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(The Princeton Review) Practice Test 2
(The Princeton Review) Practice Test 2
(The Princeton Review) Practice Test 2
Completely darken bubbles with a No. 2 pencil. If you make a mistake, be sure to erase mark completely. Erase all stray marks.
1.
YOUR NAME: ____________________________________________________________________________________
(Print) Last First M.I.
__________________________________________________________________________________
City State Zip Code
Directions: Each set of lettered choices below refers to the numbered statements immediately following it.
Select the one lettered choice that BEST answers each question or BEST fits each statement, and then fill in the
corresponding oval on the answer sheet. A choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all in each set.
2. Layer that restricts evaporation in humans 6. Transports amino acids during protein synthesis
3. Layer that restricts evaporation in plants 7. Passed on to progeny cells during cell division
Nematoda Roundworm
Lion
Carnivora
Bear
Mammalia (D)
Chordates (E) Ape
Primates
Human
Aves Bird
9. Separates animals with nails from animals with 11. Separates animals with feathers from animals
claws with hair
10. Separates segmented worms from worms with no 12. Separates animals with exoskeletons from
segmentation animals with no exoskeletons
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Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or
completions. Some questions pertain to a set that refers to a laboratory or experimental situation. For each
situation, select the one choice that is the best answer to the question and then fill in the corresponding oval
on the answer sheet.
17. Which biome contains maples, squirrels, and 20. Black coat color in horses is caused by a
black bears? dominant allele, while white coat color is due to
(A) Tundra the recessive allele. Two black horses produce a
(B) Tropical rain forest foal with a white coat. If they were to produce a
(C) Temperate grasslands second foal, what would be the probability of the
(D) Taiga second foal having a black coat?
(E) Deciduous forest (A) 0
(B) 1/4
18. A man who is color blind marries a normal woman, (C) 1/2
and together they have a daughter who is not (D) 3/4
color blind. If the daughter marries a man with (E) 1
normal vision, what is the probability of their
firstborn child being a son who is color blind? 21. If one ribose molecule were bonded to one
(A) 0% adenine molecule and one phosphate molecule,
(B) 25% we would have a
(C) 50% (A) ribosome
(D) 75% (B) nucleotide
(E) 100% (C) nucleic acid
(D) ATP
19. All of the following are needed for photosynthesis (E) ADP
EXCEPT
(A) light
(B) glucose
(C) chlorophyll
(D) water
(E) carbon dioxide
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H H O H H O Aphotic zone
H N C C N C C OH Abyssal zone
R1 R2 10,000 m
Marine Biomes
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40. Which fruit extract operates over the broadest pH 45. If a yellow-flowered offspring were
range? self-pollinated, what would the resulting plants’
(A) Lemon flowers look like?
(B) Pineapple (A) 100% yellow
(C) Papaya (B) 100% red
(D) Apple (C) 100% orange
(E) Banana (D) 50% yellow, 50% red
(E) 75% red, 25% yellow
41. Over which pH range does pineapple extract
operate at no less than 50% of its maximum
effectiveness?
(A) pH 4 to pH 10
(B) pH 2 to pH 12
(C) pH 6 to pH 8
(D) pH 7 to pH 11
(E) pH 10 to pH 14
47. Suppose the original parent plant is cross- 48. At which dose does 50% of the termite
pollinated with a plant that has red flowers and population survive?
non-alternating leaves. All of the resulting (A) 15 PPM
offspring have non-alternating leaves. Which of (B) 20 PPM
the following is/are true? (C) 25 PPM
I. None of the offspring have orange (D) 30 PPM
flowers. (E) 35 PPM
II. The allele for alternating leaves is
recessive. 49. How is this substance toxic to termites?
III. Approximately half of the offspring (A) It paralyzes their jaws so they are unable
have red flowers. to eat.
(B) It prevents digestion of wood.
(A) I only
(C) It kills the microorganisms in the
(B) II only
termites’ digestive tracks that digest
(C) III only
wood.
(D) I and III only
(D) At 40 PPM only 20% of the termites
(E) II and III only
survive.
(E) There is no information given that
Questions 48-50
describes the mechanism of toxicity.
2-butoxyethanol, a substance found in a general
household cleaner, was tested for toxicity to termites. 50. Based on the data for 20 PPM 2-butoxyethanol,
Solutions were made that contained various parts per what concentration of solution would be
million (PPM) of 2-butoxyethanol, and 15 mL of each required to kill the entire 20-member termite
of these diluted solutions was mixed with 150 g of population?
wood chips. Twenty mature termites were added to the (A) 40 PPM
wood chips, and the number surviving after 24 hours (B) 50 PPM
was determined and recorded. The following graph (C) 60 PPM
presents the results. (D) 70 PPM
(E) 80 PPM
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The following experiment was performed to test the effect of an auxin on plant growth. The auxin was
dissolved in a gelatin block; gelatin does not affect the biological activity of the auxin. Several plant seedlings
were prepared as described below and growth was measured every five days.
