Life Sciences in the 21st Century
Final Exam
Special Study: Biology 2984
December 12, 1995
D. E. Mullins, Course Coordinator
There are three sections to this exam:
- True or False
- Fill-in-the-Blanks
- Short Answer
It is scored at 100 points.
SECTION 1. True or False:
There are 12 questions worth 3 points a piece; this section is worth 36 points.
- _________ It takes approximately 5 cow pancreases to obtain enough
insulin to treat one diabetic per year.
- _________ The status of wildlife resources in the US varies by species.
- _________ In 300 years, the global human population has grown elevenfold.
- _________The purpose of the Morrill Act legislation was to place
higher education within reach of all those in the working class that
desired it.
- _________ Paramedical careers include podiatry, medical technology and
organismic biology
- _________ Forests occupy 15% of the earth's surface and allow for 50%
of the solar energy captured each year by green plants.
- _________ Biological control of musk and plumless thistles has been
achieved through the discovery and development of two kinds of plant
pathogenic (disease) organisms.
- _________ There were about 6000 new food products introduced in the US
in 1994.
- _________ Early Chinese wrote in blocks of clay.
- _________ It is not particularly important to educate non-science
oriented segments or our population about life sciences.
- ________ The origins of exercise physiology were based primarily on
industrial needs; how to get more work out of laboring workers.
- _________In redefining the future of the family farm; they will become
larger and there will be a strong reliance on the development of managerial
skills to include decision-making, economics, computer skills, attitudes
and the knowledge base.
SECTION 2. Fill-in-the-Blanks: There are 10 questions worth 4 points a piece; this
section is worth 40 points.
- _____________________ A field of biology which deals with naming and
organizing organisms.
- _____________________ Act of 1887 provided for experiment stations
within the land grant college system.
- ____________________ Is a key factor in ensuring the health of human
populations; many of the third world problems stem from a lack of these
appropriate conditions.
- ____________________ A process of using biological systems to clean up
hazardous materials such as TCE (trichloroethane) and PCB's
(polychlorinated biphenyls) etc.
- _____________________ (an individual) demonstrated that yeast was a
living plant and developed the rationale for the technology of
fermentation; brewing and breadmaking
- ____________________ is one of several things which much be considered
in developing food products.
- ._____________________ was used by Egyptians as a medium on which to
write because it was flexible, and could be rolled on a scroll for filing
and safekeeping.
- ____________________ is the study of the relationship and utilization
of food to the functioning of the living organism.
- ____________________ and pasture land will come from forests which
will decline by 7 % for a per capita reduction of 30% between 1990 and
2010.
- ____________________ could become a relatively low cost alternative to
oil imports for use in producing methanol or ethanol as a fuel source
SECTION 3. Short Answer: There are 3 questions worth 8 points a piece;
this section is worth 24 points. Please circle the specific question option
which you have selected to answer.
- Discuss or describe one of the following:
- a. disease control
- b. a 'call back'
- c. medical biotechnology
- d. Land Grant Universities
- Discuss or describe one of the following:
- a. objectives of providing for sustainable forests
- b. some unresolved issues of exercise science
- c. major points which must be considered in new product development
(benchtop to market)
- d. major issues in forest and wildlife resource management.
- Discuss or describe one of the following:
- a. Describe the evolution and organization of the biological sciences
- b. Discuss some of the problems and opportunities which may be
associated with the future of agriculture
- c. Discuss how one should go about developing a career plan.
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