GCSE AQA Biology 1 Quiz

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A quiz with questions from the whole of the B1 unit.
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
Which of these food groups is used for growth, cell repair and cell replacement?
Respuesta
  • Carbohydrates
  • Fats
  • Protein
  • Fibre
  • Vitamins and mineral ions

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
Which of these factors can affect your metabolic rate?
Respuesta
  • Muscle: Fat ratio
  • Size
  • Gender
  • Amount of exercise
  • Temperature
  • Inherited factors
  • Heart rate

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
Which of these health problems is not caused by obesity?
Respuesta
  • Arthritis
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • High blood pressure
  • Heart disease
  • Some cancers
  • Kidney disease

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
Too much saturated fat in your diet can increase your blood cholesterol level
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
Which of these problems can be caused by eating too little?
Respuesta
  • Slow growth (in children)
  • Fatigue
  • Poor resistance to infection
  • Irregular periods
  • Underactive thyroid gland
  • Lung cancer
  • High blood pressure
  • Deficiency diseases

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
Which of these are differences between bacteria and viruses?
Respuesta
  • Bacteria are small living cells, viruses are smaller than cells
  • Bacteria are smaller than cells, viruses are small living cells
  • Bacteria make you feel ill by damaging cells and producing toxins, viruses replicate themselves by invading cells and using cells' machinery to produce copies of themselves which will cause the cell to burst - the damage makes you feel ill
  • Bacteria replicate themselves by invading cells and using cells' machinery to produce copies of themselves which will cause the cell to burst - the damage makes you feel ill, viruses make you feel ill by damaging cells and producing toxins

Pregunta 7

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The body's defence system involves the skin, hairs and mucus, platelets and the immune system (white blood cells)
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 8

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Vaccinations involve injecting small amounts of active microorganisms
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
Which of these drugs actually cures disease?
Respuesta
  • Painkillers
  • Antibiotics

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
Which of the following describes how bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics?
Respuesta
  • Bacteria mutates (to become resistant), infection is treated with antibiotics, only non-resistant killed, resistant survives and reproduces, population of resistant increases
  • Population of resistant increases, infection is treated with antibiotics, bacteria mutates (to become resistant), resistant survives and reproduces, only non-resistant killed
  • Infection is treated with antibiotics, only non-resistant killed, bacteria mutates (to become resistant), population of resistant increases, resistant survives and reproduces

Pregunta 11

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Why are cultures of microorganisms kept at 25 degrees C in schools?
Respuesta
  • To stop the agar jelly melting
  • To stop harmful pathogens growing
  • To give the right conditions for most microorganisms

Pregunta 12

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What did Ignaz Semmelweis encourage doctors to do?
Respuesta
  • Wash their hands in an antiseptic solution
  • Use the drug he created, penicillin
  • Put patients with diseases in a different ward to pregnant women

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
Which of these is the definition of a stimulus?
Respuesta
  • A cell which is sensitive to light
  • A change in your environment
  • Where information from the sense organs is sent

Pregunta 14

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At a synapse, the nerve signal is transferred by chemicals which diffuse across the gap - the chemicals set off a new electrical signal in the next neurone
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
Which of the following describes the reflex arc?
Respuesta
  • Sensory neurone, relay neurone, stimulus, response, effector, motor neurone, receptor
  • Stimulus, receptor, sensory neurone, relay neurone, motor neurone, effector, response
  • Response, stimulus, motor neurone, receptor, relay neurone, effector, sensory neurone,

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
Which of these are differences between responses coordinated by nerves and hormones?
Respuesta
  • Nerves - slower action, hormones - very fast action
  • Nerves - very fast action, hormones - slower action
  • Nerves - act for a very short time, hormones - act for a long time
  • Nerves - act for a long time, hormones - act for a very short time
  • Nerves - act in a more general way, hormones - act on a very precise area
  • Nerves - act on a very precise area, hormones - act in a more general way

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
What are the features of FSH (Follicle-Stimulating-Hormone) ?
Respuesta
  • Produced by the pituitary gland
  • Produced in the ovaries
  • Causes an egg to mature
  • Stimulates production of LH
  • Stimulates release of egg
  • Stimulates production of oestrogen

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
Which hormones are used to reduce fertility?
Respuesta
  • FSH
  • Oestrogen
  • LH
  • Progesterone

Pregunta 19

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A problem associated with IVF is multiple births, which are risky for the mother and babies.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
Which of these statements are true about the plant hormone, auxin?
Respuesta
  • Auxin stimulates growth in shoots and inhibits growth in roots
  • Auxin inhibits growth in shoots and stimulates growth in shoots

