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Bio 11 SS Test 8 Review questions

Test 8 Molusca, Arthropoda and Echinodermata Review

 

  1. What is the name of the principal body cavity of molluscs? (Think about movies scenes)
  2. Lit 3 benefits of the arthropod exoskeleton (3 marks)
  3. Your friend claims a spider dropped down from the ceiling and ate a piece of her apple. Give two reasons why this is not possible. (2 reasons)
  4. List and explain three ways that a squid is adapted for a predatory lifestyle (3 reasons)
  5. Describe how a sea star uses its water vascular system in feeding.
  6. Which phylum do Clams, snails, sea slugs, and octopi belong?
  7. Which invertebrate animals does NOT have a true coelom?
  8. What are of the features of molluscs?
  9. What characteristics do all arthropods have?
  10. Sometimes you can find clamshells with small round holes in them on the beach. The hole was made by a sea snail. Which body part did the sea snail use to make the hole?
  11. Can you match structures with  animal phylla ? Can you identify which structures do NOT belong to the same group as the others?
  12. Malpighian tubules are found in which phylum?
  13. Malpighian tubules are part of which organ system?
  14. Can you match common names for Mollusca, Arthropoda and Echinodermata?
  15. Spiders belong to which taxonomical class?
  16. Which class do snails belong to?
  17. Spiracles and trachea are found in the grasshopper’s
  18. What is the function of Arthropod blood
  19. An organ or structure of the female grasshopper, used to form short tunnels to lay egg in is called?
  20. Which phylum contains the most intelligent invertebrates?
  21. What are common structures shared by both Echinodermata and Arthropoda?
  22. What body part does a spider use to breathe?
  23. Do starfish have a carapace?
  24. Can you label all the structures on a squid diagram?
  25. What structure do land snails use to obtain oxygen?
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Bio 11 SS Worm Exam Review

Worms Exam Review

 

  1. The body of a segmented worm is divided into segments, separated by what structure?
  2. Which worm has a proglottid and what does it do?
  3. What is the tough outer covering of a nematode called?
  4. What tissue is a coelom lined with?
  5. What is cephalization?
  6. In which worm phylum/phyla do the members have a developed circulatory system?
  7. In what way is the digestive system of the roundworm considered more advanced than that of the flatworm? (2 reasons)
  8. Why is cephalization associated with motility? (2 reasons)
  9. Which characteristics do flatworms share with hydra?
  1. What is a structure or characteristics are shared by all the worm phyla?
  1. In which of the worm phyla do blood vessels appear?
  1. Which of worms have a complete one-way digestive tract
  1. A fluid-filled, mesoderm-lined body cavity is known as a
  1. How would you list worm phyla from least to most advanced?
  2. Which type of worms (common names) are found in phylum Annelida?
  3. How do Annellia worms breath or respire?
  4. What is an organ designed to grind food in the Annelid digestive system?
  5. If an organism is a hermaphrodite what organs would it have?i
  6. What is the dorsal saddle like structure called in segmented worms called and what is it’s function?
  7. What are some common names for both parasitic and free living Nematods?
  8. What is a concentration of nervous tissue that functions as a simple brain is called
  9. What is the function of the scolex?
  10. Looking at a cladogram , what is an evolutionary development first seen in Nematodes?
  11. Which worm has a closed circulatory system?
  12. What is th most highly developed organ system in a tapeworms ?
  13. Why are adult tapeworms have reduced or absent digestive systems?
  14. To avoid being infected by the trichinella worm what should you do?
  15. Proper sewage treatment could control which types of worms (common names like blood worms, flukes or latin names?
  16. What is the order in which food pass down the digestive system of an earthworm?

 

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Bio 11 SS Cnidarian and Porifera Review

Porifera and Cnidaria Exam Review

 

Porifera

 

  • How many types of Porifera are there and how are they classified?
  • What are the Characteristics of poriferans (sponges) ?
  • What are the structures called on collar cells that move to create currents, moving water in and out of the sponge?
  • Which class of Poriferan contains spongin in its body?
  • What are the Characteristics of poriferans (sponges) ?
  • Adult sponges cannot move – how do sponges manage to colonize new areas?
  • Why does a sponge need to pump water through its body?
  • A sponge skeleton is made up of: (not calcium carbonate but the name of the structures)
  • The way that Poriferans (sponges) obtain food is by this process:
  • What is the middle layer of a sponge called?
  • In sponges, which cell type has flagella?
  • Through which structure does water enter a sponge? (not a pore)
  • The cells that move around the in the body of the sponge and ingest food particles are called?
  • Water movement through a sponge would follow which path?
  • Where does fertilization occur in a sponge?

