让我们一起看看这些专业面试会问到什么问题：

生物及生物化学篇

• Why is water so important to life? 为什么水对生命的如此重要？
• If you could save either the rainforests or the coral reefs, which would you choose? 如果你能在热带雨林和珊瑚群中拯救一个，你会选哪个？
• Here is a piece of bark, please talk about it. 讲一讲树皮
• Here’s a cactus. Tell me about it. 讲一讲仙人掌
• Why do some habitats support higher biodiversity than others? 为什么有些地方能够支撑更高的生物多样性，有些不能？
• Why don't most herbivores have green fur? 为什么大多数食草动物不是绿毛的？
• What percentage of the world's water is in a cow? 世界上百分之多少的水在奶牛身上？
• Why are there so few large predators? 为什么食肉动物很少有大体型的？
• Tell me about a banana. 讲一讲香蕉
• Why do many animals have stripes? 为什么很多动物身上有条纹？
• Is it easier for organisms to live in the sea or on land? 有机物更适合生存于陆地还是海洋？
• Why do lions have manes? 为什么狮子有鬃毛？
• Ladybirds are red. So are strawberries. Why? 瓢虫和草莓都是红色的，为什么？
• Would it matter if tigers became extinct? 老虎灭绝会怎么样？
• Why is there salt in the sea? 为什么海洋中有盐？
• How do amino acids behave in both acidic and basic conditions? 为什么氨基酸在酸性和基本条件下都有活性？
• What is the significance of the human genome project? 人类基因组计划有什么意义？
• How does DNA fingerprinting work? What is its use? 基因指纹是什么原理，有什么用？
• Why are there so many steps in the cascade of reactions?
• How do you tell if a protein codes for a transmembrane protein? 如何辨别跨膜蛋白序列？
• Why are there only twenty amino acids? 只有20种氨基酸吗？
• What shape are bacteria and why? 细菌是什么形状的，为什么？
• What is the concentration of water? 水的浓度是多少？
• What problems do fish face underwater? 鱼在水下有什么问题？
• Why does an egg rot? 为什么鸡蛋会腐烂？
• Why can’t humans live forever? 为什么人类不能永生？
• Comment on a population pyramid. 评价人口金字塔
• Is shopping the new religion? 购物是新的宗教吗？
• What does George Bush have in common with a monkey? How can you see they are related? 小布什和猴子的共同点是什么？你认为他们有什么联系？
• How could you tell how long a disease had been prevalent in an area 如何判断一种病在某地区流行了多久？
• Tell me about this log 描述木头
• If a brain was placed in front of you, how would you describe it? 如何描述一个大脑
• If you were a virus, how would you communicate your opinions to me? 如果你是你个病毒，你如何向我表达观点？
• Why do leaves have their stomata on the lower surface? 为什么叶子的气孔在下面？
• Why don’t animals have wheels? 为什么动物没有长出轮子？
• How can you tell how genetically identical the individuals of a species are? 如何判断同一物种两个个体的基因一致性？
• What evidence is there to suggest that humans are still evolving? 人类正在持续进化的证据是什么？
• Can you design an experiment to test the effect of bird faeces on lichen growth? 设计一个测验鸟粪和青苔类植物生长关系的实验？
• Why is it that everyone regards Darwin as such a great man? 为什么达尔文是个伟大的科学家？
• Explain the differences between bacteria and viruses. 解释细菌和病毒的区别。
• How would you test to see if a rat could tell red from blue? 如何测试一只老鼠是否能够分辨蓝色和红色？
• How has the human diet changed in the last three decades and why? 人类的饮食在过去30年发生了什么变化，为什么？
• What would you define as a species? 如何定义一个物种？
• Give me an example of how specialist biological knowledge has helped food production. 举一个生物知识对食物生产做出贡献的例子。
• Why is there a higher probability of being killed by an asteroid collision than by a heart attack? 被小行星撞击和心脏病突发哪一个致死率更高？
• What kind of changes would occur to the environment if a large asteroid impacted earth? 小行星撞击地球会引起什么环境变化？
• What are the arguments for preserving biodiversity? 为什么要保持生物多样性？
• What makes drugs physiologically active? 药物为什么起效？
• What would you do if I were a Magpie? 如果我是一只喜鹊你会做什么？
• How many animals did Moses take on the arc? 摩西带领多少动物上了方舟？
• If a carrot can grow form one carrot cell, why not a human? 如果萝卜能够从一个细胞发展成一个个体，为什么人不行？
• Discuss ways in which plants are adapted to dry conditions. 讨论植物如何适应干燥缺水环境。
• Why are big, fierce animals so rare? 为什么没有巨型凶横动物？
• How does the immune system recognise invading pathogens as foreign cells? 免疫系统如何识别入侵病原体？
• Describe a potato and then compare it to an onion. 形容一只土豆，并与洋葱比较。
• is it possible to grow mushrooms in the bathroom 有可能在浴室种蘑菇吗？
• for which disease do you think it is an advantage to be a carrier of cystic fibrosis? 携带囊肿性纤维化在你得什么病的时候会成为一个好处？
• If I said that when I tossed this coin and every time it said heads you have to give me 50p but every time it showed a tails I give you a pound, how many times would you let me flip it and the coin show heads in a row before you would stop playing the game? 抛一枚硬币，每次正面你给我五毛，反面我给你一元，我连续抛几次正面你会叫停这个游戏？
• The viruses that infect us are totally dependent on human cells for their reproduction; is it therefore surprising that viruses cause human diseases? 细菌通过人类细胞繁殖，那么为什么他们要使我们的病呢？
• Explain how a perm works 卷发棒工作原理是什么？

