Biology Midterm 2
Select all of the following that correlates with Prokaryotes
Lack a membrane-bound nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelle
Lack a mitochondria
Have lysosomes
All bacteria and arcahae
Prokaryotes are distinguished by their cell shape, cell wall, and projections
True
False
Match the following cell shapes with their definitions
Bacilli
Rod, Most occur alone, Some occur in pairs or chains
Spirochete
Spherical (round), Forms chains, Forms clusters
Cocci
Spiral, Usually alone
Match the following cell shapes with their infections/diseases/symptoms etc.
Bacilli
Lyme disease, Syphilis
Spirochete
(Chains): Streptococci and Strep Throat. (Clusters) Staphylococci and Staph infection
Cocci
Escherichia coli (E. Coli), Causes food poisoning
Match the cell wall bacteria with their definitions
Lipids and carbs
Gram negative
Peptidoglycan
Gram positive
Many bacteria in cells walls have a capsule that allows them to stick to things or each other
True
False
Match the projections with their definitions
Flagella
Whip like structure that enables swimming
Fimbriae
Hair like projections (helps them stick to other things)
Match the following with their definitions (nutrition)
Photoheterotrophs
Capture energy from sunlight, Obtain carbon from organic sources (complex molecules), Purple non-sulfur bacteria (found in aquatic sediments)
Photoautotrophs
Capture energy from sunlight, Use CO2 for carbon, Cyanobacteria (blue green algae)
Chemoautotrophs
Capture energy from inorganic chemical, Obtain carbon from organic sources, Largest and most diverse group, Eats almost anything
Chemoheterotrophs
Capture energy from inorganic chemical, Use CO2 for carbon, Can live in extreme or regular environments
Match the four key groups of bacteria with their definitions
Cyanobacteria
Gram negative, photoautotroph
Proteobacteria
Gram negative, nutritionally diverse, pathogens, symbiosis
Gram-positive bacteria
Gram positive, nutritionally diverse, pathogens
Spirochetes
Gram negative, chemoheterotrophs, pathogens, spiral shaped
Archaea thrive in extreme environments. Select all of the following that is true about Archaea
Halophiles: salt loving
Thermophiles: heat loving
Methanogens: live in anaerobic (no oxygen) conditions and produce methane as waste

Match the following protists with their group by color
Yellow
Unikonta
Red
Archaeplastida
Green
Excavata
Blue
SAR
Protists have diverse nutrition. Match the following with their definitions
Mixotrophs
Both
Heterotrophs
Eat other things
Autotrophs
Photosynthesize
Match the SAR protists with their defintions
Alveolata
Dinoflagellates, ciliates
Stramenopiles
Forminiferans, radiolarians
Rhizarians
Diatoms, brown algae, water molds
Match the following protist super groups with their definitions
Unikonta
Amoebozoans (heterotrophic, slime molds, free-living and parasitic amoebas)
Excavata
Autotrophic, mostly multicellular, red algae, green algae (alternation of generations)
Archaeplastida
"Excavated" feeding groove, parasites, all nutrition (autotrophs, heterotrophs, mixotrophs)
The alternation of generations are multicellular haploid and diploid individuals
True
False
Match the following multicellular individuals with their definitions
Gametophyte
Produces spores
Sporophyte
Produces gametes
How do Fungi perform absorption?
Their roots eat away at plants and animals in small amounts once they've sunk into the ground
They secrete enzymes that digest plants and animals and then absorb the small nutrients
They produce a specific type of bacteria that eats the plants and animals for them, allow the original fungi to decay and new fungi to be born
They smell so bad that things just decompose around them. Like really bad.
