Biology Questions

Question 31 Points 2 Which of the following statements is true regarding World War I and World War II Americans who served in World War II are equal to Americans who served in World War I Americans who served in World War II are almost the same to Americans who served in World War I Americans who served in World War II are fewer than Americans who served in World War I O Americans who served in World War II are more than Americans who served in World War I Ques 1 5 9 13 17

O helped strengthen family values Oled directly to the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment O energized a new women s rights movement reinforced the importance of women s traditional roles

Study this list Housing shortage High inflation High unemployment Based on your own knowledge this list is best summarized as O a difficult post war readjustment O a typical economic cycle O a second Great Depression O laissez faire economics Complete Later Complete

Question 30 What were some of the driving forces behind the strong U S economy in the 1990 s O Job growth in heavy industry O A higher trade deficit O Continued high inflation O Growth in the technology industries Que 1 5 9 13 17 21

Choose the correct answer British and US troops landed at the during this time Normandy Coast Germany O North Africa Italy O Suez Canal Ghana Normandy Coast US on June 6 1944 The Soviets also Complete Later Complete

40 5 3 6 Richard Nixon 5 O Hubert Humphrey O Lyndon Johnson George Wallace 7 8 25 10 9 12 12 6 10 26 131 26 NH 4 VT 3 43 29 612 11 7 10 12 1 12 8 14 Based on your own knowledge which candidate won the states represented in orange MA 14 RI 4 CT 8 NJ 17 DE 3 MD 10 DC 3 Humphrey Nixon Wallace

When did concrete become a popular material in modern architecture Since 1950 O After 1955 O Late 1960 O Following 1945

Question 29 How would you describe the U S economy in the 1970 s Points 1 O Weak mostly because of inflation and high taxes Weak mostly because of deflation O Strong because of lower taxes O Stable

Read this quotation Let us not assassinate this lad further Senator you ve done enough Have you no sense of decency sir at long last Have you left no sense of decency Based on this quotation and your own knowledge who was the target of this remark O Senator Joseph McCarthy O Chairman of HUAC Senator Karl Mundt O President Eisenhower Ronald Reagan Complete Later Complete 5 9 13 17 21 25 29

Study this timeline January 31 Tet Offensive March 31 President Johnson announces he will not run for re election April 4 Martin Luther King Jr assassinated June 5 Robert F Kennedy assassinated Based on your own knowledge this is a partial timeline for the year O 1964 O 1963 O 1970 1968 Complete Later Complete

Question 25 Points 2 What was one of the reasons President Johnson decided to deploy troops to Vietnam O The American people demanded President Johnson take action after eight soldiers were killed in Vietnam O Many Americans strongly opposed communism and demanded President Johnson to stop it Hundreds of American soldiers had died in Vietnam and their families demanded President Johnson take action Escalating American involvement in Vietnam was part of Johnson s campaign goals Complete Later Complete Questi 1 5 9 13 17 21 25

1946 Churchill s speech coins term Iron Curtain 1947 Policy of containment including Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine 1950 McCarthy hearings Korean War begins 1953 Korean War ends nuclear arms race begins with tests 1957 Sputnik launched 1958 Explorer I launched NASA begins Mercury project 1959 Fidel Castro takes over Cuba 1960 JFK elected spy plane shot down over Soviet Union 1961 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam involvement increases Based on your own knowledge what is a significant event from 1961 that would best fit into this timeline O Berlin Blockade and Airlift O Bay of Pigs Invasion O Warsaw Pact President Kennedy assassinated 5 9 13 17 21 25 29 33 37 41

Question Who are the two spies who helped the Soviet Union O Alger Hiss and McCarthy Truman and Churchill O Klaus Fuchs and Alger Hiss O McCarthy and Truman

Xingjiang Tibet Xizang Cemed to be part Or mg O Xinjiang Tibet Taiwan Inner Mongolia Nei Mongol Yinchuan Ningxia Tayan Shanxi Lanzhou Qinghai Xining Lhasa Gansu Xan Hotho Beijing Shenyang Liaoning Heilongjiang Harbin Changchun Jilin Hebei Tianjin Shijiazhuang Jinan Shandong Shaanxi Henan Jiangsu Hefol Naning Shanghal Chengdu Hubei Anhui Hangzhou Sichuan Chongqing when Zhejiang Nanchang Guizhou Hunan Jiangxi Fuzhou Fujian aipel Gulyang Kunming Yunnan Guangxi Guangdong Taiwan Guangzhou Nanning Hong Kong Macau Halkou Hainan What province did the Chinese Nationalists flee to in May of 1949 Dalmad Governed by the Republic of China

Question 20 Points 1 How many miles did the first Sputnik traveled around the Earth per hour O 18 000 miles per hour 15 000 miles per hour O 12 000 miles per hour O 16 000 miles per hour

