Biology for nursing entrance exams worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

What do centrioles do in an animal cell?

  1. AThey help organise the spindle during cell division
  2. BThey capture light for photosynthesis
  3. CThey store the cell's digestive enzymes until they are needed
  4. DThey make lipids for the cell membrane
2.Easy

What is activation energy?

  1. AThe heat released when a reaction finishes
  2. BThe energy needed to start a chemical reaction
  3. CThe energy stored in a molecule of ATP
  4. DThe energy plants take in from sunlight
3.Easy

Why is a virus unable to reproduce on its own?

  1. AIt has no genetic material of any kind, neither DNA nor RNA
  2. BIt needs the machinery of a host cell to make copies
  3. CIt reproduces only in sunlight
  4. DIt divides only by meiosis
4.Medium

Which process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

  1. ACellular respiration
  2. BPhotosynthesis
  3. CBurning fossil fuels
  4. DDecomposition
5.Medium

Which list puts these human energy sources in order from fastest to use to longest-lasting store?

  1. AATP, then fat, then glycogen
  2. BATP, then glycogen, then fat
  3. CGlycogen, then ATP, then fat
  4. DFat, then glycogen, then ATP
6.Medium

A red-flowered plant is crossed with a white-flowered plant, and all offspring have pink flowers. What does this show?

  1. AA sex-linked trait
  2. BComplete dominance
  3. CIncomplete dominance
  4. DCodominance
7.Hard

Two populations of one species live on separate islands for many thousands of years. When brought together, they can no longer interbreed. What has happened?

  1. ASpeciation after geographic isolation
  2. BHomeostasis in both populations
  3. CArtificial selection by humans
  4. DHybrid vigour from crossbreeding
8.Hard

A student gives fertiliser to 2 tomato plants and none to 2 others. The fertilised plants grow taller. What is the main weakness of the conclusion that fertiliser increases growth?

  1. AThere was no independent variable
  2. BFertiliser should have been given to all four plants
  3. CHeight cannot be measured accurately
  4. DThe sample size is too small to rule out chance

Answer key

  1. 1. A · They help organise the spindle during cell division
  2. 2. B · The energy needed to start a chemical reaction
  3. 3. B · It needs the machinery of a host cell to make copies
  4. 4. B · Photosynthesis
  5. 5. B · ATP, then glycogen, then fat
  6. 6. C · Incomplete dominance
  7. 7. A · Speciation after geographic isolation
  8. 8. D · The sample size is too small to rule out chance

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