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BIOLOGY MAJOR FIELD TEST QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

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Principles of Competitive Exclusion: When 2 species compete for the same limiting
resources, one will go extinct unless one of these three things happen:


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1) Environmental heterogeneity: enables competitive displacement


2) Metapopulations structures: prevent a species from going extinct
everywhere at the same time


3) Disturbance (abiotic and biotic) prevents the better adapted species
from completely excluding the other




Bacteria Plasmid


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, Small, double stranded piece of DNA that exists and replicated
independently of the bacterial chromosome; usually circular




Binary Fission


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Reproductive strategy of most haploid bacteria/archaeal cells to create
identical cells


1) cell elongates
2) replicates their chromosome
3)divides down middle with one chromosome in each new half




Which of the following members of the class Arachnida are primarily parasitic:
a) spiders
b) scorpions
c) ticks and mites
d) trilobites


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c) ticks and mites




Derived character states that related taxa share/ shared ancestral traits


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, Homologous




Why is the amniotic egg considered an important evolutionary breakthrough?


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It allows deposition of eggs in a terrestrial environment




Costal upwelling is when ______ from dead organisms accumulate in deep water and
then resurface to produce highly productive areas


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Nutrients




Smooth ER in Eukaryotes


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Lacks ribosomes on its surface




Most of the world's major deserts occur in two latitudinal bands that are centered at
30 degrees N and 30 degrees S latitude. This pattern is best explained by:


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, Major patterns of atmospheric circulation above and below the equator
due to equatorial heating and circulation cells




Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of echinoderms?
a) water vascular system
b) pentaradial symmetry
c) bilaterally symmetrical larvae
d) cephalization in the adult


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d) cephalization in the adult




The lysogenic cycle occurs when the virus enters into the host genome; in the _______
cycle occurs when the virus kills the host cell


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Lytic




_____-selected species have high reproductive rate, small body size, occupancy of
unstable environments, and minimal parental care; _____-selected species have large
body size, long life expectancy and the production of fewer offspring


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r;k

examples of r species include insects, grasses, etc

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