 

 

Cnidaria

 

  • Can you recognize the structures of a cross section of a polyp and a medusa?
  • A jellyfish can sting even after it is dead. How can this be?
  • How do Cnidarians get rid of metabolic wastes?
  • Characteristics of cnidarians (jellyfish, etc)?
  • A concentration of nerves and sensory organs at one end of an organism is called?
  • What is the advantage of a medusa form of a cnidarian (2)
  • What part of the Cnidarian life cycle is formed by budding?
  • What are the stinging cell and stinging structures called in a hydra called?
  • Which kind of digestive and circulatory system do Cnidarians have?
  • Which kind of symmetry do Cnidarians have?
  • What is the inner layer of cells in Cnidarians called?
  • Which layer of cells is missing in Cnidarians?
  • Which part of a Cninarian’s life cycle is sessile?
  • Some hydras are said to be “hermaphroditic”, what does that mean?
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Bio 11 SS July 24

Biology 11 Lesson Outline                                      Date July 24 th

 

 

Last lessons Objectives

 

 

Plant Physiology Evaluation
Today’s Objectives Plant Reproduction (Angiosperm and “where is the gamete)

Animal introduction

 
Topic

Number One

Pistils, Carpels and double pollination, oh my

Seeds

http://extension.psu.edu/business/start-farming/vegetables/factsheets/seed-and-seedling-biology

 

 
Topic

Number Two

Animal Game plan Quiz

Virus

Three Porifera and Cnidaria

 

 

Test

DNA, Taxonomy and Evolution

Debrief and new topic Porifera and Cnidaria Quiz  
Text Book

 

Class Notes

   
Gunner Notes Eight phylums is three ½ days

Day one: Porifera and Cnidaria

Day Two: Worms (Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida

Day Three: Molusca and Arthropoda

Day Four: Echinodermata

 

Then

Chordata and Evolution

 

 

 
You tube Reference    
Today’s flow pattern How does shape and size of a single cell relate to how it lives?

How does the immune system adapt to larger organisms invading the host?

How do single cell organisms adapt to their environment in relation to how they reproduce, get food and adapt to change in environment?

How does sexual reproduction increase diversity within a kingdom?

What is the role of water in regards to single cell organisms?

As an organism becomes multicellular, what are some advantages and problems with getting larger?

How are life cycles linked to evolutionary success of both single and multicellular organism?

What are some preconceptions linked to the words plants?

 

 
Take Home Message  

 

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Lower Plant Review Sheet

 

Lower Plant Review

 

Plants in general

 

  • Alternation of generations is defined as the switching back and forth between ___ and ____.
  • What does asexual reproduction not provide?
  • Is alternation a change in ploidy of cell or going from sporophyte to gametophyte?
  • What process makes spores?
  • What generations makes gametes?
  • What structures do all plants have?

 

Algae

 

  • What would be one effect on the global ecosystem if algae died off?
  • What is the relationship between algae and chlorphyll?
  • What are some examples for algae for moving onto land (think of seaweed and tides)
  • Taxonomically speaking, what are the three types of algae?
  • What is the dominant generation in algae?
  • Algae absorb carbon dioxide, oxygen, and nutrients directly from _____
  • In regards to lower plants, what are some adaptions to land?

 

 

Mosses

 

  • What are some examples of moss moving onto land ( moss are pioneer species)
  • What are two functions of moss “leaves”
  • Why are moss found in damp or wet environments?
  • How is water transported through moss?
  • What is the dominant generation in moss?
  • What generation and ploidy are the moss you see while walking through the woods.
  • Do moss have “rhizoids”?
  • What is unique about moss and their sporophyte and gametophyte generations?
  • Can you label a diagram of a moss?
  • Where are sperms made in moss?
  • How could you identify the sporophyte generations in moss?
  • Why are most good for sterilizing and healing wounds.
  • How are moss related to coal?
  • How does moss used to make Scotch?

