IB Biology HL 4.2.9 Energy release Question Bank
Practise IB Biology HL 4.2.9 by analysing how respiration and gas exchange release carbon dioxide in marine organisms.
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2025
- Course
- Biology HL
- Level
- HL
Practise IB Biology HL 4.2.9 by analysing how respiration and gas exchange release carbon dioxide in marine organisms.
The mass of an individual organism can affect its physiology and feeding ecology. The diagram shows the relative mass of carbon (black) and total wet mass (grey) of a marine crustacean, Calanus hyperboreus and a jellyfish, Bathocyroe fosteri.


State one process that results in the loss of carbon dioxide from a marine organism such as a crustacean or a jellyfish.
a. (aerobic/cellular) respiration
b. gas exchange / diffusion
Marking guidance:
Do not accept photosynthesis. Do not accept breathing.
1 max