Semester Exam Review 2008 IB Biology

1. Advantages and disadvantage of different microscopes

2. Processes of osmosis, diffusion and facilitated diffusion
3. Types of reactions that build or break apart molecules (hydrolysis, condensation
and oxidation)
4. Process of moving large materials in or out of a cell (exocytosis, endocytosis,
phagocytosis, pinocytosis)
5. DNA replication and helicase
6. population growth curve and the exponential phase
7. classification hierarchy
8. DNA backbone composition
9. triplet codons and their use in forming amino acids
10. end result of meiosis and the stages of meiosis
11. test cross, what it is used for and who is crossed
12. what causes genetic variation
13. know the major organelles and their functions as well as characteristics
14. In DNA what do hydrogen bonds connect
15. know the molecular structures of ribose, glucose, amino acids and fatty acids
(lipids)
16. Review statistical treatments
17. genotypes of sex linked traits
18. know biotic, abiotic, community, ecosystem and habitat
19. know autotroph, detritivores, heterotrophs, saprotrophs
20. magnification calculation
21. uses of cholesterol
22. phases of mitosis
23. reactants and products of photosynthesis
24. what promotes evolution
25. enzyme characteristics, what denatures them and what effects their activity level
26. location of transcription and translation in cells
27. pigments absorbed or reflected by chlorophyll
28. what do phospholipids do for cell structure
29. composition and function of cell wall in plants
30. cell cycle and what occurs in each phase of the cell cycle
31. cytokinesis in plant and animal cells
32. whys is complementary base pairing significant
33. functions of lipids
34. explain how energy and nutrients enter and exit a food chain
35. how does natural selection point to evolution