BIOD 121 FINAL EXAM LATEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM ALL 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
What is secondary growth? - ANSWER>>Growth in diameter
The secondary plant body consists of the tissues produced by the vascular cambium
and cork cambium
Characteristic of gymnosperms
Secondary xylem accumulates as what? - ANSWER>>Wood, and consists of cells that
carry or carried water, and fibers.
What is the most inclusive category of classification? - ANSWER>>Domain
What cells are smaller than the cells of your body and lack nuclei? -
ANSWER>>Prokaryotic cells
What results when there is differential success in survival and reproduction? -
ANSWER>>Evolution
What are specialized membrane-bound compartments? - ANSWER>>Organelles
What is a community? - ANSWER>>Different species living together
What are polar covalent bonds? - ANSWER>>The chemical bonds in a water molecule
between oxygen and hydrogen
What is nitrogen fixation? - ANSWER>>Conversion by bacteria, bacteria that may be on
the roots of legumes, of a common component of the air into something useful to
organisms
What is one of the several eukaryotic kingdoms? - ANSWER>>Fungi
What is composting? - ANSWER>>The stacking up of plant scraps, when you let them
rot, and then use the material in the soil around veggies and/or flowers
What is an example of science moving forward as a result of a surprise, a discovery that
a researcher was not looking for? - ANSWER>>The discovery of amino acids was a
surprise to scientists as they were combining organic molecules found in the
surroundings and amino acids formed as a result, proving that they occur
spontaneously