Biology STARR test Review

(Which graph?) You want to know how where an object is after 3 seconds.

(Which graph?) You want to know how the population of migratory birds differs between multiple wetland locations.

(Which graph?) You want to know what percentage of your income is spent on entertainment.

(Which graph?) You want to predict the population of insects at a certain time after collecting data for several days.

(X or Y) Is the dependent variable

(X or Y) Is the responsive variable

(X or Y) Records what you are measuring

(X or Y) Records one of the control variable

(X or Y) Records what you are changing in the experiment (experimental variable)

Is the manipulated variable

(X or Y) Is the independent variable

(X or Y) vertical

(X or Y) horizontal

(Control, Experimental, or Responsive Variable?) What you are studying in an experiment.

(Control, Experimental, or Responsive Variable?) There are many of these in a good experiment.

(Control, Experimental, or Responsive Variable?) What happens in the experiment.

(Control, Experimental, or Responsive Variable?) There is only one of these in a good experiment.

(Control, Experimental, or Responsive Variable?) What you record in an experiment

Why do good experiments have control setups?

(Qualitative -1 or Quantitative -2) the speed of an object

(Qualitative or Quantitative) the color of a substance

(Qualitative or Quantitative) the height a plant grows

(Qualitative or Quantitative) the mass of a rock when measuring density

(Qualitative or Quantitative) how an animal reacts due to different stimuli

Scientific method in order!

(Which part of scientific method?) A scientist measures the amt. of acid necessary to dissolve a certain amt. of magnesium.

(Which part of scientific method?) You believe your car won't start because you are out of gas.

(Which part of scientific method?) You notice that a ball rolls farther up a hill depending on how fast it was going.

(Which part of scientific method?) You decide that adding salt to ice water allows the ice water to get colder than water alone.

Difference between theory, hypothesis, and a guess?

(Theory, Hypothesis, or Guess) You think that a person is going to come late to the bus because they were late yesterday.

(Which part of scientific method?) You think that some plastic water bottles may not be healthy because you can taste the plastic in the water.

(Which part of scientific method?) The earth revolves around the sun. The sun does not revolve around the earth.

(Which part of scientific method?) You think that adding salt water allows it to have a higher boiling point (it boils at a higher temp.)

Give 5 safety rules!

When diluting an acid, do we add acid to water or water to acid?

2 safety rules for cutting with a sharp instrument

What does corrosive, combustible, and carcinogen mean?

(Corrosive -1, combustible -2, or carcinogen -3) Flammable

(Corrosive -1, combustible -2, or carcinogen -3) Eats away at something

(Corrosive -1, combustible -2, or carcinogen -3) Causes cancer

(Corrosive -1, combustible -2, or carcinogen -3) Eats away what it touches

(Corrosive -1, combustible -2, or carcinogen -3) Wood or gasoline

(Corrosive -1, combustible -2, or carcinogen -3) Strong acid on your skin

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used to measure mass (2)

used to measure temperature

used to measure volume (3)

used to add very small amounts of a liquid

used to carry liquids(2)

very accurate for measuring liquids(20

used to make fine cuts in specimen

Which is more precise beaker or graduated cylinder?

What are plants called since they make their own food?

What is glucose?

Where is glucose produced in a plant cell?

Where do plants use glucose?

The process of water evaporating from leaves and pulling more water up through the plant.

(Leaves, stems, or roots) absorbs water through osmosis

(Leaves, stems, or roots) pulls water up to the leaves

(Leaves, stems, or roots) has stomas

(Leaves, stems, or roots) supports the plant, like a skeleton

(Leaves, stems, or roots) Helps keep land from eroding

(Leaves, stems, or roots) Have waxy coating (called the cuticle)

The ___ transports water up the plant, while the ____ transports glucose back down.

If a plant is flaccid it is..

what is turgor pressure?

when plants don't have enough water they ____.

Why do cacti only open their stomas at night?

stomas?

Manure is biotic or abiotic?

What are Mutualism, Commensalism, Predation, and Parasitism?

Trophic Levels in order

As an embryo grows is it undergoing mitosis or meiosis.

mutation leads to..

When are 2 organisms defined as different species?

