Review Sheet

Scientific Method and Characteristics of Life

In the following situation, identify the hypothesis, independent variable, dependent variable, the control and
constants.
After studying about recycling, members of Johns biology class investigated the effect of various recycled
products on plant growth. Johns lab group compared the effect of different aged grass compost on bean plants.
Because decomposition is necessary to release the nutrients, the group hypothesized that older grass compost
would produce taller bean plants. Three flats of bean plants (25 plants/ flat) were grown for 5 days. The plants
were fertilized as follows: (a) Flat A: 450 g of three-month-old compost, (b) Flat B: 450 g of six-month-old
compost, and (c) Flat C: 0 g compost. The plants received the same amount of sunlight and water each day. At the
end of the 30 days the group recorded the height of the plants (cm).
Hypothesis: ____________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
IV: ___________________________________________________________________________________
DV: __________________________________________________________________________________
control: _______________________________________________________________________________
constants: _____________________________________________________________________________
In the following situations, identify the hypothesis, independent variable, dependent variable, the control and
experimental group.
1. The addition of the chemical calcium chloride (CaCl) to water will increase its temperature.
Hypothesis: If _______________________________, then ______________________________________.
Independent Variable: ___________________________

Dependent Variable: ________________________

Control Group: ________________________________

Experimental Group: ________________________

2. Watering a plant with salt water will kill the plant.

Hypothesis: If _____________________________, then ________________________________________.
Independent Variable: ___________________________

Dependent Variable: ________________________

Control Group: ________________________________

Experimental Group: ________________________

3. A person that takes a vitamin supplement has better memory retention.

Hypothesis: If _______________________________, then ______________________________________.
Independent Variable: ___________________________

Dependent Variable: ________________________

Control Group: ________________________________

Experimental Group: ________________________

Graphs: Look at the Graphs below and answer the questions that follow.

In which year was there likely an

abundance of bluegill food?

In which year was there likely an

increase in bluegill predators?

Characteristics of Life
Define the main characteristics of Life below.
1. Cellular Organization
2. Metabolism
3. Homeostasis
4. Reproduction
5. Heredity
6. Responsiveness to the Environment
Identify the following situations as one of the 6 characteristics of life.
a) a cell divides
b) a giraffe eats the leaves off of a tree
c) when looking thru a microscope at a sample of elephant skin, you see thousands of cells
d) a human being gets goose bumps and shivers when its cold outside
e) a plant captures the suns rays to make glucose
f) a sperm and an egg meet to create an embryo
g) A rabbits fur turns white in the winter and brown in the summer

Review Sheet
Biochemistry & Water
Define: Define the following words
Monomer: ______________________________________________________________________________
Polymer: _______________________________________________________________________________
Carbohydrate: __________________________________________________________________________
Protein: _______________________________________________________________________________
Nucleic Acid: ___________________________________________________________________________
Lipid: _________________________________________________________________________________
Identify: Place the following characteristics and diagrams into one of the four categories of organic compounds.
Monomer: nucleotide

Monomer: fatty acid

Monomer: amino acid

Monomer: monosaccharide

glucose, fructose & sucrose

steroids, waxes & phospholipids

DNA & RNA

enzymes, hemoglobin & actin

make up the cell membrane

Carbohydrate

Lipid

Nucleic Acid

Protein

Found in the nucleus of cells

Made at the ribosome of the cell
sugars
fats
Lots are found in muscle cells

pH: Use the charts below to answer the following questions.

Which pond is the most acidic?

Which pond is the most basic?
Which pond is closest to neutral?
In the experiment above, what is the dependent variable?
what is the independent variable?
What conclusions can you draw about the effects of pH on duckweed
growth?

Enzyme Activity graphs: Use the graphs below to answer the following questions

Which enzyme above works well in acidic conditions?

What is the substrate of amylase?

Which enzyme above works well in basic conditions?

What is the product of amylase?

What is optimal pH for pepsin?

What does the graph indicate about adding amylase to

a starch solution?

What is the optimal pH for trypsin?

Review Sheet
Cell Parts and Types of Transport
Label the parts of the plant and animal cell below.
Type of Cell: ________________________________

Type of Cell: ______________________________

B
J

Cell B

I
(whole
organelle)

H
D
N

G
(outside of the organelle)
F

E
(dots)

_____ cytoplasm

_____ cell wall

_____ chromatin(DNA)

_____ nucleus

_____ cell membrane

_____ golgi body

_____ chloroplast

_____ vacuole

_____ nuclear membrane

_____ mitochondria

_____ cytoskeleton

____ lysosome

_____ nucleolus

_____ rough ER

_____smooth ER

____ ribosome

The tail of a cell that allows it to move form place to place is called a ________________________________.
The tiny hairs on the outside of a cell that allow it to move form place to place are called ___________________.
A cell that has a nucleus is known as an ________________________.
The cell to the right is known as a ____________________________
because it does NOT have a ________________________________.
An organism that is a prokaryote is a ______________________________
cell.
The organelle shown to the right is the _____________________________.
It is made of _______________________ and ______________________.

