Academic Review - 1

November - December 2022

Roll Invigilator-
Date Candidate Name Grade Division Band / Teacher
No. Signature

Dr. Shraddha/
29/11/2022 9
Mr. Amit

Subject Subject Code Duration Maximum Marks Marks obtained

Biology 0610 2 hrs 100

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write your centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in.

In Section A: There are 30 questions on this paper. Answer all questions. For each question
there are four possible answers A, B, C and D.
Choose the one you consider correct and record your choice in soft pencil on the separate
Answer Sheet.
Read the instructions on the Answer Sheet very carefully.
Each correct answer will score one mark. A mark will not be deducted for a wrong answer.
Any rough working should be done on the question paper.

Section B and Section C:

Write in dark blue or black pen.
You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid.
Answer all questions.
Electronic calculators may be used.
You may lose marks if you do not show your working or if you do not use appropriate units.
At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

This document consists of 26 printed pages.

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 Learner's self reflection and review
For each question, reflect on why you think you got it wrong. Use the choices below or add the ones you
have realized.

a. I didn’t understand what the question was asking

b. Understood what the question was asking but wasn’t sure about the content

c. Careless mistake

d. I didn’t know the material because I didn’t study this or I’m not sure we ever talked about this ( Others - maybe
there is another reason you can think of)

Questions I got Question Type (Recall, Reason I got it wrong (use Where the material can be
wrong knowledge and Understanding , choices above and found (Course books,
Application, Significance, elaborate) PowerPoints,notes, etc)
Relationship, Other)

What worked well:

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Moving forward: What concepts I need to work on:

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Two Academic goals I want to set for my next exams:

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Section A : Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which structure is found in a palisade cell but not in a liver cell?

A cell membrane
B central vacuole
C cytoplasm
D nucleus

2. What are the levels of organisation of

• the wall of a villus,

• the small intestine?

3. A living organism, X, can make its own food, get rid of toxic materials and detect and respond
to stimuli.
What other four processes must organism X carry out to stay alive?

A excretion, growth, movement, sensitivity

B excretion, growth, nutrition, respiration
C growth, movement, reproduction, respiration
D movement, reproduction, respiration, sensitivity

4. Which vertebrate groups have scaly skin?

A amphibians and fish

B amphibians and mammals
C fish and mammals
D fish and reptiles

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5. In a plant, a group of xylem vessels form

A a cell.
B a tissue.
C an organ.
D an organ system.

6. Which group of organisms has the following features?

● three pairs of jointed legs

● three-part segmented body
● one pair of antennae

A arachnids
B crustaceans
C insects
D myriapods

7. Which cell shows the position of the nucleus correctly?

8. In what form does a plant absorb and lose water?

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9. Which statement about cells or tissues, is correct?

A Cells in the respiratory tract are long and thin.

B Muscle cells are biconcave.
C Red blood cells have no nucleus.
D Xylem vessels have ciliated cells.

10. The diagram shows the action of amylase.

What is the function of the enzyme amylase?

A breaks down the substrate into amino acids

B changes the product into the substrate
C increases the rate of starch breaking down into glucose
D increases the rate of starch breaking down into maltose

11. Which structures must be present in a cell for osmosis to take place?

A cell (sap) vacuole and cell wall

B cell wall and cell membrane
C chloroplast and cytoplasm
D cytoplasm and cell membrane

12. Dietary fibre passes through several structures after leaving the stomach.
In which order does the dietary fibre pass through these structures?

A duodenum → ileum → colon → rectum

B duodenum → ileum → rectum → colon
C ileum → duodenum → colon → rectum
D ileum → duodenum → rectum → colon

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13. Small molecules are used as the basic units in the synthesis of large food molecules.
Which statement is correct?

A Amino acids are basic units of carbohydrates.

B Fatty acids are basic units of glycogen.
C Glycerol is a basic unit of oils.
D Simple sugar is a basic unit of protein.

14. Which is an incisor tooth?

15. A human digestive enzyme breaks down its substrate at a fast rate at 35 °C.
What would occur if the enzyme and substrate were kept at 75 °C?

A The enzyme would stop working and be denatured.

B The reaction would continue at the same rate.
C The reaction would take place more quickly.
D The reaction would take place more slowly.

16. A person has bleeding gums.

This could be caused by a lack of which nutrient?

