The quiz on chapter 4 will be on Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Chapter 4 is organized in two distinct parts:
- in the first part, students are introduced to some of the basic principles of biology
- in the second part, students will find a discussion on how life could have possibly begun
In order to fully understand this discussion (and the material in the chapters that will follow)
it is necessary that you refresh the basic concepts of biology, as reviewed in this first part of the chapter.
The quiz on Chapter 4 will be centered on part II but it will also include questions from part I.
Which one is exactly part I and which one is part II?
Part I
Study Chapter 4 from page 101 to page 107. This section includes a series of short paragraphs that review the basics of Biology, each one with a question as title.
In order to prepare for this part of the quiz, be ready to answer every single title question that the book asks (I am copying the six questions below in case this is not clear enough). A simple, precise definition would be enough.
- What Is A Cell?
- What Is A Gene?
- What Is A Mutation?
- What Is An Enzyme?
- What Is Metabolism?
- What Is The Tree Of Life?
On the quiz, you will be asked these exact six questions, so you need to prepare a concise, exhaustive answer for each.
Part II
This section covers the materials from page 107 ("The Universals of Life") to the end of Chapter 4. Its goal is to describe how it is possible to transition from Inorganic Molecules to Life. Keep that concept in mind when you study these materials for the quiz.
To prepare for this part the quiz, study the paragraphs from page 107 (including Fig. 4.3) to page 138, BUT simply read (for completeness) the section "Realist Meets Surrealist" (pages 113 to 120). There will be no questions directly out of this paragraph.
I will not ask you to use or describe chemical formulas but I would expect you to know what is what.
All of the questions for this part of the quiz will be out of the following paragraphs:
- The Universals of Life
- Darwin's Deductions: Monomers of CHON Might Be Easy to Make
- The History of a Hypothesis: From Darwin to Oparin to us
- Oparin's Opinion: Monomers of CHON Should Be Easy to Make
- Miller's Milestone: Monomers of CHON Are Easy to Make
- Alternative Ways to Turn the Trick
- Organic Monomers Beyond the Earth
- How Did Monomers become Linked into Polymers?
- From Monomers to Polymers toward Life
There will be at least four questions out of part II.
In summary, the quiz will include a simple answer to the six easy questions from part I, in the exact same way in which they are formulated on Cradle of Life, and a minimum of four questions from part II, for a minimum of 10 questions as a whole.
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