Cell Transport: In the boxes below, indicate what direction the water move in and what will happen to the cell.

Hypertonic Solution

Hypotonic Solution

Isotonic Solution

Direction water moves:

Direction water moves:

Direction water moves:

A cell in a hypertonic solution

will...

A cell in a hypotonic solution

will...

A cell in a isotonic solution

will...

a. In the picture to the right, are the water molecules

moving into or out of the cell?
b. What type of solution is the cell in?
c. What will eventually happen to the cell?
Identify the types of transport below: exocytosis,
endocytosis, facilitated diffusion and active transport.

How do the following cells move

below?

Review Sheet

Photosynthesis & Respiration and food chains & webs

What is the equation for photosynthesis?

What are the reactants?

What are the products?

What is the energy in photosynthesis? _________________________________________________________

Where in the cell does photosynthesis occur? ___________________________________________________
What is the equation for respiration?

What are the reactants?

What are the products?

What is the energy in respiration? ____________________________________________________________

Where in the cell does respiration take place? ___________________________________________________
Fill in the cycle below.

1.____sunight____________
(energy to photosynthesis)

3.______________ and ________________

(products of respiration)

5._____ATP__________
(energy made from respiration)

2._________________________
(what is this organelle?)

4._____________ and ______________

(products of photosynthesis)

6.______________________________
(what is this organelle?)

Food Webs

Ecology Graphs

In the graph above, which is the predator?

In the graph above which is the prey?
How do the lynx & hare affects each other?
Give an example of a carnivore from the food web above.
Give an example of a producer from the food web above.

If a predator of the lynx were introduced to this

population, how would this affect the hare
numbers?

Give an example of a herbivore from the food web above.

What is an example of a decomposer?
Is the food web above aquatic or terrestrial?

What is the carrying capacity for the sheep population

above?
What part of the leaf is responsible for bringing
water to the cells?

Review Sheet
Cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis, DNA, protein synthesis
Identify the following stages of mitosis and indicate the correct order.

A. ____________________

B. _______________________

D._______________________

C. _______________________

E. ________________________

1. What order should the phase above be in? _______ J _______ J _______ J _______ J ________
2. What type of cells does mitosis occur in? _________________ What does mitosis produce? ______________
3. The Cell cycle is made of two stages: _______________________ and cell division. Interphase consists of 3
phases: ___________, ____________ and _______________. During the _________ phase DNA is copied.
4. What type of cells does meiosis occur in? ________________ What does meiosis produce? ______________
5. Look at the picture to the right. What is the term for this process?
b. In what phase of meiosis does the following occur?
c. What does this process cause in the gametes?
6. If a gamete of an organism has 6 chromosomes, how many will its body cell have? _______________________
7. If a liver cell of an organism has 32 chromosomes, how many will its gametes have? ______________________
Mitosis vs. Meiosis
Complete the chart below by checking off which cell division has which characteristics.
Description
Mitosis
Meiosis
neither
Cell division in body cells
Cell division in gametes
Eukaryotic cells
Produces haploid cells
Produces diploid cells
Produces 2 cells
Produces 4 cells
Used by bacteria to divide

Replication/Transcription/Translation
1. DNA is copied through a process called __________________________________. This occurs during the
_________ phase of interphase before the cell is ready to_______________________.
2. DNA contains information to make the organic molecule ____________________, such as enzymes.
3. The process of making RNA from DNA is called _____________________________ and occurs in the
_______________________ of the cell.
4. There are 3 types of RNA: ________________, _________________ and __________________. The
______________ takes the genetic code from the nucleus to the ribosomes, which is made of ______________.
The ____________brings amino acids to the ribosomes to build the protein. The 3 nucleotides on the mRNA
make up a ________________ that matches the ____________________on the tRNA.
5. The process of making a protein from mRNA is called _________________________________ and occurs in
the _________________________ of the cell.
Use the strand of DNA below to answer the following questions.
DNA strand
T
A
C
A
C
G

6. What is the complimentary DNA to the strand of DNA above? _____________________________________

7. What is the mRNA to the strand above? _____________________________________________________
8. Using the codon chart, what would be the sequence of amino acids from this mRNA?
______________________________________________________________________________________
9. What amino acid must every protein begin with? __________________ end with? _____________________
10. Look at the picture to the right.
a. The picture is an example of a (n) _______________________________.

mom

baby

b. In the diagram, who is the father of the baby? _____________________

c. Justify your answer from part b.

11. Look at the diagram to the left.

a. What process is shown to the left?
b. Where in the cell does the process occur?
c. In the diagram to the left, label: the
ribosome, mRNA, tRNA, amino acid, protein,
codon, anti-codon.

