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This document contains general biology study and practice material designed to support student learning and exam preparation. It includes foundational questions covering key topics such as cell biology, genetics, evolution, ecology, and basic physiological processes. The content is structured to reinforce essential biological concepts typically taught in introductory to intermediate biology courses. It is suitable for revision, practice questions, and exam readiness.

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Biology
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1. Name all the life • Movement’By the action of muscles in animals, & slow
processes & their growth movements in plants
definitions • Respiration’release energy from their food
• Sensitivity’(Respond to stimuli) Are sensitive to changes
in their surroundings
• Growth’(And develop) Increase in size & complexity,
using materials from their food
• Reproduction’Produce offspring
• Excretion’Get rid of waste products
• Nutrition’Plants make their own food, animals eat other
organisms
• Homeostasis’(Control of the internal environment)
Maintain a steady state inside the body•

2. Cell definition Basic structural unit of living organisms

3. Types of cells: • Unicellular
• Multicellular

4. Unicellular defini- Composed of a single cells
tion

5. Multicellular defi- Composed of many cells
nition

6. Structure of an • Cytoplasm
animal cell • Nucleus
• Ribosome
• Cell membrane
• Mitochondrion

7. Structure of a • Cell wall
plant cell • Cell membrane (inside cell wall)
• Permanent vacuole
• Cytoplasm
• Mitochondria
• Chloroplasts
• Ribosome
• Nucleus



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8. What are the cell • Cell wall
parts found in a • Chloroplast
plant cell but not • (Permanent) Sap vacuole
in an animal cell?

9. Name all the cell • Cell membrane (surface)
parts: • Cell wall (plant)
• Ribosome
• Cytoplasm
• Mitochondria
• Chloroplast
• Vacuole

10. Features of a cell • controls what enters & leaves the cell
membrane • it is partially permeable (semi permeable) & there-
fore only allows substances with smaller sizes to pass
through it

11. Features of a cell • they help maintain the shape of a plant cell
part (plant): • they are made of a substance called cellulose that
strengthen them
• are fully permeable

12. Features of a nu- • the brain of a cell
cleus: • controls the activity of the cell
• contains the genetic materials (DNA & RNA)
• determines the type of protein a cell can make

13. Features of ribo- • the place/site where proteins are formed
somes

14. Features of cyto- • jelly-like fluid
plasm • chemical reactions that keep the cell alive occur inside
it

15. Features of mito- • it functions to form energy
chondria

16.



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What type of cells • Muscle cells, sperm cells, phloem .etc.
need a lot of mito- • Because they require lots of energy & mitochondria
chondria & why? forms energy

17. Partially-perme- membrane that is permeable to some molecules but not
able definition permeable to others

18. Cellulose defini- polysaccharide of glucose that forms plant cell walls
tion

19. Enzyme defini- a biological catalyst that speeds up the rate of chemical
tion reactions without themselves being used up

20. Name chemical •Chloroplast’Photo-synthesis
reactions that re- •Ribosome’Protein-synthesis
quire enzymes •Mitochondria’Respiration

21. What are en- Proteins
zymes in nature
(naturally)?

22. How enzymes • Each enzyme has a small area (hole) where a substrate
work? attaches called active site
• The substrate enters the active site of an enzyme
• Products formed are released out of the active site
• And a reaction happens

23. Lock & Key model • For a reaction to occur, the substrate must fit into the
active site of an enzyme just like a key fitting perfectly
into a lock
• This, therefore, means that enzymes are specific &
only catalyse certain type of reactions because there are
different shapes of active site

24. Most enzymes "-ase" (suffix)
end with...

25. Catalyse means... to speed up

26.

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