化学篇Chemistry

• They asked me what I'd been doing recently [in chemistry] (ie what do you want to talk about). I said looking at links between physical and organic - using kinetics to determine mechanisms etc. They rather liked equilibria - so I had to come up with an organic equilibrium - esterfication. Had to draw its mechanism and the hydrolsis mechanism. Found this quite hard becuase I did IB which has very little organic chemistry.
• Then they threw a periodic table with only 6 periods at me. Had to draw some Lewis structures of various molecules, speculate that the element with three valence electrons would be the basis for life in this universe and then deduced that life would then be flat - formation of triganol planar molecules rather than tetrahedral.
• Last bit was on a Pressure/Volume phase diagram, included in the IB syllabus but not on the A-Level so I found this quite easy without the interviewers knowing how. Had to discuss the triple point, which area was which phase and some of the unique properties of water linked to this.
• How many molecules there were in the glass of water on the table?
• Visualisation of 3D molecular models when given a molecular formula. In addition, rotation, and symmetry of 3D models.
• Why does the boiling point of water rise as salt is dissolved in it?
• What makes drugs physiologically active?
• Explain the bonding in benzene.
• Shown a block of iron. Asked to name it, explain why it rusts, how to stop it rusting.
• Why is there salt in the sea?
• What is the concentration of water?
• Why is life X enantiomer-based rather than Y?
• How many atoms are there in a brussel sprout?
• What makes some chemicals explosive?
• How would you measure pH if I told you how many hydrogen ions there were?
• How does a glow-stick work?
• Tell me about these eggs?
• Tell me about your life, from the beginning to what made you sit in that chair
• Derive a Henderson equation.
• What is ‘turning you on’ in chemistry at the moment?
• How many molecules there were in the glass of water on the table?
• How would you measure pH of a solution if I told you how many hydrogen ions there were in it?
• Why do you think chemistry will change your life and the life of those around you?
• Why does the boiling point of water rise as salt is dissolved in it?
• Explain the bonding in benzene.
• Write down an organic reaction you have studied at school and explain its mechanism.
• Why don’t fish freeze?
• A container with liquid nitrogen is left in a laboratory, and its temperature is being recorded over a long period. The recorded temperature shows variations. Why?
• How many grains of sand are there in the world?
• How many different molecules can be made from six carbon atoms and twelve hydrogen atoms?

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