FORM FOUR EXTENDED JOINT EXAMINATION (EJE)

(ALFAROUQ, IHSAN, MARKAZ, MIVUMONI, MSASANI,

RIDHWAA, TWAYYIBAT and YEMEN SECONDARY SCHOOLS)

033/2A BIOLOGY 2A
(ACTUAL PRACTICAL)

TIME: 2:30 Hours Monday, 13th June 2022 a.m

Instructions
1. This paper consists of two (2) questions.
2. Answer both questions.
3. Each question carries 25 marks.
4. Except for diagrams which must be drawn in pencil, all writing must be blue or black ink.
5. Cellular phones and any unauthorized materials are not allowed in the Examination room.
6. Write your Examination Number on every page of your answer booklet(s)

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1. You have been provided with stirring rod, delivery tube, Irish potato, scalpel, measuring
cylinder, and solution in beakers labeled R, R2, R3 and R4. Follow the procedures as directed
in (i) – (vii) to demonstrate some physiological processes and then answer the questions that
follow:

(i) Dip a delivery tube in the beakers containing solution R1 and stirring rod in the
beaker containing solution R2 until it reaches 5cm deep while holding them careful to
ensure that they do not touch the bottom of the beakers for 5minutes.
(ii) Remove the delivery tube and stirring rod from the beakers containing solution R1
and R2 after 5 minutes and observe what is happening.
(iii) Peel the Irish potato to remove the outer cover and chip it to make four (4) small bars
of about 4 cm long and 3 mm thick
(iv) Place two bars in a test tube which is half filled with water boil for 2 minutes and
allow it cool.
(v) Place one boiled bar and one unboiled bar into the beaker containing solution R3
(vi) Place one boiled bar and one unboiled bar into the beaker containing solution R4
(vii) After 30 minutes remove the bars from solution R3 and R4, Try to bend each bar and
touch to feel its texture

Questions:
(a) What was your observation after 5 minutes when a delivering tube and stirring
rod deepened into solution R1 and R2 in procedures?
(b) Account for observation made in procedure (i)
(c) Which of the beakers, R, and R2 acted as a control of the capillarity experiment?
Give reason to support your answer.
(d) Which tissue found in plants can perform the same function as represented by
delivery tube in this experiment?
(e) How does the function of capillarity investigated in this experiment important for
the survival of plants?
(f) (i) What was the texture of each bar after removing them from the solution R3 ?
(ii)Briefly explain the causes of each texture observed in f(i)
(g) (i) What was the texture of each bars after removing them from the solution R4 ?
(ii)Briefly explain the causes of each texture observed in (g) (i)
(h) Which of the bars in solution R3 and R4 acted as a control of osmosis experiment?
Give reason to support your answer.
(i) Which of the solution R3 and R4 had the following:
(a) Less negative water potential
(b) More negative water potential

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2. You have been provided with specimen J,K,L,M,N and O study them carefully and then
answer the questions that follow:

a) (i) What is the common name of each specimen J,K,L,M and N

(ii) Identify classes of the members of specimen K, L, N and O

b) (i) Suggest the role of specimen K,L,M and N to the representative

Organism.
(ii) Why the leaves of specimen J are called fronds?

(i)Draw a diagram of specimen N and label parts that represent stamen

(ii)Suggest the proper agent of pollination used by specimen N (Give reason)

c) i )Suggest the technical term given to specimen M based on their habitat

ii) Give four adaptation features of specimen M based on their habitat
d) Identify the habitat to which member of specimen L and specimen K found
e) Why scientific name are more preferable than common naming of organism.

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