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SUBJECT BIOLOGY – Paper 032

PROFICIENCY GENERAL

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FORM TP 2018046 MAY/JUNE 2018

CARIBBEAN E XAM I NAT I O N S COUNCIL

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EXAMINATION

BIOLOGY

Paper 032 – General Proficiency

Alternative to School-Based Assessment

2 hours 10 minutes

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1. This paper consists of THREE questions. Answer ALL questions.

2. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this booklet.

3. Do NOT write in the margins.

4. You are advised to take some time to read through the paper and plan your
answers.

5. If you need to rewrite any answer and there is not enough space to do so on the
original page, you must use the extra lined page(s) provided at the back of this
booklet. Remember to draw a line through your original answer.

6. If you use the extra page(s), you MUST write the question number clearly in
the box provided at the top of the extra page(s) and, where relevant, include
the question part beside the answer.

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

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Answer ALL questions.

1. This experiment is designed to investigate anaerobic respiration by yeast. Read the instructions
carefully before commencing the experiment.

Procedure

(i) You have been provided with 10 ml of sugar solution prepared using boiled water which
was cooled. Add the yeast provided to the sugar solution in the boiling tube and stir with
the glass rod.
(ii) Slowly add the liquid paraffin to the mixture using the teat pipette, then immediately cover
with the rubber bung and set up the apparatus as shown in Figure 1.
(iii) Leave the apparatus in the test tube rack at room temperature for 30 minutes.
(iv) Proceed to Question 2 or 3 during this time.


Figure 1. Apparatus to investigate anaerobic respiration by yeast

(a) After 30 minutes, state TWO observations that could be made about Solution X.

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(b) Explain the reaction that is taking place in the yeast–sugar solution mixture which accounts
for your observations in (a).

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(c) State whether the observations would be different if the water used to prepare the sugar
solution was NOT boiled and liquid paraffin was NOT used in the experiment. Outline
TWO reasons to support your answer.

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(d) Design a suitable control for this experiment.

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(e) State THREE precautions to be taken when setting up the control experiment to ensure
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2. A group of biologists is asked to conduct an ecological study of a swamp that is to be drained and
used for the construction of a shopping mall.

(a) The biologists use ropes to set up line transects, as well as 100 m2 quadrats, to conduct
the study. The data relating to two of the mangrove species counted in ten quadrats at
ten-metre intervals along the line transect are presented in Table 1.

TABLE 1: NUMBER OF MANGROVE PLANT SPECIES COUNTED


IN QUADRATS PLACED ALONG THE TRANSECT

Distance from the Water (m)


Mangrove Species
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Red mangrove 50 40 25 10 0 0 0 0 0 0

Black mangrove 0 0 0 5 30 80 40 20 0 0

(i) Describe how the line transect is set up to collect the data presented in Table 1.

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(ii) Estimate the species frequency of EACH of the mangrove species.

Show your working.

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(iii) Suggest ONE reason why the species frequency for red mangroves decreased after
20 m while that of black mangroves increased.

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(b) The species frequencies for a sample of animal species also living in the swamp are
presented in Table 2.

TABLE 2: FREQUENCY OF ANIMAL ORGANISMS IN THE SWAMP

Organism Species Frequency (%)


Mangrove oyster 74
Jellyfish 48
Fiddler crab 82
Cattle egret 45
Blue heron 70
Crocodile 15

(i) On the grid provided on page 11, construct a bar chart to represent the data in
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(ii)
Describe how quadrats are used to collect data about small organisms living in the
water.

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(iii)
A different method is used to collect data about the birds. Describe a suitable
method for studying the distribution of the birds living in the area of the swamp.

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(iv) Draw a food chain to illustrate the feeding relationship among FOUR of the
organisms found in the area of the swamp.

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(c) Describe a suitable procedure for investigating the water-holding capacity of a sample of
the soil in the area of the swamp.

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(d) Suggest ONE reason why the biologists should encourage developers to construct a shopping
mall in the area and ONE reason why the biologists should NOT encourage developers to
construct a shopping mall in the area.

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3. (a) Figure 2 is a drawing of the external view of a blood vessel that transports blood to the
heart of a small mammal.


Figure 2. Drawing of external view of a blood vessel

(i)
In the box below, produce a clearly labelled drawing of the blood vessel as it would
appear in transverse section when cut along the line as shown in Figure 2.

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(ii) Calculate the magnification of your drawing. Show your working.

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(iii) Explain how ONE feature shown in your drawing makes the blood vessel suitable
for carrying out its function.

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(b) A sample of blood is taken from three persons: a sickle-cell patient, a carrier of the
sickle-cell gene and a homozygous normal individual. All three persons are infected with
the parasite that causes malaria. The number of parasites in each of the blood samples is
measured in a laboratory every seven days for a three-week period over. The results are
shown in the graph in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Graph showing number of malaria parasites over a three-week period

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(i)
In the space below, construct a suitable table to record the data shown in
Figure 3.

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(ii) Write a conclusion that could be drawn from the data in Figure 3.

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(iii) Suggest ONE reason for the difference in the number of malaria parasites in the
three infected persons.

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Total 20 marks

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SUBJECT: BIOLOGY – Paper 032

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