Chem
Physics
Bio
Biochem
Psych/Soc
100

For example, mixing one mole of H2(g) with one mole of O2 produces one mole of steam (H20(g)), with half a mole of O2(g) remaining.

What is the Limiting Reagent?

What is the hydrogen gas

100

A firefighter jumps horizontally, at a speed of 1.5 m/s, from a blazing structure. When is the angle between his acceleration and velocity vectors the largest?

A. Midway during his fall

B. Immediately after his launch

C. Upon reaching terminal velocity

D. Just before he touches down on the ground

What is Immediately after his launch

100

Pink offspring are produced when a red bloom mates with a white flower. This is an illustration of:

A. Codominance

B. Overdominance

C. Complete dominance

D. Incomplete dominance

What is D. Incomplete dominance

100

A three nucleotide sequence on a tRNA molecule that pairs with a corresponding mRNA codon during translation.

What is an Anticodon

100

Name the lobes of the brain

What are the Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and the occipital lobe

200

Rank amine, carboxylic acid, aldehyde, and alkane in decreasing order of oxidation state.


A. Aldehyde, amine, alkane, carboxylic acid

B. Carboxylic acid, aldehyde, amine, alkane

C. Carboxylic acid, amine, aldehyde, alkane

D. Alkane, amine, aldehyde, carboxylic acid

What is B. Carboxylic acid, aldehyde, amine, alkane

200

A ball (m = 0.5 kg) is launched horizontally while a rock (m = 2 kg) is launched vertically. When both begin at the same height:

A. The ball will touch down first.

B. The rock will fall to the earth first.

C. The ball and rock will both fall to the ground simultaneously.

D. Before the ball and rock reach the earth, they will clash in the air.

What is The ball will touch down first.

200

Name the different types of tissues and the different types of muscles.

Tissues: connective, epithelial, muscular, nervous.

Muscles: smooth, cardiac, skeletal.

200

Enzymes that experience changes in their conformation as a result of interactions at sites other than the active site. Conformational changes may increase or decrease enzyme activity

What are Allosteric Enzymes

200

What are the developmental regions of the brain, the functions of each, and which one developed first?

Forebrain: controls voluntary movement, impulse control, language, and reasoning. (Broca's area is part of this)

midbrain: responsible for auditory and visual processing

hindbrain (developed first): controls the parts we don't think about. (breathing, heartbeat, balance, and sleep

300

All of the following are true with respect to carbonyls EXCEPT:

A. the carbonyl carbon is electrophilic.

B. the carbonyl oxygen is electron-withdrawing.

C. a resonance structure of the functional group places a positive charge on the carbonyl carbon.

D. the π electrons are mobile and are pulled toward the carbonyl carbon.

What is D. the π electrons are mobile and are pulled toward the carbonyl carbon.

300

An elevator is built to go upward at a speed of 5 m/s after an initial phase of acceleration and to support a weight limit of 9800 N (including its own weight). What connection exists between the maximum elevator cable tension and the maximum elevator weight as the elevator accelerates upward?

A. The tension is 9800 N.

B. There is less strain than 9800 N.

C. There is more tension than 9800 N.

D. The information provided does not allow for a determination.

What is There is more tension than 9800 N.

300

A possible novel oncoprotein connected to stomach cancer is being investigated by researchers. The mRNA transcripts for the new protein have been upregulated, according to the results of RT-qPCR. Which of the following could be a plausible mechanism for the protein's transcriptional upregulation?

A. Histone deacetylation

B. Chromatin structure opening

C. Increased production of ribosomes

D. Greater availability of amino acids

What is B. Chromatin structure opening

300

An enzyme devoid of the prosthetic group, coenzyme, or cofactor necessary for normal activity

What is an Apoenzyme

300

What branch of psychology is devoted to the study of unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought?

a) Developmental psychology

b) Personality psychology

c) Abnormal psychology

What is Abnormal psychology

400

In the Bronsted-Lowry system, a base is defined as: A) a proton donor B) a hydroxide donor C) an electron-pair acceptor D) a water-former E) a proton acceptor

What is a proton acceptor

400

Mechanical advantage and efficiency are both ratios. Which of the following is true regarding the quantities used in these ratios?

A. Mechanical advantage compares values of work; efficiency compares values of power.

B. Mechanical advantage compares values of forces; efficiency compares values of work.

C. Mechanical advantage compares values of power; efficiency compares values of energy.

D. Mechanical advantage compares values of work; efficiency compares values of forces.

What is B. Mechanical advantage compares values of forces; efficiency compares values of work.

400

Portion of the nephron permeable only to water. The filtrate becomes more concentrated as it travels through this structure due to the increasing concentration of the interstitium.

What is Descending Limb of the Loop of Henle

400

An element of secondary structure, marked by peptide chains lying alongside one another, forming rows or strands.

What is a Beta pleated sheet

400

What are the structures that are part of the nervous system? *Hint! name both part of the system

Central Nervous System: Brain (cerebrum, brain stem, cerebellum) and spinal cord.

Peripheral Nervous System: nerves and neural ganglia

500

In an electrolytic cell the electrode at which the electrons enter the solution is called the ______ ; the chemical change that occurs at this electrode is called _______. (a) anode, oxidation (b) anode, reduction (c) cathode, oxidation (d) cathode, reduction (e) cannot tell unless we know the species being oxidized and reduced

What is the Cathode and Reduction.

500

Suppose two parallel plates are inserted into a solution, and the current that passes between them for a known potential difference is used to measure the electrolytic resistivity of the solution. How would this resistivity change if the area of both of the two plates was doubled, at a fixed separation distance?

A) it would double

B) it would remain the same

C) it would quadruple

D) it would be halved

What is B. It would remain the same

500

Name all 11 systems in the human body and one component of each.

Circulatory system - Heart, veins, arteries

Digestive system - esophagus, stomach, Intestines

Endocrine system- Glands, Pancreas, ovaries, testes

Immune System- lymph nodes, white blood cells

Lymphatic System- vessels, nodes, tonsils, spleen.

Muscular System- Muscle

Nervous System - brain, spinal cord, Nerves

Reproductive system - Uterus, testes, ovaries

Respiratory system- lungs, trachea, mouth, nose

Skeletal system- bones, ligaments, tendons

Urinary system- bladder, ureters, kidney, urethra

500

What are the products of one turn of the Krebs cycle (and how many)?

1 ATP

3 NADH

1 FADH2

2 CO2

500

After the bad car accident we had last year, I cringe and break into a sweat at the sound of squealing brakes. This is an example of what?

Cultural inheritance

Operant conditioning

Classical conditioning

What is Classical Conditioning