Q1.

Earthworms are small animals that live in soil. Earthworms have no specialised gas
exchange system and absorb oxygen through their skin.

(a) What is the name of the process in which oxygen enters the skin cells?

Tick one box.

Active transport

Diffusion

Osmosis

Respiration

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The table below shows information about four skin cells of an earthworm.

Percentage of oxygen
Cell
Outside cell Inside cell

A 9 8

B 12 8

C 12 10

D 8 12

(b) Which cell has the smallest difference in percentage of oxygen between the outside
and the inside of the cell?

Tick one box.

(1)

(c) Which cell will oxygen move into the fastest?

Tick one box.

(1)

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(d) Earthworms have a large surface area to volume ratio.

Suggest why a large surface area to volume ratio is an advantage to an earthworm.

It needs to take up all the oxygen it needs by diffusion across the body
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(e) The earthworm uses enzymes to digest dead plants.

Many plants contain fats or oils.

Which type of enzyme would digest fats?

Lipase
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(f) Earthworms move through the soil.

This movement brings air into the soil.

Dead plants decay faster in soil containing earthworms compared with soil
containing no earthworms.

Explain why.

There is more aerobic respiration of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi

which act to decompose dead plants which proves why they decay
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(g) When earthworms reproduce, a sperm cell from one earthworm fuses with an egg
cell from a different earthworm.

Name the process when an egg cell and a sperm cell fuse.

Fertilisation__________________________________________________________
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(h) Some types of worm reproduce by a process called fragmentation.

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 In fragmentation, the worm separates into two or more parts. Each part grows into a
new worm.

What type of reproduction is fragmentation?

Asexual reproduction______________________________________________
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(Total 10 marks)

Q2.
Figure 1 shows a human cheek cell viewed under a light microscope.

Figure 1
Cell membrane

Nucleus

© Ed Reschke/Photolibrary/Getty Images

(a) Label the nucleus and cell membrane on Figure 1.

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(b) Cheek cells are a type of body cell.

Body cells grow through cell division.

What is the name of this type of cell division?

Tick one box.

Differentiation

Mitosis

Specialisation

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(c) Ribosomes and mitochondria are not shown in Figure 1.

What type of microscope is needed to see ribosomes and mitochondria?

An electron microscope_____________________________________________
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(d) What is the advantage of using the type of microscope you named in part (c)?

Tick one box.

Cheaper

Higher magnification

Lower resolution

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(e) The cheek cell in Figure 2 is magnified 250 times.

The width of the cell is shown by the line D to E.

Figure 2

Calculate the width of the cheek cell in micrometres (µm).

Complete the following steps.

Measure the width of the cell using a ruler _____________________ mm

Use the equation to work out the real width of the cell in mm:

real size = _____________________ mm

Convert mm to µm _____________________ µm
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(f) A red blood cell is 8 µm in diameter.

A bacterial cell is 40 times smaller.

Calculate the diameter of the bacterial cell.

Tick one box.

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 0.02 µm

0.2 µm

2.0 µm

20.0 µm

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(Total 9 marks)

Q3.
Substances can move into and out of cells.

(a) (i) How does oxygen move into and out of cells?

Draw a ring around one answer.

diffusion digestion photosynthesis

(1)

(ii) Diagram 1 shows the percentage concentration of oxygen in three cells, A, B

and C.

Diagram 1

Oxygen can move from cell to cell.

Into which cell, A, B or C, will oxygen move the fastest?

(1)

(b) (i) How does water move into and out of cells?

Draw a ring around one answer.

breathing osmosis respiration

(1)

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 (ii) Differences in the concentration of sugars in cells cause water to move into or
out of cells at different rates.

Diagram 2 shows three different cells, P, Q and R.

The information shows the percentage concentration of sugar solution

in cells P, Q and R.

Diagram 2

Water can move from cell to cell.

Into which cell, P, Q or R, will water move the fastest?

(1)
(Total 4 marks)

Q4.
A student carried out an investigation using chicken eggs.

This is the method used.

1. Place 5 eggs in acid for 24 hours to dissolve the egg shell.

2. Measure and record the mass of each egg.

3. Place each egg into a separate beaker containing 200 cm3 of distilled water.

4. After 20 minutes, remove the eggs from the beakers and dry them gently with a
paper towel.

5. Measure and record the mass of each egg.

Table 1 shows the results.

Table 1

Mass of egg Mass of egg after

Egg without shell in 20 minutes in
grams grams

1 73.5 77.0

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 2 70.3 73.9

3 72.4 75.7

4 71.6 73.1

5 70.5 73.8

(a) Another student suggested that the result for egg 4 was anomalous.

Do you agree with the student?

Give a reason for your answer.

