Essential Biology and Zoology Exam Review Questions

TRIMS 2

• 1) Which term describes an animal? All of the above
• 2) Swiss scientist who first described and named organisms with binomial nomenclature: Gaspard Bauhin
• 3) Developed a two-name system: Carl Linnaeus
• 4) Characteristics that appear in recent parts of a lineage but not in older members: Derived character
• 5) Classification based on common ancestry: Cladistics
• 6) Molecules that use mutation rates to study evolution: mtRNA
• 7) American ecologist who classified a fifth kingdom: Fungi
• 8) Discovered two genetically different groups: rRNA
• 9) Thick cell wall without outer membranes: Gram-positive
• 10) Which are insects? Beetles, roaches, termites
• 12) What are jellyfish? All of the above
• 13) Taenia, Toxocara, annelids first opening: Mouth
• 14) Soft, parasitic, solid, flat monoecious worm: Tapeworms
• 15) What are poriferans? All of the above
• 16) Collar cells have a flagellum, a characteristic of: Sponges
• 17) What are corals? Cnidarians with no medusa stage
• 18) Platyhelminthes and triploblastic animals: Acoelomates with bilateral symmetry
• 19) Metabolic nitrogenous waste: All of the above
• 20) Free-living, mostly marine worm: Planaria torva

TRIMS 1

• 2) Study of insects and mollusks: Entomology and malacology
• 3) Scientist that studies fish: Ichthyologist
• 10) Simple unsegmented bilateral animal: Roundworm
• 11) Genera of helminthology: All of the above
• 12) Amniotes are vertebrate chordates with: Amniotic egg
• 13) Strategy where egg hatches outside the mother's body: Oviparism
• 14) Animals with a long intestine are mostly: Seed-eaters
• 15) Which animals are mollusks? Snail, clam, squid
• 16) Coelomates with two openings and closed circulation: All of the above
• 17) Vertebrate chordates excrete: All of the above
• 18) In earthworms, the clitellum is used in: Reproduction
• 19) Members of this class can rotate visceral mass, mantle, and shell: Gastropoda
• 21) Examples of aquatic filter feeders: All of the above
• 22) Tunicates are: Sessile
• 23) In spiders, organs that contain silk glands: Spinnerets
• 24) Segmented-bodied animal, scavenger, 2 pairs of legs per segment: Class Diplopoda
• 25) Belong to the phylum Uniramia: Antlion, beetle, centipedes
• 26) Mostly insects are winged, but these are not: Silverfish

TEST 3

• 1) Scientist that studies plants: Botanist
• 2) Plants need to make photosynthesis: Flowers
• 8) In seedless vascular plants, the dominant stage is: Gametophyte
• 11) The ability to transport water and nutrients is a characteristic of vascular plants: Xylem and phloem