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AQA GCSE Higher Biology Quiz 1 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 62 times
- The average score is 14 of 31
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| Which type of tumour is not bound by a membrane, so can spread into surrounding tissue and the blood, meaning that a secondary tumour can form? | Malignant | 74%
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| What is the name of the substance found in the stomach that provides the optimum pH level for many enzymes to function? | Hydrochloric Acid | 70%
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| Can water and dissolved minerals move in one or two directions in the xylem tube? | One | 70%
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| Is it xylem or phloem tubes that contain sieve plates and a continuous cytoplasm? | Phloem | 68%
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| In animal and plant cells, where does aerobic respiration occur? | Mitochondria | 66%
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| What is the name of the painkiller that came from the bark of willow trees? | Aspirin | 64%
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| If water content is too low in the body, does the pituitary gland release more or less ADH? | More | 60%
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| What name is given to the process where unspecialised cells become specialised, meaning they have a specific function? | Differentiation | 55%
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| Translocation is defined as being the movement of dissolved sugars through the what? | Phloem | 55%
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| What is the name given to the sum of all the chemical reactions in the body? | Metabolism | 51%
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| What is the name of the larger insoluble storage molecule that glucose is often converted to in plants, so they have a store of energy? | Starch | 51%
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| What is the term for the digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder that emulsifies lipids? | Bile | 49%
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| What is the name of a junction between two neurones, that neurotransmitter chemicals diffuse across? | Synapse | 49%
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| If somebody is suffering from kidney failure, their blood may be pumped into a dialysis machine from which blood vessel type? | Vein | 47%
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| Which process is defined as the loss of water vapour from the leaves of a plant via the stomata? | Transpiration | 45%
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| What is the name of the glands that produce adrenaline, the hormone that prepares the body for a flight or fight response? | Adrenal | 43%
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| What is the name of the pathogen responsible for rose black spot disease? | Fungus | 43%
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| What is the name of the hormone that raises blood glucose by stimulating breakdown of glycogen to glucose in the liver? | Glucagon | 40%
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| The pituitary gland releases FSH and which other fertility hormone in biological females? | LH | 40%
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| What is the name of the loops of DNA that float in the cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells? | Plasmids | 40%
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| Osmosis is defined as the movement of water from a dilute to concentrated solution through a what? | Partially Permeable Membrane | 38%
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| Amylase is a digestive enzyme that breaks starch down into sugars, and is produced in the pancreas, small intestine, and where else? | Salivary Glands | 36%
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| Oestrogen is a contraceptive hormone produced by which gland? | Ovaries | 34%
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| In plant cells, there are two products of anaerobic respiration, carbon dioxide, and what else? | Ethanol | 32%
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| During the reabsorption stage of urine production, glucose is reabsorbed into the blood by what process? | Active Transport | 30%
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| What is the name of the sight defect where light focuses in front of the retina? | Myopia | 30%
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| A magnesium ion deficiency can lead to the yellowing of plant leaves as a result of a lack of chlorophyll, also known by what name? | Chlorosis | 25%
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| What is the name of the plant hormone that stimulates seed germination, stem growth and flowering? | Gibberellin | 21%
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| Magnification, calculated by dividing the image size by actual size of an object, is adjusted using what on a microscope? | Objective Lens | 21%
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| In the accommodation reflex, when looking at a near object which structures loosen? | Suspensory Ligaments | 13%
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| What is the name of the cells in the tubes used for translocation that provide energy, as translocation is driven by active transport? | Companion Cells | 8%
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