Answer ALL questions.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

1. A student made observations of plant cells and tissues through a microscope.

(a) (i) Photograph A shows part of a transverse section of a stem at a magnification of ×40.

Draw a low-power plan of the area within the triangle shown on

Photograph A and label two tissues on your drawing.
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(ii) Photograph B shows part of a transverse section of the same stem at a magnification of
×400.

Draw the cells within the box shown on Photograph B.

(3)

(Total for Question 1 = 6 marks)

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2. A student made observations of human skin cells and tissues through a microscope.

(a) Photograph C shows part of a transverse section of skin at a magnification.

Photograph C

Draw a low-power plan diagram of the skin photomicrograph section given above.
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(b) The diagram shows graticule/ocular scale and part of a stage micrometer scale respectively.

The smallest stage micrometer division is 0.001mm.

(i) Calculate the size of one small division of the graticule scale.
(3)

Answer ……………….………….. μm

(ii) Using your answer to (b)(i), determine the length of the part labelled ‘A’.
(2)

Answer ……………….………….. μm

(Total for Question 2 = 8 marks)

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3. Food tests were carried out on some seeds and some of the results and conclusions are
recorded in table.
(a) Complete the table given below.
(4)

(b) Describe how you would test the presence of lipid in the seeds.
(3)

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(c) A scientist carried out some tests to determine the mass of certain biological molecules
found in one of these fruits, from which the seeds were taken. The total mass of the fruit was
35 g.
The results of the scientist’s investigation are shown below.

(i) Plot a chart of the data shown in the table above.

(4)

(ii) Calculate the percentage of the fruit that is made up of fat. You may lose marks if you do not
show all the steps in your calculation and do not use appropriate units.
(2)

percentage ..........................................................
(Total for Question 3 = 13 marks)

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4. (a) Photograph D shows fly, as seen through an electron microscope.

Photograph D

The actual size of the eye is 1000 µm. What is the magnification of the image?
(3)

Magnification ………………………..

(Total for Question 4 = 3 marks)