Biology 111 TAMU Rao Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Biology 111 TAMU Rao Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass 7 characteristics of life - Answer- Order, Evolutionary adaptation, responses to environment, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, reproduction 3 domains of life - Answer- Domain Bacteria- bacteria prokaryotes Domain Archaea- prokaryotes living in extreme climates like boiling hot springs Domain Eukarya- animals and fungi and plants and protists Reductionist - Answer- Approaches to biology that break everything down into the simplest possible components to study Systems Biology - Answer- Approach tries to tie small parts back together into a whole What does evolution need to work? - Answer- Variation in the population A way for the variation to take effect Differential effect of the environment on the variation- which means that the trait has to be selected for to be evolution, it can't just happen by chance. Hypothesis def. - Answer- A tentative answer to a well framed question; testable, falsifiable, verifiable. Scientific theory - Answer- Broad in scope, supported by lots of evidence from different accumulation of hypotheses, leads to knew hypotheses, can be modified or rejected 4 most common elements in the human body - Answer- Oxygen Carbon Hydrogen Nitrogen Van Der Waals interactions? - Answer- Weak, temporary interactions between opposite charges of two atoms. How a lizard climbs up a wall Cohesion - Answer- water sticking to itself Adhesion - Answer- water sticking to other things Example of Cohesion - Answer- Example of adhesion - Answer- water attaching to a silk spider web 5 examples of waters properties - Answer- Cohesion and adhesion Water Tension High Specific Heat Capacity High Heat of Vaporization Universal Coolant Why is water an awesome solvent? - Answer- Its polarity, yo. How many bonds can Carbon make? - Answer- up to 4 Methane - Answer- CH4 Ethane - Answer- C2H6 Ethene - Answer- C2H4 3 types of isomer - Answer- Structural Cis-trans Enantomer structural isomer - Answer- differ in covalent partners. Same number of elements, but a different arrangment Geometric Isomer - Answer- differ in arrangement around a double bond. Enantomers - Answer- Molecules that are mirror images of each other based around a central carbon Functional group names - Answer- Hydroxyl Carbonyl Carboxyl Amino Sulfhydryl Phosphate Hydroxyl - Answer- (-OH) name: alcohols is polar attracts water molecules. Carbonyl - Answer- (CO) Name: Ketones if within molecule, Aldehydes if o