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1. What would happen if you put pGLO directly onto an agar plate and you checked on it after letting it incubate?
a. It would glow
b. It would grow
c. Nothing
d. E.Coli would grow
2. Explain in a short sentence or two your reasoning for question 1.
3. What shape is a plasmid?
4. How is a plasmid different from human DNA? Write one difference.
5. Bacteria can share DNA through a unique method called transformation. What are the TWO requirements a bacteria cell must possess in order to share DNA with another bacteria cell?
6. Why during our experiment did we put our e.Coli with pGLO inserted in it onto agar plates with ampicillin (Amp)?
a. So that it would kill the e.Coli and serve as our control
b. To kill all the e.Coli that did not take up the pGLO
c. To create antibiotic resistant bacteria
d. To cause the e.Coli to glow
7. Yeast cells are what type of cell?
a. Bacteria
b. Eukaryotes
c. Prokaryotes
d. Archaea
8. Why would someone study yeast cells instead of human cells?
9. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: If your cells is exposed to UV light and it causes a thymidine dimer, your cell is doomed to die.
10. Are wildtype (control) yeast immune to UV light damage?
11. BTB was a dye we used to directly measure ________
a. PH
b. Oxygen
c. Carbon Dioxide
d. Carbon
12. BTB was a dye we used to INDIRECTLY measure ________
a. PH
b. Oxygen
c. Carbon Dioxide
d. Carbon
13. What is one reason why a plant would want to close its stomata?
14. What is one function that ground tissues provides for a plant?
15. List one difference between monocots and dicots
16. Why is it important for a plant to have stomata? Write one reason why
17. What is the purpose of xylem in a plant cell?
18. Pholem is also important to plant cells, what is it’s purpose?
19. This theory explains why trees can grow to such tall heights and still provide water to their leaves.
a. Translocation
b. Transpiration
c. Cohesion-Tension
d. Vacuum
20. Fill in the blank
Pholem is considered to be a(n) _________ transport system while xylem is considered a(n) _______________transport system.
21. Apical meristems are found in these two places on a plant
a. At the site of new leaf growth and the roots closes to the top of the soil
b. Vascular tissue and ground tissue
c. Ground tissue and dermal tissue
d. The point of new growth on the stem and root
22. Fill in the blank.
Xylem moves substances _____ while phloem moves substances _____ a plant.
23. What are the two types of digestive mechanisms?
24. What is one benefit that mastication has for digestion?
25. What is an example of an organism that digests food intracellularly?
26. What is an example of an organism that digests food extracellularly?
27. Give two examples of where surface area is increased in a small space to aid in absorption within the human body
28. Name one difference between arteries and veins.
29. What is the role of capillaries in the circulatory system?
30. How are the terms “excretion” and “defecation” different?
31. What is the role of the ADH hormone?
32. What does the term “Medulla” refer to when talking about mammalian tissue?
a. The outer edges of a tissue
b. The middle of a tissue
c. The top of a tissue
d. The bottom of a tissue
33. Fill in the blank
Mammals have a _______ circulatory system while insects have a _______ circulatory system.
34. What is one benefit a closed circulatory system provides?
35. What is hemolymph?
