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1. Is a virus a living organism?

2. Describe the process of active transport in the root hair cells of plants.

3. A fertilised egg cell divides many times to form an embryo. Name this type of cell division.

4. Why would it not be possible to treat a genetic disorder in a child using his own umbilical cord stem cells?

5. What kingdom do mushrooms belong to?

6. Define the term flagellum.

7. What word is used to describe plant cells placed in: a hypotonic solution

8. How cell C is adapted for producing this enzyme.

9. What are stem cells?

10. Give an example of a disease caused by bacteria.

11. Describe how you would determine the rate of water loss from a leafy shoot.

12. What are prokaryotic cells?

13. When a plant cell is placed in distilled water it swells and becomes turgid. Explain why this occurs.

14. Describe how the plasmid is modified to contain recombinant DNA.

15. What is hyphae?

16. What word is used to describe plant cells placed in: a hypertonic solution

17. Write a balanced chemical equation which represents the process of respiration in plants.

18. State 3 differences between eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms.

19. What is a pathogen?

20. Explain the advantages of red blood cells passing through a capillary one at a time.

21. Plant roots obtain some of their mineral salts from the soil by active transport. What is involved in active transport?

22. Explain why using stem cells from the patients body is better than using stem cells from a different person.

23. Some of the sugars produced by photosynthesis are stored as starch in the roots. Explain, as fully as you can, why it is an advantage to the plant to store carbohydrate as starch rather than as sugar.

24. Explain how the process of cell division by mitosis is part of the baby's growth process.

25. A cook prepares a fresh fruit salad by cutting up a variety of fruits and placing them in a bowl with layers of sugar in between. After two hours the fruit is surrounded by syrup (concentrated sugar solution). Explain, as fully as you can, why syrup (concentrated sugar solution) was produced after two hours.

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