Fill in the blanks in order: A fungus usually consists of a mass thread-like filaments called ______, which branch repeatedly as they grow, forming a ______
Hyphae; mycelium
Mycelium; hyphae
Fungi have asexual AND sexual lifecycles
True
False
Match the five groups of fungi with their definitions
Basidiomycetes (club fungi)
Characterized by mycorrhizae which invade plant cells
Glomeromycetes
Decomposers, plant pathogens, lichens
Zygomycetes
Characterized by basidium (mushrooms!), decomposers, parasites
Chytrids
Mostly terrestrial, mostly decomposers (bread mold), have zygosporangium
Ascomycetes (sac fungi)
Only fungi with flagellated spores, decomposers and parasites, causing amphibian mass extinction
Match the following with their definitions
Mycorrhizae
Helped plants colonize land, trade (plants get nutrients, fungus gets carbon)
Lichens
A symbiosis between an ascomycete and a cyanobacteria or green algae
Select the four key events that occurred in the history of the plant kingdom
Origin of land plants
Origin of vascular plants
Origin of sea plants
Origin of seed plants
Origin of vegetation plants
Origin of flowers
For plants that originated in water, what challenges were presented when living on land? Select all that apply
Drying out
Obtaining resources from two sources
Support (not falling over)
Reproduction and Dispersal
Select all of the following things that plants developed to keep them from drying out
Waxy cuticle
Roots
Stems
Stomata
What does a waxy cuticle do?
Keeps plants shiny
Keeps plants moist
Prevents gas exchange
Prevents predators from their scent
Select all of the following things that plants developed to obtain resources from two sources
Roots
Stems
Leaves
Vascular Tissue
Fill in the blank: To solve the issue with reproduction, all plants have alternation of ______
Transfigurations
Generations
Symbiosis
Photosynthesis
Match the follow dispersal methods for plants with their definitions on how they're dispersed
Angiosperms (flowering plants)
Wind, gravity, animals
Gymnosperms (cone bearing plants)
Water
Moss and ferns
Wind, ants, mammals, birds, water, gravity, etc.
What were the first plants? (moss, liverworts, hornworts)
Bryophytes
Pteridophytes
Tracheophytes
What are the characteristics of bryophytes? Select all that apply
Do not have true roots (have rhyzoids)
Has true roots
Do not have true leaves (phyllid)
Has leaves
Do not have lignin for structural support
Has lignin for structural support
Grows upright
Grow flat in dense mats
Must have water for fertilization
Non-vascular
Vascular
What are the characteristics of seedless vascular plants? Select all that apply
Do not have true roots (have rhyzoids)
Has true roots
Do not have true leaves (phyllid)
Has leaves
Do not have lignin for structural support
Has lignin for structural support
Grows upright
Grow flat in dense mats
Must have water for fertilization
Non-vascular
Vascular
Match the vascular tissues with their definitions (PAIR THEM BY NUMBER)
3 Xylem
3 Vessels are composed of dead tissues and are hollow
3 Pholem
2 Vessel walls consits of fused cells that create a continuous tube
2 Xylem
1 Transports water and minerals from the roots to aerial parts of the plant (unidirectional transport)
1 Pholem
2 Vessel walls consists of cells that are connected at their ends to form porous sieve plates
1 Xylem
1 Transports food and nutrients to storage organs and growing parts of the plant (bidirectional transport)
2 Pholem
3 Vessels are composed of living tissue, however sieve tube elements lack nuclei and have few organelles
Match the seed plant groups with their definitions
Angiosperms
Flowering plants (enclosed seeds)
Gymnosperms
Cone bearing plants (naked seeds)
Seed plants need water to reproduce
True
False
Select all the characteristics of confiers
Leaves in "needles"
Seeds in cones
Evergreen (mostly)
Have ovaries
All woody (secondary growth)
Have flowers
Select all the characteristics of angiosperms
Have flowers
Evergreen (mostly)
Have ovaries
Symbiosis with pollinators
Leaves in "needles"
Adaptations for dispersal
Match the following floral morphology with its purpose
Stamens
Often attract animal pollinators
Petals
The female reproductive structures (stigma, style, ovary)
Sepals
Male reproductive structures (anther: contains pollen)
Carpels
Enclose the flower before it opens
Match the dispersal method with its adaptation to move
Fruits
Mammals dispersal
Wings
Bird and mammal dispersal
Elaiosomes
Ant dispersal
Buoyancy
Water dispersal
Burs
Wind dispersal
