4-mark practice questions — Cambridge International IGCSE Biology (0610)
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How to answer
4-mark questions are the shortest levels-of-response band. Aim for four scientific ideas, each in its own short sentence.
Sample questions
- Explain how peristalsis moves food along the oesophagus.
- State four features that distinguish insects from arachnids.
- Monoculture is widely used in modern agriculture. Explain why farmers choose to grow crops as a monoculture and describe…
- Compare the features of pollen grains from wind-pollinated flowers with pollen grains from insect-pollinated flowers.
- A population of strawberry plants reproduces asexually by sending out runners that produce new plants. A fungal disease …
- Describe the journey of food through the alimentary canal, starting from ingestion in the mouth and ending at egestion a…
- Explain why bacteria are considered particularly useful organisms for producing human insulin by genetic modification.
- A plant produces glucose during photosynthesis. State four different ways in which the glucose produced during photosynt…