Review for Biology Final ExamName ______

  1. To be useful in a controlled experiment, the Hypothesis should be ______.
  2. What is most important safety rule in the biology lab?
  3. Define theory.
  4. What is essential for photosynthesis to occur?
  5. The process of meiosis results in the formation of ______.
  6. How many chromosomes are present in the gametes compared to the parent cells?
  7. ______and ______discovered the structure of DNA in the year______.
  8. The ______is formed by the fusion of an egg and sperm.
  9. How are the gametes alike?
  10. For a mutation to be passed on to the next generation, it would have to occur in the ______.
  11. A point mutation leads to changes in the ______.
  12. Each group of three nucleotides on mRNA is called a ______and codes for a ______.
  13. DNA controls the production of ______in a cell.
  14. Define and give examples: genotype, phenotype, homozygous, heterozygous.
  15. Give the P1 statement, Punnett square, genotype and phenotype for the following pea plant crosses:

Father / Mother
TT / tt
Tt / Tt
TT / Tt
  1. What is incomplete dominance?
  2. Cross two pink flowers. Give the P1 statement, Punnett square, genotype and phenotype.
  3. Give examples of human traits with multiple alleles.

Father / Mother
AB / 0
O / AB
A0 / BO
  1. Give the P1 statement, Punnett square, genotype and phenotype for the following human blood type crosses:
  1. What are sexlinked traits?
  2. Give the P1 statement, Punnett square, genotype and phenotype for the following crosses:
  1. Normal man and colorblind woman
  2. Normal man and carrier woman
  3. Colorblind man and normal woman
  1. Give examples of some of the products developed by recombinant technology.
  2. Compare and contrast photosynthesis and respiration.
  3. Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis.
  4. Describe the four parts of Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection.
  5. Given the percent of one base, use Chargaff’s rule to determine the other three.
  6. Describe advantages and disadvantages of cloning.
  7. Describe what happens to a cell in each of the following solutions: isotonic, hypotonic, hypertonic
  8. Define: turgor pressure, plasmolysis, cytolysis
  9. Define: diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion
  10. What isessential for respiration to occur?
  11. What molecule stores energy for cells?