0610 IGCSE Biology Unit Test 2 Semester 1 2017-2018

Bunda Mulia School (SPK)

Unit Test 2
Chemicals of Life &
Movement in and out of Cells
2015 / 2016

Subject: IGCSE Biology Level : Year 9

Teacher : Dhamar Pramudhito Name : ______________
Date : Time : 50 minutes
No. of pages : 9 Marks : ______ / 35

You are required to provide yourself the required additional materials:

Soft HB Pencil
Eraser
Ruler
Electronic calculators may be used.

Write in dark blue or black pen.

You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question / part of questions.

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1 Fruits of banana, Musa spp, change as they ripen.

Fig. 1.1
(a) Describe the differences that you can see between the unripe banana fruit A, and the
ripe fruit B, shown in Fig. 1.1.
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One of the changes that takes place as a banana fruit ripens are the decrease of mass and
breakdown of starch to sugar . Table 1.1 shows the mass of a banana fruit measured over
a period of three weeks.
Table 1.1

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(b) (i) Calculate the loss in mass of the banana fruit during the three weeks.
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(ii) Suggest an explanation for the loss in mass during the ripening of the fruit.
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(b) (i) Describe how you could carry out a test for reducing sugar on a piece of
banana fruit
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(ii) Explain how would you use this test to show that the reducing sugar content
increases during ripening. .
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2 A student performed food tests on two types of food, F1 and F2.

The results are shown in Table 2.1.
(a) (i) Complete the table to show the student’s conclusions.

Table 2.1

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(ii) Describe how you would carry out the tests for fat and starch
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3 Fifteen pieces of raw Irish potato, Solanum tuberosum, were cut carefully to a length

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of 60mm.
Three pieces were placed in each of five different concentrations of glucose solution
and left for 2 hours. The pieces were removed and their lengths measured.
Table 3.1 shows the appearance of these pieces at the end of the two hours.
Table 3.1

(a) (i) Measure the length of each piece carefully and record these

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measurements in Table 3.1. Write in the figures on the dotted lines. Nine
measurements have been completed for you. [1]
(ii) Calculate the mean [average] length of the potato pieces. The first three
rows have been completed for you [1]
(iii) Calculate the change in mean length in all five concentrations of glucose
solutions. [2]
(iv) Explain why three pieces of potato were used in each solution and not
just one piece.
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(b) (i) Plot the change in mean length of potato against concentration of
glucose solution on the grid below.
Draw a line through the points.

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(ii) Describe and explain the changes in mean length of the potato pieces in
the different glucose solutions.

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(c) (i) Using the information from the graph, estimate the glucose concentration
which results in no change in mean length.
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(ii) Suggest why, at this glucose concentration, there is no change in length.
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