All Questions: Cambridge IGCSE Biology - 0610 - Core Paper 1 2024 Winter Zone 3
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Describe life processes: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrit

Students find a small organism in a pond. They catch it and put it into a large jar of water. They see that the organism swims away from light. It lays some eggs before it is put back into the pond.

Which characteristics of living things did the students see in this organism?

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

Which description of a species is correct?

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

The table shows the number of animals collected in a sample from a woodland and the groups to which they belong.

[Table_1]

How many of the animals, in total, are arthropods with six or eight legs?

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

Some vertebrates have body hair.
Which group do these vertebrates belong to?

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

The diagram shows two guard cells from a leaf.
Which labelled part would also be found in sperm cells?

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

The photograph shows part of a cross-section of a root.

The root hair and the xylem are part of the same

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

Which formula is correct for calculations involving image size, actual size and magnification?

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

Which statements about diffusion are correct?

1 Diffusion is the net movement of particles from a higher to a lower concentration.
2 Diffusion is the net movement of particles only across cell membranes.
3 Diffusion requires energy from respiration.

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

What is the name of the process in which water moves through a partially permeable membrane?

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

A sample of food is tested with different chemical substances.

The table shows the results.

[Table_1]

Which nutrients does the sample of food contain?

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

The diagram shows an experiment on the digestion of the protein in egg albumen by protease.

The protease was taken from a human stomach.

In which test-tube will protein be digested most quickly?

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

The diagram represents the shape of an enzyme molecule.

With which substrate would this enzyme most easily form an enzyme–substrate complex?

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

The diagram shows an experiment to investigate photosynthesis.

What is the most abundant gas present at the top of the tube at the end of the experiment?

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

The graph shows how the percentage of protein found in potatoes was affected by the concentration of nitrate fertiliser added to the crop when it was growing.

Using the information in the graph, which molecule do the potatoes make more of when the concentration of nitrate fertiliser increases?

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

Which food would add more fibre as part of a balanced diet?

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

The diagram shows the human digestive system.
Which letter represents the rectum?

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

The bacterium $Salmonella$ $enterica$ can cause severe food poisoning, and the lining of the alimentary canal may be damaged. This damage affects the absorption of digested food.

Which region of the alimentary canal is most affected by this type of food poisoning?

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

In which part of the alimentary canal is the most water absorbed?

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

The diagram shows the pathway of water molecules through a leaf and out to the environment.

mesophyll cell \( \rightarrow \) process X \( \rightarrow \) air space \( \rightarrow \) process Y \( \rightarrow \) stomata

Which statements are correct?

1. Process X is active transport.
2. Process X is evaporation.
3. Process Y is diffusion.
4. Process Y is osmosis.

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

The diagram shows blood vessels entering and leaving some organs in the human body.

Which row identifies the pulmonary artery and the renal vein?

[Table_1]

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

When a pathogen enters the blood, the number of white blood cells increases.

Some possible reasons why this happens are listed.

1 It increases the number of antibodies.
2 It increases the transport of oxygen.
3 It increases phagocytosis.
4 It increases the number of platelets.

Which reasons are correct?

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

The graph shows how waste is disposed of in three cities.

Which statement describes waste disposal in all of the three cities?

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

Which structure connects directly to the alveoli?

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

What is the equation for aerobic respiration?

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

Which hormone is secreted by the pancreas?

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

What is an example of phototropism?

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

The graph shows changes in the resistance of the bacterium \textit{Escherichia coli} to two different antibiotics between 2005 and 2023.

Which statement describes the changes that occurred between 2005 and 2023?

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

The nuclei of which two structures fuse during fertilisation?

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

Which statements about sexual reproduction in plants are correct?

1 Anthers in wind-pollinated flowers are inside the flower.
2 Pollen grains in insect-pollinated flowers are large and sticky.
3 The stigma in insect-pollinated flowers is outside the flower.

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

Which structure is found in both animals and plants?

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

Which sex chromosomes are present in a human sperm cell?

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

What are alleles made of?

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

The graph shows the percentage of a population with different phenotypes for the same characteristic.

Which characteristic in humans is represented by X?

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

Energy transfers in an ecosystem are listed.

[Table_1]

Which transfers are correct?

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

Which diagram shows the correct order in a food chain?

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

Which process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

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

The graph shows how the population of the world has increased over time.

Which growth curve phase is represented by region P?

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

How do herbicides help to increase food production?

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

Which product of anaerobic respiration in yeast is used as a biofuel?

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

Which statement describes genetic modification?