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Tori-Ann O’Connor H&S BIOLOGY Structured Questions

1.Ai.) W.Cell Membrane

X.Chromosomes

ii.) Y endoplasmic reticulum -to produce proteins for the rest of the cell to function.

Z.Mitochondria-this takes the energy from the food and turn it into energy that the
cell can use .

iii.) The cell wall is present only in plants and the cell membrane is present in every living
organism 

B .i.) Cell A: Motor Nerve Cell

ii.) The acrosome in the head contains enzymes so that a sperm can penetrate an egg.
The middle piece is packed with mitochondria to release energy needed to swim and
fertilise the egg.

iii.) they carry out specific functions that allow the body to maintain homeostasis.

C.i.)No because viruses do not show the typical features of living things - respiration,
nutrition and reproduction, for example - unless they are inside the cells of another
living organism.

ii.) Movement and Respiration

2.a i) Dtransform water

E: carbon dioxide into oxygen
C:simple sugars that the plant uses as fuel.

ii) cooling the plant and pumping water and minerals to the leaves for photosynthesis.

iii) All living organisms are inter depend on plants because plants take the food from
sun by photosynthesis and make them as food and animal which eat plants and
indirectly take the sunlight and glucose (depend on the plant are called herbivores .

B:i) phytoplankton -zooplankton-jellyfish-sea turtles

Phytoplankton- Shrimp-Crab

ii) Crab

iii) Because it’s the it’s the only item consuming one food source

C) Leaves cover up root systems, preserve soil moisture, suppress weeds and other
plants. They also slowly break down and ... return (essential) nutrients to plants,