BIOLOGY 101 FINAL EXAM | COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH EXPERT SOLUTIONS|
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1. This is a sign from the Santa Barbara Museum. It is telling you about some new mammoth fossils at the
museum. Reading the sign, you could tell a friend that the binomial classification of this type of wooly mammoth is
______________
Knowing what you do about biology, you could also say that these animals were ___________(autotrophs or
heterotrophs?) because they ate plant material: mammuthus meridionalis, heterotrophs
2. Thinking about the requirements for a population to evolve, which of the following populations would NOT be
going through rapid evolution?
A. A bacteria treated with partial rounds of antibiotics that killed many, but not all of the bacteria.
B. A forest of aspens, all clones, that are sprouting from the same under-ground root system.
C. A population of diverse finches having with limited, but varied food
sources.
D. A population of fish that have been abruptly separated into different waters by a landslide.: B
3. Are viruses alive or not alive? Explain your answer using two or more char-
acteristics of life that you learned.: Viruses are not alive because they cannot reproduce on their own and they cannot
produce their own energy they just use ours.
4. Put the following levels of organization for biology into the correct order.
Organisms, Organelles, Biosphere, Organs and organ systems, Cells, Ecosystems, Tissues: 1. Organelles
2. cells
3. Tissues
4. Organ and organ systems
,5. Organisms
6. Ecosystems
7. Biosphere
5. Explain why water has one side that is slightly positive and another side that is slightly negatively charged. Use
the words: hydrogens, oxygen, and electronegativity in your answer.: Oxygen has a high electronegativity making it
have a slightly negative side on the top have of the water molecule. Oxygen attracts electrons more heavily than
hydrogen. Hydrogen has a slightly positive side on the bottom of the water molecule because it has a smaller
electronegativity.
6. It would take more energy to heat a swimming pool full of water compared to a swimming pool filled with oil
True
False: True
7. Using the periodic table, you can see that oxygen (O), Sulfur (S), Selenium (Se), and Tellurium (Te) all have the
same number of __________
Use one of the follow choices to answer the question: Electrons, Protons, Neutrons, or Valence electrons: Valence
electrons
8. Which pair of elements will have NON-POLAR covalent bonds?
A. C-N
B. C-H
C. C-O
D. O-N: B
9. Lemon juice has a low pH. That means lemon juice has _____________ H+ compared to water.
, A. less
B. the same amount of
C. more: C
10. 1.
Filled with acid to breakdown and recycle large molecules 2.
The microtubule organizing center of the cell 3.
Short hairs, extensions of the cell membrane, that move materials along the cell
4.
Responsible for building proteins. Found in the cytoplasm and attached to the rough ER.
5.
Large bag in a plant cell filled with water to keep the cell strong and stiff 6.
Contains chlorophyll in some protists 7.
Where sugars are broken down and the energy used to make ATP 8.
Contains chromatin: 1. Lysosomes
2.centrosomes
3. cilia
4. Ribosomes
5. Vacuole
6. Chloroplasts
7. Mitochondria
8. Nucleus
11. What three organelles have double membranes?: Nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts
2026 LATEST UPDATED| A+
1. This is a sign from the Santa Barbara Museum. It is telling you about some new mammoth fossils at the
museum. Reading the sign, you could tell a friend that the binomial classification of this type of wooly mammoth is
______________
Knowing what you do about biology, you could also say that these animals were ___________(autotrophs or
heterotrophs?) because they ate plant material: mammuthus meridionalis, heterotrophs
2. Thinking about the requirements for a population to evolve, which of the following populations would NOT be
going through rapid evolution?
A. A bacteria treated with partial rounds of antibiotics that killed many, but not all of the bacteria.
B. A forest of aspens, all clones, that are sprouting from the same under-ground root system.
C. A population of diverse finches having with limited, but varied food
sources.
D. A population of fish that have been abruptly separated into different waters by a landslide.: B
3. Are viruses alive or not alive? Explain your answer using two or more char-
acteristics of life that you learned.: Viruses are not alive because they cannot reproduce on their own and they cannot
produce their own energy they just use ours.
4. Put the following levels of organization for biology into the correct order.
Organisms, Organelles, Biosphere, Organs and organ systems, Cells, Ecosystems, Tissues: 1. Organelles
2. cells
3. Tissues
4. Organ and organ systems
,5. Organisms
6. Ecosystems
7. Biosphere
5. Explain why water has one side that is slightly positive and another side that is slightly negatively charged. Use
the words: hydrogens, oxygen, and electronegativity in your answer.: Oxygen has a high electronegativity making it
have a slightly negative side on the top have of the water molecule. Oxygen attracts electrons more heavily than
hydrogen. Hydrogen has a slightly positive side on the bottom of the water molecule because it has a smaller
electronegativity.
6. It would take more energy to heat a swimming pool full of water compared to a swimming pool filled with oil
True
False: True
7. Using the periodic table, you can see that oxygen (O), Sulfur (S), Selenium (Se), and Tellurium (Te) all have the
same number of __________
Use one of the follow choices to answer the question: Electrons, Protons, Neutrons, or Valence electrons: Valence
electrons
8. Which pair of elements will have NON-POLAR covalent bonds?
A. C-N
B. C-H
C. C-O
D. O-N: B
9. Lemon juice has a low pH. That means lemon juice has _____________ H+ compared to water.
, A. less
B. the same amount of
C. more: C
10. 1.
Filled with acid to breakdown and recycle large molecules 2.
The microtubule organizing center of the cell 3.
Short hairs, extensions of the cell membrane, that move materials along the cell
4.
Responsible for building proteins. Found in the cytoplasm and attached to the rough ER.
5.
Large bag in a plant cell filled with water to keep the cell strong and stiff 6.
Contains chlorophyll in some protists 7.
Where sugars are broken down and the energy used to make ATP 8.
Contains chromatin: 1. Lysosomes
2.centrosomes
3. cilia
4. Ribosomes
5. Vacuole
6. Chloroplasts
7. Mitochondria
8. Nucleus
11. What three organelles have double membranes?: Nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts
