All Questions: Cambridge IGCSE Biology - 0610 - Core Paper 1 2024 Winter Zone 1
Theory
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01.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The diagram shows a leaf on a plant.

Which characteristic of life is represented by this diagram?

02.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which description of a species is correct?

03.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The diagram shows a dolphin.

Dolphins are mammals that live in the sea.
Which row correctly identifies some of the features of dolphins?
[Table_1]

04.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which structures are found in an animal cell?
[Table_1]

05.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

What is the function of ciliated cells in the bronchi?

06.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The diagram shows an organism called a copepod. The magnification of the diagram is $\times 30$.

The length of line XY is 45 mm.
What is the actual length of the copepod?

07.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Some molecules move through a membrane during osmosis.

Which row shows the molecule that moves and the type of membrane?

[Table_1]

08.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

What is a feature of active transport?

09.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which substances are made by linking together glucose molecules only?

10.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Four solutions were tested to see if they contained protein, starch or glucose.
The colours of the solutions after the tests are recorded in the table.

Which solution contained protein and glucose but not starch?

[Table_1]

11.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which type of biological molecule are enzymes made of?

12.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The diagrams show molecules involved in the action of a digestive enzyme.
What is the substrate?

13.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The graph shows how the activity of an enzyme varies with temperature.

What is the optimum temperature for this enzyme, and at which temperature is the enzyme completely denatured?

[Table_1]

14.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

An experiment is set up as shown.

The green indicator:
• turns yellow when the carbon dioxide concentration increases
• turns blue when the carbon dioxide concentration decreases.
After several hours, the indicator in test-tube X turned blue. The indicator in test-tube Y remained green.
Which process caused the colour change?

15.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

What is a description of transpiration?

16.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The photomicrograph shows a cross-section through a leaf.

Which structure is the cuticle?

17.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

What is lacking in the diet of a person with scurvy?

18.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

What is a part of the small intestine?

19.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The diagram shows the apparatus used in an experiment to demonstrate two processes that take place in the body.

After one hour, the water outside the dialysis tubing contained reducing sugars.
Which two processes are represented by this experiment?

20.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which row identifies the four types of human teeth shown?

[Table_1]

21.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The diagram shows the human digestive system.

Which letters show where amylase acts during digestion?

22.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which row describes transport in a plant?

[Table_1]

23.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

In humans, which structures provide cells with oxygen and nutrients?

24.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The diagram shows part of the human circulatory system.

What are the numbered blood vessels?
[Table_1]

25.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Some methods of transmitting pathogens are listed.

1 drinking contaminated water
2 contact with another person's blood
3 contact with another person's saliva
4 touching contaminated surfaces

How many are indirect methods of transmitting pathogens?

26.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which substances are used and produced in aerobic respiration in a plant cell?

[Table_1]

27.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which organ excretes urea?

28.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which statements about hormones are correct?

1. The ovaries secrete oestrogen.
2. The pancreas secretes adrenaline.
3. The pancreas secretes insulin.

29.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The diagram shows a plant shoot growing towards the light.

What is the name of this plant shoot's response to light?

30.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Parts of an insect-pollinated flower are listed.

1. anther
2. filament
3. stigma
4. style

Which parts are in a carpel?

31.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

What is treated with antibiotics?

32.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which statement describes asexual reproduction?

33.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

In humans, why are sperm cells produced in much greater numbers than egg cells?

34.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

What is the ball of cells that implants into the lining of the uterus during sexual reproduction in humans?

35.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which sex chromosomes need to be present in a sperm cell to produce a male offspring?

36.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

ABO blood groups are an example of one type of variation.
What is the cause of this type of variation?

37.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which statement is an example of natural selection?

38.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

The graph shows the increase in the human population of the world since 1630.

What was the longest time taken for the population to double?

39.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Lichens are organisms that do not grow well in polluted air.

Which graph shows the change in the number of lichen species from the centre of a polluted city to the unpolluted countryside 15 km away?

40.
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Which trophic level describes an organism that only eats herbivores?