Cambridge Checkpoints Biology answers

2012 paper 1
3a. Eat, the mother is feeding her cubs
Reproduction, the mother has cubs
b. Fur, mammals can produce a fur coat (hairs)
4
Question 4 is about natural selection, which is the process of heritable
traits becoming more or less common in a population. This is because
some heritable traits will give animals an advantage or disadvantage in
producing offspring.
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a. D A C B
b. B A E D C
c. Nucleus
10a.
(i) Activity will increase up to a pH of 7 and when increased further it will
decrease again.
(ii) 7
b. Temperature
c. A protein which catalyses (speeds up) the reaction of breaking down
starch without being used.

2012 paper 2
1a. X: windpipe y: lung
b. carbon dioxide and oxygen
c. Breathing in moves up and out, breathing out moves down and in
d. protection of the lungs and heart
5a. C
b.
(i) Temperature
(ii) amount of water given to the plants
6a. anther
b. stigma
c. Nectar / bright coloured petals to attract insects / sticky stigma to
collect pollen / stigma inside of the flower
12a.
1A
2B
b. (i) Oak tree
(ii) Oak tree moth larva blackbird / blue tit (choose one) hawk
(iii) photosynthesis (water, sunlight and carbon dioxide) glucose
respiration energy

2014 paper 1
1a. Chloroplast, cell wall, vacuole
b. chloroplast
6a. 5
b. grasshopper, rabbit, mouse
c. There will be more food for the grasshopper and mice, but the hawk will be
eating more grasshoppers and mice. In the end I think there will be more

grasshoppers and mice.

2014 paper 2
2. See question 6 of the 2012 paper 2
a. Anther
b. Ovary
c. Stigma
5.
Pale skin etc
Poor skeletal
Swollen

Anaemia

Rickets
kwashiorkor

lack of iron
lack of calcium
lack of protein

8a. species
b. (i) More seeds
(ii) More energy in growth instead of seeds
(iii) Select plants with the right traits, breed new plants, select again, until
the offspring only contains the traits they want
9a. diffusion