A calcium
B iron
C vitamin C
D vitamin D

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17. Four test-tubes were set up as shown in the diagram.
In which tube is the starch digested most quickly?

18. The activity of lipase is measured in four parts of the gut.

Which part has the most lipase activity?

A colon
B duodenum
C oesophagus
D stomach

19. The table shows the colour of a biuret solution before and after a food test was carried out.

Which nutrient was present?

A fat
B protein
C reducing sugar
D starch

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20. The diagram shows some organs of the digestive system.

Where is amylase made?

A 1 and 4 B 2 and 3 C 2 and 4 D 3 and 4

21. The table shows the main contents of four meals.

Which meal will be the most effective at preventing constipation?

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22. The diagram shows a plant shoot and the same shoot six hours later.

Which change in environmental conditions could cause this change in the appearance of the
shoot?

A a decrease in available water

B a decrease in light intensity
C a decrease in wind speed
D an increase in humidity

23. Which pair of statements about a plant cell is correct?

24. What is a characteristic of all catalysts?

A They are broken down in the reaction.

B They are made of protein.
C They are not changed by the reaction.
D They do not change the rate of the reaction.

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25. The diagram shows a cell.

Which type of cell does the diagram show?

A an animal cell in a concentrated solution of salts

B an animal cell in pure water
C a plant cell in a concentrated solution of salts
D a plant cell in pure water

26. The bar chart shows the average number of chloroplasts in each of three different types of leaf
Cells.

What are the three types of cells?

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27. The table shows the number of animals collected in a sample from some woodland and the
groups to which they belong.

How many arthropods were collected?

A 33 B 97 C 120 D 160

28. The diagram shows the lock and key model of enzyme action.

Which is the enzyme and which is the substrate?

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29. The diagram shows the movement of a concentrated sugar solution up a glass tube. The glass
tube is connected firmly to a hollowed-out carrot.

Why does the sugar solution in the glass tube rise?

A Sugar molecules move across the carrot tissue into the glass tube.
B Sugar molecules move across the carrot tissue into the beaker.
C Water molecules move across the carrot tissue into the glass tube.
D Water molecules move across the carrot tissue into the beaker.

30. The small intestines of cows are similar in general structure and function to the small intestines
of humans. A disease in cows reduces the number of villi in their small intestines. The cows
lose weight and become weak.

What explains this?

A less amylase produced

B less peristalsis
C slower absorption of nutrients
D slower digestion of proteins

[Total: 30 marks]

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Section B: Structured Questions

Q.1. Scientists investigated the effect of cuticle thickness on water loss from the leaves of the
balsam
fir tree, Abies balsamea.

The leaves were divided into three groups:

A – thick cuticle
B – medium cuticle
C – thin cuticle

Samples of leaves from each group were weighed. The leaves were placed on a tray in dry air at
20 °C. The samples of leaves were reweighed, at intervals, over 15 hours.

The scientists calculated the mass of each sample of leaves as a percentage of the initial mass.
Fig. 1 shows the results.

Fig. 1

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(a) (i) Describe and explain the results shown in Fig. 1

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(ii) The investigation was repeated on a day when the air humidity was higher.
Suggest and explain the effect that this would have on the results.

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Q.2. (a) State the balanced chemical equation for photosynthesis.

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A student investigated the effect of different wavelengths of light on the rate of photosynthesis of
the water plant, Cabomba.

The student used the apparatus shown in Fig. 2.1.

Fig. 2.1

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The student collected the gas produced by the plant for five minutes. The results are shown
in Table 2.1.

Table 2.1

(b) Describe the effect of wavelength of light on the rate of photosynthesis as shown in the
student’s results in Table 2.1.
You will gain credit if you use data from the table.

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(c) State how the student would calculate the rates of photosynthesis from the results in Table 2.1.

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(d) State why the student kept the lamp at the same distance during the investigation,

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(e) State three uses in a plant of the carbohydrate produced in photosynthesis.

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Q.3. Some students investigated osmosis in raw potato sticks.

(a) Define the term osmosis.

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(b) The students measured the mass of four of the potato sticks using an electronic balance.
Fig. 3 shows an electronic balance.

