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Heres a list I made for Unit 1 core practicals.

I suspect the Vitamin C one will come up, seeing as the last time it was in a paper was 2009. Beetroot Experiment (January 2011 Q6 5 marks) 1) Name beetroot tissue 2) Reference to washing/soaking beetroot thoroughly 3) Reference to water-bath to maintain/change temperature 4) Reference to a range ( at least 5 temperature/ alcohol concentrations) 5) Control variable named: length of time, size of beetroot 6) Mentioning what is being used to judge permeability colour of solution, absorbance, transmission 7) Mentioning how permeability can be assessed; colourimeter, standard solutions 8) Reference to repeats. Daphnia Experiment (January 2010 Q6 4 marks) 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Heart rate determined before treatment Daphnia need to be put into caffeine to acclimatize Practical detail use of microscope Details of determining heart rate described Named control variable Reference to repeats

Vitamin C Experiment (June 2009 Q6 5 marks) 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) Reference to DCPIP Reference to use of (named) juice Idea of titrating juice with DCPIP Colour changes from blue to colourless Use of calibration curve to determine Vitamin C concentration Reference to repeats Reference to replication Reference to one control variable Reference to drawing graph of both sets of results

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