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(b) Calculate the percentage change in mass of egg 3.

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Percentage change in mass = ______________________

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(c) Explain why the masses of the eggs increased.

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(d) Explain how the student could modify the investigation to determine the
concentration of the solution inside each egg.

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(3)

Chicken egg shells contain calcium. Calcium ions are moved from the shell into the
cytoplasm of the egg.

Table 2 shows information about the concentration of calcium ions.

Table 2

Concentration of
Location calcium ions in
arbitrary units

Egg shell 0.6

Egg cytoplasm 2.1

(e) Explain how calcium ions are moved from the shell into the cytoplasm of the egg.

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(Total 12 marks)

Q5.
The image below shows some muscle cells from the wall of the stomach, as seen through
a light microscope.

(a) Describe the function of muscle cells in the wall of the stomach.

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(2)

(b) The figure above is highly magnified.

The scale bar in the figure above represents 0.1 mm.

Use a ruler to measure the length of the scale bar and then calculate the
magnification of the figure above.

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Magnification = _______________ times

(2)

(c) The muscle cells in Figure above contain many mitochondria.

What is the function of mitochondria?

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(d) The muscle cells also contain many ribosomes. The ribosomes cannot be seen in
the figure above.

(i) What is the function of a ribosome?

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(ii) Suggest why the ribosomes cannot be seen through a light microscope.

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(Total 8 marks)

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Q6.
The diagrams show an animal cell and a bacterial cell.

(a) (i) Structures A and B are found in both the animal cell and the bacterial cell.

Use words from the box to name structures A and B.

cell membrane chloroplast cytoplasm vacuole

A ______________________________

B ______________________________
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(ii) Both cells contain genetic material.

Name the structure in the animal cell that contains genetic material.

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(1)

(b) List A gives three structures found in animal cells.

List B gives four functions of cell structures.

Draw one line from each structure in List A to its correct function in List B.

List A – Structure List B – Function

Controls what substances

enter the cell

Cell membrane

Photosynthesis

Mitochondrion

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 Protein synthesis

Ribosome

Respiration

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(Total 6 marks)

Q7.
After a meal rich in carbohydrates, the concentration of glucose in the small intestine
changes.

The table below shows the concentration of glucose at different distances along the small
intestine.

Concentration of
Distance along the
glucose in mol
small intestine in cm
dm−3

100 50

300 500

500 250

700 0

(a) At what distance along the small intestine is the glucose concentration highest?

______________________ cm
(1)

(b) Use the data in the table to plot a bar chart on the graph below.

• Label the y-axis.

• Choose a suitable scale.

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 (4)

(c) Look at the graph above.

Describe how the concentration of glucose changes as distance increases along the
small intestine.

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(d) Explain why the concentration of glucose in the small intestine changes between
100 cm and 300 cm.

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(e) Explain why the concentration of glucose in the small intestine changes between
300 cm and 700 cm.

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(Total 12 marks)

Q8.
The diagram shows a cell.

(a) (i) Use words from the box to name the structures labelled A and B .

cell membrane chloroplast cytoplasm nucleus

A ___________________________

B ___________________________
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 (ii) The cell in the diagram is an animal cell.

How can you tell it is an animal cell and not a plant cell?

Give two reasons.

1. ____________________________________________________________

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2. ____________________________________________________________

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(b) Oxygen will diffuse into the cell in the diagram.

Why?

Use information from the diagram.

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(c) The cell shown in the diagram is usually found with similar cells.

Draw a ring around the correct answer to complete the sentence.

an organ.

Scientists call a group of similar cells a system.

a tissue.

(1)
(Total 6 marks)

Q9.
Substances can move into cells and out of cells.

(a) Draw a ring around the correct answer to complete each sentence.

active transport.

Water moves into cells and out of cells by osmosis.

reabsorption.

freely permeable

The water moves through a non-permeable membrane.

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 partially permeable
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(b) Students put plant cells into two different strengths of sugar solutions, A and B.

The diagram below shows what the cells looked like after 1 hour.

Cell in Cell in
sugar solution A sugar solution B
(after 1 hour) (after 1 hour)

(i) Describe two ways in which the cell in sugar solution B is different from the
cell in sugar solution A.

1. ____________________________________________________________

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2. ____________________________________________________________

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(2)

(ii) A student put red blood cells into water.

Suggest what would happen to the cells.

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(1)

(c) In the human body, glucose is absorbed into the blood from the small intestine.

The small intestine contains many villi.

Which two of the following help the absorption of glucose in the small intestine?

Tick ( ) two boxes.

Villi have a cell wall.

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Villi are covered in thick mucus.

Villi give the small intestine a large surface area.

Villi have many blood capillaries.

(2)
(Total 7 marks)

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