 

 

Ferns

 

  • What are some examples of how ferns have successfully moved onto land
  • How do ferns prevent them selves from self-ferilization?
  • What are two functions of a sporangium?
  • Compare and contrast the gametophytes of mosses and ferns (describe one similarity and one difference between the two)
  • What is the dominant generation in ferns?
  • In ferns, what is the function of antheridia and archegonia
  • In ferns where are spores made and by what process?
  • Although ferns are “true” land plants, they require water for what process?
  • Where are sperm made in fern?
  • What system do ferens have that moss and algae do not have?
  • When we see ferns during a walk through a forest, which generation are we looking at?
  • Why do ferns grow taller than algae and moss?
  • What structures of a fern have been used in salads and by indigenous people

 

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Bacteria review

 

Acme Review for Virus, Immune and Bacteria Test

 

Virus

 

  • How are viruses classified?
  • What are the structures of a bacteriophage?
  • What are the structures within a retrovirus?
  • How do you identify the difference between viral capsid and viral envelop?
  • What type of viral cycle make makes cancer?
  • When is a virus virulent?
  • What is a retrovirus and how does it work?
  • What happens in a lytic cycle of a virus?
  • What happens in a latent cycle of a virus?
  • What happens in a mutagenic cycle of a virus?
  • In animal viruses the viral envelope is made of what?
  • What is a prophage

 

 

Immune system

  • What are examples of nonspecific defenses in your body?
  • What is a humoral response?
  • What is a cell mediated response
  • What is the difference between a T Cell and B Cell?
  • How is HIV related to T helper cells?
  • Why do pharmaceutical companies have to keep creating new flu vaccines?
  • How does a vaccine work?
  • How does the immunes system work against viruses?
  • How does the immune system work against bacteria?
  • What is the difference between passive and active immunity?
  • Can you use antibiotics against a virus? Why?
  • What is a monoclonal antibody and how can it be used?
  • How is a plasma cell related to a memory cell?

 

 

Bacteria

 

  • How are bacteria (eubacteria) classified?
  • What are bacteria that can survive without oxygen?
  • What is a chemosynthetic bacteria and how could it be identified?
  • What are two properties of all monera?
  • What is prokaryote and what features do they have?
  • What is a whip like structure used for locomotion in bacteria?
  • What is a saprophyte?
  • What are the differences between fermentation and cellular respiration?
  • An organism that produce it’s own food is called what?
  • Rod shape bacteria are called what?
  • In a diagram, can you explain primitive sexual reproduction in a bacteria?
  • Most bacteria reproduce by what process?
  • What is an endospore and how does it work?
  • Why has the classification of kingdom Monera switched into Archeo, Eubacteria and cyanobacteria?
  • New stem cells research is now inserting DNA into bacteria, why could this be both good and bad?
  • If you were infected by a gram negative bacteria what would you be prescribed?
  • If you were infected by a gram positive bacteria what would you be prescribed?
  • Explain four reasons why bacteria can be helpful to humans?
  • What is the difference between an antiseptic and a disinfectant?
  • If a chemical is released by a bacteria and it is then denatured by heat and then injected into a host, it is called what?
  • What does a vaccines made of ?
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Bio 11 SS July 20 2017

Biol 11 SS Lesson July 20 th 2017

 

 

Last lessons Objectives

 

 

Protist Evaluation
Today’s Objectives Plant Reproduction (Angiosperm and “where is the gamete)

 

 
Topic

Number One

Protists to Plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9P1DNAsUc

 

Crash course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAR47-g6tlA

 

Protists video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsFk2OZi3Q

 

 

 

Parasitic Protist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QdVVC3MjCc&list=PL37GBC2Awuxhe3eED8wsxUXzC9YAx0Iim

 

 

Types of reproduction with protists

 

 

Protist Qz
Topic

Number Two

Plant movement of water (from ocean to land and fresh water)

 

Computer criteria

Font Tahoma or veranda 12 pt.

Justified

1.5 spacing

 

Mission : What is a seed?

 

Select a seed type

Picture (s) of seed

Diagram of a seed

 

Report on:

·      What it looks like

·      What are the human usages of the seed?

·      How does a seed work?

·      What are the parts of a seed?