AUXIN
51. Based on the results of the experiment, one can 52. Which of the following plants in the experiment
conclude that the tip of the plant contains acted as a control?
(A) gelatin I. Plant 1
(B) water II. Plants 2 and 3
(C) auxin
(D) paste III. Plant 5
(E) nothing significant (A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and II only
(E) I, II, and III
Unfertilized frog oocytes were bathed in a neutral, isotonic solution (Frog Ringer’s solution) to prevent changes in
volume due to osmosis. The Frog Ringer’s solution was supplemented with radiolabeled amino acids. A sample
of oocytes was taken every 30 minutes and assayed for radioactivity.
At Time 1, the oocytes were fertilized. Samples were taken at five-minute intervals after fertilization and assayed
for radioactivity. The results are presented in the graph below.
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80
Counts per minute
(cpm), radioactive 60
methionine
40
20
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If you are taking the Biology-E test, continue with questions 61-80.
If you are taking the Biology-M test, go to question 81 now.
61. Which of the following organisms is able to 65. A mushroom is most like a
regulate its own body temperature?
(A) moss
(A) Frog (B) fern
(B) Fish (C) yeast
(C) Snake (D) pine
(D) Sparrow (E) seaweed
(E) Turtle
66. In a certain ecosystem, the primary producers
62. A virus is considered a parasite because it represent 100,000 kcal of energy. Assuming a
I. harms its host 10% transfer of energy between trophic levels,
how much energy is available to the fourth
II. kills its host trophic level?
III. cannot reproduce outside its host (A) 10 kcal
(A) I only (B) 100 kcal
(B) II only (C) 1,000 kcal
(C) I and III only (D) 10,000 kcal
(D) II and III only (E) 100,000 kcal
(E) I, II, and III
67. Which of the following represents the proper
63. An organism that feeds at several trophic levels is ecological hierarchy?
(A) a carnivore (A) Population → community → ecosystem →
(B) an omnivore biosphere
(C) a primary consumer (B) Ecosystem → community → population →
(D) an herbivore biosphere
(E) a primary producer (C) Population → ecosystem → community →
biosphere
64. Yeast are cultured in a flask of nutrient broth (D) Biosphere → ecosystem → population →
under anaerobic conditions. The yeast that are community
most fit are those that (E) Community → population → biosphere →
ecosystem
(A) ferment the fastest
(B) consume less of the limited oxygen supply
(C) survive the longest
(D) produce the most ATP
(E) produce the most buds
Nitrogen Cycle
STOP
IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, YOU MAY CHECK YOUR
WORK ON THE ENTIRE BIOLOGY-E TEST.
Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or
completions. Some questions pertain to a set that refers to a laboratory or experimental situation. For each
question, select the one choice that is the best answer to the question and then fill in the corresponding oval
on the answer sheet.
81. An animal cell placed into a 0.9% solute solution 85. A buck with a large, impressive rack of antlers
would do which of the following? sires four offspring, three males and one female.
The three male offspring also have large, impressive
(A) Remain unchanged
antlers, but before being able to reproduce, two
(B) Swell and burst
of the male offspring get their antlers tangled in
(C) Shrivel
a low-hanging tree and are caught and killed by
(D) Swell and divide
wolves. A second buck with a smaller set of
(E) Release solute by exocytosis
antlers sires three male offspring; all of these
males have smaller antlers like their father. They
82. When during cell division do chromosomes move to are more effective at escaping predators and
opposite poles of the cell? successfully reproduce. In terms of evolution,
(A) When the centrioles replicate which of the original bucks is more fit?
(B) After the nuclear membrane disintegrates (A) The buck with the larger antlers because he
(C) Immediately following DNA replication sired more offspring.
(D) When the DNA condenses (B) The buck with the smaller antlers because
(E) Immediately after the centromere splits more of his offspring survived.
(C) The buck with the larger antlers because he
83. Convergent evolution can result in all of the following will be more successful at attracting a
EXCEPT mate and continuing to reproduce.
(D) The buck with the smaller antlers because he
(A) structures that have similar functions is more effective at escaping predators and
(B) behaviors that are similar will continue to reproduce.
(C) different species that resemble one another (E) Both bucks are equally fit.
(D) production of a single species from two
originally different species
(E) niches that are similar
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Figure 2
93. Consider Figure 1. If radiolabeled uracil were
added to the cultured liver cells BEFORE the
addition of hormone, and the mRNA and AAT
were analyzed at one-minute intervals to
determine the presence of radioactivity, at what
AAT mRNA AAT time would radioactivity first be detected?
(A) Immediately upon addition of hormone
(B) 1 minute after addition of hormone
(C) 3 minutes after addition of hormone
(D) 8 minutes after addition of hormone
5 10 15 26 (E) 20 minutes after addition of hormone
Minutes after hormone
and inhibitor added
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WORK ON THE ENTIRE BIOLOGY-M TEST.
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