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Flashcards by Olivia Gniadek, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Olivia Gniadek
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| Question | Answer |
| Why do cacti have a small surface area to volume ratio? | It creates a relatively smaller surface area to lose water through |
| In the tree below, which is the most recent common ancestor of Agaricus Bisporus and Aplysima fistularis? | d |
| To be classified as 'living' something must have all these properties except | Mobility |
| All Chordates display the following properties at some stage during their life except | a mineralised skeleton |
| Grazing by herbivores in grasslands can increase primary productivity because | By eating and defecating they speed up nutrient circulation |
| In phylogenic trees a 'clade' | includes a common ancestor and all of its decendents |
| A plant haustorium | penetrates host tissue to access nutrients in the vessels |
| Apical meristems can always be located | in shoot tips and root tips |
| In Thomas Engelmann's experiment with Spirogyra | most bacteria were found where blue light was shining |
| Interminate growth in plants is possible because plants | maintain a pool of embryonic tissue |
| The pollen gymnosperms is generally (A) and produced in (B) quantities compared to animal pollinated angiosperms | Smaller and greater |
| Most plants will only benefit from more CO2 in the atmosphere if. | all other resources are not limiting |
| The 2nd step of pollination is considered to be | growth of the pollen tube |
| Similar bone structures in the forelimbs of humans, cats, whales and bats indicate what? | Common ancestry |
| Why are bonsai trees interesting from an evolutionary perspective | They can show that acquired traits are not passed to offspring |
| All the following are used as supporting evidence for evolution except | Fluctuation of global temperatures over thousands of years |
| You are working in a museum and someone brings in an unidentified animal. You see that it has radial symmetry and a digestive system with a single opening. What phylum of animals would this belong to? | Cnidaria |
| Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) | has crossed from apes to humans at least 4 times |
| Genetic drift and natural selection are similar because | they both change the frequency of existing variation |
| A plant hemiparasite | can photosynthesise |
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