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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATEO
EXAMINATION
BIOLOCY

Paper 0l - General ProficiencY

I hour 15 minules

10 JUNE 2015 $'m')

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY'
l. This test consists of 60 items' You will have I hour and 15 minutes to answer them'

1 In addition to this test booklet, you should have an answer sheet'

J. Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettrr"i

(o), ("), ("), (D). Read each item
you are about to answer and decide which choice is best'

On your answer sheet, find the number which corresponds to

your item and shade the space
4.
item below.
having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample

Samole Item

Which of the following diseases is aue to

Sample Answer
a dietary deficiencY?

(A) Malaria @@@o

(B) Diabetes
(C) Influenza
(D) Anaelnia

The correct answer to this item is "Anaemia", so

(D) has been shaded'

Ifyou want to change your answer' erase it completely and fill in your new choice'

When you are told to begin, turn the page and work as
quickly and as carefully as you can'
6.
return to that item later'
lf you'cannot ans*". un-it"*, go on io ih" next one' You may

Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale'

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refers to the following data recorded Itern 4 refers to the following diagram which
I@! shows an apparatus used for collecting
by students who observed some organisms
in their natural habitat' organlsms.

Organism
I II III ry
Number of I J 12
Body Segments
6 a^
Number of Legs 4 8

Presence of I pair None I pair None

Wings
Colour Red Blue Black Black

4. The a pp aratu s is MOST suitable for

1. Which organism is MOST likely an insect?
collecting
(A) I
(A) ants
(B) II
(B) slugs
(c) III
(c) moths
(D) IV
(D)" spiders

which of tlii following organisms occupies

f,. Which of the following organisms are
the fourth trophic level in the food chain
MOST irnportant in biodegradation?
below?

Caterpillar --- Small bird "'Hawk

(A) Bactdria
Cabbage - (B) Vultures
(A) Hatvk
(C) Omnivores
(B) Cabbage
(D) Eanhwoms
(C) Small bird
(D) Caterpillar
Which of the following gases does NOT
6.
contribute to the greenhouse effect?
3. Which of the following relationships may
pl'esent harm t9 one of the organisms
(A) Methane
involved?
(B) Carbon dioxide
(C) Carbon monoxide
l. Commensalism
(D) Chlorofluorocarbon
Il. Parasitism
III. Predation
7. Replanting trees on a bare hillside is an
IV. Mutualism
example of
(A) I and II onlY
(A) conservation and afforestation
(B) I and IV onlY
(B) preservation and conservation
,' (C) II and III onlY
(C) restoration and preservation
(D) III and IV onlY
(D) reafforestationandrestoration
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8. Which of the following factors contribute By which two processes do the dissolved
to INCREASED population size? minerals from the soil move into the roots
of a plant?
I.. Ability to resist disease
II. Inadequate water supplies (A) Osmosis and diffusion
III. Too much or too little light (B) Active transport and osmosis
IV. Small number of predators (C) Diffusion and active transport
(D) Transpiration pull and osmosis
(A) I and II only
(B) I and IV only
(c) II and III only 13. Autotrophic nutrition does NOT occur in
(D) I, II, III and IV
(A) moss
(B) zooplankton
9. When compared to a cheek cell, a muscle (C) tomato plants
cell contains more (D) blue-green algae
(A) vacuoles
(B) ribosomes
(c) mitochondria I!@!! refers to the following diagram.
(D) chromosomes
'ra
Items 10-11 refer to the following diagram
ofa plant cell.
Y-
I

II

III

14. If the bubbles given offby the plants were

collected and tested, the gas present would
MOST likely be

10. Which of the labelled structures is (A) oxygen

responsible for.controlling cel lu lar (B) hydrogen
activities? (C) nitrogen
(D) carbon dioxide
(A) I
(B) II
(c) III 15. The intense yellowing of leaves is MOST
(D) rv likely due to a deficiency of

(A) iron
ll. Which of the labelled structures is NOT (B) calcium
found in an hnimal cell? (C) magnesium
(?) PhosPhorus
(A) I
(B) II
(c) III
(D) IV
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of food tests performed on three food
I!@L!6 refers to the following table which shows the results
samples, X,Y and' Z.

Fobd Sample Test and Observatlon

x Violet colour with sodium hydroxide and copper sulphate

Y Blue/black precipitate with iodine

z Orange precipitate when heated with Benedict's reagent after hydrolysis

.16. The samples X, Y and Z respectively MOST likely contain

17. Excess amino acids in the diet are 19. The surface area of the lungs is greatly
increased by the
(A) passed out in the faeces
(B) converted to fat and stored (A) double membranes of the Pleura
(C) converted to urea in the liver, then. (B) large numbers of alveoli
excreted (C) dense network of caPillaries
(D) taken directly to the bladder for (D) branching of the bronchioles
excretion in urine

20. Which of the following is an effect of

Iem !! refers to the following information. nicotine found in cigarette smoke?

