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

  1. Explain how peristalsis moves food along the oesophagus.
  2. State four features that distinguish insects from arachnids.
  3. Monoculture is widely used in modern agriculture. Explain why farmers choose to grow crops as a monoculture and describe…
  4. Compare the features of pollen grains from wind-pollinated flowers with pollen grains from insect-pollinated flowers.
  5. A population of strawberry plants reproduces asexually by sending out runners that produce new plants. A fungal disease …
  6. Describe the journey of food through the alimentary canal, starting from ingestion in the mouth and ending at egestion a…
  7. Explain why bacteria are considered particularly useful organisms for producing human insulin by genetic modification.
  8. A plant produces glucose during photosynthesis. State four different ways in which the glucose produced during photosynt…

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