BIOL 101: Life Science – The Human Environment.

BIOL 101: Life Science – The Human Environment.
Test #1 Essays (100 points total – 25points each)
1. Choose a disease or biological phenomenon or human made stress that has the ability to negatively affect the different levels of scientific study starting at the cell and ending with the biosphere. In order to get full credit you must:
a. Identify the negative affect
b. explain/justify how the disease or biological phenomenon or human made stress
goes up the different levels of scientific study
c. explain/justify the negative affect at each level

2. Choose a food chain/web and incorporate into it the:
a. Trophic levels (all the way to tertiary consumer)
b. 10% conservation of energy
c. 2 Laws of Thermodynamics
d. Catabolic and anabolic reactions
e. What would happen to the food chain/web if the tertiary consumer used a rreproductive strategy

3. Give an example of micro and macro evolution while incorporating the concept of “organisms and their cells never waste time or energy maintaining something unless it provides a function and “shape confers function”.

4. There are 3 Evolution Selection Types. For each one of these Evolution Selection Types choose an abiotic factor that can cause it. In order to get full credit you must justify how it is targeting the specific populations of each Evolution Selection Type and predict the
changes it will have on the:
a. Population
b. Community
c. 1 Ecosystem

BIOL 101: Life Science – The Human Environment.