Practice exam questions: BIOL 105 (EXAM 3)

1. Which of the following is TRUE regarding fermentation?
a. Oxygen is necessarily a reactant.
b. ATP is produced as pyruvate is converted to alcohol.
c. NAD+ is produced.
d. It produces ATP during the Citric Acid Cycle.

2. Which of the following is TRUE regarding aerobic cellular respiration?
a. Oxygen is necessarily a reactant.
b. ATP is produced as pyruvate is converted to acetyl CoA.
c. NADP+ is produced from the oxidation of NADPH.
d. It occurs only in the stroma.

3. Which of the following pathways produces pyruvate?
a. Glycolysis
b. Fermentation
c. Electron Transport Chain
d. Fermentation and Electron Transport Chain

4. In animal cells, phosphorylation occurs when:
a. lactic acid is converted to alcohol.
b. NAD+ is converted to NADPH.
c. NAD+ is converted to NADH.
d. ATP is converted to ADP.
e. protons move through an ATP synthase channel.

5. The Light Reactions of photosynthesis:
a. produce ATP.
b. produce CO2.
c. consume carbon dioxide.
d. split apart glucose.

6. The Calvin-Benson Cycle occurs in the:
a. mitochondrion.
b. thylakoid.
c. stroma.
d. nucleus.

7. In humans, mitosis results in the production of ______________ .
a. sex cells
b. haploid cells
c. gametes
d. diploid cells

8. Humans normally have ____________ chromosomes in their somatic cells.
a. 23
b. 23 pairs of
c. 46 pairs of
d. 39 pairs of
e. 39

9. During which phase is DNA replicated?
a. Interphase
b. Metaphase
c. Anaphase
d. Prometaphase
e. Prophase


Answers: c, a, a, e, a, c, d, b, a