What is the motto of Cominform O To create tension between communist and non communist parties in Europe O To create tension between communist and non communist parties in America O To create tension between communist and non communist parties in Russia O To create tension between communist and non communist parties all over the world

Question 16 Points 1 The policy of restricting the spread of Communism is known as O Marshall plan O Containment O Truman doctrine O Cominform

Question 17 Points 2 Which is a characteristic of the Soviet Union after Stalin and under Khrushchev s rule O Terrorism decreased O All of the choices O Basic liberties were restored O Industrial society developed Questions 1 5 9 13 1 17 21 1 22

A Franklin D Roosevelt B Herbert Hoover C Dwight D Eisenhower D Harry S Truman Which answer choice below gives the correct order of the presidents O A B C D O B C A D OB A D C OC A B D

What is blitzkrieg O A national German holiday in which the German s called a cease fire during World War II A blitzkrieg is a German tank A blitzkrieg is a special German rifle O The German form of warfare that takes place with great speed and force 1 5 9 13 17 21

Question 14 Points 1 On May 8 1945 the Allies celebrated V E Day What is V E Day O Victoria Election Day Visual Electric Day O Valence Electron Day O Victory on Europe Day Complete Later

Which of the following BEST completes the analogy IS TO AS IS TO Russia O Charles de Gaulle France Joseph Stalin O Joseph Stalin France Charles de Gaulle O Joseph Stalin Russia Adolf Hitler Emperor Hirohito Japan Benito Mussolini

Enzyme Products Active site Substrates Enzyme Substrate Complex Enzyme Product Complex The products leave the enzyme s active site The substrates enter the enzyme s active site

Usually which of the following are based on a combination of physical and pathological examinations diagnostic test results and signs and symptoms Disease controls O Disease frequencies Disease definitions Disease distributions

Which of the following contribute to scientific knowledge by recording treatment and response information in patients medical records Basic science O Clinical science Environmental science Public health science

Modern epidemiologists consider which study to be a classic exemplar for the investigation of a given outcome and an array of exposures Streptomycin Tuberculosis Trial Doll and Hill s Studies on Smoking and Lung Cancer The Framingham Study John Snow s Cholera Study

True or False Life course epidemiologists investigate how neighborhoods racial discrimination and poverty influence a person s health True False

True or False The purpose of surveillance is to monitor aspects of disease occurrence that are pertinent to effective control True False

True or False Epidemiologists test hypotheses by making comparisons usually within the context of a formal epidemiological study O True False

Which of the following a key activity of epidemiologists includes three steps developing a definition of disease instituting a mechanism to account for cases of disease within a specified population and determining the size of the population Counting

Biomarkers such as serum micronutrient levels which can determine a person s fruit and vegetable intake more accurately than can personal interviews are used in which field of modern epidemiology Social epidemiologists Molecular epidemiologists Human genome epidemiologists 162 Life course epidemiologists

The focus of research for which type of science is often on the disease mechanism or process Basic science Clinical science Environmental science Public health science

The units of concern for which type of scientist are groups of people living in the community rather than separate individuals visiting a healthcare facility Basic scientists Clinical scientists Environmental scientists Public health scientists

o Question 5 Reflect on the concept of health equity and its significance within Healthy People 2030 How does this framework address health disparitie among different populations

mall iguanas are faster runners than big iguanas If predators are introduced to the island that preferably catch and eat slower iguanas iguana body ze is likely to in the absence of other factors the iguanas would then be under selection stay the same stabilizing increase directional decrease directional decrease stabilizing increase disruptive

1986 a nuclear power accident in Chernobyl USSR now Ukraine led to high radiation levels for miles surrounding the nuclear plant The high le fradiation caused elevated mutation rates in the surviving organisms and evolutionary biologists have been studying rodent populations in the hernobyl area ever since Based on your understanding of evolutionary mechanisms which of the following most likely occurred in the rodent opulations following the accident Mutation caused the fixation of new alleles Mutation led to increased genetic variation and a higher potential for evolutionary change Mutation by itself led to major changes in rodent physiology over time Mutation caused genetic drift and decreased fitness Mutation created Captain America s arch nemesis the Red Skull

The bold adjective describes which noun At the castle Freddie Benson felt royal when he sat in the king s throne

If there are 30 nucleotides in an mRNA molecule from and including the start to the stop codon it would form a protein containing no more than amino acids 09 O 15 O 10 30

The A gene is autosomal A man with genotype Aa has a child with a woman whose genotype is AA Their child s genotype is Aaa and this child is viable What can be concluded Choose all that apply Non disjunction occurred in either meiosis I or meiosis II in the father cannot determine which stage Non disjunction occurred during meiosis I or meiosis II in the mother cannot determine which stage The child has Klinefelters Syndrome Non disjunction occurred during meiosis II in the father The child s genotype is euploid The child has Downs syndrome The child s genotype is aneuploid

