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The cell and its environment: WAEC Biology Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in The cell and its environment

Our summary: How substances move into and out of cells by diffusion, osmosis and active transport.

  • Physical and biophysical processes: diffusion
  • Physical and biophysical processes: osmosis
  • Physical and biophysical processes: active transport

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WAEC (WASSCE) Biology questions on The cell and its environment

  1. WAEC 2024The bursting of a red blood cell placed in a hypotonic solution is called
  2. WAEC 2024The function of the root hair in plants is to
  3. WAEC 2023An example of a process that involves osmosis is the
  4. WAEC 2022The process that brings about the shrinking of a spirogyra cell when placed in a strong solution is ?
  5. WAEC 2021A plant cell placed in a solution with a higher water potential will
  6. WAEC 2020Oxygen comes out of the stomata during photosynthesis through the process known as
  7. WAEC 2020Which of the following materials is not a living semi-permeable membrane?
  8. WAEC 2019The rate of diffusion of molecules between two media will be higher if … ?
  9. WAEC 2018Active transport differs from diffusion in that active transport
  10. WAEC 2017An example of osmosis in plants is the
  11. WAEC 2016Flaccidity in plants is associated with
  12. WAEC 2015When a Spirogyra filament is placed in a concentrated salt solution for 30 minutes, the cell would become
  13. WAEC 2014In which of the following yam tissues will osmosis occur?
  14. WAEC 2013The opening of the guard cells of the epidermis in plants is by the process of
  15. WAEC 2011The conversion of glucose to starch in the leaf during the day principally
  16. WAEC 2011If Amoeba is placed in a salt solution. the contractile vacuoles would
  17. WAEC 2010The mechanism of opening and closing of stomata in plants is based on
  18. WAEC 2010Which of the following processes involves diffusion?

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