IB Biology SL 4.2.9 Energy release Question Bank
Practise IB Biology SL 4.2.9 by identifying respiration and gas exchange as processes that release carbon dioxide from marine organisms.
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2025
- Course
- Biology SL
- Level
- SL
Practise IB Biology SL 4.2.9 by identifying respiration and gas exchange as processes that release carbon dioxide from 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 Organism is taken to be a living thing.
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