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SUBJECT: SCIENCE TOPIC: U-7 WB Answer key TEACHER’S NAME: Ms. Priyanka G.

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Topic 7.1 Chromosomes, genes and DNA

Exercise 7.1 Chromosomes, genes and DNA
1 A: nucleus; B: cytoplasm
2 X written in the nucleus of each cell.
3 Look for a sentence that includes correct information about each term.
Example
sentences are:
Chromosomes are found in the nucleus of every cell / Chromosomes are made of DNA.
Genes are found on chromosomes / Genes contain information that is inherited from an
organism’s parents. DNA is the substance that chromosomes and
genes are made of.
4 The DNA in a cell contains instructions for making a cell and a whole organism. If any
of these instructions are missing or damaged then the cell or the organism cannot be
correctly formed. So when a cell divides it is essential that each of the new cells gets a
full set of all the DNA in the parent cell.

Topic 7.2 Gametes and inheritance

Exercise 7.2 Egg cells and sperm cells
1 Egg cells and sperm cells are specialised cells called gametes.
Egg cells are female and sperm cells are male.
All sperm cells contain one X chromosome, but egg cells can contain an X chromosome
or a Y chromosome.
A sperm cell can join with an egg cell in a process called fertilisation.

2 For example:

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3 Accept any statement that makes clear what the difference is and that states a
sensible reason for the difference. For example: Sperm cells have a tail to swim to the
egg cell, but egg cells do not need to swim.
Sperm cells are elongated to make it easier for them to swim, but egg cells do not move
so they can just be round.

Topic 7.3 Variation

Exercise 7.3A Recording variation
1 number of plants: 6, 3, 4, 7
2 20

4 variation
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Exercise 7.3B Variation in holly leaves
1 As some of the prickles are very small, allow some leeway in learners’ answers. The
numbers are:
17, 15, 14, 17, 15, 17, 17, 15, 16, 13, 14, 11, 14,
12, 17, 20, 15, 17
2 276 ÷ 18 = 15.3 prickles

5 For example, length, width.

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Exercise 7.3C Variation in pea pods
1. Number of peas, length, width.
2 .Number of peas: 9, 9, 9, 11, 8, 7, 10, 6, 13, 7,
9, 12, 9, 10, 9, 9, 7, 11, 9, 8

3 and 4 There are different possibilities for the choices of categories into which to group
the results, so accept other groupings.

5. The frequency diagrams that learners draw will depend on the feature they have
chosen, and the way that they have grouped the data.
Look for:
• the chosen feature on the x-axis, with a clearly labelled scale including units
• the number of pods on the y-axis, with a scale with equal intervals
• at least half of the graph grid used, preferably more
• bars carefully and neatly drawn (and touching if a histogram is drawn instead of a bar
chart).

Topic 7.4 Natural selection

Exercise 7.4A Blue-tailed lizards
1 nucleus
2 inheritance
3 When the lizard sheds its tail the snake is more likely to be attracted to a blue tail
than to a brown tail. So the blue tails are more likely to distract the snake from eating
the lizard itself.
4 More parent lizards with blue tails survive, so they are the ones that reproduce. They
pass on their genes for blue tails to their offspring.
Exercise 7.4B Camouflaged caterpillars
1 How many green caterpillars and how many yellow caterpillars Marcus picks up.
2 Repeat the experiment five times with the same caterpillars, using five different
students to collect them.
3 D1, B2, A3, E4, C5

Exercise 7.4C Woolly mammoths

Look for the following ideas somewhere in the answer:
• variation in the steppe mammoths – some have longer fur and longer tusks
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 • these were better adapted to survive when the climate got colder
• steppe mammoths with short fur and short tusks were less likely to survive
• most reproduction was done by individuals with long fur and long tusks
• genes for these characteristics were passed on to offspring
• over time, more mammoths in the population came to have long fur and long tusks.

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