Bio 108:  Question breakdown and Review Questions for Exam 3    

Topic Study Number of multiple choice questions Number of short answer questions
Deserts

Desert map

 5  
Cells Lecture 11,  lab 8 15  
Riparian areas Riparian lecture, lab 11 9 1 Map of Arizona cities, rivers, lakes and dams
Chemistry Lecture 12 4  
Water Lecture 13 5  
Molecules of life Lecture 14 4  
Plant reproduction Lab 7 4  

 

Deserts

1. Recognize on a map the four deserts of  North America.

2. Explain some traits that are characteristic of desert plants.

Cells

1.  What is a cell?

2. What is the difference between a prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell?

3.  List structures found in bacteria, plant, and animal cells.

4. Know the function of the following structures: cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, amyloplast, vacuole, mitochondria, chloroplast.  The tea leaf cell example will be helpful.

5.  Robert Hooke and Anton van Leeuenhoek are the first scientists that did what?

6. Where did chloroplasts and mitochondria come from? Give the evidence in favor of this idea.

7. Do all cells have the same shape and kinds of structures inside?

8.  Give the locations and functions of different kinds of cells in a leaf.

 

Riparian areas

1. What is a riparian area?

2. Why build dams?

3.  How have dams altered riparian areas?

4.  Recognize major lakes, rivers and cities in Arizona as shown on the map in this lecture.

Labs

Section 9,10

1.  What adaptations allow plants to survive in the desert?

Chemistry

1. What is the difference between an atom and a molecule?

2. What is the difference between an element and a compound?

3. Does NaCl have the same chemical and physical characteristics as Na and Cl?

4. Can you recognize a balanced equation?

5.  What is a physical change vs. a chemical change?

Water

1. Recognize different properties of water and why they are important to life.

2. Understand hydrogen bonding and how it leads to the different properties of water.

3.  What makes water a good solvent?  What substances do not dissolve in water?

4.  How does pH affect soil and plants?  What is the pH in the Sonoran desert?

5. What is pH?

6.  What is acidic, basic, neutral on the pH scale?

Molecules of life

1.  What are the four categories of the molecules life?

2.  Give an example of a storage vs. structural carbohydrate.

3.  What are the building blocks of proteins?

4. What is the difference between a saturated and unsaturated fat?  Why do we care?

5.  What category of molecule is fat?

6. What is DNA?

Plant reproduction

1. What is grafting?  Could you graft a dicot? A monocot? Explain your answer.  How does the genetics compare between the graft and the original plant?

2.  What is the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction?