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# What to know for preliminary exams: ## Module 1: - Need to understand difference between animal and plants cell - Need to understand the difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells - Need to understand how to do magnification - Definitely need to understand surface area and ratio for cell...

# What to know for preliminary exams: ## Module 1: - Need to understand difference between animal and plants cell - Need to understand the difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells - Need to understand how to do magnification - Definitely need to understand surface area and ratio for cells - Need to definitely understand enzymes - Need to understand fluid mosaic model and the parts of the model - Need to understand semi permeable membrane (diffusion and Osmosis) - Need to understand all these 3 terms hypertonic- isotonic- hypotonic- - Graphs of temperature substrate concentration and ph - Understand optimum and maximum range - Trends and understanding them ## Module 2: - Understand the process of photosynthesis (identify parts of photosynthesis) light independent-dependent - Heterotrophs and autotrophs - Identification of leaf and animal parts and its purpose - Know how to graph, line of best fit - Different systems for plants and animals - Understanding cells in the human body-Specialization ## Need to understand for long response Module 3: - Convergent evolution - Divergent evolution - Theory of evolution - Evidence of evolution - Different types of evolution - Microevolution - Macroevolution - Gradualism - Punctuated equilibrium - Read a food web and a food chain - Prickly pear and cane toad - Quadrat and transect - Capture recapture. - Speciation - Accumulation of evolutionary traits over time - Comparaitive embryology - Comparative anatomy - Comparitive genomics ## Module 4: - Read a food web and a food chain - Understand layers and the types of predation chain - Ecological Niches and different types of niche - Resource partitioning - Selection pressures - Natural selection - Abiotic biotic factors - Structural physiological and behavior - Inter and intraspecific - The types of sampling techniques