1. Identify the characteristics of life and explain each.
2. Explain the cell theory.
3. How can you differentiate between plants and animals?
4. Draw and label the cell membrane.
5. What is an enzyme and what is the function of an enzyme?
6. How can you speed up the chemical reaction?
7. What are the reactants of photosynthesis? What are the products of photosynthesis? What are the reactants of cellular respiration? What are the products of cellular respiration?
8. Compare heterotrophic and autotrophic organisms
9. How does anaerobic and aerobic respiration differ?
10. Animal like protists can move about in pond water. Identify the different ways they can move. Explain each method.
11. What is mitosis? List the stages of mitosis. Explain the identify characteristics of each stage.
12. How does meiosis differ from mitosis? How many eggs cells are produced during meiosis?
13. Define dominance, segregation and independent assortment of genes.
14. How does homozygous and heterozygous genotypes compare?
15. Explain crossing over in sexual reproduction. What is its importance?
16. How does dominance, co-dominance and incomplete dominance in organisms compare?
17. Draw a DNA molecule. How would you explain its structure?
18. How are enzymes produced in cells?
19. Explain the theory of evolution in relation the organisms moving from the simple to the complex
20. Compare homologous structures to vestigial structures.
21. What were the first types of organisms produced? Explain one theory that explains the development of the first types of organisms.
22. Identify the contribution to science made by the following scientists
Gregor Mendel Charles Darwin Jean Lamarck Stanley Miller Fredrick Griffith Watson & Crick Erwin Chargaff Hardy – Weinberg
23. According to Darwin, what is the importance of variation in a species?
24. What is meant by the following terms: speciation, geographic isolation, and reproductive isolation?
25. Compare gradualism and punctuated equilibrium
26. Explain the difference between a population and community. Give examples of each.
27. Why is it necessary for an ecosystem to have balance between the organisms in the ecosystem and the recycling of material in the ecosystem?
28. How can you distinguish between herbivores, carnivores and omnivores?
29. Define; precipitation, condensation, transpiration and evaporation.
30. Create a simple food web. What type of organisms break down the decaying dead organisms and put the nutrients back into the ecosystem?
31. Since human mankind has the greatest impact on the environment, what can mankind do to have a positive impact on the environment?

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