Biology for nursing entrance exams worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

What is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in hospitals?

  1. AWearing a hair net
  2. BHand hygiene
  3. CGiving every patient antibiotics
  4. DOpening the windows
2.Easy

Which of these is a fungus?

  1. AInfluenza virus
  2. BYeast
  3. CAmoeba
  4. DEscherichia coli
3.Easy

What is the main job of the Golgi apparatus?

  1. AProducing ATP by cellular respiration
  2. BCopying DNA before the cell divides
  3. CControlling which genes are switched on
  4. DModifying and packaging proteins
4.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. BCodominance
  3. CIncomplete dominance
  4. DComplete dominance
5.Medium

Why do many plants close their stomata on hot, dry days?

  1. ATo speed up photosynthesis
  2. BTo reduce water loss
  3. CTo release more oxygen
  4. DTo take in more carbon dioxide
6.Medium

Two heterozygous parents (Aa × Aa) are crossed, and A is completely dominant. What is the expected phenotype ratio?

  1. A1 dominant : 2 intermediate : 1 recessive
  2. B1 dominant : 1 recessive
  3. C3 dominant : 1 recessive
  4. DAll dominant
7.Hard

A person's body temperature starts to fall in a cold room. Which responses help bring it back up?

  1. ASlower heart rate and less muscle activity
  2. BSweating and widening of blood vessels in the skin
  3. CShivering and narrowing of blood vessels in the skin
  4. DFaster breathing and more urine production
8.Hard

A food sample turns purple with biuret reagent but stays yellow-brown with iodine solution. What does the sample contain?

  1. AStarch but no protein
  2. BProtein but no starch
  3. CBoth protein and starch
  4. DFat but no protein

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Hand hygiene
  2. 2. B · Yeast
  3. 3. D · Modifying and packaging proteins
  4. 4. C · Incomplete dominance
  5. 5. B · To reduce water loss
  6. 6. C · 3 dominant : 1 recessive
  7. 7. C · Shivering and narrowing of blood vessels in the skin
  8. 8. B · Protein but no starch

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