Review Sheet
Genetics/Evolution
1. The father of genetics is ______________________________________, who was a monk and worked with
pea plants.
2.

Hairline
Freckles
Blood cell type

Widows peak (W__)

Freckles (F__)
Round blood cells (B__)

No widows peak (ww)

No freckles (ff)
Sickle cell shape (bb)

a. Give an example of a phenotype for hairline. __________________ What is its genotype? ________________
b. What is the dominant trait for freckles? ____________________ recessive? ________________________
c. What is the genotype for a carrier of sickle cell blood? __________________________________________
d. Give an example of a heterozygote genotype for freckles _______ homozygote genotype for sickle blood _____
e. What is the genotype for a hybrid freckles, no widows peak person? ________________________________
3. Genes are carried on ___________________________ and human beings have 46 of them. A change in a gene
is called a _______________________________. There are a number of types of mutations: a mutation that
replaces one base for another is called a ___________________________, a mutation that omits some of the
bases is called a _____________________ and a mutation that adds extra bases is called an ______________.
4. Each parent gives their offspring ______________ copy of a gene, so their offspring has 2 genes for each
trait.
What gametes are possible from the following genotype? AaBB ____________________________________
DDEE_______________________________________ ffGg______________________________________
5. Probabilities of a genetic cross are shown in a ___________________________, a grid used to predict
possible offspring between 2 individuals.
a. If tall is dominant to short, what is the genotype for short (you pick the letter)? _______________________
b. If a pure tall plant is crossed with a short plant, what will be the phenotype of the offspring? _____________
c. If a hybrid tall plant is crossed with a short plant, what will be the phenotype of the offspring? ____________
6. A red flower when crossed with a white flower produces all pink flowers.
What kind of inheritance is this?________________________________
What are the phenotypes of the offspring from a pink and white flower? Use a
punnett square.

7. A person with type A blood has children with a person that has type B blood.
They have a type O baby. How is this possible? Use a punnett square.

8. In plants, yellow pods (Y) is dominant over green pods (y) and axial flowers (A) are
dominant over terminal flowers (a). A hybrid plant for both pod color and flower
position is crossed with a green, terminal plant. What are the phenotypes and chances
of each phenotype in the offspring? Use a punnett square

Evolution
1. The father of evolution is _____________________________________, who sailed aboard the HMS
Beagle and studied the animals located on the ___________________________, a series of islands off the
coast of South America.
2. Darwins idea of evolution is called __________________ _______________________, which is known as
survival of the fittest. The 5 points to natural selection are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
3. A structure that shows a common ancestor is known as a _______________________________ structure. A
structure that does not show a common ancestor is known as an _____________________________ structure.
The bat wing, mouse
forelimb and human arm
are examples of
_________________
structures.
A bat wing and a fly wing
would be examples of
_________________
structures- they serve
the same purpose but
they do not show a
common ancestor.
4. A particular type of homologous structure is known as a ___________________________ structure, such as
the hip bones of snakes.
5. Identify the 3 types of graphs below and the situation that accurately describes them.
A. ________________________

B. ________________________

______: Small sized beaks are favored

______: Small & large beaks are favored
______: Medium sized beaks are favored

C. __________________________

What is the term for a graph that shows normal

distribution (the dotted line in each of the graphs
above)?

Review Sheet
Classification, Taxonomy & Kingdoms
1. Place the following characteristics in the proper Kingdoms. Those that are used more than once have the number
of time sit will be used in parentheses ().
Yeast
Mushroom
Amphibian
conifer
Flower
decomposer (2)
K. Animalia

eukaryotes(4)
protozoan
jellyfish
only unicellular
bird
cellulose cell walls
K. Plantae

prokaryotes
dicot
only autotrophs
multicellular (3)
fish
insects

only heterotrophs(2)
algae
mold
multi- & unicellular
mammals
hetero- & autotrophs (2)

K. Fungi

K. Protista

moss
tree
reptile
fern
monocot
E.coli

K. Archaebacteria &
Eubacteria

2. The diagram below is a _____________________________________ which shows evolutionary relationships

between organisms.
a. Which 2 organisms are the most related?
b. How long ago did A & D split?

c. Which organism is most related to G?

d. Which 2 organisms are the LEAST related?
e. Which 2 organisms are MORE related: D & E or E & G?

1 mya
3 mya

f. Which 2 organisms are LESS related: A & D or D & F?

g. Which 2 organisms split ~8 mya?
h. Which organisms would be in the same phylum as G?

8 mya

i. If organism B is Felis domesticus, what is the most likely genus of organism C?

j. Which organism has changed the most in 11 million years? Changed the least?

11 mya

3. What is the taxon hierarchy- starting with kingdom and ending with species?
Kingdom
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
Species
4. What is the scientific name for the flower below?

5. Which species went extinct? How long ago?

4. Which of the beetles below are most closely

related? Justify your answer.