A man has poor rlight vision and his gums (A) Increased heart rate
bleed whenever he brushes his teeth' (B) Increased beating of cilia
(C) Reduced oxygen transport by the
18. Which two vitamins are MOST likelY blood
lacking in his diet? (D) Increased mucus Production in
the cells lining the resPiratorl'
(A) A and B, passage
(B) B, and B,
(C) C and A
(D) C and B,
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Item 21 refers to the following diagrams of 23. Which of the following are involved in the
blood vessels' formation of blood clots?

(A) Pletelets
(B)

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Antibodies
(C) Phagocytes
(D) LymphocYtes

u III
24. Immunization is MOST effective in
controlling the spread of a communicable
, 2l' Which of the following correctly identifies
the blood vessels?
disease if
(A) a vaccine is administered to 8n
I II ilI uninfected individual
(A) Vein Capilliary Artery (B) serum is administered to an
(B) Artery Vein Capilliary uninfected individual
(c) a vaccine is administered to an
(c) Capilliary Artery Vein
infected individual
(D) Artery Capilliary Vein
(D) serum is administered to an infected
individual

22. Which of the following components

of blood could surround and engulf Which of the following statements is NOT
pathogens?'
true of the xylem of a flowering plant?

(A) It is non-living.
(A) (B) It contains mitochondria'
(c) It has lignified walls for suPPort.
(D) It transports water and mineral
salts.

26. Which of the following are reasons why

transpiration is important to plants?
(B)
L Water and dissolved minerals are
fansPorted to the leaves'
II. The leaves are cooled.
III. Unwanted water is excreted from
the leaves.

(c)
ffi (A)
(B)
I and II only
I and III only
(c) II and III onlY
(D) I, II and III

(D)
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!3em...,!J refers to the following diagram 30. Although glucose is found in the blood
which shows cells from the stem ofa plant. plasma, it does not appear in the urine
because of

(A) osmosis
(B) secretion
(C) ultrafiltration
(D) selectivereabsorption

31. Which of the following conectly describes

movement in plants?

(A) Irreversible, whole movement

(B) Reversible, whole movement
(C) Imeversible, growth movement
The oart labelled X is the (D) Rever sible, growth movement

(A) cork cell

(B) cambial cell !!ggf! rei'ers to the tbllowing diagrams.
(c) cortical cell
(D) companion cell

Food is stored in the bulb ofan onion plant

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to
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(A) provide food for humans -qe Qr
(B) provide for the growth of new Blrd rvith chicks Tree rvith seedlings
olants from the buds
(C) prevent the plant from having to
photosynthesize continuously 32. Which of the following advantages does
(D) provide food for develoPing
'embryos the ability to move about give to the chicks
in the next growing compared to the seedlings?
season

I. Less cotnpetition for sPace

'29.
il. Access to a variety offoods
Which of the following would NOT IIL Oppomrnity to use more energy
represent a form of excretion in plants?
(A) I and II only
(A) Gases diffrrsing through stomata (B) I and III only
(B) Tannins being stored in dead tissue (C) II and IIi only
(C) Water vapour diffusing through (D) I, II and III
epidermis
(D) Stored calcium oxalate crystals in
. leaves during leaf fall
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Item 33 refers to the following diagrams illustrating an experiment'

(!",rn'
' (!"'rn' @"'rn' $"trn,

ffrott""v f,*'"*u n frI;"'o*'"'

I l-*-, lf*-, I f'n*' III
[_f-snoo,
IV
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33. After a few days the TALLEST shoot would MOST likely be

(A) I
(B) II
(c) III
(D) IV

refers to the following diagram'

1{ Tha vital centres for the control ofheartbeat
l!9g!! and respiration are located in the

(A) cerebralhemisPheres
(B) medulla
(C) cerebrum
(D) cerebellum
Skln of
hsnd
36. Which of*re following is a long-term effect
of alcohol abuse?

(A) Slurring of sPeech

(B) Increasedurination
34. The numbered structures are (C) Cirrhosis of the liver
(D) Dilation of blood vessels
I II III

(A) receptor effector relay 37. Myrie is reading a book, When she looks
neurone oui of the window to focus on a tree, the
lens in her eYe becomes
(B) receptor relay effector
neurone (A) fatter
(B) thinner
(c) effector relay receptor (C) mote concave
neurone (D) more convex

(D) effector receptor relay

neulone
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I!@9! refers to the following diagram of a section of human skin'

Epldermls

38. Which structure is NOT involved in temperature regulation?

(A) I
(B) II
(c) III
(D) Iv

I@39 refers to the following diagram of l1g1[Q refers to the follorving graph which
a seed. shows changes in dry ntass of embryo and
endosperm during gennination

39. The part labelled I rePresents the

(A) hilum
(B) testa 40. From the graph. it is true Io say that
(c) micropyle (A) the enlbryo begins to gtow as the
(D) position ofthe radical endosp€rm increases in mass
(B) the embryo and the endosPerm
decrease in mass at the same rate
(c) the elnbryo and the endosPerm
increase itr mass at the same rate
(D) as the enlbryo grows, the food
reseryes ale gladuallY dePleted
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Items 41-42 refer to the following diagrams which represent events involved
in reproduction in
ilii6-ng ptunt and an amoeba.

