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Springfield School
Mid Term Examination 2020
Biology Paper 2
Class: X

Total Marks: 80 Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Name: ………………………………………………………………………………….
Candidates answer on the Question Paper.
No Additional Materials are required.
Read These instructions First
Write in dark blue or black pen.
You may use a pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
DO NO WRITE IN ANY BARCODES.
Section A
Answer all questions
Write your answers in the spaces provided on the Question Paper
Section B
Answer all questions
Write your answers in the spaces provided on the Question Paper
Section C
Answer either question 8 or question 9.
Write your answers in the spaces provided on the Question Paper.
You are advised to spend no longer than one hour on Section A.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or
part question.
Electronic calculators may be used.

Maximum Marks Marks Obtained Remarks

Q1 10
Q2 10
Q3 10
Q4 10
Q5 10
Q6 10

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Answer all the questions in this section Use

Write your answers in the spaces provided.
Q1. Fig 1.1 shows a water plant and Fig. 1.2 shows a section through one of
its leaves.

Fig. 1.1

Fig. 1.2

(a) Identify the types of cell found at A,B and C.

A. ___________________________

B. ___________________________

C. ___________________________ [3]

(b) (i) Suggest a function of the air chambers in Fig. 1.2 related to maintaining the
position of the leaf.
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(ii) Stat a different function of the air chambers which helps photosynthesis. Use

___________________________________________________________ [2]

(c) State three ways in which the structure of this leaf differs from that of a typical
plant growing of land.
(i) ____________________________________________________________

(ii) ___________________________________________________________

(iii) _________________________________________________________[3]

(d) Fig. 1.3 shows the water plant from Fig. 1.1 as it looks when it is not in the
water.
Fig. 1.4 shows a plant growing on land.

Suggest an explanation for the difference in the strength of the leaf stalks of
the water plant (Figs. 1.1 and 1.3) and the land plant (Fig. 1.4.)
______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________[2]

[Total:10]

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Q2 In an experiment to investigate starch production by plant, three similar plants, Use

each with variegated (green and white) leaves were set up as shown in
Fig. 2.1

Fig. 2.1
(a) Name the process that produces starch in the leaves.

____________________________________________________________[1]

(b) At the start of the experiment, each jar contained atmospheric air.
Name a gas, other than oxygen and carbon dioxide, which was present in
the air inside the jars.

____________________________________________________________[1]

(c) Explain how the conditions in Jar L make it a control.

____________________________________________________________[1]

(d) At the end of the experiment, a leaf was taken from each plant and tested
for the presence of starch. On the outlines in Fig. 2.2, clearly label the colours
of each leaf after the starch test. Do not colour in the leaves.

Fig. 2.2 [2]

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(e) When the air was first trapped under the jars, it contained 0.04% carbon Use

dioxide. For each of the jars, explain why this percentage has changed by the
end of the experiment.

Jar L _________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

Jar M ________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

Jar N ________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________ [5]
[Total: 10]

Q3 Fig. 3.1 shows the cell membrane of an animal and a plant cell.

animal cell plant cell

(a) On Fig. 3.1, draw and label

(i) one other structural feature that is found in both cells,
(ii) two features found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
[3]
Table 3.1 shows the average amounts of protein, fat and carbohydrate found
in some plant and some animal tissues (expressed as a percentage of the
total mass).

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Table 3.1 Use

protein fat carbohydrate

Plant tissues 5 1 30
Animal tissues 20 15 1

(b) (i) Explain why there is a high percentage of carbohydrate in the plant tissues.
______________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________[2]

(ii) Name an animal tissue that would have much more than the 1% carbohydrate
shown in Table 3.1. Explain your choice of tissue.
tissue _________________________________________________________

explanation ____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________[3]

(iii) Suggest reasons for the differences in the protein and in the fat content of the
plant and animal tissues.
protein ________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

fat _________________________________________________________[2]

[Total: 10]

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Q4(a) Describe how the products of fat digestion enter a persons’ blood. Use

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Fig 4.1 shows apparatus at the start of an experiment to investigate the

digestion of an emulsion of fat droplets in water by enzyme A.

