GRADE 10 BIOLOGY REVISION SHEET ANSWER KEY – First Term examination

January 2024

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A-Cell wall

B-Vacuole

C-Cytoplasm (3)

Aii)

b) Correctly labeled diagram (3 Marks)

label: 2 marks; drawing 1 mark

5. A C cornea

B The lens cannot become fat enough to focus the rays on the retina.

Rod cells are used to detect dim light.

c
6. a two of:
● feeling of pain is slower because feeling needs to be processed by the
brain
● impulses sent to the brain travel a longer pathway of neurones (which
takes longer)
● impulses sent to the brain along a longer pathway that contains more
synapses (which slow impulses down)
impulses sent to leg muscles via a reflex arc.

b Neurones are not physically joined, or there are gaps/synapses between

neurones.
In an electrical circuit the current divides when it reaches a junction, but
impulses are re-generated after each synapse and so do not diminish.
7. Advantages
They can continue to divide for a long period of time.
They are unspecialised.
Disadvantages
Cancer
Rejection
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9. TELOPHASE
 The fourth stage in mitosis
 New nuclear membrane and nucleoli form.
 Chromosomes start to unwind back into chromatin and no
longer visible under microscope
10. A Itis important that chromosomes are haploids, because when the
sperm and the egg fuse together thecell will have 46 chromosomes. ...
Polar bodies are haploid cells produced during meiosis, which are
smaller in size compared to the gamete and will disintegrate.

1. Sexual and Asexual reproduction

b 2. Asexual reproduction
3. Sexual Reproduction

11 a. (T) – A (1)
C – (G) (1)
b. double helix
c. B weak hydrogen bonds
12 a. the (entire) DNA/genetic material/(all the) genes of an organism
b. Any one from:
● to see whether a medicine will work/have major side-effects (1)
● to assess risk of developing cancer (1)
● to assess risk of a lifestyle disease/named lifestyle disease (1)
● to enable an individual to modify their diet/lifestyle (1)
● to find out about ancestry/parentage (1)
c. mutation
d. ff
e. Heterozygous means that his genotype contains one of each (type of) allele.
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b. An explanation that includes the following:

● Their parents are blood groups A and O (1)
● so, neither can pass on a B allele. (1)

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