Name : ………………………………………………………….

Class : 6AS

964/3 STPM
BIOLOGY
PAPER 3
One and a half hours
PEPERIKSAAN PERCUBAAN STPM

Instructions to candidates:
DO NOT OPEN THIS QUESTION PAPER UNTIL YOU For examiners’s use
ARE TOLD TO DO SO.
(Untuk kegunaan pemeriksa)
There are fifteen questions in Section A. For each Section B
question, four choices of answers are given. Choose one (Bahagian B)
correct answer and indicate it on the Multiple-choice Answer 16
Sheet provided. Answer all questions. Marks will not be 17
deducted for wrong answers.
Section C
Answer all questions in Section B. Write your answers
in the spaces provided. (Bahagian C)
Answer any two questions in Section C. All essential working
should be shown. For numerical answers, unit should be
quoted wherever appropriate. Begin each answer on a fresh Total
sheet of paper and arrange your answers in numerical order. (Jumlah)
Tear off the front page of this question paper and your
answer sheets of Section B, and tie both of them together with your answer sheets of Section C.

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 Section A [15 marks]
Answer all questions in this section

1 Which combination is correct?

Phyla Characteristics
(a) Euglena i With chloroplast
(b) Obelia ii with nematocyst
(c) Helix iii with cephalothorax
(d) Panaeus iv with radula

(a) (b) (c) (d)

A i ii iv iii
B ii iii iv i
C iii iv i ii
D iv ii i iii

2 Which plant has all the following characteristics?

 The sporophyte generation is dominant

 Spores are formed in the sporangia
 Spores germinate to form haploid gametophyte
 Young leaves are coiled in a circinate fashion with fine hair
called ramenta

A Brophytes
B Filicinophytes
C Conifers
D Angiosperms

3 What is the average percentage efficiency of the energy conversion in each level of a
food chain?

A 10%
B 50%
C 70%
D 90%

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4 The following diagram shows the phosphorus cycle.

Which of the following is correctly matches about the stages of the phosphorus cycle?

Sedimentation Decomposition Erosion Absorption and assimilation

A X Y W Z
B X W Y Z
C Y Z X W
D Z W Y X

5 Which of the following is an example of discontinuous variation?

A Human body weight

B Human body height
C Human ability to roll tongue
D Human skin colour

6 The graph below shows the result of a type of selection for a population.

What conclusion can be made about the graph?

I Disruptive selection
II Directional selection
III Selection against extreme groups
IV Selection against intermediate groups

A I and III C II and III

B I and IV D II and IV

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7 A test cross between individuals of genotypes below is carried out as follows:

The genotype and the number of progeny obtained are as shown below.

What is the map distance, in map units, between the two genes?

A 9 B 11 C 20 D 40

8 A cross between red-flowered and white-flowered snapdragons produces all pink-

flowered progeny. This type of interaction is called

A epistasis
B codominance
C complete dominance
D incomplete dominance

9 A gene pool is defined as

A the total number of the genes of all the individuals in a population

B the sharing of genes between two populations through interbreeding
C the random changes in the allelic frequency in a small breeding population
D a population in which the allelic and genotype frequencies do not change from
one generation to the next

10 In a population of 100 000 people, 10 of them are albinos. The frequency of the albinism
carriers is

A 0.01 B 0.02 C 0.20 D 0.99

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11 As a genetic material, DNA molecules must have all the following features except

A the association of histone proteins with the double helix

B the ability to be decoded into sequence of amino acids in a protein
C the ability to form complementary base pairs with other DNA nucleotides
D the formation of a very stable double-stranded when no transcribed or replicated

12 Thalassaemia is caused by the following type of gene mutation which is

A substitution of a base
B deletion of a base
C inversion of a base
D insertion of a base

13 The diagram shows a human karyotype.

What is the type of syndrome?

A Down Syndrome
B Cri-du-chat Syndrome
C Klinefelter Syndrome
D Turner Syndrome

14 BamH1 is a restriction enzymes found in

A Escherichia coli
B Bacillus amyloquefacein
C Serratia marcescens
D Haemophilus egyptius

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15 The diagram shows a technique used to produce a recombinant DNA that contains a gene
for human insulin.

Which of the following enzymes represent P, Q, R and S?

P Q R S
A DNA ligase Reverse DNA Restriction
transcriptase polymerase enzyme
B Reverse Restriction enzyme DNA DNA ligase
transcriptase polymerase
C DNA polymerase DNA ligase Reverse Restriction
transcriptase enzyme
D Restriction enzyme Reverse DNA DNA ligase
transcriptase polymerase

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 Section B [15 marks]
Answer all questions in this section

16 The diagram shows the energy flow in a food chain.

(a) Define the Second Law of the Thermodynamics. [1 mark]

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(b) An autotroph in ecosystem only assimilate about 1 to 5% of the solar energy.
State two reasons why an autotroph only assimilate small amount of solar energy.
[2 marks]
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(c) Based on the diagram,calculate the percentage of solar energy that is used in:

Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) [2 marks]

Net Primary Productivity (NPP) [2 marks]

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17 A cross between a wild type red-eyed female (R) and a white-eyed male (r) Drosophila
melanogaster is shown in the diagram below. The eye colour in Drosophila melanogaster
is a sex-linked trait.

Red-eyed female White-eyed male

(a) What is meant by a sex-linked gene? [1 mark]

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(b) State the genotype of each of the above Drosophila melanogaster. [2 marks]

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(c) State the phenotypic ratio of the F2 produced. [1mark]

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(d) A reciprocal cross of the previous cross was carried out.

(i) State the genotype of each parent Drosophila melanogaster. [2 marks]

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(ii) Draw a genetic diagram to show the crosses until F1 generation. [1 mark]

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

18 (a) Describe the following methods of genetic drift by using specific example.
(i) bottleneck effect [5 marks]
(ii) founder effect [5 marks]

(b) Describe the adaptive radiation that occur in Darwin finches in Galapagos Islands.
[5 marks]

19 In 1961, Jacob and Monod found Lac operon and Trp operon in E.coli.

(a) Differentiate the Lac operon and Trp operon [4 marks]

(b) Describe the effects of the presence of the lactose in Lac operon [8 marks]
(c) Describe what happen if no lactose presence in Lac operon. [3 marks]

20 (a) Sickle-cell anaemia is a genetic disorder caused by base substitution. Describe

how this may occur. [6 marks]
(b) Allopolyploidy is a chromosomal mutation involving changes to the number of
chromosome. Describe the conditions of allopolyploidy with an example.
[5 marks]
(c) Describe the characteristics of Klinefelter’s Syndrome. [4 marks]