Introduction to Organismal Biology (BIOL221) - Dr. S.G. Saupe; Biology Department, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321; ssaupe@csbsju.edu; http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe/

Review Guide - Exam #4 (Final Exam)

General:
     The exam will be similar in format to our previous two exams; it will be a mixture of objective (e.g., multiple choice, definition, fill-in-blank) and subjective (non-objective) questions.  The subjective questions could include completing/analyzing diagrams or experiments, short answers (require a few sentences), definitions, and matching.  The multiple choice questions will be scored electronically so you will need to bring & use a pencil.  The subjective questions can be answered using pencil or pen (I strongly recommend pencil).  The exam is designed to last one hour.  In general, the exam could include:  (1) anything covered in class; (2) items in textbook that pertain directly to concepts covered in class; (3) lecture notes on-line pertaining to material covered in class; (4) study sheets, handouts or other materials used/assigned in class; and (5) questions from videos seen in lecture (i.e., video worksheet).  On the first exam review sheet I provided some study hints that you may want to check out.   Below is a brief summary of the main topics that are "fair game" for the exam. 

Homeostasis:

• Check out my online notes on kidney and osmoregulation

• Presidential notes for "Homeostasis and Osmoregulation;" Headphones dude; Snake dude; Consider two fish

• Gink & Go Make Bread & anhydrobiosis; there are links to good clips of tardigrades in Moodle (also a quick search will find loads more)

• Textbook:  Chapter 44

• Check out the animations in Moodle

• Key topics include:  what is homeostasis?  fluid balance; anyhydrobiosis; diffusion vs. osmosis vs. bulk flow; osmolarity; kidney & nephron structure; nephron function (filtration, secretion, reabsorption); relation of nephron structure to function; blood pressure and osmolarity homeostasis

Reproduction - A Primer

• check out my online notes and my presidential notes

• textbook

Plant Reproduction

• check out my online notes

• textbook:  chapter 30 & 38

• key topics include: alternation of generations, floral structure & function, double fertilization, fruit and seed development, floral evolution ("Panda's Thumb" in Moodle), plant life cycle (i.e., gametophytes, sporophytes, spores, microspores, megaspores, pollination)

• check out Gink & Go and the Botanical Birds & Bees 

• there are some animations in the public folder that you may want to check out (we didn't watch these during class, but they may be of some value.  There are also some pollen tube movies that are neat).

• the textbook website has lots of great stuff!

Animal Reproduction

• check out my online notes and my presidential notes

• textbook:  chapter 46

• key topics include:  structure and function of the male & female reproductive systems, menstrual cycle, biological explanation for various methods of contraception, including NFP

• check out Gink & Go Talk About Reproduction

Immunology

• check out my online notes, Concept Map, and the Presidential notes

• textbook: chapter 43

• key topics include:  the first line of defense (barriers), innate defenses, acquired immunity, humoral and cell-mediated immunity, structure & function of macrophages, b-cells, t-cells

• check out the "What provides immunity" worksheet given in class

• animations & linked websites in Moodle

Comprehensive Section
    The comprehensive section of the exam will be worth approximately 20% of the final exam grade.  Thus, you should spend about 20% of your time studying for this material.  My recommendation is to focus your studying on the "forest" rather than the "individual trees."  Although there will likely be "specific" questions on this section, when I write comprehensive questions I attempt to look at the "big picture" and see how topics fit together, unifying threads, etc.  Some of the questions in this section will be the same for all students in the course; others will be unique to our section.  To study for this part of the exam you may want to:

• read over your past notes (if you have a nice organized notebook this will make life easy for you)

• read the summary at the end of each chapter

• check out the Top Five Lists that we created in class for each major section of the course.

• go over your old exams

• go through the textbook website, etc.