Pregunta 21

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The definition of homeostasis is the maintenance of a constant internal environment
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 22

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What do anabolic steroids and stimulants do?
Respuesta
  • Anabolic steroids increase muscle size and stimulants increase heart rate
  • Anabolic steroids increase heart rate and stimulants increase muscle size

Pregunta 23

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What is the purpose of testing a drug on healthy human volunteers?
Respuesta
  • To test the drug's toxicity
  • To find the optimum dose
  • To see if it has any harmful side effects

Pregunta 24

Pregunta
What was thalidomide intended to be used for?
Respuesta
  • Treating people with sleeping disorders (insomnia)
  • Relieving morning sickness in pregnant women
  • Treating leprosy

Pregunta 25

Pregunta
Illegal drugs have more of an impact than legal drugs
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 26

Pregunta
How are Arctic animals adapted to reduce heat loss?
Respuesta
  • Small surface area to volume ratio
  • Large surface area to volume ratio
  • Thick layer of blubber
  • Thin layers of body fat
  • Greasy fur
  • Produce little sweat
  • Produce small amounts of concentrated urine
  • White fur

Pregunta 27

Pregunta
Which of these are living factors that could cause the environment to change?
Respuesta
  • A change in the occurrence of infectious diseases
  • A change in the number of predators
  • A change in the number of prey/availability of food sources
  • A change in the number or types of competitors
  • A change in average temperature
  • A change in average rainfall
  • A change in the level of air or water pollution

Pregunta 28

Pregunta
Lichen can be used to measure air pollution as they are very sensitive to the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 29

Pregunta
What is biomass?
Respuesta
  • The mass of living material
  • How much food an animal needs
  • The number of species in an area

Pregunta 30

Pregunta
How is energy from the Sun lost in the food chain?
Respuesta
  • Plants use it to make food
  • Respiration
  • Movement
  • Controlling body temperature
  • Some of the material which makes up the plants & animals is inedible
  • Waste materials
  • Sleeping
  • Eating
  • Burning fossil fuels

Pregunta 31

Pregunta
In what conditions is decay fastest?
Respuesta
  • Warm
  • Moist
  • Aerobic (with oxygen)
  • Anaerobic (without oxygen)
  • Dry
  • Cold

Pregunta 32

Pregunta
In the carbon cycle, how is carbon dioxide removed from the air?
Respuesta
  • Combustion
  • Respiration
  • Photosynthesis
  • Decay

Pregunta 33

Pregunta
Which of these characteristics are only affected by genetic factors?
Respuesta
  • Gender
  • Eye colour
  • Blood group
  • Inherited disorders
  • Weight
  • Height
  • Accent
  • Scars

Pregunta 34

Pregunta
A gene is a short length of a chromosome
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 35

Pregunta
Which of these are features of sexual reproduction?
Respuesta
  • There are two parents
  • There is one parent
  • There is fusion of the gametes
  • There is no fusion of the gametes
  • There is genetic variation
  • There is no genetic variation

Pregunta 36

Pregunta
How can cloned offspring be produced using embryo transplants?
Respuesta
  • An unfertilised egg cell is taken and the nucleus is removed and a nucleus from an adult body cell is inserted into the empty egg cell. An electric shock is given to make the embryo divide. When the embryo is a ball of cells it is implanted into a surrogate mother to grow into a clone of the original adult body cell.
  • Sperm cells are taken and used to artificially fertilise an egg cell. The embryo that develops is split many times (to form clones) before any cells become specialised. The cloned embryos are implanted into surrogate mothers to form genetically identical offspring.
  • Plant cells are taken and put in a growth medium with hormones to grow into new plants, which are clones of the parent plant.

Pregunta 37

Pregunta
Enzymes can be used to remove a useful gene from a chromosome and insert into another organism's chromosome
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 38

Pregunta
What was Charles Darwin's theory as to how evolution occurs?
Respuesta
  • Individuals show variation and organisms with beneficial characteristics are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on their genes and increasing population with this characteristic (natural selection)
  • If an organism uses a characteristic a lot then, within its lifetime, it would become more developed - the acquired characteristics would pass on to the next generation

Pregunta 39

Pregunta
A mutation is always beneficial to an organism
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 40

Pregunta
Why did many people disagree with Darwin's theory of evolution?
Respuesta
  • It went against common religious beliefs at the time
  • No one knew about genes or mutations
  • There wasn't enough evidence
  • He wasn't a proper scientist
  • He published his theory in an obscure journal
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