CNIH Entrance Study Questions and
Answers 2024,2025 Graded A+
4 Components of digestion are.. - ANSWER-Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, Egestion
4 parts of a virus are... - ANSWER-Core, capsid, matrix, envelope
Accessory organs of digestion - ANSWER-Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas
Aerobic - ANSWER-requires oxygen for growth and development.
All chromosome other than sex chromosomes - ANSWER-Autosomes
Alleles - ANSWER-Alternative versions of genes
Allopatric speciation - ANSWER-Evolution of populations into separate species as result
of geographic isolation
Anabolic rxn - ANSWER-Assembling
Anaerobic - ANSWER-Do not require or live in oxygen
Anaphase - ANSWER-Sister chromatids separate and move to opposite ends of cell
another word for condensation - ANSWER-dehydration synthesis (water is produced as
the reaction takes place)
Arteries (except Pulmonary) - ANSWER-Carry oxygenated blood away from heart
Atom - ANSWER-smallest whole unit of matter
Autosomal dominant genetic disorders - ANSWER-When an individual has ATLEAST
ONE dominant allele for a trait
Autosomal recessive disorders - ANSWER-When individuals have TWO recessive
alleles for a trait
Autotrophs - ANSWER-Synthesize their own food such as through photosynthesis
Bacilli bacteria shape - ANSWER-Rod shaped
Bile is stored in the.. - ANSWER-Gallbladder
Binomial Nomenclature - ANSWER-method of naming (Genus, species)
, Biological Species Concept - ANSWER-All living organisms capable of freely breeding
with eachother under natural conditions and producing fertile offspring
Blood Pressure - ANSWER-Force of blood pushing on walls of arteries
Capillaries - ANSWER-Smallest vessels
Carl Linnaeus - ANSWER-father of traditional taxonomy
Catabolic rxn - ANSWER-Disassembling, makes monomers
cell membrane - ANSWER-controls what goes in and out of the cell, filled with proteins
and enzymes
Cell Wall - ANSWER-In Plants only - outer covering that maintains structure of cell and
separates external environment
Cell wall is absent in which groups - ANSWER-Protista and Animalia
Centriole - ANSWER-A cellular organelle used during cell division to form spindle fibres
Centriole - ANSWER-Only in Animals - 2 perpendicular bundles of tubes involved in cell
division
Centromere - ANSWER-Point of attachment region on a chromosome composed of
DNA and proteins
Character - ANSWER-Heritable feature
Charles Darwin - ANSWER-Gave evolution a mechanism: NATURAL SELECTION
Charles lyle - ANSWER-Developed Theory of uniformitarianism
Chemical Digestion - ANSWER-Obtaining nutrients from food by use of enzymes
Chloroplast - ANSWER-Only in Plants - oval shaped organelles with protein, main site
of photosynthesis
Chordates - ANSWER-Internal skeleton of bone and cartilage, contain a notochord
Chromatid - ANSWER-An identical copy of a chromosome attached to the parent
chromatid at the centromere
Chromosomes are visible under microscope at the end of what phase? - ANSWER-
prophase
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