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Practice cells, living systems, ecosystems, genetics, evolution, biodiversity, disease, biotechnology, and scientific inquiry.

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practice HSC Year 11 Biology practice questions Cell transport hard cell transport diagram

1. The membrane diagram shows ions moving from low concentration to high concentration through a protein pump. Which process is shown?

HSC 11 active transport model low high ATP
Choices
  • Active transport
  • Simple diffusion
  • Osmosis only
  • Photosynthesis
Explanation:

Movement against a concentration gradient through a membrane protein requires energy, so it is active transport.

practice HSC Year 11 Biology practice questions Enzyme activity hard enzyme graph

2. An enzyme-rate graph peaks at 37 C and falls at 55 C. What is the best explanation for the lower rate at 55 C?

HSC 11 enzyme temperature graph 25 C 37 C rate
Choices
  • The enzyme is denatured.
  • The enzyme has become a product.
  • Substrate concentration must be zero.
  • The reaction has no activation energy.
Explanation:

High temperature can change the enzyme's active-site shape, reducing substrate binding and reaction rate.

practice HSC Year 11 Biology practice questions Organisation of living things hard cell-cycle diagram

3. The cell-cycle diagram shows one parent cell forming two daughter cells with the same chromosome number. Which division process is represented?

HSC 11 mitosis cycle diagram parent daughter same DNA
Choices
  • Mitosis
  • Meiosis
  • Fertilisation
  • Mutation
Explanation:

Mitosis produces genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.

practice HSC Year 11 Biology practice questions Biodiversity hard selection graph

4. A selection graph shows a bacterial population becoming mostly resistant after repeated antibiotic exposure. What is the best explanation?

HSC 11 resistance frequency graph before after resistant %
Choices
  • Resistant bacteria survived and reproduced.
  • All bacteria tried harder to survive.
  • Antibiotics created every resistance gene on demand.
  • No variation existed before treatment.
Explanation:

Antibiotic exposure selects for existing resistant variants, increasing their frequency over generations.

practice HSC Year 11 Biology practice questions Ecosystem dynamics hard ecosystem pyramid

5. A food-web pyramid shows 9000 kJ at producers and 900 kJ at herbivores. What percentage transfer is represented?

HSC 11 trophic energy model 9000 900 transfer
Choices
  • 10%
  • 1%
  • 90%
  • 100%
Explanation:

The transfer is 900 / 9000 x 100% = 10%.

practice HSC Year 11 Biology practice questions Population data hard population graph

6. A population graph rises and then levels near 80 individuals after resources become limiting. What does the level section represent?

HSC 11 population limit graph time 80 K
Choices
  • Carrying capacity
  • Extinction
  • Mutation rate
  • A food chain
Explanation:

The level section shows the population stabilising near the environment's carrying capacity.

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