Biology for nursing entrance exams worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

What is peer review?

  1. ARepeating your own experiment many times
  2. BAsking patients for their opinion of a treatment
  3. CReading a textbook to learn a topic
  4. DExperts checking a study before it is published
2.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 reproduces only in sunlight
  3. CIt needs the machinery of a host cell to make copies
  4. DIt divides only by meiosis
3.Easy

Which kind of organism causes malaria?

  1. AA fungus that grows on skin
  2. BA virus spread by coughing
  3. CA protist carried by mosquitoes
  4. DA bacterium carried in water
4.Medium

A person with blood type AB has both A and B antigens on the red cells. What kind of inheritance is this?

  1. AIncomplete dominance
  2. BCodominance
  3. CComplete dominance of A over B
  4. DSex-linked inheritance
5.Medium

Which is the correct way to write the scientific name of the gut bacterium?

  1. Acoli Escherichia
  2. BEscherichia Coli
  3. CEscherichia coli
  4. DEscherichia Coli
6.Medium

A patient's heart rate is measured four times: 70, 72, 74 and 80 beats per minute. What is the mean?

  1. A80 beats per minute
  2. B73 beats per minute
  3. C74 beats per minute
  4. D72 beats per minute
7.Hard

Scientists put a human gene into bacteria to make a protein. Why do they use a DNA copy made from the mature mRNA instead of the gene taken straight from human DNA?

  1. ABacteria cannot read human codons
  2. BHuman DNA has no start codons
  3. CBacteria cannot remove introns
  4. DBacteria have no ribosomes
8.Hard

A diploid cell contains 10 units of DNA in G1. How many units are in each cell at the end of meiosis II?

  1. A2.5 units
  2. B5 units
  3. C10 units
  4. D20 units

Answer key

  1. 1. D · Experts checking a study before it is published
  2. 2. C · It needs the machinery of a host cell to make copies
  3. 3. C · A protist carried by mosquitoes
  4. 4. B · Codominance
  5. 5. C · Escherichia coli
  6. 6. C · 74 beats per minute
  7. 7. C · Bacteria cannot remove introns
  8. 8. B · 5 units

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