SLC

BIOLOGY IX - EOY 2021

(Structured Questions)

Time: 30 min Marks: 20

Name: __________________ Date: _______________

Attempt All questions.

Write your answers in the space provided.

1 Manufacturers use protease enzymes to pre-digest food for babies.

(a) Suggest why the food is blended to a fine pulp before the enzyme is added.

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(b) A manufacturer carried out an experiment to find out the optimum pH for a
protease enzyme.

Equal volumes of different pH solutions were placed in separate test tubes.

0.5 g of blended food was placed in each test tube.

5 ml of 1% protease enzyme solution was added to each test tube.

The time taken to digest the food was recorded for each test tube.

(i) Give one other factor that must be controlled in this experiment.

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(ii) Suggest how this factor should be controlled.

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(c) The results of the experiment are shown in the graph.

45

40

Time taken to digest blended food/min

35

30

25

20

15

10

0
1 2 3 4 5 6
pH

(i) What is the optimum pH for this enzyme?

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(ii) The experiment could be improved to find a more accurate value for the
optimum pH.

Suggest how.

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2 The diagram shows the formation of tissue fluid.

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(a) Give two ways the capillary is adapted to allow substances to move in
direction A.

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(b) Name one substance which moves in direction B.

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(c) Name and describe what happens to liquid C.

Name

Description

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3 (a) The apparatus shown was used by a group of students to investigate
how light intensity affects the rate of photosynthesis.

bubbles

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(i) Name the gas collecting in the test tube.

[1]

(ii) Describe how this apparatus can be used to measure the rate of
photosynthesis.

[1]

(iii) Describe one way the students could have increased the light
intensity.

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 (iv) Give one disadvantage of this way of changing the light intensity
and describe how it can be overcome.

[1]

(b) The line graph shows the results of this investigation.

40

35
Rate of photosynthesis/arbitrary units

30

25

20

15

10

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Light intensity/arbitrary units

The investigation was repeated with sodium hydrogencarbonate

added to the water to provide additional carbon dioxide.

(i) What is the limiting factor between 0 and 5 arbitrary units of light
intensity?

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The diagram shows some of the features of a commercial greenhouse
used by a market gardener to grow tomatoes.

ventilator

temperature
sensor light

sprinkler
carbon dioxide
sensor

oil burner
light sensor

tomato
plants

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(c) Use evidence from the diagram to help describe how this
greenhouse environment is controlled and explain why it may help the
market gardener to make more profit.

In this question, you will be assessed on your written

communication skills, including the use of specialist scientific
terms.

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[Total:10]

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