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BIO 105 Test-Out Study Guide
BIO 105 Test Out Exam
This guide is designed to help you prepare for the BIO 105 Test-Out Exam. The primary purpose of this guide is to help you prepare by becoming familiar with the content of the exam.
The following list of concepts represents a good guide to what students are expected to comprehend/understand in order to be successful on the exam. A suggested reference: Concepts in Biology, 14th ed., Enger, Ross, and Bailey, 2012.
- Scientific method and understanding science as a process/characteristics of life
- Chemistry and how it relates to living things—atomic structure/bonding/pH/properties of water
- Organic molecules/macromolecules of life and how they are made, function, and are interconnected
- Cell structure and function/differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
- Students should be able to identify the different organelles within a cell and be able to describe how each of the organelles functions
- Osmosis and diffusion
- Enzymes/enzyme function/energy
- Cellular metabolism/aerobic respiration
- Photosynthesis
- DNA replication/protein synthesis
- Cell cycle/mitosis
- Meiosis
- Patterns of Inheritance (genetics)
- Population genetics
- Microevolution/macroevolution
- Ecosystem dynamics/flow of energy/biogeochemical cycles
- Taxonomy and the classification of living things
- Origins of life
- General plant biology and reproduction
- Organ systems of vertebrates
