Match each description with the correct characteristic of a living organism:
Taking in of nutrients which are organic substances and mineral ions, containing raw materials or energy for growth and tissue repair, absorbing and assimilating them. [blank_start]_____[blank_end]
The chemical reactions that break down nutrient molecules in living cells to release energy. [blank_start]_____[blank_end]
A permanent increase in size and dry mass by an increase in cell number or cell size or both. [blank_start]_____[blank_end]
Removal from organisms of toxic materials, the waste products of metabolism (chemical reactions in cells including respiration) and substances in excess of requirements. [blank_start]______[blank_end]
An action by an organism or part of an organism causing a change of position or place. [blank_start]_____[blank_end]
The ability to detect or sense changes in the environment (stimuli) and to make responses. [blank_start]_____[blank_end]
The processes that make more of the same kind of organism. [blank_start]_______[blank_end]
Answer
Nutrition
Respiration
Growth
Excretion
Movement
Sensitivity
Reproduction
Question 2
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Which statement about enzymes is always correct?
Answer
They are made of carbohydrate.
They work best at high temperatures.
They speed up chemical reactions.
They work inside living cells.
Question 3
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A species of bacterium lives in acidic, hot springs at a temperature of 90 °C.
Which conditions will best suit the enzymes of this bacterium?
Answer
30 °C and pH 4
30 °C and pH 9
80 °C and pH 4
80 °C and pH 9
Question 4
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Which features are found in mammals but not in other vertebrates?
Answer
claws and hair
claws and lungs
hair and milk
lungs and milk
Question 5
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Which cells produce starch in their cytoplasm?
Answer
all animal cells
all plant cells
some animal cells
some plant cells
Question 6
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The binomial name for a tiger is Panthera tigris and for a lion, Panthera leo.
What do these scientific names show?
Lions and tigers:
Answer
have many features in common.
can interbreed.
are genetically identical.
are both in the same species
Question 7
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Which diagram shows the appearance of a plant cell several minutes after it has been placed in a
concentrated solution of sugar?
(0610 June 2009 Paper 1)
Answer
A
B
C
D
Question 8
Question
The dots represent molecules of a gas in four tubes at the beginning of an experiment.
In which tube will more molecules move from X to Y than in the opposite direction?
(June 2009 QP 1, Q10)