HESI A2 Biology (NurseHub) Questions
and Answers | Latest Version | 2025/2026
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What type of transport requires energy to move molecules across the cell membrane?
✔✔Active transport
What is the process of cell division that produces gametes?
✔✔Meiosis
What is the term for maintaining a stable internal environment in an organism?
✔✔Homeostasis
What type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms?
✔✔Covalent bond
What is the fluid portion of the cytoplasm called?
✔✔Cytosol
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,What process copies DNA into RNA?
✔✔Transcription
What process translates RNA into proteins?
✔✔Translation
What sugar is found in DNA?
✔✔Deoxyribose
What sugar is found in RNA?
✔✔Ribose
What is the term for a change in the DNA sequence?
✔✔Mutation
What is the primary pigment in plants that absorbs light for photosynthesis?
✔✔Chlorophyll
2
,What process breaks down glucose to release energy in the absence of oxygen?
✔✔Anaerobic respiration
What is the complementary base pair for adenine in DNA?
✔✔Thymine
What is the complementary base pair for adenine in RNA?
✔✔Uracil
What macromolecule is made of amino acids?
✔✔Proteins
What macromolecule provides the main source of quick energy?
✔✔Carbohydrates
What macromolecule stores long-term energy?
✔✔Lipids
3
, What organelle packages and ships proteins in the cell?
✔✔Golgi apparatus
What is the double layer surrounding animal cells called?
✔✔Cell membrane
What is the rigid structure that surrounds plant cells?
✔✔Cell wall
What part of the cell controls what enters and exits the nucleus?
✔✔Nuclear envelope
What structure synthesizes proteins in the cell?
✔✔Ribosomes
What phase of the cell cycle involves DNA replication?
✔✔S phase
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and Answers | Latest Version | 2025/2026
| Correct & Verified
What type of transport requires energy to move molecules across the cell membrane?
✔✔Active transport
What is the process of cell division that produces gametes?
✔✔Meiosis
What is the term for maintaining a stable internal environment in an organism?
✔✔Homeostasis
What type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms?
✔✔Covalent bond
What is the fluid portion of the cytoplasm called?
✔✔Cytosol
1
,What process copies DNA into RNA?
✔✔Transcription
What process translates RNA into proteins?
✔✔Translation
What sugar is found in DNA?
✔✔Deoxyribose
What sugar is found in RNA?
✔✔Ribose
What is the term for a change in the DNA sequence?
✔✔Mutation
What is the primary pigment in plants that absorbs light for photosynthesis?
✔✔Chlorophyll
2
,What process breaks down glucose to release energy in the absence of oxygen?
✔✔Anaerobic respiration
What is the complementary base pair for adenine in DNA?
✔✔Thymine
What is the complementary base pair for adenine in RNA?
✔✔Uracil
What macromolecule is made of amino acids?
✔✔Proteins
What macromolecule provides the main source of quick energy?
✔✔Carbohydrates
What macromolecule stores long-term energy?
✔✔Lipids
3
, What organelle packages and ships proteins in the cell?
✔✔Golgi apparatus
What is the double layer surrounding animal cells called?
✔✔Cell membrane
What is the rigid structure that surrounds plant cells?
✔✔Cell wall
What part of the cell controls what enters and exits the nucleus?
✔✔Nuclear envelope
What structure synthesizes proteins in the cell?
✔✔Ribosomes
What phase of the cell cycle involves DNA replication?
✔✔S phase
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