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Hey,
The practice test questions kind of blur with the real ones now but I'll give it my best. One bio question asked which animal was the first to develope a backbone and internal skeleton, my answer choices were a fish, shark, reptile, amphibian, or echinoderm. Another question asked what is the body's immediate response to an arterial hemorrage, i don't remember all of the answer choices but I elminated it down to an increase or decrease in arterial pressure, my mother, an RN, told me the correct answer was decrease in arterial pressure. Another asked in what form is most CO2 transported in the blood, I don't remember all of the answer choices but one was dissolved in the blood, another was attached to hemoglobin, and a third was as bicarbonate ions. My one photosynthesis question asked which membrane contained all of the energy-producing regions in a plant, or something along those lines, the answer choices were the chloroplast outer membrane, chloroplast inner membrane, thylakoid membrane, and two other definitely incorrect choices (like the nuclear membrane and the golgi compex or something). I was asked what is the the first step in glycolysis. One question asked what do the Islets of Langerhans, follicular cells of the ovaries and some other structures do, the answer choices were pretty easy, which was fortunate because I didn't sure what the other structures did but knew that the Islets of Langerhans and follicular cells had to do with hormone secretion. I did have the question about the function of the fertilization membrane in sea urchins, I picked the answer that said it protects it from double fertilization-although that might not be correct. One question asked the development of what two organelles was essential to survival of eukaryotic cells, the answer choices all contained ribosomes and another organelle except for one choice that was chloroplasts and mitochondria. I knew that prokaryotes have ribosomes so that couldn't have been right so went with chloroplasts and mitochondria.
There was an easy question on mitosis, I think it just asked what stage do the chromosomes line up in the center. There was a question about difference betwwen mitosis and meiosis, oh, it was what is the importance of meiosis, the answer I chose was that it results in genetically different offspring. There was a question about blood types (A mom has AB blood type, dad has type O, what are the different types their offspring can be) and one using hardy-weinberg principle, they actually game me p and q outright, saying p=.7, q=.3, what is the percent of heterozygotes. There was another genetics question about pea plants, green and yellow, it said that a green plant (dominant) had been crossed with a yellow plant (indominant) some offspring were green and some yellow, what is the genotype of the green plant (clearly heterozygote, Gg).
Another question asked about the primary function of the large intestine.
As for chemistry, there was a question that gave the ksp and asked for the concentration of a product. There was a question that gave both the values of entropy and enthalpy of the products and reactants and asked for the enthalpy of the reaction. There was a question about gauranteeing a reaction is spontaneous, answer being -enthalpy and positive entropy. There was a question about if you have CO and some other type of gas in two seperate containers which of the following is true, and then the answers mentined their relative densitys, volumes, pressures, kinetic energy. I wasn't really sure about that one. There were a couple of questions asking about oxidation numbers, one was simply what is the oxidation number of an atom, the compound contained hydrogen and oxygen besides that atom. Another one was choose the reaction in which an atom is oxidized. Yet another asked what are the oxidizing and reducing agents in the above reaction. There were a couple acid base questions, one was what is the acid in the above reaction, one was what is the pH of a concentration of X molar HCL, (-log [H+] was the answer). There were a couple of stoichiometric questions, ie given so many grams of X how many grams of Y will be produced, one was a limiting reagent question, I think one might have been a titration question. There were two questions regarding VESPR. There was one question about vapor pressure- which of the following will not effect the vapor pressure type question. There was a question about periodic table trends, I don't remember if it was on electronegativity or size. actually, there were a couple of questions asking about size I think. There was a precent comoposition question too. There were a number of questions about intermolecular forces, ie which of the following compounds has the lowest boiling point, which is most likely to dissolve in water, which will act as an acid, etc.
Hmm, those are all I can think of at the moment, but if you any more questions I will cheerfully answer them! Hope that this helps some, good luck!
