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TAMU Biology 112 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Linnaeus - Answer- Binomial nomenclature Darwin - Answer- Fossils, strata Cuvier - Answer- catastrophic events caused extinction Hutton and Lyell - Answer- Gradualism, earth is OLD Lamarck - Answer- Use it or lose it, we get bigger and better, Adaptations - Answer- Inherited characteristics that enhance survival and reproduction Descent with Modification - Answer- Common ancestor (unity in life) aka evolution Alfred Wallace - A...

TAMU Biology 113 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Taxonomy - Answer- naming and classifying organisms systematics - Answer- study of biological diversity on earth Taxonomy is part of this. most general to most specific domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species - Answer- Taxonomic hierchy of classification Genus + species - Answer- scientific name (scientific nomenclature) Ex. Lupinus texensis upper case (scientific name) - Answer- Genus lower case (sci...

TAMU Biology 112 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers Aristotle - Answer- Scala naturae Linnaeus - Answer- Binomial nomenclature Darwin - Answer- Fossils, strata Cuvier - Answer- Strata, extinction, Opposed evolution, catastrophic events caused extinction Hutton and Lyell - Answer- Gradualism, continuous geological growth, earth is OLD Lamarck - Answer- Use it or lose it, we get bigger and better, Adaptations - Answer- Inherited characteristics that enhance survival and reprod...

TAMU Biology 111 final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Reasons why cells divide - Answer- -growth -cell and tissue repair -maintenance -reproduction When does DNA replication occur - Answer- before cell division Prokaryotes accomplish cell division through - Answer- binary fission + cytokinesis Eukaryotes accomplish cell division through - Answer- mitosis + cytokinesis Binary fission - Answer- asexual reproduction by separation of cell into new cells Steps for binary fission - Ans...

functional group - components of a biochemical molecule, identifies the type of biomolecule hydroxyl group - a functional group found in alcohols and sugars, polar, OH carbonyl group - found in carbohydrates, two types terminal aldehyde and an internal ketone one or the other on every monosaccharide carboxyl - found in fatty acids and amino acids, acidic, double bond between carbon and oxygen and a single bond between carbon to hydroxyl, CO2H or COOH Amino group - In every amino acid,...

Taxonomy - naming and classifying organisms systematics - study of biological diversity on earth Taxonomy is part of this. most general to most specific domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species - Taxonomic hierchy of classification Genus + species - scientific name (scientific nomenclature)

7 characteristics of life - Order, Evolutionary adaptation, responses to environment, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, reproduction 3 domains of life - Domain Bacteria- bacteria prokaryotes Domain Archaea- prokaryotes living in extreme climates like boiling hot springs Domain Eukarya- animals and fungi and plants and protists Reductionist - Approaches to biology that break everything down into the simplest possible components to study Systems Biology - Approach tri...

Reasons why cells divide - -growth -cell and tissue repair -maintenance -reproduction When does DNA replication occur - before cell division Prokaryotes accomplish cell division through - binary fission + cytokinesis Eukaryotes accomplish cell division through - mitosis + cytokinesis Binary fission - asexual reproduction by separation of cell into new cells Steps for binary fission - -CIRCULAR dna attaches to membrane -dna is replicated

TAMU Biology 112 EXAM 1 Questions and Answers Graded A+ What are the fundamental elements of science ? 1. Without data, you are just a loud mouh with an option 2. use info and critical thinking to solve problems. 3. science is not afraid to change its mind based on new evidence 4. 1 time does not make a pattern our brains runs on glucose What is evolution? Species change over time. All species alive now came from previously existing life forms. It is a descent with modification whi...