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NAME : _________________________________________

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SMK ST. JOSEPH, KUCHING

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UPPER 6 SEMESTER 3 TRIAL EXAM 2017

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BIOLOGY
OCTOBER

1 ½ Hours One and half hours

PLEASE DO NOT OPEN THE TEST PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO

This examination paper consists of 3 sections:-

Section A
Consists of 15 objective questions.
Shade ALL your answers in the objective paper provided.

Section B
Consists of 2 structured questions.
Answer ALL questions in the space provided.

Section C
Consists of 3 essay questions.
Answer ANY TWO using the writing papers provided.

Section Question Marks

A 1 - 15
16
B 17
18
C 19
20
Total

This question paper consists of 7 printed pages.

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Section A [15 marks]

Answer all questions in this section.

1. Which of the following statements is true about taxonomy?

I The science of describing, naming and classifying organisms is known as systematics.
II Nomenclature is an important part of taxonomy.
III Living organisms are classified using natural and artificial classification.
IV The binomial system is included in taxonomy.

A. I, II and III
B. I, III and IV
C. II, III and IV
D. I, II and IV

2. The table below lists four classes and four types of arthropods.
Class Plant name
I Chilopoda a) Iulus
II Diplopoda b) Limulus
III Merostomata c) Lithobius
IV Arachnida d) Lycosa

Which of the following is the correct combination?

I II III IV
A. c a b d
B. b c d a
C. c d b a
D. d a c b

3. Which of the statements below are not true about kingdom Plantae?
I Alternation of generation is clearly seen in coniferophyta.
II Bryophyta lack vascular tissue and cuticle.
III Sexual reproduction of filicinophyta takes place in the sorus.
IV The gametophyte in angiospermophyta is represented by the embryo sac.

A. I and II
B. I and III
C. II and IV
D. III and IV

4. Which of the following are true about the Sulphur Cycle?

I Desulfovibrio sp helps to increase the levels of sulphate in the soil.
II Thiobacillus sp helps to oxidise elemental sulphur into sulphate.
III Beggiatoa sp helps to decompose sulphate into hydrogen sulphide
IV Chromatium sp helps to oxide hydrogen sulphide into sulphur.

A. I and III
B. II and IV
C. I and IV
D. II and III

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5. Which of the following describes an ecological niche?

I The habitat in which an organism finds the most suitable climate.
II The habitat in which an organism finds its food supply.
III The relationship between an organism and other species.
IV The way in which an organism exploits its environment.

A. I and II
B. III and IV
C. I, II and III
D. II, III and IV

6. An inverted pyramid can be observed in

I the ocean.
II grazing chains.
III parasitic chains.
IV detrivore chains.

A. I and III
B. II and IV
C. I, II and III
D. II, III and IV

7. In some birds such as the pheasant, the males appear more colourful than females. The
selection agent producing the evolution of such a conspicous feature is
A. predators.
B. climate.
C. humans.
D. females.

8. Curly hair is dominant to straight hair. In a population of 20000, there were 12800 with curly
hair. What percentage of the population are homozygous for the curly hair?
A. 16%
B. 20%
C. 36%
D. 64%

9. The red eye allele is dominant and sex-linked in Drosophila. A red-eyed hemizygous male
Drosophila fly is crossed with a homozygous white-eyed female. Subsequently, a reciprocal
cross is performed to study the inheritance of eye colour in Drosophila. What is the result of
the first cross and its reciprocal cross?

First Cross Reciprocal Cross

A. All females have red eyes. All males have Half of the females have red eyes, half
white eyes. have white eyes. All males have red eyes.

B. All females have red eyes. All males have All females have red eyes. All males have
white eyes. red eyes.

C. Half of the females have red eyes, half have All females have red eyes. All males have
white eyes. All males have white eyes. white eyes.

D. Half of the females have red eyes, half have Half of the females have red eyes, half
white eyes. All males have white eyes. have white eyes. All males have red eyes.

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10. In an organism, the frequency of crossing over between gene P and gene Q is 20%, between
gene R and gene P is 5%, between S and R is 12 % and between gene Q and gene S is 13%.
Which of the following gene sequence is correct?

Gene Sequence Cross over value between gene R and gene Q

A. SPQR 7%
B. QSRP 17%
C. PSQR 23%
D. RPSQ 25%

11. Which of the following is true regarding DNA replication?

A. The lagging strand is formed discontinuously in the 3’ 5’ towards the replication fork.
B. The leading strand is formed continuously in the 3’ 5’ towards the replication fork.
C. Synthesis of the lagging strand form Okazaki fragments which are joined by DNA ligase.
D. Synthesis of the leading strand requires DNA polymerase II and DNA polymerase I.

