BIOLOGY 101 EXAM II REVIEW - Ohio University



BIOLOGY 101 EXAM III (FINAL) REVIEW/STUDY GUIDE

1. Know the items presented on the Exam I and II review sheets, particularly the macromolecules and their building blocks, organelles and their functions, glucose oxidation, photosynthesis, mitosis and meiosis, and Mendelian genetics.

3. Know the Central Dogma of Biology & how DNA differs from RNA.

4. Understand the concept of semiconservative replication of DNA.

5. Know the 3 kinds of RNA and how they function in the cell.

6. Be able to define mutations, explain how they can occur, and why they are potentially harmful.

7. Understand the basics of recombinant DNA technology and how this technology can benefit humans.

8. Know what advantage sexual reproduction has over asexual reprod.

9. Understand the Hardy-Weinberg Law and its conditions.

10. Be able to outline the theory of Darwinian Evolution & its evidence.

11. Be able to define and give examples of natural selection, divergent evolution, convergent evolution, coevolution, and extinction.

12. Be able to account for the origin of life and the evolution of cells (both prokaryotic and eukaryotic) here on Earth.

13. Understand sexual reproduction in flowering plants (angiosperms).

14. Know what each of the following scientists are famous for: Carolus Linneaus, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke, Matthias Schleiden & Theodore Schwann, H. A. Krebs, Melvin Calvin, Gregor Mendel, Fred Griffith, Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase, Erwin Chargaff, James Watson & Francis Crick, Charles Darwin.

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