BIOS 242 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS BRAND NEW VERSION

BIOS 242 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS BRAND NEW VERSION Which virus produces pink eye? - ANSWER Adenoviridae Which virus produces condylomatta acuminada? - ANSWER Pappilomavirus Which virus produces aerothemia infectiousum? - ANSWER Parvoviridae The process by which viruses transfer genes from one prokaryotic cell to another - ANSWER transduction You aboard starship beagle, and travel to mars, find an organism that uses carbon dioxide for carbon source and light energy for energy need. You have discovered a new species of - ANSWER photoautotroph An organism that is poisoned by oxygen would be called - ANSWER an obligate anaerobe Many soil bacteria, the pathogenic anthrax bacillus, and the smallest bacteria know are the bacteria group - ANSWER Gram positive bacteria Malaria is spread from person to person by - ANSWER mosquitoes the contractile vacuoles of a projections are found in the protistan group - ANSWER ciliate which life cycle do all plants share - ANSWER sporic which terrestrial plant group appeared first in the fossil record - ANSWER mosses for plants which of the following provides support against gravity - ANSWER tracheid and fiber which characteristic is/are shared by algae and seed plants - ANSWER chlorophyll a heterosporous plant is - ANSWER produces microspores and megaspores, which in turn produce male and femal gametophytes for all bryophytes one of the following characteristic are incorrect - ANSWER an egg that is shed into water along with sperm the mosses are in the division - ANSWER bryophyta A botanist discover a new species of plant in a tropical rainforest. After examining its anatomy its and life cycle, she notes that the plant has flagellated sperm, xylem with trachids, separate gametophyte and sporophyte phases and no seeds. the plant is a member of which plant taxon. - ANSWER ferns a plant with a dominant sporophyte generations, possesses vessel elements, and has non-motile sperm would be in which taxon. - ANSWER Angiosperms The multicellular diploid stage in the plant life cycle is the - ANSWER sporophyte For the land plants, in the alternation of generation - ANSWER meiosis in sporangia found on sporophytes produces haploid spores One adaption that allowed the bryophytes to colonize land was the - ANSWER nourishing of embryos by the maternal tissues of the parent plant Two different paramecium can exchange genetic material by a process - ANSWER conjugation A protistan cell-divides into two daughter cells by the process - ANSWER binary fisson which of the following is true concerning that difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes - ANSWER mitosis occurs only in eukaryotes a complete flower is correctly described as a flower that - ANSWER has petals, sepals, stamens, and carpels The process by which dandelions and other seeds plants produce seed asexually, without their flowers being fertilized - ANSWER apomixis the radicle of a plant embryo gives rise to which structure - ANSWER root which of the following is not found in angiosperm - ANSWER flagellated sperm What is a fruit - ANSWER a mature ovary ferns differ from gymnosperm is that fern - ANSWER have sori a plant with needle-like leaves, a dominant sporophyte generation and naked seeds would be in which taxon - ANSWER gymnosperm the stage in the generalized plant life cytle that immediately follows meiosis - ANSWER spore a pollen grain becomes mature male gametophyte when the ____ divides by mitosis to form two sperms cells - ANSWER generative cell which of the following is the correct order of the taxonomic categories, going from most inclusive (kingdom) to least inclusive (species) - ANSWER kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-speices if we compare birds the other animals in the vertebrate clade, that fact that birds and all other vertabrates have four appendages mean that - ANSWER for appendages is a shared primitive character one group of frogs living today have re-evolved teeth in their jaw, similar to the teeth observed in the fossils of ancestral frog species - ANSWER homoplasy Rod-shaped bacteria would be called - ANSWER bacilli A resting stage in bacteria that can resist harsh environmental conditions is called - ANSWER endospore Plant spores give rise directly to - ANSWER gametophytes The ancestors of land plants were probably similar to modern-day members - ANSWER green algae All but one of the following statements describe trends in plant evolution which statement is false - ANSWER sperm w/out flagella---flagellate sperm plant gametophytes produce ____ by ____ - ANSWER gametes; mitosis two related plant families would be grouped into the next higher taxon - ANSWER an order The taxon called "Class Reptilia' is thought to have one common ancestor. However, the birds, which are thought to have evolved from the same common ancestor, are not included. This fact suggests that the taxon 'Class reptilia' should be considered - ANSWER paraphyletic The cuticle of a plant is primarily for - ANSWER retention of water inside the leaf if two species are in the same class then they must have to be in the same - ANSWER phylum A birds wings and a bats wings, as wings, have the same function, but the development of the airfoil of the wing is different. As wings, the bird wings and bat wing are ____ structure - ANSWER analogous multicellular eukaryotes are found in the kingdom - ANSWER actually multicellular eukaryotes are in all 4 of the kingdoms Organisms that use light energy as their energy source and CO2 as a carbon source - ANSWER photoautotrophs An organism that will use oxygen for aerobic respiration if oxygen is present in it environment but can also grow by using fermentation - ANSWER facultative anaerobic a helical shaped bacteria, including a species that cause syphilis - ANSWER spirochetes the process called ______ refers to the transformation of one entire species over time into another thought time - ANSWER anagenesis You aboard starship, you discover a protist organism that feeds on food in a liquid for. You find a alien protist that uses the _____ mode of nutrition - ANSWER saprozoic Hairy flagella that have hairlife projection are found in the protistan group - ANSWER stramenopila The large marine kelps are in the protistan group - ANSWER phaeophyta which life cycle do all animals share - ANSWER gametic