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A level Biology: Post your doubts here!

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http://papers.xtremepapers.com/CIE/Cambridge International A and AS Level/Biology (9700)/9700_w11_qp_13.pdf
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The cell walls are dead and completely permeable then why is the answer D? I mean how can it restrict the entry of water?
Anyone????

D is corect Plant cell walls restrict the entry of water, animal cell membranes allow the free entry of
water. This is bcoz plant cell walls are made of cellulose which prevents the cell from bursting when it absorbs alot of water. cellulose can withstand high pressure and become turgid restricting entry of more water
 
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if cholestrol makes cell surface membrane more fluid than what component of membrane reduces its fluidity?
 
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if cholestrol makes cell surface membrane more fluid than what component of membrane reduces its fluidity?
it depends on the temperature...it keeps the membrane from becoming too solid in cold and keeps it from becoming too fluid in high temps.
 
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16) As far as I know, cholesterol keeps a balance of fluidity. At low temperatures, the phospholipids should crystallize (become like a solid). Cholesterol has an irregular shape, so it doesn't fit perfectly in the membrane. This prevents phospholipids from going too close to each other, so the presence of cholesterol prevents membrane crystallization.

24) If you just read option 3, you can immediately point out that it's wrong. When water travels through the plasmodesmata (junction between two cells), that is considered as the symplast pathway (not the apoplast). When you eliminate option 3, choice A is the only option available.
Option 1 is true, as water passes by the root through osmosis (down a concentration gradient). It can travel either through the apoplast pathway or the symplast pathway.
Option 2 is wrong because water passes up the xylem through capillary pull.

33) Option 1: high blood pressure could damage artery walls leading to atheromae (which leads to blood clots)
Option 2: deposits of fatty materials in arteries definitely results in heart failure. But fatty deposits in VEINS do not. The option implies that fatty deposits in both arteries AND veins contribute to heart failure, which is wrong.
Option 3: The cardiac muscle is simply the heart. If it can't receive enough oxygen, it can't receive any energy necessary for contraction.
Option 4: If a blood clot occurs near the coronary artery, it will cut off blood supply to the heart. The heart can't receive any glucose nor oxygen (this results to the same situation as that in option 3)

Good luck :)


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daredevil u have to find the energy that is used by plants ...light energy is subtracted by the energy wasted by plants..Noor Ahmad.1200 is not taken into account bcoz it is not used by plants but passed to the next trophic level ..got it ?
 
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