Biodiversity Conservation Topics 1-2

Front 1

The ____ era is broken down in to Epochs

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Cenozoic

Front 2

The first dinosaurs appeared in the _____

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Triassic

Front 3

Multicellularity might have evolved from coloniality. True or False?

Back 3

True

Front 4

Bacteria-like DNA is found in the _______ of eukaryotes.

Back 4

Mitochondria

Front 5

Stanley Miller was able to produce synthetic _______

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amino acids

Front 6

The first hominids appeared at the end of the _______

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Tertiary

Front 7

_______ are the site for aerobic respiration in eukaryotes.

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Mitochondria

Front 8

Protenoid spheres could have evolved via _______

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Self assembly

Front 9

Stanley Miller combined methane and ____ in water, in his experiment.

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ammonia

Front 10

Pigment molecules are found in the _____.

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Chloroplasts

Front 11

The endosymbiosis theory argues that small prokaryotic cells were engulfed by ___________.

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larger prokaryotic cells

Front 12

Cholorplasts are found only in the Kingdome Plantae. True or False?

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False

Front 13

Pasteur did an experiment to show that there is no _____.

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Spontaneous generation

Front 14

The Pleistocene Epoch ended roughly _____ years ago.

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8,000

Front 15

Francisco Redi did an experiment to show that meat did not produce maggots by the process of _____.

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Spontaneous generation

Front 16

Some of Pasteur's sterile water flasks are still on display today. True or false?

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True

Front 17

The first fungi evolved in the ____.

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Ordovician

Front 18

Both mitochondria and chloroplasts have two membranes. True or false?

Back 18

True

Front 19

Pasteur bent the slender necks of glass flasks to prevent ___ from reaching sterile water.

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bacteria

Front 20

Oparin converted elemental nitrogen, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen to ____.

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amino acids

Front 21

The bony fish evolved in the _____ period of the Paleozoic.

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Ordovician

Front 22

Conifers evolved in the ____.

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Permian

Front 23

Multicellularity might have evolved by incomplete cell division. True or false?

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True

Front 24

DNA in the nuclei of eukaryotic cells is complexed with ____.

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proteins

Front 25

Most scientists think the Earth is ____ years old.

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4.5 billion

Front 26

Redi's experiment involved denying ____ access to decaying meat.

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flies

Front 27

Oparin did experiments in ____.

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chemical evolution

Front 28

Prokaryotic cells contain ____.

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RNA

Front 29

The ____ is the period of the first vascular plants.

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Silurian

Front 30

The endosymbiosis theory argues that a ____ relationship was established between two cells.

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mutualistic

Front 31

____ was the first period of the Cenozoic.

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Tertiary

Front 32

The conversion of N2 to NH3 is exergonic. True or false?

Back 32

False

Front 33

Some ammonia is mineralized as ____.

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NH4+

Front 34

Ecological pyramids were the brain child of ____.

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Charles Elton

Front 35

The ecological niche of a species may be base on ___.

Back 35

Soil type, moisture, temperature -- any of these.

Front 36

Denitrification is the conversion of ____ to N2.

Back 36

NO2

Front 37

The tropics may harbor more species with narrower niches than temperate species. True or false?

Back 37

True

Front 38

A top predator in a food chain is ____.

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Tertiary consumer

Front 39

Photosynthesis is essentially ____.

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carbon fixation

Front 40

The symbiotic relationship between plant and Rhizobium is ____ in nature.

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mutualistic

Front 41

The ____ was used as an example of a habitat-specialized species.

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Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow

Front 42

Through the evolutionary process, species may become increasingly adapted for narrower environmental conditions and this can make them more rare. True or false?

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True

Front 43

Some nitrogen is fixed by the action of lightning. True or false?

Back 43

True

Front 44

Many ecologists argue that ecological efficiencies are about ____%

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10

Front 45

In a food web animals are never ____.

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Primary producers

Front 46

Plants take up inorganic nitrates and convert them to organic compounds in a process known as ____.

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assimilation

Front 47

Denitrification occurs only ____.

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when 02 is unavailable

Front 48

Most of the gaseous nitrogen in the atmosphere exists in the form of ____.

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N2

Front 49

Denitrification is the conversion of ____ to N2.

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NO2

Front 50

The ____ is highly specialized for a diet of apple snails.

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Everglades Kite

Front 51

The conversion of ammonium ions to nitrates is called ____.

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nitrification

Front 52

Northern mockingbirds were introduced successfully to ____.

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Hawaiian islands

Front 53

The lower part of the atmosphere is called the ____.

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Troposphere

Front 54

Energy in biological systems mostly exists in the form of ____ molecules.

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ATP

Front 55

Of the following ____ is the greenhouse gas most affected by human activities.

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CO2

Front 56

The conversion of amino acids back to ____ is known as ammonification.

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NH3

Front 57

____ is another name for primary produers.

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Autotroph

Front 58

Plants take up inorganic nitrates and convert them to organic compounds in a process known as ____.

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assimilation

Front 59

Carbon is stored mostly as fossil fuels, in CO2 and ____.

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vegetation

Front 60

Temperate species may tend to be more ecologically specialized than their tropical counterparts. True or false?

Back 60

False

Front 61

A rabbit is an example of a ____.

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primary consumer

Front 62

The conversion of ammonium ions to nitrates is called ____.

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nitrification

Front 63

Plants take water from the soil and move it to the atmosphere by mean of ____.

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transpiration

Front 64

In photosynthesis, CO2 is converted to ____ and H2O.

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sugars

Front 65

The conversion of amino acids back to ____ is known as ammonification.

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NH3

Front 66

Water moves through soil to the groundwater by process of ____.

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percolation

Front 67

Ammonia is a gas and has the chemical formula ____.

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NH3

Front 68

Denitrification is the conversion of ____ to N2.

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NO2

Front 69

Rhizobium is an example of a ____ that plays a role in nitrogen fixation.

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bacteria

Front 70

Rhizobium is found in nodules in association with ____ plants.

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Legume

Front 71

Ecological pyramids illustrate the amount of ____ at various trophic levels.

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biomass