SBI3U1-05 Final Examination

Term 5: 2021-2022

Student Name:___________________________ Date: Tuesday, August 16th, 2022

Teacher: Ms. Bethany Kempster Total Score:____________________

Braemar College Bethany Kempster
Term 5: 2021-2022 August 16, 2022
2.5 hours Total Marks = 125
CA – 20%

SBI3U1-05, Grade 11, Biology University Preparation Final Examination

Section Format and Submission Mark Time

Knowledge and Canvas Quiz 32 38 min

Understanding
Thinking and Canvas Assignment 31 38 min
Inquiry
Communication Canvas Assignment 31 37 min
Application Canvas Assignment 31 37 min
TOTAL: 125 2.5 hours

 You have two and a half hours (150 minutes) to complete the exam.
 Type all answers on this document, unless instructed otherwise.
 Diagrams, calculations, or work done on separate paper must be embedded into this
document.
 Submit this file to Canvas when you are done.
 If www.turnitin.com detects similarity to an internet source or to another student, you
may receive a mark of zero for that question, that section, or the entire test.
 You may not use your notes, textbook, or search for answers on the internet during
this test.
 If you do not submit your exam on time, you will lose 1 mark for every 1 minute you
are late (if you are having uploading issues, Canvas problems, or a slow internet
connection, please tell Ms. Kempster).

Knowledge and Understanding [32 marks]:

EXAM PART 1 – Canvas Quiz – Go to Canvas and do this portion of the exam on
Canvas.

Multiple Choice (11 questions):

1. Which of the following organisms is not a heterotroph?

Tree
Mushroom
Amoeba
Worm

2. Which statement is not a part of cell theory?

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 All cells contain organelles.
All living things are made of cells.
The cell is the smallest unit of life.
Cells arise from pre-existing cells.

3. Mendel’s peas were ideal because:

They were true-breeding
They only had one easy-to-observe trait
They had long life cycles
They only produced single offspring

4. Which of the following is not found in a DNA nucleotide?

An amino acid
A pentose sugar
A phosphate group
A nitrogenous base

5. What did Lamarck not contribute to the study of evolution?

Variation is caused by mutations in DNA
All species change over time
Species evolve in response to its environment
Changes are hereditary

6. Which of the following traits are analogous?

Butterfly leg and human leg
Butterfly wing and honey bee wing
Human arm and bird wing
Snake teeth and dog teeth

7. Which of the following is not an accessory organ of the digestive system?

Spleen
Liver
Pancreas
Gall bladder

8. What is not a part of a plant’s shoot system?

Roots
Stem
Leaves
Flowers

9. What is not a function of ground tissue?

Develop new plant tissues from undifferentiated plant tissue
Perform photosynthesis
Store carbohydrates
Support the plant body
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 10. Water does not move upwards through the xylem because of:
Friction
Cohesion
Adhesion
High surface tension

11. Which of the following would not result in secondary succession?

A volcano leaving a fresh layer of cooled lava
A forest fire
A flood
A forest being cut down

True and False (11 questions):

12. Human cells are incapable of asexual reproduction.

False

13. Uncondensed DNA fibres are called chromosomes.

False

14. The goal of meiosis is to produce haploid gametes.

True

15. When an allele is found on an autosome, it displays sex-linked inheritance.

False

16. Scientific evidence suggests that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa approximately
200 000 years ago.
True

17. Proteins are broken down by pepsin into amino acids.

True

18. The portion of the small intestine where the majority of absorption takes place is
called the jejunum.
True

19. Plants with only one cotyledon are called eudicots.

False

20. Water is transported throughout the plant in phloem.

False

21. In most angiosperms, the male and female sex organs are in the same flower.
True

22. Tropisms are a plant’s growth response to internal stimulation.

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False

Fill-in-the-blank (10 questions):

23. A segment of DNA that codes for a particular trait or function is called a(n) gene.

24. DNA is duplicated during the stage called interphase.

25. Selection that selects against individuals at either extreme for a trait is called
stabilizing selection.

26. A derived trait shared by two more species is called a(n) synapomorphy.

27. The process of taking in food is called ingestion.

28. A lump of softened food that is swallowed is called a(n) bolus.

29. Water enters a plant’s roots through the process of osmosis.

30. The process of water leaving a leaf through its stomata is called transpiration.

31. The pressure a full vacuole exerts on a plant cell is called turgor.

32. Plants are able to detect changes in light conditions using molecules called
photoreceptors.

Thinking and Inquiry [31 marks]:

1.

