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IGCSE Characteristic of Living Things

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1. What is the approximate percentage of oxygen in expired air?

A 0.04% B 4% C 16% D 21% [1]

2. Compared with atmospheric air, air breathed out by a human contains

A less water vapour, less carbon dioxide.
B less water vapour, more carbon dioxide.
C more water vapour, less carbon dioxide.
D more water vapour, more carbon dioxide. [1]

3. Where is urea made?

A bladder B kidney C liver D urethra [1]

4. What is a correct way of naming an organism using the binomial system?

A Common buttercup
B ranunculus acris
C Ranunculus acris
D Ranunculus sp. [1]

5. Some lizards detach their tails when threatened by a predator. Which characteristic is
shown?
A excretion
B growth
C reproduction
D sensitivity [1]

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 6. The diagram shows a key for five vertebrates

Which class of vertebrates does organism W belong to?

A amphibians

B birds

C fish

D reptiles [1]

7. Table 7.1 shows some of the external features of the five classes of vertebrates. Complete the table
by using a tick () to indicate if each class has the feature or a cross (×) if it does not. The first row has
been completed for you.

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8. Fig. shows a bacterium, a virus and a fungus.

(a) Complete the table to compare the three organisms shown in Fig. 1.1 by using a tick () to
indicate if the organism shows the feature, or a cross (x) if it does not. The first row has
been completed for you.

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(b) Explain how the fungus shown in Fig is adapted to obtain its food.
It Feeds through the hyphae as it elongates and its surface are increase
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(b) Explain how the fungus spreads to new sources of food.

It spreads through spores carried through the wind and when it bursts
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it grows
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9. (a Draw a straight line to match the diagram of each tissue with its function. The first has
been completed for you

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(c) Explain why a leaf is described as an organ, not a tissue.

a leaf contains different types of cell whereas tissue only contains onr type
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