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The students left each potato stick in one of four different liquids for 5 hours:

. distilled water
. 0.1 mol per dm3 sodium chloride solution
. 0.5 mol per dm3 sodium chloride solution
. 1.0 mol per dm3 sodium chloride solution.

After 5 hours they measured the mass again and calculated the change in mass.
(i) Predict which of the liquids would cause the largest decrease in mass of a potato stick.

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The students dried the potato sticks with paper towels before putting them on the
electronic balance.
(ii) Suggest why.

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(c) Explain why the potato stick had become soft and floppy.

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The students followed the same experimental procedure with boiled potato sticks and found
no overall change in mass in any of the solutions.
(d) Suggest why the mass of the boiled potato sticks remained the same.

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Q.4. Fig. 4 shows the alimentary canals of two mammals, an insect-eating bat, which is a
carnivore, and a rabbit, which is a herbivore.

Fig. 4

(a) Name the organs labelled V and W.

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(b) Explain the role of mechanical digestion.

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Q.5. Pepsin is a protease enzyme found in the alimentary canal.

(a) (i) Name the product formed from the digestion of proteins by protease enzymes.

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(ii) State the organ in the alimentary canal where pepsin is secreted.

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(b) A biologist performed an experiment to find the optimum pH for the activity of pepsin.
The enzyme activity was measured in four test-tubes. Each test-tube contained a 1 cm3 cube
of cooked egg white which contains protein.

Fig. below shows the four test-tubes.

The biologist measured the time taken for the complete digestion of the cubes of cooked egg
white.

(i) The biologist ensured all the cubes of cooked egg white were exactly the same size.
Suggest why.

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(ii) Temperature must be controlled in this experiment.

Describe how temperature could be controlled.

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(c) The same experiment was performed with trypsin, another protease enzyme.
Predict the optimum pH for trypsin.

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(d) Enzymes, such as proteases, are important in digestion.

Describe in detail how enzymes function, using other digestive enzymes as examples.

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Q.6.(a) Describe the structure of a DNA molecule.

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(b) Molecular biologists identified a gene found in all species of bacteria and in mitochondria.
State the function of mitochondria.

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[Total: 4 marks]

Section C : Alternative to Practical

Q.7. Catalase is an enzyme found in plant and animal cells. It catalyses the breakdown of
hydrogen
peroxide to form water and oxygen.

The oxygen produced during the reaction forms a foam on the surface of the mixture of hydrogen
peroxide and catalase. The height of the foam can be used as a measure of the activity of the
catalase present.

A student investigated the effect of cooking on the activity of catalase in potato tissue using 3%
hydrogen peroxide.

The student used the following method:

Step 1 Cut two potato sticks so that they are identical in both shape and size.

Step 2 Put 5 cm3 of hydrogen peroxide solution into a test-tube labelled uncooked potato.

Step 3 Put 5 cm3 of hydrogen peroxide solution into a test-tube labelled cooked potato.

Step 4 Put one of the potato sticks into a beaker of hot water (90 °C) and leave it for five minutes

before carefully removing it.

Step 5 Put the potato stick from step 4 into the test-tube labelled cooked potato.

Step 6 Put the uncooked potato stick into the test-tube labelled uncooked potato.

Step 7 Leave the potato sticks in the hydrogen peroxide for three minutes and then measure

the height of the foam produced in each of the test-tubes.

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Fig. 7.1 shows the test-tubes after three minutes.

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(a) (i) Prepare a table for the student’s results.

Measure the height of the foam in each of the test-tubes in Fig. 7.1. Record these values
in your table.

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(ii) Calculate the difference in the height of the foam produced by cooked and uncooked
potato after three minutes. Include the units.

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(iii) Describe how you made sure that your measurements of the height of the foam in each
test-tube could be compared.

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(iv)State a conclusion for these results.

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(b) (i) Identify the variable that was changed (independent variable) in this investigation.

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(ii) State two variables, other than the way in which you measured the height of the foam,
that should have been kept constant in this investigation.

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© Identify one source of error in this method.

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(d)A student was asked to test the hypothesis:

Catalase activity is the same in all species of plants.

Plan an investigation to test this hypothesis.

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(e) Potatoes contain a lot of starch. When potatoes start to grow to form new plants, the starch is
broken down by the enzyme amylase to form reducing sugars.

Explain how you could test samples of potato to show that starch and reducing sugars are
present.

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