Common Entrance Biology – 20 Multiple choice questions
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1. What name is given to the tiny blood vessels that bleed when you graze your knee?

2. Which of the features listed below would be found in ALL living animals an plants

3. cell1This is a diagram of a typical animal cell.

What is represented by structure labelled B?

4. You find an animal whose body is covered with fur.

To which animal group is the animal likely to belong?

5. You have seed that you have just taken from its packet.

In order to make it grow what will the seed need?

6. Photosynthesis is how plants make food

Why does photosynthesis usually stop at night?

7. What conditions does a young plant need to keep healthy

8. What is meant by your 'pulse'

9. Protein is good in our diet because it

10. Pollen reaching the stigma of a plant is known as

11. These organs clean the blood and produce urine

12. Which part of our body carries blood AWAY from the heart?

13. circulation-graphThe graph below shows the heart rate of two boys, X and Y

Their teacher measured their pulse and then asked them to run on a running machine for 2 minutes

When their pulse had returned to normal the experiment was stopped

How long did it take the heart rate of boy X to return to normal after he stopped running?
 

14. Which of the following bones protects the spinal cord and supports the head

15. How would exhaled air compare with inhaled air?

16. Lettuce ----> slug ------> thrush -------> fox

The second organism in any food chain is always what?

17. What happens when a boy reaches puberty?

(puberty is the time when his body starts to change in appearance, sometime between 10 and 14 years old)

18. The seeds of a plant are found in which organ?

19. Why is it sensible to put antiseptic on a cut?

20. Bones in the skeleton either protect or support organs.

What do the RIBS do?