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Midterm Study Guide
The following list is meant to only be a guide to help you prepare for the midterm. This is
not a definitive list. There may be questions on areas of the course that are not shown on
this list, however I will attempt whenever possible to make the test question subject areas
align to this guide.
1. What is Biology and what are some benefits of studying biology?
2. What are the 5 life processes
3. What is homeostasis?
4. Recognize the control group and the experimental group
5. Identify the independent and dependent variable
6. What is a product and what is a reactant?
7. What is an enzyme and how do they work?
8. Know all the parts of the microscope and their functions
9. Compare and contrast types of microscopes (compound, stereomicroscopes,
transmission electron, scanning electron)
10. compare and contrast eukaryotes and prokaryotes
11. Know the organelles of a eukaryotic plant and animal cell and their functions
12. Compare plant and animal cells
13. What is diffusion and osmosis
14. What is equilibrium?
15. What is active transport?
16. What are the levels of organization in multicellular organisms
17. Know everything about photosynthesis (where it takes place, reactancts and products,
what effects it, etc…)

2. 18. Know everything about respiration (where it takes place, reactancts and products,
what effects it, etc…)
19. Know everything about mitosis and the cell cycle
20. Know how to do Punnett squares for monohybrid crosses
21. Know everything about DNA (What it is made out of, where it is located, what it
codes for, what bases (letters) match up with each each other, what happens when
there is a mistake in the DNA)
22. What is transcription, what is translation? Know how to translate mRNA using the
codon chart
23. What is selective breeding?
24. What are restriction enzymes, how do they work, what do they produce?
25. What is recombinant DNA?
26. What is a clone, how do you make a clone?
27. What is a karyotype, Know how to identify disorders by looking at a karyotype
28. Know how to read a human pedigree
29. Know common human genetic disorders, what their symptoms are and their mode of
inheritance
30. DNA fingerprinting (what is it used for, know how to compare two peoples DNA
fingerprint)