Below is a diagram of a gene that is not normally alternatively spliced All four exons represented as boxes are found in the mature mRNA Transcription starts at the arrow labeled TSS transcription stops at the line labeled TT Which region s are found in the mRNA made from this gene Select all that apply OA OB OC QUS D m Promoter TSS ATG Start codon A B C TAA Stop codon D TT E

The karyotype below shows chromosomes 5 and 12 for a family in which the child has a severe disease Mother Chromosome 5 12 Father 5 12 Child 5 12 Which of the following statements best describes the situation presented O The father has a mutation and a similar phenotype to the child the child inherited the mutation from the father The father has a translocation from chromosome 5 to 12 he is normal but the child inherited an incomplete chromosome 5 The father has a reciprocal translocation where chromosomes 5 and 12 exchanged material he is affected and has passed on the translocation to his child O The child has a deletion mutation that occurred spontaneously

Breaks a 26 b OR b DE a a b 2 A chromosome is damaged by two double stranded breaks at a and b as shown in the diagram above The numbers 1 and 2 identify two chromosome abnormalities that could result from repairing these breaks What can be concluded Select all that apply O Chromosome 1 may or may not have changes in the functional status of any of the genes in the green section Genes in the green section of chromosome 1 will be non functional since genes cannot be transcribed backwards Chromosome 2 is missing some genes O Repaired chromosome 1 would produce twice as much of some gene products

This pedigree shows an X linked disease trait Individual 1 is not born yet so the sex and disease status of this not known PART 1 This trait O is dominant O is recessive O could be either dominant or recessive more information is needed PART 2 The parents in Generation II are expecting children What is the probability that Individual 1 will be a male and will have the disorder O 0 O 25 O 50 O 75 O 100 PART 3 The parents in Generation II are expecting children What is the probability that Individual 1 will be a female and have the disorder 0 0 1 O 25 O 50 O 75 100

A geneticist isolates a gene from a eukaryotic species The gene codes for a protein involved in lactose digestion They also isolate the corresponding mRNA Upon comparison the mRNA is found to contain 1 000 fewer nucleotides than the DNA sequence Did the geneticist isolate the wrong DNA O no the mRNA was partially degraded after it was transcribed O yes the mRNA should contain more bases than the DNA sequence because bases flanking the gene are also transcribed O yes mRNA is made from a DNA template and should be the same length as the gene sequence on the final mRNA contains only exons the introns were removed

Nondisjunction it Nondisjunction in Nondisjunction in V is a failure of sister chromatids to separate is a failure of homologous chromosomes to separate results in four gametes with abnormal chromosome compositions Nondisjunction in abnormal chromosome compositions results in two gametes with a normal chromosome composition and two gametes with

Two parents who do not have color blindness have a daughter who has one X chromosome and is color blind Color blindness is inherited in an X linked recessive manner Part 1 In which parent did the nondisjunction event occur O Mother O Father O Cannot be determined Part 2 In which phase of meiosis did the nondisjunction event occur O Meiosis I O Meiosis II O Cannot be determined

On the left are four pedigrees and at the right are four possible types of inheritance Match each pedigree with the mode of inheritance with which it is most consistent using each answer only once C A B D 5 Autosomal dominant X linked dominant X linked recessive Autosomal recessive

1 11 III 9 1 1 Autosomal recessive O X linked recessive OX linked dominant O Autosomal dominant 2 O 1 2 O 1 3 O 1 4 Part 1 What is the mode of inheritance of the trait O 1 6 3 O 1 3 2 O 1 6 4 1 2 3 Part 2 What is the probability that the firstborn twin in Generation III will have the trait OO 5 4 6 Part 3 The twins shown in the pedigree are fraternal twins the result of two eggs fertilized at the same time by two different sperm What is the probability that both twins will be affected 00 O 1 2

a pedigree of a guinea pig family with a history 81 1 II III Part 1 O 07 From the pedigree is the curly hair trait inherited in a dominant or recessive manner Briefly explain your answer referring to specific observations in the pedigree BIU T T I The male guinea pig indicated with a blue circle mates with a female guinea pig that has normal straight hair What are the genotypes of these parents XR designates the dominant allele and X the recessive allele O Male XRY Female X X O Male X Y Female XRx O Male X Y Female XRXR O Male XRY Female xx O Male XRY Female XRXR O Male X Y Female XX What is the probability that any one of their offspring will be a female with straight hair 00 O 1 4 O 1 4 O2 3 0 10000 Word Limit What is the probability that any one of their offspring will be a male with straight hair 00 01 2

How might a scientist test this hypothesis Burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gases is making the Earth warmer and causing changes in the weather a b C Analyze the chemical composition of the greenhouse gases emitted from fossil fuels Conduct experiments to see how much greenhouse gas is being released from volcanoes Survey people s opinions about fossil fuels and climate change d Research historical climate data to identify if there is any relationship between burning fossil fuels and ne temperature