BIOLOGY AND GEOLOGY 4rd ESO 2nd trim.

(21-22)

1-Complete: (1p)
The carbon cycle is important because it is the main component of the organic matter.
It enters the ecosystem by the ……………………. made by plants. Then, plants become
food for animals, so it goes to the different trophic levels, and at the end it returns to the
atmosphere by processes such as …………………………….or ……………………………….
made up by ……………………………. or ……………………………..respectively.
At the same time, humans increase the atmospheric levels of carbon expelling the gas
………….. that we produced doing things such as …………………………………..

2-Define these concepts about ecosystems: (1,5p)

2.1.Primary ecological succession
2.2.Biomass
2.3.Productivity

3-True or false? Correct the wrong sentences: (2p)

3.1 The animal cell has no nucleus.
3.2The plant cells have always a cell wall.
3.3 The prokaryotic cell has always a cell wall.
3.4 The smooth endoplasmic reticulum produces and stores proteins.
3.5 We can find ribosomes in all types of cells.
3.6 The capsule is a protective layer for all the bacteries.
3.7 The mitochondria produces energy only in plant´s cells.
3.8 Chloroplasts are exclusively in plant cells.
3.9 Lysosomes produce proteins.
3.10 The plasmatic membrane is the protective layer for the nucleus.

4- In humans, albinism is produced by an autosomic recessive allele. In the case of a couple with
normal skin, but hybrid in both cases, how will the descendants be? (1p)
5- A woman is a carrier of haemophilia and her partner has not the disease. Will their children
be healthy?. Remember that this is a recessive and sex-linked disease. (1p)

6- A man with type A blood whose father was O, and a woman with type B blood,
homozygote, have a baby. Could the baby be type O? Why? (1p)

7. In the pictures you should :

7.1. Put numbers to order the pictures.
7.2.Write the name of the phases
7.3.Put the name of the process represented. (1,5p)

8- Indicate three differences between mitosis and meiosis (1p)