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Assignments for Mr. Gilliland’s 7th grade
science class
Mon
11-17
Tues
11-18
Wed
11-19
Thu 1120
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Cracking the
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Cracking the
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Fri 11- Turkey Bowl
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1st Semester Final Exam Review Questions
1. Define quantitative observation.
2. Define qualitative observation.
3. What is a representation of a complex process called.
4. What is an operational definition?
5. What are variables in a scientific experiment?
6. What do you do at the end of a lab?
7. What did the invention of the microscope make possible?
8. What are the three parts of the cell theory?
9. What is the function of the cell wall?
10. What is the function of the cell membrane?
11. What is the control center of the cell?
12. What is the function of the mitochondria?
13. What is the storage organelle in a cell?
14. What structures are found in both plant and animal cells?
15. What is a compound?
16. Why is water important to the cell?
17. What do all organic compounds contain?
18. Why are enzymes important?
19. What are starch molecules made up of?
20. Define diffusion.
21. Define osmosis.
22. Define active transport.
23. Define passive transport.
24. What are the levels of organization in multicellular organisms?
25. What occurs during photosynthesis?
26. How does photosynthesis benefit heterotrophs? What is a heterotroph?
27. What do chlorophyll and other pigments do during photosynthesis?
28. What occurs during cellular respiration?
29. What is fermentation?
30. What type of fermentation occurs in yeast?
31. What is the cell cycle? When does replication occur in the cell cycle?
32. What is copied during replication?
33. What comes after mitosis in the cell cycle?
34. How do nitrogen bases pair up in DNA?
35. How do cell look in multicellular organisms?
36. What makes a leaf appear green?
37. Trace energy through the ecosystem starting with the sun.
38. What is the structure of DNA? What is it wound around?
39. What are traits?
40. What are genes?
41. What is a hybrid?
42. How do you represent a dominant and a recessive allele with letters?
43. What are alleles?
44. What is probability?
45. What is a Punnett square? What does it show you?
46. Define phenotype.
47. Define genotype.
48. Define homozygous.
49. Define heterozygous.
50. How many chromosomes do sex cells have in relation to a regular body
cell?
51. What determines the genetic code?
52. What determines the amino acid sequence in a protein?
53. What is the role of mRNA during protein synthesis?
54. What is the role of tRNA during protein synthesis?
55. Where does protein synthesis take place?
56. What nitrogen base is in RNA but not DNA?
57. Define mutation.
58. When is a mutation harmful to an organism?
59. What are multiple alleles?
60. Why does height in humans have such a wide variety of phenotypes?
61. Why are sex-linked traits more common in males than females?
62. What is a carrier in genetics?
63. What factors affect a person’s height?
64. What causes genetic disorders?
65. What happens to a person who has cystic fibrosis?
66. What causes hemophilia?
67. How does Down syndrome occur?
68. What is a pedigree?
69. What are some benefits of genetic engineering?
70. What is inbreeding?
71. Define selective breeding?
72. Define species.
73. Define adaptation. *
74. Define evolution. *
75. Define variation in a species. *
76. Define overproduction. *
77. Define homologous structures. *
78. How do petrified fossils form? *
79. How can new species form?
80. What does a branching tree show? *
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81. How do scientists determine evolutionary relationships among species?
82. What is the start of the scientific inquiry process?
83. What are the raw materials for cellular respiration? What are the end
products of photosynthesis?
84. How does carbon dioxide get into a plant?
85. What is an autotroph?
86. What determines the type of protein that gets produced?
87. Through what type of cells do mutations get passed on to offspring? *
88. How can Down syndrome be diagnosed?
89. In order for bacteria to produce human insulin, the gene for insulin is
spliced into a ______________________________ from a bacterial cell.
90. What is natural selection? *
91. What is a cast type of fossil? *
92. How does species isolation affect organisms? *
93. What do scientists conclude about species with very similar DNA
sequences? *
94. How does genetic diversity affect species and their ability to survive?