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ADVANCED GCE
BIOLOGY
Control, Genomes and Environment
F215
hour 45 minutes
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Answer all the questions. Knowledge of the nitrogen cycle can be used to make decisions about management of farmland. A farmer uses her grass meadow to raise sheep. In a separate field she grows cabbages.
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(c) North Ronaldsay sheep are listed as 'endangered' by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. These sheep were raised on a small Scottish lsland where they were kept along the seashore for most of the year. The sheep developed an unusual metabolism that allowed them to survive by eating seaweed. They are, however, susceptible to copper poisoning when fed on grass.
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State the two essential steps that must have occurred for a breed to develop a distinctive metabolism, such as the ability to eat mainly seaweed.
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Animals behave in ways that enhance their survival and reproductive capacity. This behaviour may be innate or learned.
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Although English Elm trees make pollen, they rarely produce seeds. Instead they spread by developing structures known as suckers from their roots. Each sucker can grow into a new tree.
This tendency of elms to create suckers has been exploited by humans, who have separated the suckers, with roots attached, and used them to plant hedges and establish new woodlands.
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(b) In 1967, a new, virulent strain of an elm disease fungus arrived in Great Britain on imported timber. Beetles that lived under the bark of elm trees spread the fungus. The saws used to cut down dead branches were not sterilised after use. When the saws were used to prune healthy trees, these trees became infected. Approximately 25 million elm trees, most of the English Elm population, died within a few years of the arrival of this fungus. Explain why there was such a rapid loss of elm trees in Britain as a result of this elm disease.
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Wading birds (waders) are birds that feed in shallow water. Table 4.1 shows changes in the population size of four species of wader in two areas of the Western lsles off the coast of Scotland'
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Two-spot ladybirds, Adalia bipunctata, show a colour polymorphism. They are normally red with two black spots. However, melanic individuals occur which are black with two red spots.
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(c) The black, melanic, form of the ladybird is caused by an allele (B) that is dominant.
The red form of the ladybird is therefore homozygous recessive at this locus (bb).
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