1. What are two important factors in determining what type of Biome one will find in a given area?
2. What causes the seasons here in North America?
3. What are three strategies plants have developed to survive in the cold dry,and sometimes dark conditions of the Tundra?
4. What kind of adaptations have animals developed to survive in:
A. The tundra
B. The deserts
C. Coniferous forests
5. What is a rain shadow, and how does it account for different plant communities occurring at the same latitude, but on opposites sides of a mountain range?
6. In what biomes does fire play an important role, and what is this role?
7. To what kind of environmental stresses are the plants and animals in the chaparral adapted?
8. How is a deciduous forest different from a coniferous forest, other than the types of trees found in each?
1. Define resource partitioning and give an example of it.
2. How is a parasite different from a parasitoid?
3. How is a parasite different from a predator?
4. How are density dependent limiting factors different from density independent limiting factors? Give examples of each.
5. Coevolution happens also between parasites and their hosts. Why is this not surprising?
6. Define and give examples of the following: Mutualism, Commensalism, social parasite.
7. What are common strategies predators use to capture prey, and common defenses found in prey?
8. Draw a food web that could occur in your backyard or here at Cerritos. Include all the trophic levels we discussed in class.
9. Why are there fewer members of the upper trophic levels as compared with primary consumers or the producers?
10. What is carrying capacity?
9. Why don't grasslands become forests?
10. What is the one thing all deserts have in common?
10. Upon what observations did Darwin base his theory of evolution by natural selection?
11. What must occur for a new species to evolve?
12. What isolating mechanisms help maintain a species as a distinct group?
13. Describe how allopatric speciation could happen.
14. What is usually involved in sympatric speciation?
15. How is stabilizing selection different from directional selection?
16. Is their a plan to evolution?
17. What mechanisms of evolution can lead to less genetic diversity in a population?
18. What is a gene pool?
19. Who was Alfred Wallace and why is he an important figure in the history of the theory of evolution?
20. What is the source of all new genes in a population?
21. What mechanism of evolution keeps separate populations from being isolated?
Genetics
1. How is a phenotype different from a genotype?
2. How is the law of segregation different from the law of independent assortment?
3. What is an allele?
4. If a pair of alleles are the same we call this genotype _____, and if the alleles are different the genotype is called _____.
5. PKU is a recessive disorder. If "dad" has PKU , and "mom" is homozygous dominant, what is the chance a child will have PKU?
6. In four o'clock flowers, the petal color is either red, pink, or white. How do you think flower color is inherited and why?
7. Hemophilia is an X-linked disorder. If mom carries the gene, and dad is normal, what is the chance the couple's daughter will be a carrier? What is the chance the daughter will have hemophilia?
What is the chance their son will have hemophilia?
8. Mom has O blood, and Dad has AB. They have a child with B blood. Is this possible?
9. There are three alleles present in the population for blood type. This is called _____________
10. A gene that is only expressed if it is in the homozygous condition must be a ______ gene.
I1. In a certain species of flower there are two petal colors, blue or red. If two blue flowered plants are crossed, the offspring are always blue. If two red plants are crossed, sometimes only red flowering plants are produced, while other times both red and blue flowering plants are produced. If a red plant and blue plant are crossed, sometimes the offspring are all red, while other times both red and blue offspring are produced. Which color is dominant?
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