Fig 4.1
The pH indicator is green in a pH of 7, blue when the pH is above 7 and red
when it is below 7. The apparatus is kept at 400C for 20 minutes during which
time the indicator changes from green to red.

(b) (i) State the identity of enzyme A _____________________________________

(ii) Explain why the apparatus was kept at 400C.
______________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________ [2]

(c) Name the products of digestion of the emulsion by enzyme A.

___________________________________________________________ [2]

(d) Describe the processes which led to the change in pH.

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

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___________________________________________________________ [2] Use

[Total: 10]

Q5 Fig. 5.1 shows how a blocked blood vessel in the heart can be by-passed
using an artificial blood vessel.

Fig. 5.1

(a) (i) Name the blocked blood vessel ________________________________ [2]

(ii) Identify structures P and Q on Fig. 5.1

P ______________________________________

Q ______________________________________ [2]

(b) Sometimes, instead of an artificial blood vessel being used for the graft, a vein
is taken from elsewhere in the patient’s body.

Suggest two ways in which a vein might not be as suitable for carrying blood
to the heart muscle as the blood vessel in the heart before it became blocked.
1 ____________________________________________________________

2 __________________________________________________________ [2]

(c) Fig. 5.2 shows the same blood vessel, as in (a) (i) but this time the blockage
is being treated with the use of a ‘stent’.

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Blood vessel with blockage R a ‘stent’ (a small tube of

stainless steel mesh)
Fig 5.2

(i) Name two components of the material that is causing the blockage at R.

______________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________[1]

(c) Name two components of the cigarette smoke, other than nicotine, that may
be harmful to the person. For each component, state the harm that it may
cause.
component 1 ________________________________
harm it may cause _______________________________________________
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component 2 ________________________________ Use

harm it may cause _______________________________________________

____________________________________________________________[4]

(d) Fig. 5.2 shows the blood pressure of the same person over the same time
period.

Fig. 5.2
(i) Use Fig. 5.2 to describe the effects of smoking the cigarette on this
person’s blood pressure.
______________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________[2]

(ii) Suggest how smoking a cigarette resulted in this effect on blood pressure.
______________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________[1]

(iii) Suggest possible harmful effect of this change in blood pressure.

______________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________[1]
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Q6(a) Receptors receive stimuli and convert them into electrical impulses.
Fig. 6.1 shows the pathway taken by electrical impulses in a reflex action.
Complete Fig. 6.1 by writing the name of the appropriate component on the
dotted lines.

Fig. 5.1 [2]

(b) The brain is on part of the central nervous system. Fig. 5.2 is a diagram of the
human brain.

Fig. 5.2

Damage to the brain can sometimes occur as the result of an accident.

Name the parts of the brain labeled A and B in Fig. 5.2 and suggest a problem
that may be experienced by a person who has damage to that part of the
brain.
part A _________________________
problem caused by damage
______________________________________________________________
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part B _________________________
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(c) Scientists are able to treat people with some types of brain damage. They Use

may do this by injecting the patient with cells taken from another person
(door). These cells then travel to the brain where they divide and specialize to
become groups of fully functioning brain cells.
(i) State the type of cell division that takes place when the cells that have
been injected reach the patient’s brain.
____________________________________________________________[1]

(ii) State the term used to describe a group of cells that are specialised to
perform a specific function.
____________________________________________________________[1]

(d) Female patients were injected with cells from male donors. After a period of
time, the scientists examined brain cells from these patients and looked for
groups of brain cells containing the Y chromosome.

Explain why finding groups of brain cells containing the Y chromosome would
suggest to the scientists that the treatment may have been successful.
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[Total: 10]

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