All Questions from this Paper: Cambridge IGCSE Biology - 0610 - Core Paper 1 2015 Winter Zone 3
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CH1 - CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, Characteristics And Classification Of Living Organisms

What are the characteristics of bony fish? [Table_1]

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CH1 - CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, Characteristics And Classification Of Living Organisms

What are the features of the leaves of a plant that is a eudicotyledon (dicotyledon)?
[Table_1]

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CH1 - CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, Characteristics And Classification Of Living Organisms

Many snakes that belong to the viper family are unusual in that they give birth to live young.
This is usually a characteristic of which vertebrate group?

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CH1 - CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, Characteristics And Classification Of Living Organisms

Use the key to identify which group is amphibians.
1 hair present .......................................... mammals
hair absent ......................................... go to 2
2 feathers present .................................. group A
feathers absent ................................ go to 3
3 dry scaly skin..................................... group B
moist skin ......................................... go to 4
4 four limbs .......................................... group C
no limbs ............................................ group D

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CH2 - ORGANIZATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ORGANISM, Organization And Maintenance Of The Organism

The diagram shows a liver cell.
Which features are present in this cell and also in most plant cells?

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CH2 - ORGANIZATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ORGANISM, Organization And Maintenance Of The Organism

Which structure is present in a root hair cell but not in a liver cell?

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CH2 - ORGANIZATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ORGANISM, Organization And Maintenance Of The Organism

Which description of the heart is correct?

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CH2 - ORGANIZATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ORGANISM, Comparison of Different Types of Cells, Organization And Maintenance Of The Organism

The diagram shows four cells.

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CH3 - MOVEMENT IN AND OUT OF CELLS, Movement In And Out Of Cells

The diagrams show how a cell appears under the microscope at the start of an experiment and after it has been placed in a dilute solution of salts for 5 minutes.
Which statement explains what happens?

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CH3 - MOVEMENT IN AND OUT OF CELLS, Movement In And Out Of Cells

The diagram represents the molecules in two solutions either side of a fully permeable membrane.
In which directions are the net movements of the molecules?

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CH5 - ENZYMES, Enzymes

Which group of compounds ensures that metabolic reactions take place effectively?

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CH4 - BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES, Biological Molecules

Four different foods were tested for their composition. The results are shown in the table. Which food contains protein but not reducing sugar or starch? [Table_1]

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CH4 - BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES, Biological Molecules

What are the smaller basic units of starch and glycogen molecules? [Table_1]

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CH6 - PLANT NUTRITION, Plant Nutrition

A plant with striped leaves similar to the one below was kept in bright light for six hours.
[Image_1: Diagram of leaf with white and green stripes]
A leaf was taken from the plant and the chlorophyll removed. It was then tested for starch using iodine solution.
Which diagram shows the result of the test?

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CH8 - TRANSPORT IN PLANTS, Transport in Plants

Which substances are transported in the phloem?

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CH9 - TRANSPORT IN ANIMALS, Transport In Animals

The diagrams show some components of the blood of a mammal.
Which component causes the blood to start clotting?

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CH13 - EXCRETION IN HUMANS, Excretion In Humans

Where are hormones removed from the blood and broken down in the human body?

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CH12 - RESPIRATION, Respiration

The list shows four metabolic processes.
1. carbon dioxide + water $\rightarrow$ glucose + oxygen
2. glucose $\rightarrow$ alcohol + carbon dioxide
3. glucose $\rightarrow$ lactic acid
4. glucose + oxygen $\rightarrow$ carbon dioxide + water
Which of these processes occur in muscles?

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CH12 - RESPIRATION, Respiration

The diagram shows apparatus used to investigate anaerobic respiration in yeast.

What happens to the coloured liquid?

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CH11 - GAS EXCHANGE IN HUMANS, Gas Exchange in Humans

The diagram shows some of the structures in a human lung.
Where is the carbon dioxide concentration highest?

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CH13 - EXCRETION IN HUMANS, Excretion In Humans

Where is urea produced in the human body and from which chemicals is it produced? [Table_1]

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CH13 - EXCRETION IN HUMANS, Excretion In Humans

The table shows the composition of a liquid found in the human body.
[Table_1]

In a healthy person, which structure contains this liquid?

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CH14 - CO-ORDINATION AND RESPONSE, Co-ordination And Response

The diagram shows muscles and bones in a person's arm.
What happens to the muscles as the weight is lowered?

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CH14 - CO-ORDINATION AND RESPONSE, Co-ordination And Response

In an experiment to investigate phototropism, a plant shoot is grown with light coming from one side only. After two days, in which region has the greatest rate of growth occurred?

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CH16 - REPRODUCTION, Reproduction

Which structure is involved in the transfer of dissolved nutrients from the mother to the fetus?

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CH16 - REPRODUCTION, Reproduction

The diagram shows the human female reproductive system.

After ejaculation, along which route does a male gamete travel to fuse with an egg?

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CH16 - REPRODUCTION, Reproduction

Which set of conditions is required for seed germination? [Table_1]

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CH16 - REPRODUCTION, Reproduction

The graph shows the height of a child, from birth to the age of 10.

What was the approximate height of the child at 7 years of age?

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CH17 - INHERITANCE, Inheritance

Which of these cells is haploid?

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CH17 - INHERITANCE, Inheritance

What results from meiosis of a diploid cell?

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CH19 - ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT, Organisms And Their Environment

Which pathway is taken by energy from the Sun?

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CH19 - ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT, Organisms And Their Environment

The diagram shows a food web including a producer, consumers and a decomposer. Which organism is the decomposer?

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CH19 - ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT, Organisms And Their Environment

The diagram shows a food chain.

If the hawks are removed from this food chain, what is likely to happen to the numbers of the other organisms in this chain?

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CH19 - ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT, Organisms And Their Environment

Which organisms remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

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CH19 - ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT, Organisms And Their Environment

The diagram shows a simple water cycle.
What is responsible for water loss from the tree?

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CH19 - ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT, Organisms And Their Environment

Which process is not part of the carbon cycle?

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CH19 - ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT, Organisms And Their Environment

Which factors affect the rate of growth of a plant population?
[Table with factors: disease, grazing by herbivores, light intensity]

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CH21 - HUMAN INFLUENCES ON ECOSYSTEMS, Human Influences On Ecosystems

What is a reason for conserving plant species?

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CH21 - HUMAN INFLUENCES ON ECOSYSTEMS, Human Influences On Ecosystems

What is reduced after deforestation?

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CH21 - HUMAN INFLUENCES ON ECOSYSTEMS, Human Influences On Ecosystems

The diagram shows four positions on a river where water samples were taken.



Which graph shows oxygen concentrations in the river?