Wrong Answers From Multiple Choice Flashcards
What does meiosis of diploid cell produce?
Genetically different haploid cells
Out of combustion, photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration, which is NOT part of carbon cycle?
Transpiration
Definition of genetics?
Mechanisms of inheritance
How to tell if animals are closely related in binomial system and how not to?
You can tell if genus is the same! But if genus is different and species is same it means they are not closely related
What is the xylem - level of organisation and what is its function?
It is a tissue, and it is used for support
What is continuous and discontinuous variation?
Continuous variation are characteristics like height or weight which is affected by genes and the environment. Discontinuous is distinct categories with no intermediates - e.g. Blood groups
Where is starch stored in plant cell?
Chloroplasts
Atria, left ventricle and right ventricle
Which is order of these chambers from thickest to thinnest?
Left ventricle, right ventricle, atria
What is aspirin used for to reduce risk of coronary heart disease?
It reduces tendency for blood to clot
When investigating gravitropism, what are conditions?
Rotate the plant around on ITS SIDE.
Don’t use any light because otherwise it may start to do phototropism
Epidermis, mesophyll and vascular bundle cell – which is the order of most chloroplasts to least
Epidermis, mesophyll, vascular bundle cell
What factor would result in few microscopic plants in the ocean?
An increase in population of microscopic animals
Out of ureters, arteries and phloem… which substances carry amino acids
Arteries (because BLOOD) and phloem
How does blood change after is passes through kidney?
It loses urea
Order of a normal population graph?
Lag, log, stationary, death
What processes produce continuous space for water to flow in xylem?
Breakdown of cell wall between adjacent cells and removal of cytoplasm in each cell
What component of cigarette smoke causes a reduced oxygen carrying capacity of the blood?
Carbon monoxide (it bonds irreversibly with haemoglobin)
After a meal containing carbohydrates, what would you expect the concentration of glucose and urea in the blood as it passes through liver?
Decreased glucose concentration and increased urea
If a herbicide is sprayed on producers in food chain: plants-small fish-large fish-birds of prey, which organism would have the second largest concentration of herbicide in them?
Large fish- herbicides increase as trophic levels go up (bioaccumulation)
What is the structure of a xylem’s cell wall (side wall) and end wall?
Side wall is thick as it contains lignin. There is a gap where end wall has been lost- end wall is absent
Other details about structure of xylem?
Has a thin area of cell wall called pit. Has a transverse section. Has a space with no cytoplasm.
When a cell has lost water to surroundings by osmosis, which part is the partially permeable membrane?
NOT THE CELL WALL - only the cell membrane that does not look so much like a cell membrane (shrunk/gone inwards)
What is the structure of a xylem’s cell wall (side wall) and end wall?
Side wall is thick as it contains lignin. There is a gap where end wall has been lost- end wall is absent
Other details about structure of xylem?
Has a thin area of cell wall called pit. Has a transverse section. Has a space with no cytoplasm.