·      What is inside of a seed (molecules)?

·      What makes a seed grow?

·      What is germination?

·      What affects seed growth rate?

 

Crash Course

Alternation of generation in nonvascular plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWaX97p6y9U

 

Interpreting Alternation of generation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ7mnrELMGg

 

 

Quiz

Virus

Three Vascular plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9oDTMXM7M8

 

Movement of water in plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK2DIF_tgCg

 

Osmosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuNMVzTeCtw

 

 

Water Potential

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDZud2g1RVY

 

Plant transport and metabolism

Bozeman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsY8j8f54I0

 

Plant reproduction ( Algae to Angio)

Role of :

1.   Alternation of Generation

2.   Water

3.   Wind

4.   Insects

5.   Fruit

 

Gymnosperm Reproduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqGhmkYXcdM

 

Plant Germination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6xptjgNR0

 

Plant reproduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExaQ8shhkw8

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExaQ8shhkw8

 

Angiosperm Reproduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ycl2E9r-_o

 

 

Plant movement of water

 

 

Pistils, Carpels and double pollination, oh my

Seeds

http://extension.psu.edu/business/start-farming/vegetables/factsheets/seed-and-seedling-biology

 

 

Test

DNA, Taxonomy and Evolution

Debrief and new topic    
Text Book

 

Class Notes

Drawing magnification video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElpshkF5oAc

 

 
Gunner Notes Looking at the cladogram on the board.

·      How does the role of water change in plants in relationship to reproduction and plant structures linked to photosynthesis?ruc

·      How could a leaf “talk” to a root?

·      In plants, how do single cells diversitfy to tissues and organ and or organ systems?

·      What are some sames for these structures?

 

 

 
You tube Reference    
Today’s flow pattern How does shape and size of a single cell relate to how it lives?

How does the immune system adapt to larger organisms invading the host?

How do single cell organisms adapt to their environment in relation to how they reproduce, get food and adapt to change in environment?

How does sexual reproduction increase diversity within a kingdom?

What is the role of water in regards to single cell organisms?

As an organism becomes multicellular, what are some advantages and problems with getting larger?

How are life cycles linked to evolutionary success of both single and multicellular organism?

What are some preconceptions linked to the words plants?

 

 
Take Home Message What spreads “cell “ information in plants? What would a plant “cell “ phone be?

 

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Bio 11 SS July 19th 2017

Bio 11 SS Lesson 10                                      Date July 19 th

 

 

Last lessons Objectives

 

 

1.   Microscopes and exploring bacteria to protist

2.   Linking protist and fungi to plants

The notion being a plant

Evaluation
Today’s Objectives 1.   What is a plant? (Photosynthesis to algae)

2.   Aquatic plants

3.   Planting a seed (lab)

Topic

Number One

Review of bacteria vocab.
Topic

Number Two

Protists to plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6dzU4gOJo

 

Cladogram of Protist to Plants

http://isite.lps.org/sputnam/Biology/U8%20Classification/U7_Notes.htm

 

Key Concepts and Ted talk clips

 

1)   Cellular verses noncellular

Bacteria communication

https://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate?language=en

 

Super bugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZQPB45Zbw

 

Protist Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS3MH79-AY8

 

 

2)   Comparison of Protist strategies to be a parasite or a mold

 

Parasitic Protist

https://www.biologycorner.com/bio1/parasitic-protists.html

 

Autotrophic: Plant or animal?

 

Heterotrophic

How to digest “food”

 

Life cycles and parasites

Plasmodium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoIO-g1hiSo

 

Switch strategy..

 

Protists to fungus

http://study.com/academy/lesson/fungus-like-protists-characteristics-types-examples.html

 

 

 

What are the advantages of going from single cell to multicellular?

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/where-animals-come-from/

 

Mold and origin of plants verses fungi

Video of slime mold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B79Z56vl02A

 

Slime mold film clips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVhLJLG7ug

 

How smart are slime?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brainless-slime-molds/

 

Vocab

cytoplasmic streaming

 

Sexular Spores and multicellular as new strategies

 

What is a plant?

http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-plant.html

 

Quiz

Virus

Three Territory to recon for next class

See above cladogram and web reference

 

·      Endo symbiosis and chloroplast

·      Photosynthesis

·      Stereo types about plants

For notes on plants, search “Botany”

 

 

Test

DNA, Taxonomy and Evolution

Debrief and new topic Next class, Quiz on micro,immune and virus

Exploring plants

 

Text Book

 

Class Notes

Chapter on Protist

Chapter on Aquatic plants

Gunner Notes Which has killed more humans, Viruses or Bacteria?

