YOUR TESTS WILL BE MADE USING THESE QUESTIONS AND THE MATERIALS PRESENTED IN LECTURE AND LAB. EIGHTY PERCENT
OR MORE OF THE QUESTIONS ON YOUR TESTS WILL COME FROM THESE QUESTIONS. THE REST WILL BE FROM LAB, LECTURE OR OTHER SOURCE
THAT WILL BE IDENTIFIED FOR YOU.
YOUR SUCESS ON THE TEST WILL DEPEND ON YOUR EFFORT IN ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS.
Students who can synthesize the information they have acquired from the text, lecture, lab and from interactions
with their peers (study groups for example). will do well on the exams. The exams will contain many conceptual
and application questions that require the students to use the information they have acquired in lecture and
lab to come up with the correct answer.
An example of this would be:
I am observing a cell under the microscope. It has a cell wall of peptidoglycan. Which of the following assumptions
is NOT true of this cell
a. it has lipid membrane bound organelles
b. it is prokaryotic
c. it may be susceptible to destruction by penicillin
d. it can divide by binary division
e. all of these are true statements about
the cell
This question tests your ability to apply the information you have garnered in lecture and lab. Memorization
of characteristics without understanding will not help you answer this question.
A student who has answered the study questions with an eye to understand the underlying concepts will be able to
know the characteristics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms and identify first that the cell in the question is a prokaryote
and secondly to choose the incorrect statement. This question also requires that the student determine that
there is a incorrect statement.
A key to understanding the review questions is to answer them individually and then get together with other students
in a study group to discuss your answers. You will find many times members of the study group may bring
different perspectives of the question. The discussion that takes place increases everyone's understanding.
WARNING: You lose these different perspectives when you divide the questions up between members of the group and
pass the answers to each other. It is the collaboration that occurs when each student brings his or her insight
that increases your and the groups understanding.
You should soon note that the questions follow the lecture notes in most cases. There are few, if any, questions
on the study guide that I will not have covered in lecture or lab.
