Cambridge IGCSE: BIOLOGY 0610/41
Cambridge IGCSE: BIOLOGY 0610/41
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BIOLOGY 0610/41
Paper 4 Theory (Extended) October/November 2021
1 hour 15 minutes
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(i) State the names of the two other main groups of vertebrates.
(ii) Complete Table 1.1 to compare the features of fish, mammals and birds.
Table 1.1
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magnification ×110
Fig. 1.1
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(ii) Suggest one adaptation, visible in Fig. 1.1, that shows that fish gills are efficient structures
for gas exchange by diffusion.
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(c) Some pollutants decrease the concentration of dissolved oxygen in rivers. This can result in
the death of fish.
(i) State one type of pollutant that can result in a decrease in the concentration of dissolved
oxygen in rivers.
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(ii) Researchers investigated the effect of the concentration of dissolved oxygen in water on
gas diffusion distance in tissues. The thickness of fish gills was used to determine the
gas diffusion distance.
3.5
3.0
2.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
dissolved oxygen concentration / mg per dm3
Fig. 1.2
Fig. 1.3 shows the relationship between the concentration of dissolved oxygen and water
temperature.
12
11
10
dissolved
oxygen
9
concentration
/ mg per dm3
8
6
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
temperature / °C
Fig. 1.3
Complete steps 1 to 3 to determine the effect on gas diffusion distance of increasing the
temperature of the water from 15 °C to 25 °C.
Step 1
Find the concentration of dissolved oxygen from Fig. 1.3 at:
Step 2
Use the values from step 1 to find the gas diffusion distances from Fig. 1.2:
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Step 3
Calculate the difference in the values from step 2.
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2 (a) Two tomato plants that produce red fruit were bred together.
This cross produced 71 offspring plants with red fruit and 26 offspring plants with yellow fruit.
Select a suitable letter to represent the alleles and decide which allele will need a capital
letter and which allele will need a lower case letter.
gametes , × ,
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(b) Researchers carried out some experiments on tomato plants that were homozygous for fruit
colour.
State how the researchers could be sure that the fruit came from homozygous plants.
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(c) The researchers analysed two pigments, chlorophyll and lycopene, in homozygous red
tomato fruit and homozygous yellow tomato fruit. Chlorophyll is found in unripe tomato fruit.
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(ii) State the name of one mineral required for the synthesis of chlorophyll.
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(iii) The researchers analysed the concentration of the pigments in tomato fruits:
• before they were ready to eat (unripe)
• when they were ready to eat (ripe).
Table 2.1
Use the information in Table 2.1 to compare the changes in pigments in red fruit and
yellow fruit as they ripen.
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(d) A gene is responsible for the production of lycopene in fruits. Geneticists have recently
produced genetically modified pink pineapples using the gene associated with the production
of lycopene.
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(a) Fig. 3.1 shows a box of biological washing powder containing enzymes.
Wonder washing
powder
Biological washing powder
removes stains made from oil, egg, juice,
grass and many more.
Directions:
• add 1–2 scoops to main wash
• works best at 30 °C but do not use above 50 °C
Ingredients:
• soap
• enzymes
Fig. 3.1
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(ii) Explain why the manufacturer states that the washing powder works best at 30 °C and
should not be used above 50 °C.
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(b) Scientists used enzymes and bile in the early development of biological washing powders.
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(a) State the name of the type of pathogen that causes cholera.
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(b) A study was designed to test the effectiveness of a cholera vaccine in an area where
outbreaks of cholera occur frequently.
The doctors gave some people in this area the new vaccine.
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(ii) Explain why the people were not protected from cholera immediately after receiving the
vaccine.
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(iii) The doctors ensured that the people who received the new vaccine had not had cholera
before.
Suggest why.
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(iv) There was an outbreak of cholera in the area two months after the new vaccine was
given.
The people who had symptoms of cholera were monitored in hospital for two days.
Some of the infected people had received the new vaccine and others had not received
the vaccine.
100
90
80 Key:
vaccinated
70
not vaccinated
60
percentage
of people in
hospital with 50
the symptom
40
30
20
10
0
pathogen present diarrhoea high body
in faeces temperature
factors monitored in hospital
Fig. 4.1
Using the information in Fig. 4.1, discuss how effective the vaccine was at preventing the
symptoms of cholera.
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5 The circulatory system is comprised of the heart, blood vessels and the blood.
(a) Explain how the structures of the heart ensure that blood flows in one direction.
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(b) Fig. 5.1 shows a diagram of some blood vessels associated with the skin.
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Key:
indicates the
direction of
blood flow
P K
N M
not to scale
Fig. 5.1
Table 5.1
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(c) State the name of the blood vessels that deliver blood to the:
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(d) Describe how blockages in the vessels that deliver blood to the heart muscle can be treated.
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Fig. 6.1
(a) Describe the negative impacts to an ecosystem of large-scale monocultures, such as the one
shown in Fig. 6.1.
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(b) The fruits of maize are produced on structures called cobs. Each cob has many fruits.
Fig. 6.2 shows how the maize cobs have changed over thousands of years as a result of
selective breeding.
fruit
length of
maize cob maize cob
time
Fig. 6.2
State two desirable features, visible in Fig. 6.2, that have been selected from the more
ancient varieties of maize.
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(c) The process of selective breeding involves a series of steps, as shown in Fig. 6.3.
Fig. 6.3
(i) Explain why the flowers are covered with bags in step 3.
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(iii) Explain why some of the plants in step 5 may show features not visible in the parent
plants.
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(iv) Suggest why selective breeding should continue for many generations (step 6).
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(v) State how new features, which did not exist in ancient varieties of a crop plant, could
appear.
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