Duplicate of Edexcel IGCSE variety of life and characteristics of life

Question 1

What type of nutrition do fungi carry out?

Accepted Answer

Saprotrophic

Question 2

Give the life process defined by the 'release of energy from food'

Accepted Answer

Respiration

Question 3

Unicellular Plasmodium, which causes malaria, have a nucleus and are in which kingdom?

Accepted Answer

Protoctists

Question 4

Viruses can only reproduce inside other organisms, so are known as:

Accepted Answer

Parasites

Question 5

Which kingdom store carbohydrate as starch and sucrose?

Accepted Answer

Plants

Question 6

Heterotrophic organisms do what?

Accepted Answer

Eat other organisms

Question 7

When humans release carbon dioxide from their lungs, this is an example of which life process?

Accepted Answer

Excretion

Question 8

When plants carry out photosynthesis, this is an example of the life process:

Accepted Answer

Nutrition

Question 9

Bacterial DNA is found:

Accepted Answer

As a circular chromosome

Question 10

Which of these kingdoms only has multicellular organisms?

Accepted Answer

Plant

Question 11

Which kingdom have cell walls made of chitin?

Accepted Answer

Fungi

Question 12

Most bacteria feed by:

Accepted Answer

Feeding on living and dead organisms

Question 13

Which two kingdoms store carbohydrates as glycogen?

Accepted Answer

Fungi and Animals

Question 14

Which kingdom contains chloroplasts?

Accepted Answer

Plants

Question 15

Which group has the smallest individuals?

Accepted Answer

Virus

Question 16

Humans increasing their breathing rate during exercise is an example of which life process?

Accepted Answer

Control internal conditions

Question 17

Lactobacillus, which is used to make yoghurt, are a type of:

Accepted Answer

Bacteria

Question 18

Which of these do animal cells have?

Accepted Answer

Cell membrane

Question 19

Viruses are surrounded by:

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Protein coat

Question 20

Which life process is not included in MRS GREN?

Accepted Answer

Control internal conditions

Question 21

Which of these is a pathogen?

Accepted Answer

The bacteria pneumococcus

Question 22

Which of these kingdoms don't have cell walls?

Accepted Answer

Animal

Question 23

Which of these groups do not include any pathogens?

Accepted Answer

Plants

Question 24

Some fungi, like mucor, have hyphae which are:

Accepted Answer

Thread like structure

Question 25

Algae are Protoctists rather than plants even though they photosynthesise because:

Accepted Answer

They are unicellular

Question 26

Which kingdom carries out photosynthesis?

Accepted Answer

Plants

Duplicate of Edexcel IGCSE variety of life and characteristics of life

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Duplicate of Edexcel IGCSE variety of life and characteristics of life

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