Biology Lab 1 Pre-Questionnaire



Please complete this questionnaire by filling in the following data, then submit the form. You will receive 5 points just for doing it, regardless of the correctness of your answers. Please fill out as much as you remember or know how to do. If you don’t know the answer to a question, don’t check any of the boxes. If you think that more than one answer is correct, you may check multiple boxes. The purpose of this is to see where everyone is background-wise, so the “score” on this will NOT count in your total for grading purposes, but the possible 5 points just for trying to do it and/or turning it in will be added to your total.


(your “real” major, please — not necessarily what your official paperwork says)

            
           


  1. What characteristic(s) must be present to distinguish something as a bird?
    wings
    feathers
    warm-blooded
    egg-laying
    4-chambered heart
  2. What feature(s) of spiders distinguish(es) them from insects.
    silk
    warm-blooded
    eight legs
    insectivorous
    venomous
  3. Calculate the average of the numbers 96.56, 96.95, and 96.64.
    96.72
    290.15
    96.64
    96.71
    96.716667
  4. A beaker weighs 98.02 g. When filled with 100 mL of water and weighed again, the combination weighs 197.74 g. How much does the water weigh?
    100 g
    197.74 g
    295.76 g
    97.74 g
    99.72 g
  5. What is the chemical formula for water?
    18 g
    10 g
    CO2
    H2O
    ice
  6. What is the chemical name for the kind of alcohol in beer and wine?
    ethanol
    methanol
    ethyl alcohol
    isopropyl alcohol
    1-propanol
  7. How many centimeters are there in 1 meter?
    1000
    100
    102
    12
    0.01
  8. Name, in order, the colors in the spectrum (visible light).
    ultra-violet‚ visible‚ infra-red
    magenta‚ yellow‚ blue
    blue‚ green‚ indigo‚ orange‚ red‚ violet‚ yellow
    red‚ green‚ blue
    red‚ orange‚ yellow‚ green‚ blue‚ indigo‚ violet
  9. If in a hypothetical batch of soup, you put one can of Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup + 9 cans of water, this makes 10 bowls of soup, and each bowl has 10 noodles, how many noodles were there in the whole can of soup concentrate?
    90
    10
    100
    1:9
    1:10
  10. How many teaspoons of sugar are there in a cup of sugar?
    100
    3
    16
    12
    48
  11. (1 × 10–5) × (1 × 10–9) =
    1 × 10–14
    14 × 10
    10–45
    1 × 1045
    1 × 4510
  12. What is pH?
    7
    acid
    –log[H+]
    how toxic something is
    negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration
  13. Express 609,342,000 in scientific notation to three significant figures.
    609,342
    6.093 × 10
    6.093 × 109
    6.09 × 108
    1 × 106.09
  14. Express 0.098007 in scientific notation to four significant figures.
    0.0980
    9.801 × 10–2
    1 × 10 0.0980
    9.8 × 10–1
    9.8 × 10–3
  15. What is the logarithm of 1,000,000?
    106
    7 × 101
    6
    1
    107
  16. What is the logarithm of 0.0001?
    103
    –4 × 101
    –3
    –1
    –4
  17. What is the logarithm of 10–6?
    0.000001
    –6
    0.0000001
    1 × 10–6
    6
  18. If Grape Pop was found to weigh 105.03 g per 100 mL and was found to be 13.40% sugar, how many grams of sugar are in the 100 mL?
    14.07 g
    7.838 g
    13.40 g
    7.463 g
    140.74 g
  19. In an experiment, to what conditions is a control group subjected?
    only one variable
    nothing can vary
    controlled
    normal
    the same as each other
  20. If a mole of carbon weighs 12 g, a mole of oxygen weighs 16 g, and a mole of hydrogen weighs 1 g, then how much does a mole of glucose, C6H12O6, weigh?
    180 g
    24 moles
    29 g
    96 g
    3 moles
  21. What major chemical pathway/process occurs in plants but not animals?
    Kreb’s cycle
    fermentation
    cellular respiration
    photosynthesis
    metabolism
  22. What is body temperature in Centigrade?
    100°
    37°
    20°
    98.6°
    50.5°
  23. What kind(s) of gametes (sex cells) do women produce?
    eggs
    XX
    XY
    sperm
    diploid
  24. What kind(s) of gametes (sex cells) do men produce?
    eggs
    XX
    XY
    sperm
    diploid
  25. What does “AIDS” stand for?
    acquired immunodeficient syndrome
    acquired immune disfunction status
    advanced immune disease symptoms
    it’s the species name for a type of virus
    it’s the species name for a type of bacterium
  26. For what is DNA important — what does it do in our bodies?
    influences what we look like
    genetic code
    directs growth and development
    “blueprint” for protein synthesis
    is secreted in the stomach to help digest food
  27. What is the name of the body part in which a baby grows?
    testis
    vagina
    stomach
    uterus
    ovary
  28. What is the name of the body part in which sperm are produced?
    testis
    vagina
    vas deferens
    uterus
    ovary
  29. What characteristic(s) must be present for something to be classified as a mammal?
    hair or fur
    milk
    warm-blooded
    4-chambered heart
    live-bearing

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CAUTION: Many of these are things that you should have learned in your high school biology, chemistry, and/or algebra courses. If you had a lot of trouble completing this questionnaire and/or had no clue on most of the answers, you are in the wrong course and will have a lot of trouble keeping up. To help you succeed in this majors’ sequence, you may need to take Developmental Science, General Biology, General Chemistry, and/or a basic algebra course to provide the proper background before attempting to take this majors’ biology sequence. If you want good grades, don’t sign up for courses for which you don’t have the prerequisites. If you are a science major, it might be a good idea for you to make an advising appointment.


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