. Flowerlng Phnt

Amoeba
6.b

$bG t
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\lY
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4t. Which of the following statements is truq for BOTH methods of reproduction?

(A) Cells divide bY mitosis.

isj Offspring are identical to each other'
ici cella divide by both mitosis and meiosis'
ipi Both male and female Parts are required for reproduction'

42. The event takin! Place at X is

(A) growth
(B) disPersal
(C) Pollination
(D) fe(ilization
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I!4!! refers to the following diagram 1194!{ refers to the following diagrams of
which shows the relationship between the some fruits/seeds.
blood ofa foetus and the blood ofa mother'

II

43. Which substances shouldNOT move in the

direction shown by the arrows labelled X
and Y?.
Iv
(A) Calcium and glucose
(B) Antibodies and calcium
(c) Amino acids and glucose
(D) Progesterone and fi brinogen

In which of the following is each fruit or

44. A method of contraception that protects seed matched with its correct method of
against both disease and pregnancy is dispersal?

(A) *re pill

(B) a condom I II III ry
(C) spermicide
(A) Animal Wind Mechanical Man
(D) an iitrauterine device
Wind Animal
(B) Mechanical Man
(c) Water Mechanical Wind Man
45. Fertilization normally occurs in the (D) Wind Mechanical Animal Man

(A) uterus
(B) vagina
(c) oviduct
(D) ovaries
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Items 47-48 refer to the following 51. On a certain Caribbean island where sugar
orgais-i. cane is grown, a fungus is accidentally
inEoduced into the island and it destroys
(A) Host the entire crop of sugar cane. Which of the
(B) Vector following BESTdescribes what happened?
(C) Parasite
(D) Pathogen (A) The plants were old and therefore
more susceptible to the fungus.
In answering Items 47-48, match the (B) The plants were not of a hardy
following descriptions to one ofthe options enough variety to withstand the
.. above. Each option may be used once, fungus.
r more than once or not at all. (C) The plants r ere planted too close
together so the fungus sPread
An organism which causes a disease easily.
. (D) There was no genetic variation
among the plants so none could
48, An animal which carries a disease-causing . survive the attack.
organism but is not adversely affected by
it.
52. If a diploid organism has two different
alleles for the same gene, it is described as
49, Which of the following methods would being
be MOST appropriate for the treatrnent of
chronic hypertension? (A) dominant
(B) homozygous
I. modification
Diet (C) heterozygous
_. [. Exercise (D) recessive
IIL Vaccination

(A) I and II only _ 53. Which ofthe following processes will result
(B) I and III only in genetically identical offspring?
(C)
(D) r,rrandrrr
II and III only

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(C) Fertilization
(D)
.. 50. A species consists of members that Crossing over

(A) occupy the same habitat

" (B) reproduce by asexual means
(C) interbreed under natural conditions
(D) interbreed to produce infertile
offsPring
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I!qj!4 refers to the following diagram 56. Haemophilia is a sex-linked trait caused by
which represents a cross between two a recessive allele. Which of the following
plants, heterozygous for a particular are reasons why the disease is expressed in
characteristic. more men than women?

I. It iscaused by a recessive allele

carried on the X chromosome.
r I I There is onlY one X chromosome
in males.
n. Women have two X chromosomes
so that the recessive allele can be
R masked bY the dominant allele.

(A) I and II only

(B) I and III only
r il UI
(c) II and III only
(D) I, II and III

s4. Which of the following completes the )t. Natural selection can be defined as the
diagram at I, II and III? process by which natural populations

IIIIII (A) mutate in order to survive

(B) remain well adapted to theirhabitat
(A) rRrff (C) compete with other populations for
(B) RrrRr survival
(c) rrrRf (D) gradually bring about changes in
(D) RRrrr their habitat

55. Which of the following terms refers to 5E. Which of the following is true about the
'' visible characteristics of living things? process of artificial selection?

(A) ene
G- (A) Tissue culture is used to obtain
(B) GenotYPe clones.
(C) PhenotyPe (B) Traits which benefit the target
(D) Chromosome organism are selected,
(C) Selected traits may not benefit the
target organism.
(D) A single beneficial gene is
introduced into the cell of the
organism.
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Which of the following would be involved

59. Which of the following have conributed 60'
to the many antibiotic resistant strains of in the production of insulin by genetic
bacteria present today? engineering?

L It is possible for bacteria to mutate L Transfer ofthe human insulin gene

to antibiotic resistant forms' to a bacterium
IL Exposure to an antibiotic causes il. Avector to transfer the insulin gene
some bacteria to mutate' UL Production of insulin bY the
bacterium
III. The mutants roproduce forming a
new strain ofresistant bacteria'
(A) I onlY
(A) I and II onlY (B) I and II onlY
(B) I and III onlY (C) II and III onlY
(C) II and III onlY (D) I, II and III
(D) I, II and III

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