Can you find evidence to support your point of view?

 

What structure in a phytoplankton would make a fossil record?

 

Biology Corner is a great website for all things biology. It is a source for good AP notes and it is easy to use.

Practice test are also found here.

 

Practice vocab quizzes

 

https://quizlet.com/3145397/viruses-and-bacteria-vocabulary-flash-cards/

 

https://quizlet.com/11380661/biology-bacteria-and-viruses-flash-cards/

 

 

 

 

You tube Reference Crash course Archea to Protist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAR47-g6tlA

 

Today’s flow pattern How does shape and size of a single cell relate to how it lives?

How does the immune system adapt to larger organisms invading the host?

How do single cell organisms adapt to their environment in relation to how they reproduce, get food and adapt to change in environment?

How does sexual reproduction increase diversity within a kingdom?

What is the role of water in regards to single cell organisms?

As an organism becomes multicellular, what are some advantages and problems with getting larger?

How are life cycles linked to evolutionary success of both single and multicellular organism?

What are some preconceptions linked to the words plants?

 

Take Home Message Water is for the glue..and Carbon dioxide for the sugar back bone.

Where the salt goes, the water flows.

 

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Bio 11 SS Bacteria Vocab

Bacteria Vocab List

 

1. Aerobic  
2. Anaerobic  
3. Anaerobic respiration  
4. antibiotic  
5. Antitoxin  
6. Autotrophic  
7. Bacillus  
8. Binary Fission  
9. Blue green algae  
10. Cell wall  
11. Chemosynthetic  
12. Chemotaxia  
13. Chemotherapy  
14. Cocci  
15. Conjugation  
16. Endospore  
17. Fermentation  
18. Flagella  
19. Heterotrophic  
20. Pathogen  
21. Penicillin  
22. Photo taxis  
23. Photosynthetic  
24. Pplo  
25. Respiration  
26. Rickettsia  
27. Spirochetes  
28. Staphylococci  
29. Streptococci  
30. Streptomycin  
31. Toxin  
32. Vaccine  
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Bio 11 SS Test One Review questions

Good news…only multiple choice and or true or false.

Only on Taxonomy, Scientific method and Five Kingdoms.

 

Test One Review:

 

Content: Scientific Method, Taxonomy and Five Kingdoms

 

Taxonomy

  1. A binomial name or scientific name consist of a _____ followed by the _____.
  2. Which is capitalize?
  3. Species are classified based upon what factors?
  4. Would you classify an organism based upon it’s evolutionary relationship? Why or why not?
  5. Starting from Kindom to genus and species, how would you classify a human?
  6. K, P, C,O, F, G, S ( Know each step)
  7. What is the correct order of organisms starting from the most diverse to the most specific?

 

There are four theories (posted on the board)

  1. Which discusses cells but not their metabolism?
  2. Which discusses the genetic code and how it is displayed?
  3. Which discuss the opposite of abiogenesis?
  4. Which discusses and provides a mechanism for changes with time?

 

Five kingdoms

  1. A prokaryote is a cell without a nucleus. Which two phyla could be part of this group beginning with M.
  2. Moss and Ferns belong to which kingdom?

 

Scientific Method

  1. Is a hypothesis a tentative explanation of a result or an observed phenomena?
  2. What is the distinction between a theory, law or principle?
  3. Starting with an observation, what is the order of inquiry to make a theory?
  4. Science is many things including many terms such as an understanding of nature, explored through experimentation and even subject peer review in journals, can conclusions of these labs change?

 

  1. The way in which scientist explore the natural world is through a set of steps know as the _____.

 

  1. Within each hypothesis are two word, if and then and these two terms refer to the independent and dependant variable. What is the role of a control?

 

  1. Where would a scientist publish or discuss results of an experiment?
  2. Which is more “true” a law or a theory? Why?

 

  1. A hypothesis can be used both in science and within moral or ethic debates, which is testable?
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