RANGERS PUBLIC SCHOOL AND COLLEGE

CAMBRIDGE SECTION
BIOLOGY THEORY ACTIVITY FOR 01
Name the process by which plants manufacture carbohydrates

Question 1. (a) (i)

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Starch is an insoluble carbohydrate stored inside plant cells.
(ii) Explain why starch is a more suitable storage substance than the soluble sugar
glucose.
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(b) Before a plant can use it, the stored starch must first be broken down by an enzyme.
Fig. 1.1 shows the lock and key hypothesis of how enzymes work.

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(c) In an investigation, two plants were grown in a solution containing mineral ions
Including nitrate and magnesium. Plant A was provided with air containing oxygen and
plant B was provided with air from which the oxygen had been removed. Fig. 1.2 shows
the plants after a period of growth in these conditions.

Suggest reasons for the increased growth of the plant in the solution supplied with air
containing oxygen.
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Question 2.

Fig. 1.1 shows a cell from an organism.

(a) (i) In which type of living organism are cells similar to the one shown in Fig. 1.1
normally found?
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(ii) State two reasons for your choice of living organism in (i).
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Fig. 1.2(a) shows the same cell after it had been placed in solution A for ten minutes.
The cell was then transferred to solution B and Fig. 1.2(b) shows how it appeared after a
further ten minutes.

(b) Explain what has occurred to cause the cell to appear as it does in Fig. 1.2(a).
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(c) Compared with the water potential of the cell, what can be deduced about solutions
Aand B?
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(d) What will be found in region C in Fig. 1.2(b) at the end of the experiment?
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Explain your answer.
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Question 3. (a) Describe how the products of fat digestion enter a persons blood.
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Fig. 1.1 shows apparatus at the start of an experiment to investigate the digestion of an

emulsion of fat droplets in water by enzyme A.

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 40 C for 20 minutes during which time the indicator
changes
from green to red.
(b) (i) State the identity of enzyme A.
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(ii) Explain why the apparatus was kept at 40 C.
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(c) Name the products of digestion of the emulsion by enzyme A.
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(d) Describe the processes which led to the change in pH.
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question 4 Fig. 1.1a shows the absorption and release of gases by an animal and by a
leaf of a
plant during the day.

(a) Name
(i) gas A. .................................................
(ii) gas B. .................................................
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(iii) On Fig. 1.1b, place arrow heads on the four lines to indicate the movement of the
same gases during the hours of darkness.
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(b) Explain why, in the early morning and in the evening, there is no overall movement
of gases into or out of the leaf.
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(c) The animal eats the leaf.
Name a chemical substance in the leaf that
(i) will provide the animal with energy,............................................................
(ii) the animal will use for growth.............................................................
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Question 5. (a) Fig. 5.1 shows the effect of temperature on the activity of enzyme E.

(i) State the optimum temperature for enzyme E. .................

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(ii) Suggest a possible identity for enzyme E, where it is found, and its function.
identity of enzyme E ...............................................
where it is found .......................................................................................................
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(b) Fig. 5.2 shows the effect of temperature on the activity of another enzyme, F.

State and explain what would happen to the activity of enzyme E at the optimum
temperature for enzyme F.
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Question 6. When a strip of filter paper is soaked in cobalt chloride solution, it is pink
when
damp and turns blue when dry.
Fig. 3.1 shows strips of dry cobalt chloride paper on the upper and lower surfaces of a
leaf, pressed between dry glass slides.

A student used this method to investigate the time taken for strips of cobalt chloride
paper to turn from blue to pink. The experiment was performed five times. The results
are shown in Table 3.2.

(a) (i) State the most likely conclusion that could be drawn from the results of
Experiments 1, 2, 4 and 5.
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(ii) Suggest an explanation for the results of these experiments
for the upper surface of the leaf,
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for the lower surface of the leaf.
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(b) Suggest two possible reasons for the result obtained for the strip attached to the
Upper surface of the leaf in experiment 3.
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(c) Suggest how the student could improve the reliability of this experiment.
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(d) Suggest how the student could show that the concentration of water vapour coming
out of a leaf is greater than its concentration in the atmosphere.
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Question 7. In an experiment to investigate starch production by a plant, three similar
plants,
each with variegated (green and white) leaves were set up as shown in Fig. 2.1.

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

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

(e) When the air was first trapped under the jars, it contained 0.04% carbon dioxide. For
each of the jars, explain why this percentage has changed by the end of the experiment.
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