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Review Session
Bio-Jeopardy
Rules
Questions will alternate
between the left and right
side of the room
If a side cannot answer a question
correctly when it is that sides turn, the
opposing side gets a chance to
answer
Rules
If it is your sides turn and
you know the answer, raise
your answer to be called on
If neither side can answer the
question correctly, the professor
scores a point <cue evil laugh>
Question 1
What is the biological
definition of evolution?
A change in the allele frequency of
a population over time.
Question 2
What is a population?
Question 3
What is a species?
Question 4
What is an allele?
Question 5
Darwin graduated from
Cambridge with a degree in
what field?
Divinity (aka Religion)
Question 6
Darwin in famous because he
A) discovered how heredity works
B) was the first to put forth the idea that
organisms change over time
C) came up with the idea of Natural
Selection
D) All of the above are true
E) None of the above is true
Question 7
Blood in the right side of the
heart is
A) High in O2 and low in CO2
B) High in both O2 and CO2
C) Low in both O2 and CO2
D) Low in O2 and high in CO2
E) None of the above is true
Question 8
What is Natural Selection?
When the environment affects
which genes get passed on with
more frequency than others
Question 9
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck is
famous for what?
He published a book in 1809 in
which he put forth the idea that
organisms change over time
Question 10
What is the reason that genetic
variation exists in a population?
Mutations
Question 11
What is evolution due to gene
flow?
When a group of individuals either
enters or leaves a population
causing a change in the allele
frequency of it
Question 12
When evolution occurs due to
random chance, what is it
called?
Genetic drift
Question 13
What types of populations are
more likely to be significantly
affected by genetic drift?
Smaller populations with fewer
individuals
Question 14
Why would it be incorrect to say that
evolution is moving organisms to a
more perfect being?
Evolution is any change (good or
bad), and there is no universal
perfect trait (it depends on the
environment
Question 15
Why would it be incorrect to say that
evolution is moving organisms to a
more perfect being?
Evolution is any change (good or
bad), and there is no universal
perfect trait (it depends on the
environment
Question 16
Females of a species of bird are
most attracted to brightly colored
males (even though the bright colors
make it harder to survive) causing
more brightly-colored babies to be
born This is an example of what?
Sexual selection
Question 17
Besides facilitating gas exchange
between the blood and outside air,
what is another function of the
respiratory system?
Helping to maintain pH (acidity)
Vocal communication
Question 18
Besides the lungs, what is another
component of the respiratory
system?
Airways
Rib cage and muscles of respiration
Question 19
The surface area of the human
lungs is about equivalent to the
surface area of what?
A tennis court
Question 20
The lungs are composed of millions
of tiny air pockets called what?
Alveoli
Question 21
The air we breathe is composed
mostly of just two elements. What
are they and in what percentages
are they found?
Nitrogen (79%)
Oxygen (21%)
Question 22
In order to inhale, the diaphragm
contracts. How does this
contraction cause air to come into
the lungs?
It causes the volume of the chest
cavity to increase which decreases
the pressure, sucking in air
Question 23
What are the two systems which
animals use to have cells from
different parts of the body to
communicate with each other?
Nervous System
Endocrine System
Question 24
What is the part of a neuron which
receives the input for the cell?
The dendrites
Question 25
Our bodies contain sensory, motor,
and interneurons. Of these three
types, which is the most numerous?
Interneurons
Question 26
What are the names of the chemical
signals released from the nervous
and endocrine systems?
Neurotransmitters
Hormones
Question 27
What is the name of the class of
hormones which is made from
cholesterol?
Steroid hormones
Question 28
What are the three components of
the cardiovascular system?
Heart
Blood vessels
Blood
Question 29
What is the purpose of the
cardiovascular system?
Question 30
Besides oxygen and carbon dioxide,
what are three other things
transported by the cardiovascular
system?
Wastes, nutrients, hormones,
heat
Question 31
Blood only moves around the
circulatory system in one direction.
What structures are responsible for
this and where are they located?
One-way valves in the heart
and veins
Question 32
What is the specific name of the
circulatory system which delivers
blood from the heart to the lungs,
and then back to the heart again?
Pulmonary circulation
Question 33
After blood returns to the heart from
the systemic circulation, what heart
chamber does it first enter?
Right atrium
Question 34
What is the name of the blood
vessels which supply the heart
tissue with oxygen and nutrients?
Question 35
These blood vessels do not have
diffusion occur across them and do
not return blood to the heart. What
are they?
Arteries
Question 36
What is plasma and what
percentage of the blood does it
constitute?
Question 37
What is one aspect of mature red
blood cells that is different than most
other cells of the body?
Either: no nucleus, no
mitochondria, or
biconcave shape
Question 38
What is one problem that multicellular organisms have to face that
isnt much of a problem for singlecelled organisms?
Surface area-to-volume ratio too small
Transportation within the organism
Coordination of all of the cells
Question 39
In Natural Selection, the fittest
describes individuals who
A) are able to survive the best
B) live the longest
C) have the most grandchildren
D) are the healthiest
E) are the biggest, strongest, and fastest
Question 40
If the predominant
blood type in the
U.S. changed from
A+ to O- over a 60
year period but
nobody knew why,
which of the
following could be
said for sure?
A) Natural Selection
occurred
B) Evolution occurred
C) The change was
caused by a mutation
D) The change was
caused by gene flow
E) None of the above
Question 41
What is the carrying capacity of a
population?
Question 42
What is the definition of an
ecosystem?
Question 43
What is definition of total fertility
rate?
Question 44
What is the relationship between
two species if one benefits and the
other is neither benefited or
harmed?
Commensalism