Practice Test (Green Booklet)

Bell Jar Lung Model

This question requires a basic understanding of lung/chest/diaphragm anatomy.

Glucose in Urine

The body actively tries to hold on to glucose provided it does not exceed a certain concentration in the blood. Glucose is a useful molecule. The graph shows how, up to a certain concentration, all glucose is returned to the blood.

Paper Chromatography

This is a simple graph question. The trick is to realise that solvents T and S move in the direction of the arrows rather than indicating labels for the axes. This is apparent from the question if you read carefully!

Allograpt, Autograft and Xenograft

This question is about skin grafting.

  1. Allograft = skin grapt between two mewmbers of a species.
  2. Autograft = skin graft from one individual to the same individual.
  3. Xenograft = skin graft between different species

The xenograft is rejected.

Kinetics

Rate Law and Orders of Reaction

  1. The order of a reaction determines how much faster the reaction will go if the concentration of reactant is increased
  2. Rate = K[CO2]n

The Lungs

Unit 14

This question requires you to interpret the graph and to understand that Hb saturation is related to the animal’s size. The sigmoid shape shows that atoms 2 and 3 are lost more easily than 1 and 2.

Meiosis

  1. Meiosis is the process that creates sperm and egg cells.
  2. Sperm and egg cells have only half the genetic information of a normal cell, they are haploid.
  3. First the chromosomes replicate as usual.
  4. Then matched pairs align themselves at their centromeres, some dna may be passed between matched pairs (crossover).
  5. The cell divides.
  6. Finally the two daughter cells divide again, leaving one half complement of DNA in each of 4 cells.