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The seedling detects directional light and changes its growth in response, demonstrating sensitivity to its surroundings.
Stem cells may generate replacement tissue, but treatments require control of differentiation and consideration of rejection, tumour formation and embryo-related ethics.
Wind removes humid air around the leaf, maintaining a steep water-vapour concentration gradient and increasing diffusion from stomata.
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Correct answer: Response to surroundings
The seedling detects directional light and changes its growth in response, demonstrating sensitivity to its surroundings.
Correct answer: It may replace damaged specialised cells, but raises ethical and tumour-risk concerns
Stem cells may generate replacement tissue, but treatments require control of differentiation and consideration of rejection, tumour formation and embryo-related ethics.
Correct answer: Increasing wind speed
Wind removes humid air around the leaf, maintaining a steep water-vapour concentration gradient and increasing diffusion from stomata.
For parents: look at the explanation together. A correct answer is encouraging; a missed answer gives you something specific to work on. Broader practice over time is needed to understand progress.
Fungi secrete digestive enzymes onto organic material and absorb the products, a mode called saprotrophic nutrition; their walls contain chitin.
Watch for: Do not name a biological process without explaining the mechanism. For The nature and variety of living organisms, link the relevant structure or condition to the resulting effect.
Stem cells may generate replacement tissue, but treatments require control of differentiation and consideration of rejection, tumour formation and embryo-related ethics.
Watch for: Do not name a biological process without explaining the mechanism. For Structures and functions in living organisms: Part 1, link the relevant structure or condition to the resulting effect.
Pancreatic insulin lowers blood glucose by promoting uptake and storage. ADH is released from the pituitary, while FSH and LH are pituitary reproductive hormones.
Watch for: Do not name a biological process without explaining the mechanism. For Structures and functions in living organisms: Part 2, link the relevant structure or condition to the resulting effect.
Meiosis includes independent assortment and recombination, creating different allele combinations; random fertilisation increases variation further.
Watch for: Do not name a biological process without explaining the mechanism. For Reproduction and inheritance, link the relevant structure or condition to the resulting effect.
Fewer trees fix carbon dioxide, while decomposition or combustion of cleared biomass releases carbon, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Watch for: Do not name a biological process without explaining the mechanism. For Ecology and the environment, link the relevant structure or condition to the resulting effect.
Small sterile explants can form many cloned plantlets year-round, preserving a valuable genotype and producing disease-free stock when source tissue is clean.
Watch for: Do not name a biological process without explaining the mechanism. For Use of biological resources, link the relevant structure or condition to the resulting effect.
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Pearson Edexcel International GCSE · Modular · International GCSE · Biology · 4XBI1
Issue 2, September 2024; current checked 28 August 2026
Source checked: 2026-08-28. The current official specification controls assessment requirements and option choices.
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It shows the outcome of these three answers and gives a specific skill to discuss or practise next. It is not a full assessment, a mastery score or a grade prediction. Broader practice over time is needed to understand progress.
LearningP currently maps 6 assessed areas for specification 4XBI1. The visible topic map below is derived from the verified route; the current official specification remains controlling.
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