Question 1
Identify the taxonomic group that is most exclusive (i.e., most restrictive category).
Question 2 (4 points)
Distinguish between microevolution and macroevolution with respect to how the outcomes of these processes differ.
Question 3 (4 points)
What is the term that refers to the origins and evolution of a group of organisms?
Question 4 (4 points)
How does the root of a phylogeny differ from the tips of the branches with respect to what they represent?
Question 5 (4 points)
Distinguish between the function of the fine adjustment and the course adjustment knobs of the microscope.
Question 6 (4 points)
If your ocular has a magnification of 10x, and your objectives are 4x and 40x, identify the total magnification for each.
Question 7 (4 points)
The following objective lenses are on your microscope: 4x, 10x, and 40x. Identify which objectives can be used with the course adjustment knob, and which can be used with the fine adjustment knob.
Question 8 (4 points)
What is a wet-mount slide, and under what conditions might you select to make one?
Question 9 (4 points)
What doe PCR stand for, and what purpose does it serve in the lab?
Question 10 (4 points)
Distinguish between the pellet and the supernatant. In which of the two would you expect to find the DNA?
Question 11 (4 points)
What is the purpose of gel electrophoresis?
Question 12 (4 points)
Why are proteolytic enzymes necessary in the DNA extraction process?
Question 13 (4 points)
Identify and discuss two modes of locomotion that protists are capable of performing.
Question 14 (4 points)
Distinguish between the terms heterotroph and mixotroph.
Question 15 (4 points)
What are two ways that protists can be distinguished from bacteria?
Question 16 (4 points)
What do ferns produced instead of seeds? What is the gametophyte stage of a fern called?
Question 17 (4 points)
Angiosperms are what type of plants? Where are their seeds found?
Question 18 (4 points)
What process must angiosperms go through before they can reproduce?
Question 19 (4 points)
What is the first generation produced in mosses called? What is the second generation called?
Question 20 (4 points)
What adaptation allowed plants to make the move to life on land? What major animal group contributed to gymnosperms being the first widely distributed plant group?
Question 21 (4 points)
Distinguish between hyphae and mycelium. What purpose do they serve?
Question 22 (4 points)
What are two roles that fungi participate in as far as the ecosystem is concerned?
Question 23 (4 points)
What structure is produced that allows a new fungus to grow? What is one thing a zygosporangium able to resist?
Question 24 (4 points)
What is a lichen, and what is being exchanged in this type of relationship?
Question 25 (4 points)
Ascocarps and basidocarps are similar due to their purpose. What is their purpose and what do they produce?