Biology 115 Final: 9 May 2000

General Instructions:

1. This is a 120-minute exam worth 60 points, so you need to earn one point every two minutes. By contrast, the quizzes were 25-minute evaluations worth ten points and the midterm was a 75-minute evaluation worth 30 points, so each point was earned in 2.5 minutes. Thus you need to work about 1.25 times as fast as you did on the quizzes and midterm, assuming you spent the entire 25 minutes on the evaluation. But most of you finished the quizzes five minutes early or better, so it shouldn't be all that difficult to accomplish that.
2. You will be allowed to bring a note-sheet with you to the exam. The note-sheet should be either one sheet of 8.5x11" paper with writing on both sides or two sheets of 8.5x11" paper with writing on one side. No other notes or books will be allowed. The purpose of the note sheet is to provide a place to keep definitions or mnemonics handy so you don't have to memorize everything. Creating it will also help you to focus your studying between now and Tuesday.
3. Material will be drawn from the entire course, with about 60% drawn from the second half, i.e. since the midterm.

Content:

• Multiple-choice questions: 0.5 points each.
  There will be forty multiple-choice questions for twenty points. Some may include diagrams.
• Definitions: 0.5 points each.
  There will be ten definitions for five points.
• Reverse Definitions: 0.5 points each.
  There will be sixteen reverse definitions for eight points.
• Fill-in-the-blanks: 0.5 point each.
  There will be ten fill-in questions for five points.
• Diagrams: one point each.
  There will be six diagrams for six points.
• Short-answer: one point each.
  There will be six short-answer questions for ten points.
• Paragraph-length answers: answer five of the following for 2 points each.
  Please number your answers to make them easier to grade!
  There will be eight to choose among.