BIOLOGY PAPER 3 EXPERIMENT CHECKLISTS

Num. Form Chapter Activity Notes

1 4
Chapter 3 :
Movement of
Substances
Across the
Plasma
Membrane
3.1 : Size of molecule that can diffuse through a semi
permeable membrane

2 3.2 : Studying osmosis using osmometer
3 3.3 : Studying the effects of hypotonic, hypertonic and
isotonic solutions on animal cell

4 3.4 : Studying the effects of hypotonic, hypertonic and
isotonic solutions on plant cell

5 3.5 : Determining the concentration of an external solution in
which is isotonic to the cell sap of a plant

6
Chapter 4:
Chemical
Composition
of the Cell
4.3 : Studying the effects of temperature on salivary amylase
activity

7 4.4a : Studying the effects of pH on the activity of pepsin /
8 4.4b : Investigate the effects of pH on the breakdown of
starch by amylase
/
9 4.5 : Studying the effects of substrate concentration on
salivary amylase activity

10 4.6 : Studying the effects of enzyme concentration on
salivary amylase activity

11
Chapter 6 :
Nutrition
6.1 : Determining the energy value in food samples /
12 6.3 : Determining the vitamin C content in various fruit juices /
13 6.8 : Studying the effects of macronutrient deficiency in
plants

14 6.11 : Investigating the effects of light intensity on the rate of
photosynthesis

15 6.11 : Investigating the effects of carbon dioxide
concentration on the rate of photosynthesis

16
Chapter 7 :
Respiration
7.6 : Investigating the differences between inhaled and
exhaled air in terms of oxygen and carbon dioxide
contents

17 7.2 : Investigating the process of anaerobic respiration /
18
Chapter 8 :
Dynamic
Ecosystem
8.6 : Estimating the distributions of plants using quadrat
sampling technique

19 8.6 : Estimating the population size of animals using capture,
mark, release and recapture technique

20 8.11 : Studying the effects of temperature, pH, light intensity
and nutrients on the activity of yeast

21 Chapter 9 :
Endangered
Ecosystem
9.2 : Investigating the level of pollution in several different
sources of water
/
22 5 Chapter 1 :
Transport
: Study one of the factor that affect the rate of
transpiration

23 Chapter 3 :
Coordination
and Response
: Studying the effect of different quantities of water
intake in formation of urine

24
Chapter
Variation
: Investigating the continuous variation and
discontinuous variation in human

25 : Investigating the importance of camouflage in the
survival of a species