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6. What is the major storage compound found in the cytoplasm?

  • Starch
  • Lipids
  • Glucose
  • Sucrose

7. Why are viruses so difficult to kill?

  • They adapt to their surroundings so quickly
  • They are not alive or dead
  • They are specialised to be resistant to the human immune system
  • They use cells as meat sheilds

8. What is the main carbohydrate in a vacuole?

  • Glucose
  • Amino acids
  • Starch
  • DNA

9. How are sperm cells specialised?

  • They swim fast
  • They are streamlined and have a tail to swim to the egg, and have a lot of mitochondria for fast respiration
  • They can survive extremely acidic environments
  • They can hold their breath for a long time

10. What protects the genetic material in a virus?

  • Antibodies
  • The cell membrane
  • A protein coat
  • Heavy artillery

11. Which of these is not a bacterial disease?

  • HIV/AIDs
  • Toxic Shock Syndrome
  • Cholera
  • Salmonella

12. What happens in the mitochondria?

  • The synthesis of DNA
  • The synthesis of proteins
  • Respiration
  • The synthesis of enzymes

13. What is the maximum length of a bacterium?

  • 1cm
  • 10 micrometres
  • 2 micrometres
  • 5 milimetres

14. Why would someone feel tired while their immune system is fighting a virus?

  • They are weak
  • It's hard to kill viruses without killing the cells they take over
  • It takes up a lot of energy
  • The viruses are using their glucose

15. What is a skeletal muscle?

  • A muscle that is detatched from the bone
  • A muscle that is controlled voluntarily
  • A muscle that is made of cartilige
  • A muscle that is controlled involuntarily

16. Which of these is not a viral disease?

  • Polio
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Salmonella
  • Flu

17. Why are stem cells special?

  • They can cure cancer
  • They can be adapted into any kind of cell the body needs
  • They are cheap
  • They can be harvested easily

18. What does the nucleus do?

  • Make protein
  • Control the cell
  • Make DNA
  • Act as the cell's brain

19. Which of these is an example of smooth muscles?

  • Abdominal muscles
  • Cardiac muscles
  • Chris Hemsworth's pectorals
  • Biceps

20. What is therapeutic cloning?

  • When a patient's genes are combined with an egg to create an embry and stem cells are then taken from it
  • When stem cells are used to heal injuries
  • When stem cells are taken from an embryo and the patient's genes are used to make the kind of cell their body needs
  • When stem cells are used to treat patients with mental illnesses