 


Question 1  (1.5 points)
What is energy?


Question 2  (1.5 points)
Which of the following is a measure of disorder?

Question 3  (1.5 points)
One hundred (100) kilocalories are equivalent to _____ calories

Question 4  (1.5 points)
What form of energy is ATP?

Question 5  (1.5 points)
The energy released from glucose by the process of cellular respiration is in the form of _____.

Question 6  (1.5 points)
Which of the following statements is completely true?

Question 7  (1.5 points)
A product of glycolysis is _____.

Question 8  (1.5 points)
The second stage of aerobic respiration is _____.

Question 9  (1.5 points)
By pumping H+ ions the electron transport chain converts _____ energy into _____ energy.

Question 10  (1.5 points)
The process of AEROBIC respiration results in a maximum of _____ ATP molecules per glucose molecule.

Question 11  (1.5 points)
Which of the following is not an autotroph?

Question 12  (1.5 points)
What is the function of stomata?

Question 13  (1.5 points)
What name is given to the membranous sacs found within a chloroplast?

Question 14  (1.5 points)
In photosynthesis redox reactions ultimately transfer electrons from _____ to _____.

Question 15  (1.5 points)
The Calvin cycle makes direct use of _____ to make _____.

Question 16  (1.5 points)
The energy of wavelengths that appear _____ are least useful to photosynthesis.

Question 17  (1.5 points)
Where are photosystems located?

Question 18  (1.5 points)
The light reactions of photosynthesis take place _____.


Question 19  (1.5 points)
The first step of the Calvin cycle is the incorporation of _____ into _____.


Question 20  (1.5 points)
Oxygen is highly corrosive; therefore, which of the following would provide definitive evidence of large amounts of O2 in the atmosphere?

Question 21  (1.5 points)
A _____ is an example of an organism that can reproduce asexually.

Question 22  (1.5 points)
Chromatin consists of _____.

Question 23  (1.5 points)
Which of the following is not a stage of mitosis?

Question 24  (1.5 points)
During anaphase _____.

Question 25  (1.5 points)
The cell cycle results in the production of _____.


Question 26  (1.5 points)
Skin cancer is a type of _____.

Question 27  (1.5 points)
Homologous chromosomes _____.

Question 28  (1.5 points)
How does prophase I differ from prophase II?

Question 29  (1.5 points)
Crossing over during prophase I results in _____.

Question 30  (1.5 points)
Which of the following changes in gene sequence illustrates a chromosomal deletion?

Question 31  (1.5 points)
The _____ is the trait most commonly found in nature.

Question 32  (1.5 points)
A true-breeding plant that produces yellow seeds is crossed with a true-breeding plant that produces green seeds; all of the seeds of all of the offspring are yellow, why?

Question 33  (1.5 points)
Attached earlobes are recessive to free earlobes. What genotypic ratio is expected in progeny when two heterozygous individuals with free earlobes mate?

Question 34  (1.5 points)
According to Mendel's principle of segregation, _____.

Question 35  (1.5 points)
In order to determine the phenotype of an individual who expresses a dominant trait, you would cross that individual with an individual who _____.

Question 36  (1.5 points)
A couple have two male children. What is the probability that their next child will be male?

Question 37  (1.5 points)
An individual homozygous for cystic fibrosis _____.

Question 38  (1.5 points)
An individual with (naturally) curly hair and an individual with (naturally) straight hair mate, and all of their offspring have (naturally) wavy hair. What is the relationship between the alleles for hair texture?


Question 39  (1.5 points)
What is the key to the recognition of a trait whose expression is determined by the effects of two or more genes (polygenic inheritance)?

Question 40  (1.5 points)
Nonsex chromosomes are called _____.

Question 41  (4 points)
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Last modified: December 13, 2006
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