BIOLOGY

PAPER ONE
FORM THREE
MARKING SCHEME

1. – Regulate the osmotic pressure of the cell of the plant;

- Offer turgidity of the cell contributing to mechanical support;

2. a) Generatuve nucleus; Y – Tube nucleus;

b) – Heterostyly;
- Protandry and protogyny;
- Self sterility / Self incompartibility;
- Dioeclous plants e.g. pawpaw;

3. a) - P- Chloroplast; Q - nuclues ;

b) It bends to open the stomata when the guard cell is turgid / unequal expansion open or
close the stomata.

4. i) Hepatic portal vein;

ii) Pulmonary vein;

5. i) Sweep net;
ii) Pooter

6. a); - Wind;
b) Has hair / parachute like structures / feathery structures;
Rej. parachute alone

7. – Provide a medium of biochemical reactions;

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 - Provide medium of transport;
- Cooling of the plant due to evaporation; (Any two)

8. a) Science of classification of living organisms;

b) When they freely interbreed to give rise to viable or fertile offspring; (2 Marks)

9. Activetransport; osmosis; diffusion.

10. a) Candida albicans; Acc fungus

b) Salmonella typhi; Acc bacteria

11. a) i) Grana / Granum

ii) Stroma

b) Energy/ATP; Hydrogen ions; Oxygen gas;

12. Deposition; Exudation; transpiration; guttation; (Any three)

13. a) Dipeptide’
b) A – Condensation; B – hydrolysis;

14. Thin walls; Dense cytoplasm; lack vacuole; small in size (Any 3 correct)

15. a) All organisms belonging to different species that interact in the same habitat;
b) Total dry weight of living organisms at a particular trophic level;

16. Wind; light; temperature; humidity; (Any two correct answers)

17. Left ventricle pumps blood to all body parts / tissues or longer distance; while right ventricle
pump blood to shorter distance / to the lungs;
18. a) Insufficient production of insulin;

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 b) Insufficient production of antiduretic hormone (ADH)

19. i) Get rid of excess water in the body of fresh water protozoan;
ii) Packaging and transporting cell secretion in vesicles;

20. a) - Gaseous exchange;

- Mineral salts enter the root of flowering plant;
- Help in excretion of waste products;

b) Take water by osmosis; swell and burst / Haemolysis

21. a) Anaerobic respiration

b) Plant
c) Cytoplasm

22. a) W – Sperm duct; Y – Seminiferous tubule; ;

b) X – Storage of sperms; Y – Site for formation of sperms;

23. a) Vegetation / grass;

b) Lack incisors and canines on upper jaw / Has diastema;

c) 30 teeth

24. a) Translocation;
b) Ringing the bark cut off phloem, manufacture food accumulate on the upper part of the
ring resulting to swelling;

25. a) Total magnification = 𝑋40 × 5 = 𝑋200; (1 Mark)

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 3𝑚𝑚 × 1000
Actual size of a cell = ; = 1.875um;
8 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙 × 200

(2 Marks)

26. .
Aerobic respiration
- Oxygen is consumed
- Substrate completely oxidized
- Water is produced
- Occur in the mitochondrion
Anaerobic respiration
- Oxygen is not used
- Substrate partially oxidized / broken down
- Water is not produced
- Occur in the cytoplasm

27. A – Spiracle E - Tracheole C – Trachea D – Muscle

B – Strengthen trachea wall / for support / prevent the trachea from collapsing

28. A mouse has large surface area to volume ratio than a dog; Mouse lose more heat to
environment and require more energy to keep it warm;

29. a) A – Chloroplasts rej. Chloroplasts

B – In bright light intensity; they move away from light to avoid bleaching; in dim light
they move towards source of light to absorb more light.