Courses Wayne State University College of Lifelong Learning Interdisciplinary Studies Program Changing Life on Earth, GST 2020, 4 cr     Section 981 (face-to-face Wednesdays 6:00 - 8:30 PM in     222 Cohn on campus) and Section 990 (online) Health Concepts and Strategies, GST 2010, 3 cr     Section 981 (face-to-face, Wednesdays 8:40 - 10 PM in 222     Cohn on campus) and Section 990 (online) Health Concepts and Strategies for Elder Care, GST 1990    Section 981 (2 credits) and Section 982 (4 credits)	Instructor
	David R. Bowen 2311 A/AB Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Schedule (link not working yet)	Daytime tel: (313) 577-1498 Evening tel: (248) 549-8518 At Ford: 313-390-2155 FAX: (313) 577-8585 Home Page:     http://www.cll.wayne.edu/isp/drbowen Email: d.r.bowen@wayne.edu

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Last updated: 12/12/01

Quiz Topics for GST 2020

Quizzes and exams will be open book. Look for several of these questions on each quiz/exam. Notice that they ask you to integrate across chapters and topics.

The GST 2020 Final Exam will be in-person for everyone.

• Date: Wednesday December 19
• Time: 6 to 10 PM
• Location: 222 Cohn Building. The Cohn Building is on the southwest corner of Cass and Palmer, diagonally across this intersection from the A/AB Building, which is where the ISP offices are.

Topics for Quiz 1

1. What are the major characteristics of life? Briefly describe each.
2. Proteins have central roles in the lives of cells. List and describe some of the types of roles played by proteins, with examples.
3. Compare and contrast the paths of energy and materials through living organisms.
4. Describe the structure, the roles, and how the structure and the roles are connected, for the following:
   • water
   • carbohydrates
   • proteins
   • sugars
   • lipids
   • ATP
5. Describe the major classifications of cells
   • prokaryotes/eukaryotes
6. Describe the major elements of advanced cells
   • wall
   • membrane
   • nucleus
7. Compare and contrast: gene, chromosome, DNA, RNA, protein, ribosome
8. Describe the function of mitochondria
9. What are the methods that cells use to transport materials in and out through the cell membrane? Briefly describe each.

Additional Topics for Midterm:

10. What are "metabolic pathways?" Give two examples of metabolic pathways, and two other examples of how metabolic pathways can change with circumstances, circumstances such as the supply of nutrients.
11. Vocabulary questions, such as "briefly define or describe the following terms:" followed by a list. There will be additional vocabulary to come in later chapters.
12. Punnett square questions such as: given parent genotypes Aa and Aa, fill in the Punnett Square below, and list the possible genotypes for the offspring and their phenotypes.
13. Describe the difference between mitosis and meiosis. In organisms that reproduce asexually, when does each one occur, and what does this imply about the "family tree" of such organisms? In organisms that reproduce sexually, when does each one occur, and what does this imply about the "family tree" of such organisms?
14. Describe the Law of Independent Assortment. Describe the exceptions to the law. Give some specific examples of the action of the Law and of the exceptions to it.
15. Describe the structure of DNA and the role played by this structure during cell division.
16. Describe the process by which proteins are made starting from the genetic code in the DNA.Based on this process, define:
    1. What is a chromosome?
    2. What is a gene?
17. Given the nucleotide sequence for one chain of DNA,
    1. Write the nucleotide sequence for the other chain
    2. Write the nucleotide sequence for mRNA
    3. Given the genetic code, write the amino acid sequence for the protein

    Example: Complete a, b and c above for the DNA sequence A-G-T-C-T-G-A-T-T

18. Chapter 15
    1. Describe how genes are regulated by other genes, and give two examples.
    2. Describe how environmental factors, such as the presence of sunlight or lactose, can lead to the production of proteins.
    3. Describe the genetic factors in cancer
    4. Vocabulary
       1. - clone
       2. - regulatory gene
       3. - repressor protein
       4. - promoter protein
       5. - cancer
       6. - metastasis, adhesion
19. Chapter 16
    1. Describe the Recombinant DNA technique (or genetic engineering), and how this differs from normal breeding
    2. Vocabulary
       1. restriction enzyme

Topics for Quiz 2, Chapters 17 - 20:

20. Vocabulary
    1. acquired characteristic
    2. fitness
    3. natural selection
    4. theory (in science)
    5. adaptive
    6. fitness
    7. heritable
    8. selection
    9. natural selection
    10. sexual selection
    11. genetic drift
    12. microevolution
    13. gene flow
    14. species
    15. speciation
21. List and describe the three categories of traits
22. List and describe the five sources of variation
23. Describe the theory of evolution - what does it say?
24. Give three examples of evolution "at work"
25. Describe how the theory of evolution explains the formation of new species
26. What factors can move species further apart after they have initially split apart?
27. Describe three types of speciation
28. Compare and contrast microevolution and macroevolution
29. What is the importance of fossils for the theory of evolution? What do fossils show about evolution?
30. List five types of evidence for evolution and describe these types. How do they support the theory of evolution?
31. Suppose that a series of species has many homologous structures, but at some point there is a morphological divergence. What conclusion can be drawn about the divergent trait? What conclusion can be drawn about which of these species must have evolved later? Explain your reasoning.
32. Describe what is meant by "plate tectonics." How does this support evolution?

Topics for Final

33. Questions - Final, for evolution
    1. Vocabulary
       1. macroevolution
       2. gene flow
       3. species
       4. speciation
34. For Final - Chapter 21: Place the following in order of their occurrence (may originally be in any order, some may be missing, may be mixed with examples from other chapters)
    1. Formation of the earth
    2. Prokaryotes
    3. Rise in atmospheric oxygen
    4. Aerobic life
    5. Eukaryotes
    6. Plants
    7. Animals
    8. Life in the oceans
    9. Life on land
35. For Final - Chapter 25 / Plants. Place the following in order of their occurrence (may originally be in any order, some may be missing, may be mixed with examples from other chapters)
    1. Multicellular plants
    2. Roots and leaves
    3. Pollen, seeds and sexual reproduction in plants
    4. Vascular plants
    5. Flowering plants
36. For Final - Chapter 26 / Invertebrate animals. Place the following in order of their occurrence (may originally be in any order, some may be missing, may be mixed with examples from other chapters)
    1. invertebrates
    2. exoskeletons
37. For Final - Chapter 27 / Vertebrates. Place the following in order of their occurrence (may originally be in any order, some may be missing, may be mixed with examples from other chapters)
    1. amphibians
    2. reptiles
    3. birds
    4. mammals
    5. primates
    6. humans
38. For Final - Chapter 27 / Additional
    1. Describe the major evolutionary innovations of humans
    2. In what ways is biodiversity important to human beings?
39. For Final - Culture
    1. Describe culture as used in evolution or anthropology
    2. Describe how culture and evolution interact in the case of modern human beings (homo sapiens).