Bio 103 Study
Guide for the Final Exam SP08
Students should know
the following:
Chapter 21:
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What a virus is and the three ways that viruses are
categorized (pg. 363)
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What a capsid is, and what shape
viruses assume.
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The difference in lytic and
lysogenic cycles in viral reproduction.
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What a bacteriophage is, what
virulent means, and what a retrovirus is.
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What a viroid and a
prion is.
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The disease, pathogen, and vector/epidemiology of the
following diseases from the handout: Chicken pox,
Hepatitis B, Herpes, Smallpox, AIDS, Ebola, Influenza, SARS,
Pneumonia, and Rabies.
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The characteristics of bacteria, (prokaryotes) and the
following terms related to bacterial structure:
peptidoglycan, flagella, fimbriae,
nucleoid, plasmids.
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The following reproductive terms:
conjugation, transformation, transduction,
endospores.
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The difference in obligate anaerobes, facultative anaerobes,
and aerobes.
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The differences between photoautotrophs
and chemoautotrophs,
saprotrophs, and pathogenic bacteria.
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How bacteria are classified according to shape, cell wall
structure (Gram staining), and arrangement
(staff, strep, etc.)
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The characteristics of :
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cyanobacteria including the
function of the heterocyst
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Archaebacteria (Archaea)
o
methanogens,
halophiles, and
thermoacidophiles
The disease, pathogen, vector/reservoir and epidemiology of the following
diseases from the handout:
Peptic ulcers, Plague, Pneumonia, Anthrax, Botulism, Chlamydia, Cholera,
Dental caries, Gonorrhea,
and Lyme disease.
Chapter 22:
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The characteristics associated with
Protists
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The difference between Protozoans
and Algae.
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What flagella, cilia, and pseudopodia are and which
representative organisms are associated with
these various structures.
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The following structures: stigma (eyespot), contractile
vacuole, test, and holdfast.
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What a red tide is and what zooxanthallae
are.
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What binary fission and conjugation are.
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The lifecycle of the malarial parasite (Plasmodium).
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The characteristics of the representative organisms and be
able to match them to their representative phyla including:
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Chlamydomonas, Spirogyra,
Ulva, Volvox, Red
algae, Sargassum, Kelp, Diatoms,
Dinoflagellates, Euglena,
Trypanosoma, Amoeba, Forams,
Paramecium, and Plasmodium.
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Be able to place these organisms in their respective phyla and
know common name of the phylum if there is one.
Example:
Volvox is a photosynthetic protist that
consists of a spherical colony of several hundred cells and displays cell
specialization. Volvox is in the phylum
Chlorophyta (Green algae).
Chapter 20:
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What Taxonomy is, who Carolus
Linnaeus is, and what is meant by the terms binomial nomenclature and
specific epiphet (pg. 342)
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The various categories of classification in order (pg. 344)
