BIOL 102 SUPP EXAM 2010

QUESTION 1 (15 marks)

Examine Figures 1a and 1b below and answer the questions that follow.

a) What trends are evident in CO2 and temperature (i) prior to and (ii) after the year 1900?
(5)

b) Discuss three examples of how the changes in CO2 concentrations after 1900 may affect
the planet. (10)

QUESTION 2 (10 marks)

 Redraw Table 1 in your answer book.

 The list below Table 1 provides definitions of organs, structures and processes found
in seed plants.
 Match the terms in Table 1 with the correct definition from the list by writing down
the number in the space provided.
 List for each term to which group(s) of seed plant it applies.

(1) The brightly colored part of the flower that attracts insects

(2) The process by which pollen reaches a stigma

(3) A cone's woody part on which seeds grow

(4) The nutritive tissue within seeds of flowering plants, surrounding and absorbed by the
embryo

(5) The immature male gametophytes in a flower that must be carried from stamen to the
stigma in order for seeds to form

(6) The part of a seed that protects the plant embryo

(7) The part of a conifer that produces pollen or seeds

(8) A small opening in the ovule of a seed plant through which the pollen tube usually
enters

(9) The part of the flower that produces pollen

(10) The organ that bears the ovules of a flower

QUESTION 3 (10 marks)

Describe and explain the key traits that link lampreys, mice and birds?

QUESTION 4 (10 marks)

Explain the main differences between incomplete and complete metamorphosis in insects,
providing examples of insect groups that conform to each.

QUESTION 5 (10 marks)

Outline (a) similarities and (b) differences between the life cycles of ferns and angiosperms.

QUESTION 6 (5 marks)

Define the following terms:

a) homospory (1)

b) microsporophyll (1)

c) conduplication (1)

d) double-fertilization (1)

e) co-evolution (1)

QUESTION 7 (5 marks)

What advantage does a colonial organization have for organisms such as the “blue bottle”,
Physalia and corals?

QUESTION 8 (5 marks)

The Burgess Shale deposits in Canada contain well-preserved fossils of soft-bodied

organisms dating back 520mya. Explain why this is so.

QUESTION 9 (15 marks)

List and briefly explain the possible anthropogenic causes (human activities) of the present,
ongoing mass extinction.
QUESTION 10 (15 marks)

Answer the following three questions regarding adaptations of animals.

a) List the challenges faced by the first land animals. (4)

b) Explain how these challenges were overcome. (7)

c) List FOUR advantages of having scaly skin in reptiles. (4).