Biology 0610: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING Topical Past Paper Questions

Figure 5.1 shows a food web from a marine ecosystem. Figure 5.1 (a) Using Figure 5.1, identify: an organism that only feeds as a secondary consumer an organism that consumes at three different trophic levels all of the quaternary consumers. (b) Figure 5.2 shows a food chain. Figu…

**(a)** An athlete monitored their heart rate and breathing rate before, during and after vigorous exercise. Fig. 6.1 shows the results. Fig. 6.1 Complete the sentences to describe **and** explain the results shown in Fig. 6.1. After exercise, it takes ...........................…

(a) Some bacteria have had human genes inserted into them. The bacteria are said to be genetically modified. (i) Describe what is meant by the term gene. [2] (ii) One human protein that is made by genetically modified bacteria is insulin. State the role of insulin in the human bo…