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 (a) According to this phylogenetic tree, what animals are most closely related to
lizards? [1 mark]

(b) Is it possible to form a clade that contains only two very morphologically similar
animals – lizards and tuataras? Explain your answer. [2 marks]

2. Why do scientists have difficulty deciding if viruses are living or non-living

organisms? [3 marks]

3. What is the difference between protostome and deuterostome? [2 marks]

4. In birds, the allele for Long legs (L) is dominant to the allele for short legs (l).
The allele for blue eyes (B) is dominant to the allele for red eyes (b). A female
bird that is heterozygous for long legs and homozygous for red eyes mates with a
male that is homozygous for short legs and heterozygous for blue eyes.

(a) What are the possible phenotypes of their offspring? [3 marks]

(b) What are the ratios of the different possible genotypes? [2 marks]

5. Golden poison dart frogs and Monarch butterflies both use bright orange colours
to warn other animals that they are toxic. Is this an example of convergent or
divergent evolution? Explain your answer. [3 marks]

6. Two butterflies each land on a remote island. The first butterfly lands on an island
with 50 other insect species. The second butterfly lands on an island with only
one other insect species. Which species is more likely to undergo adaptive
radiation? Explain your answer. [3 marks]

7. Describe why carving your initials into the bark of a tree harms the tree. [3 marks]

Communication [31 marks]:

8. A bacterium gains the ability to resist an antibiotic.

(a) How might this have occurred through conjugation? [2 marks]
(b) How might this have occurred through transformation? [2 marks]

9. Compare metaphase I and metaphase II in meiosis. You can use diagrams to help
you. [4 marks]

10. Describe how evidence for human evolution is seen in:

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 (a) The fossil record [3 marks]
(b) Genetics [3 marks]

11. Draw and label a diagram describing the flow of blood through the heart. [6
marks]

12. Describe two different roles that meristematic tissue can play in plants. [4 marks]

13. Sketch a diagram showing the difference in the arrangement of vascular bundles
in monocots and eudicots. [2 marks]

Application [31 marks]:

14. Annelida, Nematoda, and Platyhelminthes are all called “worms”. Why are they
in three different phyla? [4 marks]

15. You have been given the power to kill all bacteria on Earth. Is this a good idea or
a bad idea? Explain your answer. [3 marks]

16. A family pedigree for a new disorder shows that 95% of the impacted people are
male. What does this tell you about the inheritance of this disorder? Explain your
answer. [3 marks]

17. You are a farmer with an amazing cow – she makes lots of milk and has a
wonderful personality. However, she hates the heat and you are worried about
global warming impacting your farm. You have been offered the opportunity to
clone your cow. Will you? Or is there a better solution? Explain your answer. [4
marks]

18. Would you expect to find a transitional fossil that is half-fish and half-human?
(Has traits that are 50% fish and 50% human?). Explain your answer. [4 marks]

19. Why were Darwin’s curiosity and detailed observations essential for him to
develop the theory of evolution by natural selection? Explain using observations
that Darwin made. [4 marks]

20. You have been poisoned with curare. Your muscles are paralyzed as your brain
cannot send signals to your muscles.

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(a) You cannot breathe. Describe why being paralyzed has stopped your ability to
breathe. [4 marks]

(b) Your heart is still beating. Describe why the poison has not stopped your heart
muscle from beating. [4 marks]

21. Why are palisade cells in a leaf packed closely together? [1 mark]

End of exam. Exam must be submitted on Canvas as one file.