(Virus or Bacteria) Has genetic material

(Virus or Bacteria) Are alive

(Virus or Bacteria) Help us with digestion

(Virus or Bacteria) needs a host cell to reproduce

(Virus or Bacteria) have hard protein coating

(Virus or Bacteria) have a cell membrane

(Virus or Bacteria) can cause diseases

(Virus or Bacteria) can be beneficial

(Virus or Bacteria) are in yogurt

(Virus or Bacteria) can replicate if given the nutrients

(Virus or Bacteria) takes over a cell

(Virus or Bacteria) Has a nucleus

(Virus or Bacteria) can make its own proteins

(Virus or Bacteria) killed by antibiotics

(Virus or Bacteria) causes colds and flu

Two ways viruses seem to be alive

proof that viruses are not alive

Why is the overuse of antibiotics harmful to us?

3 diseases that cannot be cured by antibiotics

What organelle makes proteins?

Without this organelle, the cell would be unable to repair itself/continue to grow.

Without this organelle, if a plant lost cell water, it would shrink.

which organelle holds waste products and maintains water pressure in the cell

what holds up a plant cell like a skeleton

Why are chloroplasts green?

what organelle will allow or disallow these molecules to get in

which organelle moves these molecules around the cell?

Where are the plans for making the proteins stored?

which organelle makes energy or ATP for the cell

Which organelle redistributes material to the rest of the cell?

which organelle breaks down left over and worn out material?

2 organelles that make energy?

which organelle is the green house and performs photosynthesis?

What is the formula for Photosynthesis?

Equation for cellular respiration?

What is the proof that respiration is a combustion reaction?

Taxonomy in Order!

Name the 6 Kingdoms!

What is a heterotroph?

what is a saprobe?

Organisms with a nucleus are..

This kingdom lives in extreme very hot environments.

this kind of bacteria lives in our stomachs

what is the movement of molecules from high to low concentration?

what is a semi-permeable membrane?

Movement of water in high to low through cell membrane

2 examples of humans maintaining homeostasis?

match DNA to DNA : AGGTCA

DNA to RNA? : GGTAC

egg or sperm; has only 1/2 the chromosomes of a full cell

Gametes include what kind of cells?

fertilized egg; has full set of chromosomes

What kind of cells for zygote?

cell division for regeneration-replace with exact copies

Meiosis affects ____ cells. 
Mitosis affects _____ cells.

Cell division for sexual reproduction; produce gametes(eggs/sperms)

Occurs when the nitrogen base sequence is copied wrong

If the gamete cell has 28 chromosomes, how many in the zygote?

Process in which DNA is copied into mRNA

Process in which proteins are made from tRNA

Amino Acids are...

Code of 3 nitrogen bases that tells the ribosome what amino acid to make

(Translation or Transcription) when mRNA is turned into tRNA

(Translation or Transcription) When DNA is turned into mRNA

(Translation or Transcription) Occurs in the nucleus

(Translation or Transcription) Occurs at the ribosomes

The only system that has completely different parts for genders is ...

system that surrounds the entire body

system that is attacked by the AIDS virus

system that protects the brain

system that moves the bones

system that includes the stomach and intestines

system that causes you to feel anxious

system for bird's feathers

system that protects your bones

system that helps you get well from the flu

system that removes unabsorbed food

system that is like the cell membrane for a cell

system that makes decisions for the body

what 6 systems does the heart transport for?

Which 2 systems have been opened when you bleed?

How is the skin part of the nervous system?

Is our circulatory system open or closed?

which system is being helped when amphibians allow oxygen through their skin?

muscles that are autonomous(not controlled) include...

gel electrophoresis is for what?

What is ecology?

Cell theory... 2 scientists.. 3 laws

Crossing over=?

leaf structure: what is it called when gas and water vapor exiting the leaf

Mitosis in order

What happens during prophase?

what happens during metaphase?

what happens during anaphase?

What happens during telophase?

Interphase is divided into what 3 phases?

What happens during G1 phase?

what happens during the S phase?

What happens during the G2 phase?

what are the 2 tiny structures located in the cytoplasm near the nuclear envelope at he beginning of prophase

which phase in mitosis?

Which phase of mitosis is this?