Applications of Bio
Evolution & Classification
Bacteria & Viruses/Protists
Fungi & Plants
Animals, Mammals, & Skel., Musc., & Int. Systems
100

The analysis of biological traits to identify people

A. What is biomimetics?

B. What is decoding?

C. What is cloning?

D. What is biometrics?

D. What is biometrics?

100

Change over time

What is evolution?

100

The procedure used to identify a pathogen that causes a disease

A. What is method of contagion?

B. What is Koch's postulates?

C. What is steps of transmission?

D. What is Fleming's postulates?

B. What is Koch's postulates?

100

Fungi that do not have an observed sexual stage

What are imperfect fungi?

100

Two distinctive features of all primates

A. What are grasping hands and feet?

B. What are binocular vision and a large skull?

C. What are large eye sockets and binocular vision?

D. What are binocular vision and grasping hands?

D. What are binocular vision and grasping hands?

200

The application of a biological structure or process to solve design problems

A. What is statistics?

B. What is arithmetics?

C. What is biomimetics?

D. What is adaptation?

C. What is biomimetics?

200

The man given the most credit for modern evolutionary thought

Who is Charles Darwin?

200

A misshapen version of a protein in the brain

A. What is a prion?

B. What is a viroid?

C. What is a temperate virus?

D. What is a provirus?

What is a prion?

200

Fungi that infect skin and nails

A. What is yeast?

B. What are molds?

C. What are dermatophytes?

D. What are decomposers?

C. What are dermatophytes?

200

Supportive rod along their backs that all chordates have at some point during their development

What is the notochord?

300

The trait of an individual that would be most useful for identifying a victim in a forensic investigation

A. What is hair color?

B. What is DNA Fingerprint?

C. What is blood type?

D. What is eye color?

What is DNA Fingerprint?

300

The two-word naming system developed by Carl Linnaeus

What is binomial nomenclature?

300

Eukaryotic organisms that cannot be classified as fungi, plants, or animals

What are protists?

300

The ability to absorb nutrients from their surroundings, avoid dehydration, and ability to disperse without water

A. What are adaptations plants need to survive on land?

B. What are gametophytes?

C. What are cuticles?

D. What are nonvascular plants?

A. What are adaptations plants need to survive on land?

300
This is NOT an advantage of the eggs of placental mammals over those reptiles

A. What is a protective shell around the egg?

B. What is protection from overheating or freezing?

C. What is protection from predators?

D. What is nourishment of developing offspring by the mother?


A. What is a protective shell around the egg?

400

The form of biotechnology that is NOT considered unethical

A. What is genetically modified foods?

B. What is human stem cell research?

C. What are biomimetic products?

D. What are biometrics data bases?

C. What are biomimetic products?

400

The two equations for calculating Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

What are p2 + 2pq + q2 =1 and p + q =1?

400

The type of bacteria that appears purple after applying Gram stain

A. What is peptidoglycan?

B. What is protein-carbohydrate compound?

C. What is Gram-positive?

D. What is Gram-negative?

C. What is Gram-positive?

400

Two major groups of seedless vascular plants

A. What are ferns and mosses?

B. What are hornworts and liverworts?

C. What are sporophytes and gametophytes?

D. What are lycophytes and monilophytes?

D. What are lycophytes and monilophytes?

400

Mammals that lay eggs

What are monotremes?

500

The process that made gene therapy and genetically modified foods possible

What is genetic engineering?

500

The five conditions required to simultaneously occur for equilibrium to occur

What are large population, random mating, no migration, no mutations, and no natural selection?

500

The life cycle of a virus that results in the host cell being killed

What is the lytic cycle?

500

Flower that lacks one or more of the basic plant parts

What is an incomplete flower?

500

The five types of movable joints

What are pivot, hinge, saddle, gliding, and ball-and-socket?

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