Pollination syndromes are similarities among flowers that share the same pollinators. Match the animal with its pollination syndrome
Bees
White flowers, highly scented, bloom at night
Bats and months
Bright red and orange flowers, no scents
Birds
Marked with guides that lead to nectar
Match the word with its definition
Monocots
Two cotyledons in seed leaves, branched leaf veins, vascular bundles in rings, flowers in multiples of four or five, taproot
Eudicots
One cotyledon in seed leaves, parallel leaf veins, scattered vascular bundles, flowers in multiples of three, fibrous root system
Match the following words with its definitions (or characteristics)
Nodes
The leaf
Petiole
Organ that has the leaves and buds on it, can photosynthesize
Terminal Bud
Between stem and leaf, usually dormant
Ancillary Bud
Points at which leaves are attached
Blade
Increase surface area
Stems
Primary growing point for getting taller
Root hairs
Joins blade to the stem at a node
Plants are comprised of three systems. Match the following system and modified systems to its characteristics
Leaf
Spines (protects the plant from being eaten) and tendrils (modified leaves that help vines "climb")
Root
Stems (can photosynthesize and has nodes), buds (terminal and ancillary bud), and flower
Modified roots
Stolon, rhizome, tuber, succulence
Shoot
Anchors the plant to the soil, absorbs and transports minerals and water (facilitated by root hairs), taproots store carbohydrates
Modified leaf
Primary site for photosynthesis, consists of blade and petiole
Modified shoot
Large taproots that store food (carrots, turnips, sweet potatoes)
Growth is limited by lifespan, physics, and environmental conditions
True
False
Match the following with its definition
Meristems
Divided into two tissues (vascular cambium and cork cambium)
Apical Meristems
Meristems at the tips of roots, in the terminal bud
Lateral Meristems
Growing out (thickens), meristems, lateral meristems
Primary growth
Unspecialized tissues that divide with conditions are right
Secondary growth
Growing up (lengthens), meristems, apical meristems
Match the following with its plant reproduction definition
Sexual
Fragmentation, rhizomes, stolons, used in agriculture
Asexual (cloning)
Flowers, pollen, etc.
Transpiration is...
The process of condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull and flourishes wildlife plants
The process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers
There are three ways plants can do photosynthesis. Match the following with its definisions
C4
Converts CO2 to a 4C compound and then sequestered to a deeper tissue layer where less oxygen is present
CAM
Take CO2 directly from the air
C3
Take in CO2 at night, stores it and does photosynthesis during the day
Match the following with its definitions
Carnivorous plants
An adaptation to low nutrient conditions, kill insects and animals and digest them, often found in areas with low nitrogen
Parasitic plants
Grows on other plants, no a symbiosis, the host plant provides support (elevation toward more sunlight)
Epiphytes
Grown on (or near) other plants and steal nutrients, hemiparasites, holoparasites, modified roots (haustorium) attached to host plant and takes water/nutrients
Select the following that are characteristics of animals
Cells have cell walls
Eukaryotes
Multicellular heterotrophs
Use ingestion

Match the following words with its place on the chart (by color; ignore things in black)
Yellow
Radial symmetry
Blue
Bilateral symmetry
Red
Tissues
Green
No tissues

Match the following words with its place on the chart (by color; ignore things in black)
Purple
Arthropods
Gray
Sponges
Yellow
Nematodes
Red
Echinoderms
Brown
Cnidarians
Orange
Chordates
Blue
Flatworms
Pink
Annelids
Green
Molluscs
Match the following characteristics of sponges with its definitions
Amoebocytes
Use flagellum to move water and trap food
Suspension feeders
Produce skeletal fibers (yellow) and digest food
Choanocytes
Collect food particles by passing water through a "trap"
Sessile
Do not move
Match the following with its definitions
Bilateral symmetry
Mirror image right and left sides
Tissue
Integrated group of cells with a common function or structure
Radial symmetry
Body parts radiate from center
Match the following with its characteristics
Arthropods
Radial symmetry, two true tissue layers, gastrovascular cavity, polyp and medusa body forms
Echinoderms
Have bilateral symmetry, three tissue layers, a body cavity, digestive tract with two openings, pseudococelom
Flatworms
Have bilateral symmetry, three tissue layers, a body cavity, open circulatory system
