97' SBIOA Exam
Part A: M/C
Part B: Short Answers
Part C: Essay Question
Each is worth 20. I will stop each answer after reading after about 200 words
(or about 2/3 rd’s of a fullscap paper.
(Did you know it’s actually called foolscap?) Estimated time: 30
If life in
the broadest sense were to be considered more important
than any one single organism’s life, which in general are more
important: plants or animals?
Respond to the Letter to the Editor, “Trees not needed.”
Cite specific instances in this semester’s classes with relate
most directly to this siutation.
3. In mechanistic terms, life is just DNA creating molecules which in turn move electrons around. Somewhere in there, we exist. From a mechanistic viewpoint, discuss the validity of this claim.
Tables and Figures:
Periodic Table, Structures of Amino Acids (p. 31) , Overview of
Interconnection of Biochemical Pathways p 121), Genetic Code
Typical Free Energies of Bonds
as found in CO2
Table of Free Energies of Reactions