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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE Biology A Advanced PAPER 1 The Natural Environment and Species Survival June 2023

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Wednesday 7 June 2023 9BN0/01
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Biology A (Salters Nuffield)  


Advanced
PAPER 1: The Natural Environment and Species
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1 Homo sapiens is the only living species of the genus Homo. Over 100 000 years
ago, Homo neanderthalensis, a species closely related to modern humans, lived
with other Homo species in the same habitat.
(a) Which of the following is the correct definition of the term habitat?
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A a group of organisms of different species living in the same area

B a group of organisms of the same species living in the same
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C a place where an organism lives

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(b) A fossil bone discovered in China is thought to be from a new species,
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(i) Samples of DNA from this bone and bones from other Homo species
can be amplified using PCR.

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