Dr.

Oak Kaung Zan

ASLA
Biology
Tutorial : July 2023

Name :

Class :

Gained Marks : / 40 marks Total Time : 1 hour

Instruction
• Answer in Black Pen.
• Cross-out any wrong-doings with a single strike.
• Answer in Good English.
• Graphs are to be drawn with Pencil and labelled with Pen.

Q1.

A chicken egg is a single cell protected by a shell on the outside.

A student puts three chicken eggs into dilute acid and leaves them for three days.

The acid dissolves the egg shells, leaving the contents of the eggs surrounded by the cell membrane.

The diagram shows the student's method.

The student removes the eggs from the dilute acid and uses water to wash the surface acid away.

The student then uses the eggs for this osmosis experiment.

• he measures the mass of each egg

• he then puts one egg into a beaker containing distilled water
• he puts another egg into a beaker containing 5% salt solution
• he puts a third egg into a beaker containing 15% salt solution
• after 15 minutes he removes each egg from its beaker and measures its mass again

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(a) The bar graph shows the results obtained by the student from the osmosis experiment.

(i) Name the dependent variable in this experiment.

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(ii) Explain the result for the egg placed in distilled water.
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(b) The student calculates the percentage change in mass for the eggs placed in
distilled water and in 5% salt solution.
(i) Use the data from graph 1 to calculate the percentage change in mass for the egg placed in 15%
salt solution. Show your working.
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Percentage change in mass = ............................. %

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(ii) The student plots the percentage change in mass on graph 2.

Complete the bar graph to show the percentage change in mass for the egg placed in 15% salt
solution.
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(c) Give one way in which osmosis differs from diffusion.

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(Total for question = 7 marks)

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Q2.

(a) The diagram shows a piece of apparatus called a calorimeter.

The calorimeter is used to investigate the energy content of one gram of glucose.
The glucose burns in the calorimeter and the energy released heats the water.

(i) Suggest why oxygen gas is passed into the calorimeter.

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(ii) Suggest why the waste gas pipe is coiled.

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(iii) Suggest why stirring the water will improve the data collected.
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(b) The calorimeter contains 200 g of water. The graph shows the rise in temperature of the water in
the calorimeter during the investigation.

(i) Use the graph to find out the increase in the temperature of the water during the investigation.
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(ii) Use the formula to calculate the energy content of the 1 g of glucose.

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(Total for question = 6 marks)

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Q3.

Many people in the UK eat fish and chips.

The drawing shows a plate of fish and chips.

(a) Describe what happens to fish protein in the stomach.

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(b) The chips are made from potatoes.

Potatoes are the underground carbohydrate storage organs of the potato plant.
The diagram shows a cell from potato tissue, as seen through a microscope.

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Name the parts labelled A, B and C.

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(c) Chips are cooked by frying them in lipid (oil). Some of this lipid is left on the surface of the chips after
cooking.
The diagram shows three different shaped chips from the same potato.
Each chip has the same mass.

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(i) The table shows the surface area, the volume and the surface area to volume ratio for chips A and
B.
Use the diagram to complete the table for chip C, which is a cube.
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(ii) Eating too much lipid is harmful to health.

Explain which shape of chip, A, B or C, is the most healthy to eat.
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(Total for question = 13 marks)

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Q4.

Substances move in and out of cells using different processes.

(a) Complete the table by giving the process used for each example of substance movement.
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(b) Explain how the structure of the small intestine is adapted for efficient absorption of substances.
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(Total for question = 7 marks)

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Q5.

The table shows the percentage of protein, fat and minerals found in the same mass
of meat from different animals.

(a) (i) Which meat contains the least protein?

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(ii) Calculate how many grams of protein are present in one kilogram of rabbit
meat. Show your working.
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(b) Which type of meat would provide the most energy?

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(c) Give two uses of fat in the human body.

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(d) Name the mineral in meat that is needed to make haemoglobin.

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(Total for question = 7 marks)

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