Bio Exam

Which of the following is a characteristic of mosses?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of plants

In the alternation of generation life cycle, the gamete producing generation is the ____, and the spore producing generation is the _____

The ancestor of plants is thought to be a _____ alga.

Gymnospermae means...

The moss capsule is full of spores, which grow into...

Which of the following is a characteristic of mosses

The first daytime hunters on the land were the...

The old fern forest existed ____ million years ago

Flight was first achieved by the...

The first plants to free themselves from the necessity of water for reproduction were the...

The first kind of plants that kept the sex-cell producing stage fixed to the sporophytic tree stage were the...

The tallest and oldest living organism on earth is a ____ tree

The most effective predators on insect populations are...

Which of the following is/are functions of plant vascular tissue

What is it about ferns that keep them in a moist environment

One would expect to find male cones near the ____ of a tree

What does one always find in a seed

The big advantage flowering plants have over coniferous plants is...

The function of the fruit is to...

The food inside the seed is actually the...

The big advantage of conifers over ferns was...

The biggest animal organism that has ever lived is/was a...

During the carboniferous period, which of the following was a huge component that eventually formed our coal deposits

The visible portion of a fungal body is the structure also referred to as the...

Which of the following invertebrates is a deuterostomate whose larvae are thought to have given rise to the vertebrates

Animals first appeared between ___ and ____ years ago

Which of the following is the old chordate, that is eel-like and a filter feeder

When the mouth develops after the anus we call these animals

Which group is characterized by having a shell covering their bodies, a muscular foot and a radula for eating

There is approximately 900,000 species of...

The first problem to overcome in adapting to a terrestrial habitat from an aquatic habitat were/was

possessing a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, gill slits, and a tail extending beyond the anus is a good description of...

Birds are now considered a type of...

The closest invertebrate relative of the chordates are the...

Can any of the mammals lay eggs

Which of the following mammals lay eggs

The evolution of fins was parallel with the evolution of...

Mankinds closest living relative

Which of the following ancestors was the first to walk completely upright and bipedal

Mitochondria DNA is given to you by your

In which of the following areas did mankind first arise

The most probable time the human line broke away from the ape line was ___ years ago

The first human to migrate throughout the old world was...

Correct order of humans from oldest to youngest

The force of an organism as it moves through its environment is called...

The thickness of the medium in which the organism lives is called...

Which force dominates the lives of the small organisms

The force of attraction between an organism and the planet is called...

Which force is not very important in the realm of small organisms

Which statement best describes the flying behavior of a small insect

Which organism has the longest gliding distances compared to their body size

If you scaled up a mouse until it was the size of an elephant, which would be increasing faster

If you enlarged a small sparrow-like bird to a bigger and bigger size, which would increase faster

Birds and mammals survived the dinosaur extinction. This suggests that birds and mammals of that time were ____ those groups are today

Which group would evolve the fastest

Large organisms are dominated by...

A small organism can walk on the ceiling because of...

Advantage of being a large organism

Disadvantage of a small organism

A habitat is an organisms

A niche is an organisms

If two species have the same niche and habitat, then we expect them to...

Groups of interbreeding individuals

Two primary climatic factors that determine the make-up of a plant community are

Australopithecus differs most noticeably from an ape in its...

How many people are alive today

In cities near the coast, most of the heat of the summer sun is adsorbed by the ___, rather than causing high temperatures on land. conversely, during the cold winter months ___ from the ocean waters can reduce the coldness of the air

What group returns the chemicals back to the atmosphere and the soil or water

Primary succession

The united nations thinks the world's carrying capacity is between ____ and ___

Which holds more moisture

Which of these probably used its feathers for courtship displays

As an example of exponential growth, if you started with a population of 500 elk and they grew exponentially, there would be ____ individuals in 80 years

Which countries have both low mortality rates and birth rates

The age pyramid of mexico is a/an

Which holds more moisture

Humans are probably least adapted to the ____ life style

Which of the following hormones signals the onset of puberty

Which of the following mammals lays eggs

With which of the following ancestors do we find the first evidence of tool use?

The evolution of fins was parallel with the evolution of...

Rebecca Cann of Berkeley supports an early date for the origin of modern humans. Where and how many years ago did this take place

The hormone that seeks out and soaks the brain cells giving both males and females sex-drive is...

From where do boys derive their estrogen

Non vascular seedless plants

Fruiting plants

Seedless vascular plants

Cone-bearing seed plants

Aquatic plants

All plants produce spores

The flowering plants are called gymnosperm

Male and female cones are usually found on separate trees

Based on population growth curves, the human does not have to worry about overpopulation

Our ocean only covers about 1/3 of our planet surface

There are no known spiders that are terribly venomous to humans

Insects have not evolved much over the last 200 million years

Pines are exclusively pollinated by insects

A bipedal organism would be knock-kneed

Insects have aerodynamically shaped wings somewhat similar to the wings of airplanes

In the evolution of humans, the brain increased in size prior to the body becoming erect and bipedal

There were more than one species of humans existing simultaneously in the past

Eliel Saarinen has taught us to "always look for the next largest thing, and the next smaller."

There are about five different dimensional realms in the universe

There have been at least four species of Australpithecus existing in the past

The disadvantage of the lowering of the voice box is the ease with which the human can choke

Mitochondria are only inherited though ones mother

The general rule of understanding dimensional realms is to consider that all physical forces operate equally within them

Testosterone makes your oil glands enlarge which then get infected with bacteria, which creates "white heads"

Your teacher has emphasized the 'out of africa' theory for the origin of modern humans

Out of africa origin of modern humans

Multiregional origin of modern humans

Oldest mitochondrial dna possessed by the kun tribe of the kalahari desert in africa

Oldest mitochondrial dna possessed by asians

Through antibody-antigen reaction showed that human common ancestor with chimpanzee is much sooner than 20 million years. Also proved the constancy of the mutational clock