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9A Genetics

Name: Class:

Q1. The drawings below show pigs from two different breeds.

                                  Tamworth                                                   Gloucester Old Spot

(a)     (i)      From the drawings above, give two ways in which the pigs are different.

1. ...........................................................................................................
1 mark

2. ...........................................................................................................
1 mark

(ii)     What are these differences called?

Tick the correct box.

adaptations                         classification      

fertilisation                          variations            
1 mark

(b)     The drawing below shows a piglet bred from a Tamworth and a Gloucester Old Spot.

                                            

          Give one way you can tell that one of its parents is a Tamworth.

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1 mark

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(c)     (i)      When pigs reproduce, which two types of cell pass information from the pigs to
their piglets?
Tick the two correct boxes.
 

blood nerve cheek

cell   cell   cell  

egg muscle sperm

cell   cell   cell  
2 marks

(ii)     When pigs reproduce, two cells join together.

         What is this process called?

Tick the correct box.

adaptation                  classification      

fertilisation                 variation              

1 mark
maximum 7 marks

Q2. Ben and Jason are identical twins. Ben plays football during break time. Jason has a broken
leg. He sits quietly in the classroom.

(a)     Tick the boxes by three sentences which can only describe Ben and not Jason.

 
3 marks

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(b)     Which two sentences in the list above could describe both Ben and Jason during
that break time?

1. ..................................................................................................................

2. ..................................................................................................................
2 marks
Maximum 5 marks

Q3. The diagram below shows the two different forms of the same moth.
All these moths are either speckled or black.

(a)     The graph below shows how the percentage of speckled moths changed between
1950 and 2000 in one city.

(i)      Complete the table below with the missing year and percentage.
Use the graph.
 
percentage of percentage of total percentage
year
speckled moths (%) black moths (%) (%)

1970 10 90 100

_____ 50 50 100

1990 78 ________________ 100

2 marks

(ii)     The percentage of black moths from 1950 to 1980 is also shown on the graph.
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Continue the line on the graph above to show how the percentage of black
moths changed between 1980 and 2000.
2 marks

(b)     The maps below show the percentage of speckled moths and black moths at
different places in Britain in 1956 and 1996.

How did the percentage of black moths change at place A between

1956 and 1996?

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1 mark

(c)     (i)      Describe one way in which the data shown in the graph is better than the data
shown in the maps.

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1 mark

(ii)     Describe one way in which the data shown in the maps is better than the data
shown in the graph.

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1 mark
maximum 7 marks

Q4. Uganda is a country close to the equator in Africa. Most Ugandan bred cows produce only 1
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litre of milk each day. In Britain, some cows can produce nearly 30 litres of milk each day. The milk
yield of British cows exported to Uganda drops dramatically, even though they get sufficient food.

(a)     Suggest why a British cow exported to Uganda would be less likely to produce
30 litres of milk each day.

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1 mark

          By selectively breeding British and Ugandan cattle, it is possible to breed cows
which produce 10 litres of milk each day.

(b)     A Ugandan farmer wishes to continue the breeding programme to improve his
herd of cows further. When he is choosing which cows to use for breeding,
milk production is an important quality. Give two other important qualities he
could consider.

1. ..................................................................................................................

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2. ..................................................................................................................

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2 marks
Maximum 3 marks

Q5. The quagga is an extinct animal that lived in Africa. Quaggas belonged to the same group as
zebras. The drawings below show a zebra and a quagga.

(a)     Zebras and quaggas used to breed with each other. The offspring contained a
combination of both zebra and quagga genes (genetic information).
How were zebra and quagga genes passed on from the parents to their offspring?

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1 mark

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(b)     These days there are some zebras that still show some quagga features. Scientists
are using zebras to try to produce quaggas by selective breeding. Describe the
steps in this selective breeding process.

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3 marks
Maximum 4 marks

Q6. A group of pupils recorded some different characteristics of pupils in their class. The table
below shows their results.
 
name gender height, mass, hand arm span, eye
in cm in kg span, in cm colour
in cm

Julie girl 152 48 17.2 160 blue

Laura girl 157 54 15.0 141 green

Aftab boy 159 49 18.4 172 brown

Jenna girl 144 46 17.4 161 hazel

Barry boy 148 49 17.4 162 blue

Oliver boy 172 57 21.5 204 brown

Safina girl 155 48 16.8 158 brown

Maria girl 154 50 17.9 166 green

Amanat girl 162 46 16.2 150 brown

Thomas boy 157 49 19.9 186 blue

(a)     Oliver concluded that boys do not have green eyes.

          Explain why his conclusion is not justified.

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1 mark

(b)     Name two continuous variables in their table.

1. .....................................................

2.  .....................................................
1 mark
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(c)     Look at the scatter graphs below.

          Use the data in the scatter graphs to show whether each of the conclusions below
is true, false or you cannot tell.

                 conclusions                                           true or false or cannot tell

          Graph C shows that the shortest pupil

has the smallest hand span.                                       ........................................

          Graph B shows the strongest correlation

between two variables.                                                ........................................

          Graph A looks similar to graph C because of

the high correlation of arm span to hand span.           ........................................

          Boys are generally taller than girls.                              ........................................

2 marks
Maximum 4 marks

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