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TESTCODE02107010
FORMTP2009146 MAY/JUNE2009
PaperOl
90minutes
I. This test consists of45 items. You will have 90 minutes to answer them.
2. In addition to this test booklet, you should have an answer sheet.
3. Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Read each item
you are about to answer and decide which choice is best.
4. On your answer sheet, find the number which corresponds to your item and shade the space
having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below.
Sample Item
The best answer to this item is "Iron'', so answer space (D) has been shaded.
I 5.
6.
Ifyou want to change your answer, erase it completely before you fill in yournew choice.
When you are told to begin, turn the page and work as quickly and as carefully as you can. If
youcannotansweranitern,omititandgoontothenextone. Yourscorewillbethetotalnumber
of correct answers.
7. Youmaydoanyroughworkinthisbooklet.
8. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.
9. The use ofuon-prograrnmable calculators is allowed.
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1. Sucrose makes a good transport molecule as 3 .. An important property ofcellulose is its ability
seen in phloem tissue, because it is a lo
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C; 2.0H H OH
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OH H OH H
OH OH OH H
H OH H OH
Item 5 refers to tests performed by students to identify food substances present in a solution. The tests
were carried out and their respective results are shown in the table below.
Test Result
Biuret test Purple colour was obtained.
Benedict's test Blue colour remained on heating.
Dilute hydrochloric acid was added and the Blue colour became brick-red on
mixture was boiled, allowed to cool, neutralized heating.
and Benedict's test was carried out.
5. Which of the following indicates the food substance(s) present in the students' solution?
(A) Lipid,protein
(B) Non-reducing sugar only
(q Reducing and non-reducing sugars
(D) Non-reducing sugar and protein
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1·
x
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y ----, z
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(A) stroma
(B) thylakoids
(C) envelope
(D) starch grain
(D) Internal
surface
Polar amino
(A) a cell
(B) a tissue
(C) anorgan
(D) asystem
acid
IO. Materials are moved in and out of cells by 12. Which of the following bonds is represented
various mechanisms. Which ofthe following by the broken lines (---) in the diagram above?
mechanisms are affected by respiration?
(A) Ionic
I. Facilitated diffusion (B) Double
II. Osmosis (C) Peptide
III. Active transport (D) Hydrogen
IV. Exocytosis
Item 13 refers to the graph below showing Item 14 refers to the diagram ~low which
the effect of pH on the activity of enzymes. shows the effect of increasing substrate
concentration on the rate of an enzyme-
I n III IV catalysed reaction.
Rate of Reaction
reaction rate
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pH
Item IS refers to the diagram below wlrich 17. What type of bonds are used to link
shows the structure of a triglyceride. nucleotides together to form a polynucleotide?
H x (A) Peptide
I II (B) Glycosidic
H-C - X -c ~
( C) Hydrogen
(D) Phosphodiester
H-C-
I x -c
0
II
~
H-C-
I x
x -c
II
~
than that ofthe functional mRNA molecule
produced from it?
I
H (A) The DNA portion contains many
genes.
(B) The DNA portion contains a
1S. • Which of the following is represented by the promoter region.
label X? (C) Only exon portions are included in
the mRNA.
(A) Carbon (D) Only intron portions are included in
(B) Nitrogen the mRNA.
(C) Oxygen
(D) Sulphur
19. Structures that may be observed in animal
cells during mitosis but are NOT seen during
Item 16 refers to the diagram below showing
cell division in flowering plants are
a segment of a strand of DNA.
(A) centrioles
(B) chromatids
(C) centromeres
. (D) spindle fibres
(D) adenine
Item 21 refers to the information below. 24. Two parents, both of blood group B, have a
son with blood group 0. The probability
Mendel crossed pure-breeding round and that their next child will have blood group B
yellow peas with pure-breeding wrinkled and is
green peas. The F, seeds were round and
yellow. The F, seeds were self-pollinated and (A) 0.25
the seeds of the F2 showed the following (B) 0.375
characteristics: (C) 0.50
(D) 0.75
355 round and yellow
123 wrinkled and yellow
126 round and green 25. Which of the following may be used as
34 wrinkled and green methods of gene transfer?
I. Vnus
21. A major conclusion that can be made from II. Plasmid
t\lis data is that the III. Electroporation
N. DNA gun
(A) alleles for round and yellow peas are
dominant (A) I and II only
(B) alleles for wrinkled and green peas (B) I, II and III only
are dominant (C) I, II and IV only
(C) genes for pea colour and shape are (D) I, II, III and IV
epistatic
(D) genes for pea colour and shape are
linkfd Item 26 refers to the diagram below which
illustrates a form ofgene mutation.
(A) adenine C D
(B)
(C)
(D)
cytosine
guanine
thymine
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A B E F G
23. Which of the following statements correctly 26. Which form of gene mutation does the
describes the difference between RNA and diagram illustrate?
DNA?
(A) Deletion
(A) RNA is double strand, while DNA is (B) Inversion
single strand. (C) Insertion
(B) RNA has uracil as one of its organic (D) Duplication
bases, while DNA does not.
(C) DNA has five different nitrogenous
bases, while RNA has four.
(D) RNA is found only in the cytoplasm,
while DNA is found only in the
nucleus.
27. After which of the following forms of gene 31. Which of the following provides nourish-
mutation will a change in codons occur? ment for the sperm-producing cells in the
testes?
I. Substitution
II. Inversion (A) Seminiferous tubule
III. Addition (B) Sertoli cell
IV. Deletion (C) Interstitial cell
(D) Connective tissue
(A) II and III only
(B) II and IV only
(C) I, II and III only 32. Which ofthe following is NOT a part of the
(D) I, III and IV only anther?
Item 34 refers to the diagram below which shows the development of the embryo sac and female
gamete in a dicotyledenous plant
e _ _,_____,,_
embryo : } degenerate
••c
motber cell
(A) I
(B) 2
(C), 3
(D) 4
Item 35 refers to the diagram below which shows the transverse section of an anther.
&::::::::.......----.\-..\----- II
~~17/--m
,~..,....----IV
(A) I
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
36. Which of the following structures of the seed is derived ftom a triploid nucleus?
(A) Testa
(B) Endosperm
(C) Cotyledon
(D) Embryo
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Item 37 refers to the diagram below which shows a longitudinal section of the ovule of a flower.
Item 38 refers to the diagram below which shows ovarian follicles in various stages ofdevelopment.
(A) I - II - III - IV
(B) II - III - I - IV
(C) III - I - II - IV
(D) III - I - IV - II
llml39 refers to the diagram below showing Item 42 refers to the diagram below which
a transverse section through the middle piece represents a hwnan embryo developing in the
of the sperm. uterus.
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(A) a flagellwn
(B) an acrosome
(C) amicrotubule
(D) amitochondrion
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~refers to the simplified diagram below 45. Which of the following is the outennost extra-
of a recently implanted blastocyst in the ernbryonic membrane and contributes to the
endometrium of the uterus. formation of the placenta?
(A) Allantois
(B) Amnion
(C) Chorion
Wall of
(D) Yolksac
uterus
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