Annelids
Have bilateral symmetry, three tissue layers, no body cavity
Cnidarians
Have bilateral symmetry, three tissue layers, a body cavity, exoskeleton, open circulatory system
Nematodes
No tissues, no nerves, no muscles, lack symmetry
Molluscs
Bilateral symmetry as larvae but radial as adults, three tissue layers, a body cavity, endoskeleton
Sponges
Have bilateral symmetry, three tissue layers, a body cavity, segmentation, closed circulatory system, cocelom
Match the following with an animal from its category
Molluscs
Snails, Slugs, Oysters, Clams
Annelids
Crayfish, Lobsters, Crabs
Sponges
Planarians, Flukes, Tapeworms
Arthropods
Hydra, Sea jelly
Echinoderms
Segmented worms
Nematodes
Sea urchins, Sea stars
Flatworms
...Sponges
Cnidarians
Roundworms
Match the following characteristics of Chordates with its definition
Post-anal tail
Cartilage rod; becomes disk in backbone
Dorsal, hollow nerve cord
Used for filter feeding; becomes gills in fish
Notochord
Becomes the central nervous system
Phalangeal Slits
A tail
Match the following animal adaptations to living on land with its defintion
Lungs
Babies out of water
Lobed fins
Protection for spinal cord, attachment for muscles
Milk
Catch and eat food
Vertebral column
Nourishment for babies
Amniotic egg
Walking
Four limbs
Breathing air
Jaws
Moving on land

Match the following words with its place on the chart (by color; ignore things in black)
Blue
Lobed finned fish
Yellow
Vertebral column
Purple
Legs
Orange
Amniotic Egg
Red
Jaws
Green
Lungs or lung derivatives
Pink
Milk

Match the following words with its place on the chart (by color; ignore things in black)
Yellow
Mammals
Magenta (the last color since I ran out of colors)
Tunicates
Orange
Sharks, Rays
Green
Hagfishes
Gray
Lobe-fins
Red
Lampreys
Brown
Reptiles
Purple
Lancelets
Pink
Ray-finned fish
Blue
Amphibians
Match the following with its characterists
Sharks and Rays
Amniotes (amniotic egg), ectothermic (except birds, which are endothermic)
Lobed-fin fish
Lay eggs in water, first tetrapod to colonize lands
Reptiles
Endothermic amniotes, hair, produce milk
Amphibians
Cartilaginous fish, filter feeders
Hagfishes and Lampreys
Rudimentary vertebrae, notochord, NO hinged jaws nor paired fins
Jawed vertebrates with gills and paired fins
Bony, operculum, swim bladder, lobed fins
Mammals
Bony, operculum, swim bladder
Ray-finned fish
Fins and Jaws (sharks, rays, ray-finned fish, lobe-finned fish)
Match the following with its definition
Eutherian (placental mammals)
Have a brief gestation and give birth typically tiny, embryonic offspring that complete development in a pouch
Monotremes
Nutrients from the mother's blood diffuse into the embryo's blood
Marsupials
Egg-laying mammals
Placenta
Bear fully developed live young
Match the following with its definition
Stomach
Breakdown (with rocks and sand) and store food
Gizzard
Breakdown (with chemicals) and store food
Crop
Absorb nutrients
Alimentary Canal
A digestive tube with two openings
Intestines
Where food is softened and stored (animals without teeth)
Match the digestive system with the type of animal
Omnivores
No cecum, intermediate length
Herbivores
Long digestive tract (more time for plants), cecum (home to microbes that break down plants)
Carnivores
Expandable stomach, short digestive tract
Match the four main approaches to gas exchange with its characteristcs
Gills
Absorb O2 dissolved in water
Skin
Must live in damp places, small animals
Lungs
Internal sacs lines with a moist epithelium, gas carried to cells via circulatory system
Tracheal System
Has respiratory surfaces at the tips of tiny branching tubes in body, transports O2 direct to body cells and moves CO2 away from them
Match the following with its definition on the subject of thermoregulation
Endothermic
Using heat generated by metabolism to maintain a warm, steady body temperature
Thermoregulation
How animals maintain a internal temperature despite variation in external temperature
Ecothermic
Absorbing external heat rather than generating much of their own
Match the following with its definition on the subject of specialized sensory receptors
Pain receptors
Detect heat or cold
Chemoreceptors
Special nerve cells that are tuned to the conditions of the environment
Electromagnetic
Respond to chemicals
Merchanoreceptors
Sensed dangerous stimuli (harmful pressure, temperatures, or chemicals)
Sensory receptors
Receptors respond to electricity, magnetism or light
Thermoreceptors
Respond to mechanical energy, such as touch
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