Biology

Unit 1 Name: Marks: /60

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

1. Plants are able to store carbohydrate in their cells as starch or sucrose.

i. Explain how plants are able to synthesise starch. (2)
ii. Describe the test that could be carried out the determine whether or not a plant cell
contain starch. (2)
iii. One of the features of plant cell is that they contain chloroplasts. Suggest why not
root hair in plants do not contain chloroplasts. (2)

2. Draw five lines to connect the characteristics of a living organism with the description
of each characteristic. (5)

3. Explain why viruses are not classified as living organism. (3)

4. Viruses can be classified as pathogens.
i. What is the definition of a pathogens.(1)
ii. Name three other groups of organisms that contain pathogens.(3)
iii. In the space below, draw and label a diagram of the basic structure of a virus. (3)
5. Compare the structure of a plant cell with the structure of a bateriel cell. (6)
6. The diagram below shows a bacterium cell.
 Use the following equation to calculate the image size of the bacterium cell.
Give your answer in mm ( 1 mm = 1000 ohmm)
Magnification = image size/ actual size (3)

7. The Ameoba proteus gets its nutrition by surrounding other unicellular organisms with its
pseudopodia and engulfing the prey digesting the nutrients internally and storing the
nutrients in the food vacuole.
i. Compare this process to saprotrophic nutrition in fungi(3)
ii. As well as nutrition, which other life process is being demonstrated during this
process? (1)
8. A mosquito is an example of an animal. The image belo shows an Anepheles mosquito.
i. List three features of organisms, such as this mosquito, which allow them to be
identified as animals. (3)
ii. Mosquitos can spread diseases with their bite. Why is the mosquito not classed as
a pathogen. (2)
9. The diagram shows a simplified version of a cell Plasmodium falciparum. This cell can
be carried in the mouthpaths of a female Anopheles mosquitoes and cause in human.
i. What kind of organism is the plasmodium?1
ii. A student reaches the conclusion:
Plasmodium is not alive because it cannot respire. The evidence from diagram shows
that it does not have lungs and cannot breath.
Using evidence from the diagram, explain why student is incorrect in their
conclusion. (2)
10. All living organisms carry out excretion including plants.
i. List two examples of excretory waste produced by plants (2)
ii. Name the processes that produce the excretory waste products name in part (i).
You should make it clear which process produces each product. (2)
11. A defination of an enzyme. A description of the “ lock and key” model in enzyme action.
(3)
12. An explanation between intracellular and extracellular enzymes. (2)
13. Write down characteristics of protoctist. (3)
14. Compare Eukaryotic and Prokeryotic Organisms. (3)
15. Defination of Osmosis, Diffussion and Active transport. (3)