- Know how to correctly write a scientific name (genus and species).
- Define the following: prokaryote, eukaryote
- Who was the father of evolution?
- Peter and Rosemary Grant studied _______________ on Daphne Major to demonstrate natural selection.
- Why did horses evolve over time from a small animal to a large animal adapted to grazing and running?
- What is the difference between vestigial, analogous and homologous structures? Give examples of each.
- What is genetic drift? What is the difference between a bottleneck and a founder effect?
- What do the terms convergent evolution and divergent evolution mean?
- What is maximum parsimony?
- Define the following: species, natural selection, evolution
- Know the taxonomic levels in order beginning with Domain and ending with species.
- What are the 3 Domains of life?
- What is the theory of endosymbiosis?
- Conditions of the early earth were ____________________________. What element that is common today was likely not found on the early earth?
- Define the following: taxonomy, systematics, cladistics
- What is molecular systematics?
- What role does DNA, RNA and protein play in determining how closely related organisms are?
- List structures that are found in ALL cells.
- Define the following: transduction, transformation, conjugation
- What are causes of the antibiotic crisis that we are currently experiencing?
- What are cyanobacteria?
- What are the 3 shapes of bacteria?
- What protist organism causes malaria?
- Define the following: pellicle, pseudopodia
- Protists would tend to switch from sexual reproduction under what types of conditions?
- Fungi reproduce by producing ______________________.
- Fungal cell walls are made of _________________. Plant cell walls are made of _____________.
- Are fungi prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
- Where are extremophiles typically found?
- Define the following: lichen, mycorrhizae, hyphae, mycelium
- Define the following: xylem, phloem
- For the following groups, list which is dominant (sporophyte or gametophyte): Nonvascular, Seedless vascular, Seed plants
- What is a fruit? Give examples.
- In plants, the multicellular haploid form is called the ________________. The multicellular diploid form is called the __________________.
- What is the difference between a monocot and a eudicot?
- What is the difference between fertilization and pollination?
- Define the following: apical meristem, stomata, cuticle, desiccation
- What do the terms dioecious and monoecious mean?
- Animals are _____________________ (choose prokaryotic or eukaryotic) and _________________ (choose heterotrophic or eutrophic).
- Give examples of heterotrophs and autotrophs. What do these terms mean?
- What is the difference between acoelomate and eucoelomate animals?
- What does the term sessile mean?
- What are Supergroups?
- What are some types of asexual reproduction found in sponges?
- What do the terms endotherm and ectotherm mean? Give examples of each.
- What type of symmetry do most animals have?
- The animal phylum that has jointed appendages and segmentation is ____________________.
- The cells of sponges are called _____________. The cells of jellyfish are called ____________.
- Birds are descended from __________________________.
- What is the difference between a protostome and a deuterostome?
- What are eutherians, marsupials and monotremes? Give examples.
- Give examples of jawless fish, bony fish and cartilaginous fish.
- List examples of amphibians and reptiles.
- Define the following: mortality rate, species richness
- What is the difference between clumped, random and uniform distribution patterns?
- What is the difference between K-selected and r-selected species?
- What is the difference between abiotic and biotic factors? Give examples of each.
- What are density dependent and density independent factors?
- What is intraspecific competition?
- What shape curve does logistic growth produce? Exponential?
- What is the difference between logistic and exponential growth?
- Define the following: carrying capacity, population size, population density
- What is the difference between a grazing and a detrital food web?
- An example of predator-prey population dynamics that was discussed in the text is ______________________.
- What molecules do phosphorous help make for living things? Sulfur?
- The main element found in acid rain water is _______________________.
- The element that makes up 78% of the atmosphere is __________________________.
- How did the pesticide DDT harm birds like eagles?
- What factors are currently threatening tropical forests?
- The ecosystem category that makes up the majority of the earth’s surface is ______________.
- What is mimicry?
- What is a niche?
- Define the following: endemic species, keystone species, invasive species, exotic species
- Define the following: preserve, biological hotspot
- Define the following: resistance, resilience
- Biodiversity ________________ (increases or decreases) as one gets closer to the equator.
- What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
- The 5th mass extinction occurred ________________ (when) and wiped out ________________.
- We are likely in a sixth mass extinction period caused by _______________________________.
- List 2 major greenhouse gases.
- What is eutrophication?
- What are some effects of climate change (global warming)?
- What is chytridiomycosis? Colony collapse disorder?
- The first National Park established in the US was _______________________________.
- Define the following: biodiversity, chemical diversity, genetic diversity, ecosystem diversity