The Living World Questions and Answers

process that you have been learning about is called natural selection A heritable increases fitness tends to become common in a population because 1 individuals that have this t are more likely to survive and reproduce and 2 their offspring generally have the same trait Evolution is defined as a change over time in the inherited characteristics of a population Naturalselection plays a major role in evolution A deer eats from a cactus plant A few weeks later the cactus with thorns has flowers A few months later Natural selection occurs in all types of organisms Explain how natural selection is occurring inthe example shown in these drawing Use evidence from the picture to claim that evolution leads to adaptation of populations Use evidence support how heritable traits have changed over time

When describing the variety of different species and their interactions with each other is a defined geographic area you are describing a an habitat biome abiotic environment ecosystem

Which of the following differentiates tundra from grassland biomes animal life trees permafrost grasses

Fitness is defined as the ability to s characteristic increased fitness

Choose the correct answer The majority of the work that is done in the House of Representatives is in closed session committee O special session O jurisdiction

Which of these methods is not a way in which a U S Senator may cast a vote Roll call O Voice O Standing O Electronic

Question 1 A bill that cannot pass on its own and is attached to another bill which may be an unrelated matter is a Points 1 O attachment rider O amendment veto

Choose the correct answer A bill is read times before it is signed by Speaker of the House O 3 02 04 O 5

Choose the correct answer A is a proposed law presented to the House or Senate for consideration O referendum O initiative bill O reform

The president has four options once a bill or resolution comes to his desk Which of these is not one of his options O The president may sign the bill into law O The president may send the bill back for more amendments O The president may veto the bill O The president may allow the bill to become law without signing it

5 If you have a solution of 10 mg mL BSA bovine serum albumin and you need to prepare a 0 5 mg ml solution how much of the 10 mg ml solution should you add and how much water should you add otal 20ml

What procedure may be used to recognize a specific gene sequence in the gDNA Suggest a method for creating a recombinant soybean plant that contains and expresses a human insulin gene Suggest a method for screening soybean tissue that has been inoculated with A tumefacien for the purpose of the insertion of a recombinant Ti plasmid d in question

Which of the following best explains why echinocandins a class of antifungal drugs are selectively toxic to fungal cells but not human cells Echinocandins target synthesis of ergosterol which is a central structure of the fungal cell membrane and humans contain cholesterol instead of ergosterol in their cell membranes Echinocandins bind to ergosterol in the cell membranes of fungi causing pores to form in their cell membranes and humans contain cholesterol instead of ergosterol in their cell membranes Echinocandins inhibit the function of fungal ribosomes which have a different prokaryotic structure compared to the eukaryotic ribosomes of humans Echinocandins target synthesis of beta glucans which are central structures of fungal cell walls and humans do not have cell walls

Read the poem There are several questions about this poem what he s winter on the board Then he waiks around the room again talking quietly to each student and writing in their notebooks What if he talks to me in French I won t know what he s saying My heart pounds so hard I m afraid it will jump out of my chest and run away When his back is toward us Ter z whispers in my ear He s just asking your name so he can write it on your notebook Serafina I say when Monsieur Leblanc stands over me I watch him draw a neat group of loops and lines When he moves on I trace the loops and lines 20 25 30 35 In line 27 Serafina tells how Ter z whispers in my ear Which sentence best describes why Ter z does this 1 She is trying to be funny by whispering to other students 2 She is being kind when she tells Serafina what is being said 3 She is trying to be responsible and complete her schoolwork 4 She is being brave when no one else dares to speak to Serafina

Read the poem There are 43 lines in the poem The poem is numbered every S lines Serafina is a young girl growing up in Hatt and this is her first day of school from Serafina s Promise in the afternoon Monsieur Leblanc hands out the green notebooks and yellow pencils Nadia showed me how to hold a pencil but some of the other students grab it in their hand like a maraca Monsieur Leblanc walks around the room shaking his head and twisting fingers He signals us to open the notebooks and copy the lines and circles 10 15 These lines are from the poem He signals us to open the notebooks Lines 14 15 What does the word signals express about how the teacher tells the students what to do 1 He tells them what to do in a firm way O2 He tells them what to do in a clear way 3 He tells them what to do by using motions 4 He tells them what to do by writing directions

Read the passage and the glossary Shana and David want to build a tree house They made a list of the materials they will need They need wooden planks to build the floor and railing They also need nails to hold the boards together They want an old rug and pillows to put inside the tree house Shana and David will now find the materials they will need to build the tree house Glossary materials all of the items needed to make something planks long flat pleces of wood rail a bar held up by posts Which group of words are names of materials 1 cloth glue and yarn 2 posts floors and houses 3 trees flowers and clouds 4 bark leaves and streams

of us afloat in the meadow by the swing ree of us aboard in the basket on the lea are in the air they are blowing in the spring nd waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea shall we adventure to day that we re afloat ary of the weather and steering by a star t be to Africa a steering of the boat o Providence or Babylon or off to Malabar there s a squadron a rowing on the sea Cattle on the meadow a charging with a roar and we ll escape them they re as mad as they can be 5 10 poern 1 The picture shows how the children watch the weather O2 The picture shows how the children avoid danger at sea 3 The picture shows how the children decide where to travel 4 The picture shows how the children pretend to be in a boat

