AL NOOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

BRITISH SENIOR SECTION

FIRST TERM EXAMINATION 2020 - 2021(E- Assessment)

Subject: BIOLOGY Date: 06.12.2020

Grade: IGCSE Time: 1 hour 15min

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

 Answer all questions on a separate A4 paper with margin on both the sides, page
numbers and your name class and division on all the pages you hand in.
 Use a black or dark blue pen. You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
 Do not use correction fluid.
 You can use a calculator wherever appropriate.
 You must write clearly the question number and show all necessary working clearly; no
marks will be given for unsupported answers from a calculator.
 You will have to remain live in the Zoom meeting with your camera switched on while taking
the test. The camera should be kept at an angle to get the view of both the student and the
answer script.
 Scan all the pages with your smart phone using Scan App (Cam Scanner/ Adobe Scan) in
portrait format only.
 If there is any technical issue in uploading, take the photograph of the entire script and e-mail
it to your subject teacher and try uploading later.
 The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].

SECTION SECTION-B SECTION-C TOTAL

Max. Marks 45 15 60
Marks Obtained

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 SECTION- B

1. Fig. 1.1 shows a diagram of a section through human skin.

Fig. 1.1

(i) State the names of structures A, B and C in Fig. 1.1.

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(ii) Structure D is a shunt vessel and E is an arteriole.

Describe how these blood vessels are involved in maintaining a constant internal body
temperature in a cold environment.

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(b) Alcohol is a drug.
Define the term drug.

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(c) (i) State two immediate effects of excessive alcohol on the body.

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[Total: 10]

2 (a) Antibodies are proteins that are produced by lymphocytes. Antitoxins are antibodies which
neutralise the toxins released by some bacteria.

The transmissible disease diphtheria is caused by a bacterium that releases a toxin that can cause
serious damage to the body.

A person is suspected of having caught diphtheria.

At a clinic, the person is given an injection of antitoxin antibodies that provide protection
against the diphtheria toxin. She is also given an injection of the vaccine for diphtheria.

A few weeks later she is given a second injection of the diphtheria vaccine.

Fig. 2.1 shows the changes in concentration of the antitoxin antibodies and the antibodies
produced in response to the vaccine

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 Fig. 2.1
(i) Explain the advantage of giving the person an injection of antitoxin antibodies.

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(ii) Explain how the two injections of the vaccine result in better protection against
diphtheria than the injection of antitoxin antibodies.

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(b) Fig. 2.1 is a diagram of the virus that causes measles.

Fig. 2.1
(i) State the name of the parts of the virus shown in Fig. 2.1 labelled X and Y.

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(c) Viruses and some bacteria are pathogenic. Diseases caused by pathogens are transmissible.

(i) State two ways that a pathogen can be transmitted indirectly.

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(d) (i) Describe and explain the effects of cholera bacteria on the gut.

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3 (a) State the name of the process that plants use to move sucrose from a source to a
sink.

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(b) Roots can be an example of a sink.

Explain why sometimes roots act as a source rather than a sink.

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(c) The movement of sucrose in plants can be modelled using laboratory apparatus.

Fig. 3.1 shows the apparatus used to model the movement of sucrose in a plant:

• Partially permeable bags were attached tightly to the ends of tube Q.

• The bag representing a source was filled with a coloured sucrose solution.
• The bag representing a sink was filled with water.
• The containers and tube Q and tube S were filled with water.

Fig. 3.1

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Fig. 3.2 shows the position of the coloured sucrose solution 30 minutes after the apparatus was set
up.
The arrows show the direction of the movement of the liquids.

Fig. 3.2
(i) State the name of the tissue represented by tube Q and the name of the tissue
represented by tube S in Fig. 3.2.

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(ii) Explain why the sucrose solution moves along tube Q in the model in Fig. 3.2.

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4 (a) The coronary arteries supply heart tissue with useful substances. Coronary veins
remove waste substances.
Fig. 4.1 shows an external view of the heart and its blood vessels.

Fig. 4.1

(ii) Name one waste substance the coronary veins will remove.

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(b) The tissue forming the wall of the left ventricle responds when it is stimulated by
electrical impulses.
(i) Name this type of tissue.

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(ii) Describe how this tissue will respond when stimulated.

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(iii) Describe the effect of this response on the contents of the left ventricle.

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(c) Veins have different structures from arteries.

State one feature of veins and explain how these feature enable them to function
efficiently.

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5. Insulin is a protein made by cells in the pancreas.

Fig. 5.1 shows how insulin is made in a pancreatic cell.

Fig. 5.1

(a) (i) State the name of molecule A in Fig. 5.1.

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(ii) State the name of structure B in Fig. 5.1.

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(b) Insulin is secreted from cells in the pancreas when the concentration of glucose in the blood
increases.

Outline the role of insulin.

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(c) Explain the role of molecule A in protein synthesis, as shown in Fig. 5.1.

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[Total: 7]

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 SECTION – C

1 (a) Amylase is produced by seeds during germination.

Amylase is an enzyme that catalyses the break-down of starch into reducing sugars.

A student wanted to estimate the concentration of amylase in a seed extract, U. They did this by
determining the time taken for U to break down starch. This result was then compared to the time
taken by known concentrations of amylase.

Step 1 The student was given a beaker containing seed extract U.

Step 2 The student made the four concentrations of amylase solution in beakers A, B, C and D by
using the volumes of 2% amylase solution and distilled water shown in
Table 1.1.
Table 1.1

(i) Calculate the final percentage concentration of amylase solution for beaker D in Table 1.1.

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Step 3 A white tile was prepared by using a pipette to put drops of iodine solution in five columnslabelled A,
B, C, D and U, as shown in Fig. 1.1. There were 8 drops of iodine solution in
each column.

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 Fig. 1.1.
Step 4 2 cm3 of starch suspension was put into each of the beakers labelled A, B, C, D
and U.

Step 5 A stop-clock was started.

Step 6 After one minute one drop of the mixture from beaker A was added to the first drop of
iodine solution labelled A1 on the white tile. This was repeated for beakers B, C, D and U using
drops B1, C1, D1 and U1.

Step 7 Step 6 was repeated at one minute intervals until drops of the mixtures in the beakers had
been added to all eight rows of iodine solution drops on the white tile.

The results are shown in Fig. 1.2

Fig. 1.2.

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(ii) Prepare a table and record the time taken for the starch to be broken down, using the
information in Fig. 1.2.
If starch is still present in row 8, record this in your table as > 8.

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(iii) Explain how you decided that all of the starch had been broken down.

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(v) State one safety precaution that should be taken when carrying out the investigation
described in 1(a).
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(vi) Describe how you would test for the presence of reducing sugars.
State the result for a positive test.

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positive test result ........................................................................................................ .[3]

[Total: 10]

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2. Two cress seeds were germinated in shallow dishes, which were placed in boxes as shown in
Fig. 2.1. The boxes were placed by a sunlit window.

Fig. 2.1

The dishes were removed from the boxes after a week and the seedlings observed.
The seedlings differed in appearance, as shown in Fig. 2.2.

Fig. 2.2

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(a) (i) Complete the table to describe two differences, visible in Fig. 2.2, between the
seedling from the clear plastic box and the seedling from the box made of black card.

Fig. 2.3 shows a box with a slit in one side and the seedling that was grown in the box.

Fig. 2.3

(b) Describe and explain the appearance of the seedling grown in this box.

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[Total: 5]

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