12. Which of the following statements concerning research on genetic materials are not true?
I Griffith concluded that genetic material in bacteria can be transformed into another strain.
II Beadle and Tatum proposed the one gene-one polypeptide hypothesis using diploid
Neurospora crassa.
III Avery, MacLeod and McCarty showed that DNA is the component of the cell carrying
genetic information using Streptococcus pneumoniae.
IV Hershey and Chase concluded that genetic material is DNA, not protein, using T2 phages.
V Meselson and Stahl proved the semi-conservative replication using heavy isotope of
nitrogen, 17N.

A. II and V
B. III and IV
C. I, III and IV
D. I, II, III and IV

13. Which of the following is true of transcription but not true of translation?
I Transcription produces mRNA while polynucleotide is synthesised during translation.
II The antisense strand is transcribed in the 3’ 5’ during transcription while the mRNA
is translated in the 5’ 3’ direction.
III Translation takes place in the cytosol while transcription take place in the nucleolus.
IV during transcription, rRNA and mRNA are involved while rRNA, tRNA and mRNA are
involved during translation.

A. I only
B. I and III
C. II and III
D. II and IV

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14. The graphs below illustrate the relationship of organisms X and Y over time.
X

Which law/principle is illustrated by the organisms’ relationship in the graphs above?

A. Liebig’s law of the minimum
B. Shelford’s law of tolerance
C. Gausian exclusion principle
D. Malthusian principle of population

15. Which of the following are correct matches?

cDNA DNA Probe Transformation Functional

RNA
A. A small ring of A DNA sequence formed The process of mRNA with
DNA which carries through reverse cloning introns only
a few genes transcriptase recombinant DNA

B. DNA sequence DNA bases synthesized The uptake of mRNA with

formed using from radioactive recombinant DNA exons only
reverse transcriptase nucleotides into host cells

C. DNA which is A DNA sequence formed The process of mRNA with

synthesized in vitro through reverse cloning introns only
transcriptase. recombinant DNA
D. DNA with known DNA bases synthesized The uptake of mRNA with
sequence formed in from radioactive recombinant DNA introns and
vitro nucleotides into host cells exons

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Section B [15 marks]

Answer all questions in this section.

16. The diagram below shows lactose operon in Escherichia coli.

P Q R S T U

a) On the diagram above, indicate the components of lac operon and structural genes. [2]

b) Name P, Q and R and state their functions. [3]

P ________________________________________________________________________

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Q ________________________________________________________________________

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R ________________________________________________________________________

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b) Describe what happens if an inducer molecule is introduced. [3]

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17. The fruit capsule shape of the sheperd’s purse plant is determined by two genes at seperate loci,
A and B. The presence of any one dominant allele will result in the dominant phenotype of
triangle-shaped capsule while the oval-shaped capsule will only be expressed when both alleles
are recessive. A pure breed plant with triangle-shaped capsules and a pure breed plant with
oval-shaped capsules were crossed.

a) Using the given symbols, complete the table below for both the parents and F1 generation. [1]

Parents
Phenotype Shepherds purse plant with Shepherds purse plant with
triangle capsule oval capsule
X
Genotype

Gametes

F1 generation

b) Complete the Punnett square below showing the genotypes and the phenotypes for the F2
generation. [3]

F2 Phenotype ratio _________________________________________________________

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The colour of grains in maize is controlled by a pair of genes exhibiting recessive epistasis.
The epistatic gene for colour is expressed by the R allele which codes for coloured grains and
the r allele codes for white grains. The hypostatic gene is P for purple coloured grains and p
for red grains.

A pure breed purple-grained maize plant was crossed with a pure breed white-grained maize
plant. The resulting F1 generation maize plant all bear purple grains. The F1 were crossed to
obtain the F2 generation.

c) Complete the Punnett square below showing the genotypes and phenotypes of the F2
generation. [3]

F2 Phenotype ratio _________________________________________________________

Section C [30marks]
Answer any two questions in this section.

18. a) Compare the founder effect and the bottleneck effect. [3]
b) i) Besides the factors in a) above, discuss other factors that promote speciation. [8]
ii) Discuss factors that prevent speciation. [4]

19. A 10 week pregnant women has obtained the karyotype analysis of her foetus to detect
possible genetic disorders.
a) Describe how the karyotype analysis was obtained. [5]
b) With relevant examples, discuss possible types of mutation that could be diagnosed. [7]
c) With relevant examples, discuss possible types of mutation that cannot be detected. [3]

20. Explain how the following procedures use DNA technology to improve human lives.
a) Insulin production. [5]
b) Gene therapy [5]
c) DNA fingerprinting [5]