Read the passage The music known as Jazz is described by some as a musical conversation It is common for jazz musicians to improvise while playing a song Using their musical knowledge and guided by fresh ideas the performers add new notes and new rhythms as they play along What does improvise mean in the passage O 1 to play for a live audience O2 to perform with a new group of people 3 to perform something without any planning 4 to play more than one Instrument at a time

What is the name of the Constitution clause out of which much of Congress s implied powers flow O The Appropriations Clause O The Ways and Means Clause O The Necessary and Proper Clause O The McCain Feingold Clause Complete Later Complete

Question 3 Points 2 How would a strict constructionist view the power of the federal government today He she would be appalled at the enormous power of the federal government which has grown through war economic crisis and public demands He she would be pleased with the growth of the federal government which has expanded through war economic crisis and public demands O He she would be upset that the federal government did not have more powers over the states O He she would be upset over the immense powers of the states 9

Lying under oath is called O fibbing perjury O bending the truth O creative speaking

Q What type of symmetry does an adult sea star have Find the mouth located in the center and protected by spines Locate the

Q How would you differentiate walking legs from swimmerets

Q How many appendages are chelate that is pincer like with opposing claws Locate the five pairs of swimmerets on the abdomen in the male the anterior two

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All the carbon found in the world is either produced by a system or absorbed by a system What is the term for a system on Earth that absorbs carbon A carbon source A carbon sponge A carbon sink A carbon filter

Question 25 The fusion of a cell in G with a cell in M phase causes the G cell to immediately begin O G phase OS phase O G phase 2 pts

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The Article says Monitoring workers can help companies Employees may work harder They are also less likely to steal company data or money And they may use kinder language in e mails and on the phone Which must mean the opposite of inder as it is used above A Clearer B Newer C Easier D Meaner

Think about the Article The reader can tell that A Amazon has probably thought about monitoring workers e mails B Amazon has probably decided that worker morale isn t important C Amazon probably thinks monitoring workers would waste money D Amazon probably does not allow workers to use phones at work

9 The celery stalks that you eat are leaf stalks What kind of cells are the strings inside the celery

According to a study done by UCB students the height for Martian adult males is normally distributed with an average of 66 inches and a standard deviation of 2 3 inches Suppose one Martian adult male is randomly chosen Let X height of the individual Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible a What is the distribution of X X N b Find the probability that the person is between 62 4 and 63 7 inches c The middle 40 of Martian heights lie between what two numbers Low inches High inches

Which of these is a fact A Monitoring workers is more important than how workers feel B Monitoring workers with a wristband is an unkind thing to do C Amazon has a new wristband that can monitor workers activities D Company leaders should look at their monitoring rules carefully

Something that is monitored is A Watched closely B Imagined C Skipped D Kept quiet

Monitoring can lead to employees working harder Facts Monitoring can cause employees to look for new jobs Think about the Article Which fits best in the empty box above A Experts say that most data on company devices can be monitored B Monitoring employees can help companies make sure workers don t steal C Workers may find that monitoring leads them to use kinder language in e mails

Many companies monitor their employees at work Companies use technology to do this Monitoring can help companies But it can upset workers What do you think Advances in technology have led to an unacceptable loss of individual privacy O Agree O Disagree Explain why you voted the way you did

What is the function of cAMP phosphodiesterase a It inactivates protein kinase B Ob It phosphorylates other proteins Oc It activates protein kinase A Od It converts CAMP into AMP Oe It joins two R and two C subunits of the PKA

Which property is NOT associated with lipid membranes Oa self assembled leaflets a Ob asymmetry OC solvent for proteins Od electric polarization e solvent for carbohydrates

What allows an organism to sense its environment and formulate a proper biochemical response a signal transduction Ob primary messenger OC oncogene O d proto oncogene e receptors

What disease is NOT a result of a mutation in the receptor tyrosine kinases a inflammation b Cushing s syndrome C type 2 diabetes O d cancer e arteriosclerosis

38 In early video games why could a human player always triumph over a games AI 39 Write the lines engraved in the copper

35 Latin verb to learn 36 A Definitions of Ludus The Latin word ludus means play or game Throughout history it has been used i a variety of settings to refer to various kinds of games or enjoyable pursuits 11

37 Describe what a lich is Why is a lich considered dangerous

36 A Definitions of Ludus B How did learning the definition of Ludus in school help Wade with the Copper

33 Explain how Wade s process to discovering the hidden message for the Copper Key

32 Re write the opening verse of Anorak s Invitation

30 Only the meek get pinched The bold survive Google it Explain this quote 31 What are 5 interests of Halliday that you would want to look into more thoroughly

28 What was Wade s secret to mastering Anorak s Almanac 29 List a few of Halliday s favorite authors

20 Describe I r0k the avatar character