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AQA GCSE Biology Foundation Tier Paper 2
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Q01.1Easy1 mark
Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is a rare inherited human condition. The allele for MSUD is recessive.
What is a recessive allele?
Q01.2Easy1 mark
Figure 1 shows the inheritance of MSUD in one family. The symbol for a male with MSUD is not in the key. What would this symbol represent?
Q01.3Medium2 marks
Persons 1 and 2 in Figure 1 have a child with MSUD and some children without MSUD.
Complete the Punnett square (Figure 2) to show the possible genotypes of the children.
Use the following symbols:
N = allele for not having MSUD
n = allele for MSUD
Q01.5Easy1 mark
What percentage of the offspring in the Punnett square will have MSUD?
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Free to browse · no sign-up requiredQ01.1Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is a rare inherited human condition. The allele for MSUD is recessive.
What is a re...EasyQ01.2Figure 1 shows the inheritance of MSUD in one family. The symbol for a male with MSUD is not in the key. What would t...EasyQ01.3Persons 1 and 2 in Figure 1 have a child with MSUD and some children without MSUD.
Complete the Punnett square (Figur...MediumQ01.4What is the phenotype of a person with the genotype Nn?EasyQ01.5What percentage of the offspring in the Punnett square will have MSUD?EasyQ01.6Which scientific term describes the allele N?EasyQ01.7Alleles are found in the nucleus of a cell. What chemical substance are alleles made from?EasyQ01.8People with MSUD must eat a special diet to reduce their intake of some types of amino acid. Which component of the d...EasyQ02.1Many human actions are reflexes. Which statement describes a reflex action?EasyQ02.2.1Figure 3 shows the nerve pathway for a reflex action. The arrows show the direction of the nerve impulse.
Which part...MediumQ02.2.2Which part of the nerve pathway is labelled B?MediumQ02.2.3Which part of the nerve pathway is labelled C?MediumQ02.3Which two human actions are reflexes?EasyQ02.4Students investigated their reaction times using a computer program. Table 1 shows the results. Calculate mean value ...MediumQ02.5There is an anomalous result for student R. Identify the anomalous result in Table 1.EasyQ02.6Give two factors that might affect a person's reaction time.EasyQ03.1A plant shoot responds to the stimulus of light shining on it from one side. What name is given to the type of respon...EasyQ03.2.1A student investigated the effect of one-sided light on the growth of plant seedlings as shown in Figure 5. Which dia...MediumQ03.2.2Which diagram shows what the seedling in Experiment 2 would look like after 12 hours?MediumQ03.3Why did the student set up experiment 2 in this investigation?MediumQ03.4The student wanted to make the investigation of the effect of one-sided light more valid. The student decided to set ...MediumQ03.5What is a suitable control variable for the investigation?EasyQ03.6Give one stimulus a plant root responds to. Do not refer to light in your answer.EasyQ03.7Scientists often repeat investigations several times. Give two reasons why.EasyQ04.1Rivers are sometimes polluted with untreated sewage. Figure 6 shows some changes that occurred when untreated sewage ...EasyQ04.2Protozoa are single-celled organisms. Describe two ways Figure 6 shows that the protozoa in the river feed on bacteria.MediumQ04.3When sewage enters a river, the concentration of dissolved oxygen decreases. The decrease in oxygen concentration is ...EasyQ04.4As the numbers of green algae in the river increase, the concentration of dissolved oxygen increases. Explain why the...MediumQ04.5Scientists counted the numbers of five different animals in the river at sites A and B. Table 2 shows the results. Co...MediumQ04.6The concentration of oxygen in the water at site A is much lower than at site B.
- Sludge worms live in places which ...MediumQ05.1In the human female, an egg is released from one of the ovaries about once every four weeks. During the four weeks, t...EasyQ05.2Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is another female reproductive hormone. What is the function of FSH in the menstru...EasyQ05.3Sperm cells can survive inside a woman's reproductive organs for five days. An egg cell can survive for one day after...MediumQ05.4If a man and a woman have sexual intercourse and do not want to produce a baby, they may use contraception. Explain h...HardQ06.1The echidna is a mammal that lives in Australia. Figure 9 shows how the body temperature of the echidna varies during...EasyQ06.2In the cold winter months, the echidna hibernates. Figure 9 shows that the echidna woke up from hibernation several t...EasyQ06.3Each time the echidna wakes up, it hunts for food. Suggest why the echidna needs to eat food several times during hib...EasyQ06.4During hibernation:
- the echidna sleeps
- the echidna's body temperature decreases to below 5 °C
- the echidna uses ...EasyQ06.5Most mammals use a lot of energy to evaporate sweat. The echidna does not sweat. Suggest one use of energy in the ech...EasyQ06.6The control of body temperature is important in the human body. An athlete trained in a hot climate. On one day, the ...MediumQ06.7On a different day the athlete used 6000 kJ of energy to evaporate sweat. The athlete's energy intake was 24 000 kJ. ...MediumQ06.8Some days the athlete did not do any training and rested at home. What effect would resting have on the volume of swe...EasyQ07.1.1Living organisms can be classified into groups. Trilobites are animals that lived in the sea 400 to 500 million years...EasyQ07.1.2Complete Table 3 by choosing the correct classification group that comes between Family and Species.EasyQ07.2Which scientist invented the classification system given in Table 3?EasyQ07.3What is the binomial name of trilobite A? Use information from Table 3.EasyQ07.4A scientist made the hypothesis: 'Organism B may have evolved from organism A.'
A scientist studies two fossils, Foss...MediumQ07.5.1Trilobites are animals that lived in the sea. Complete the sentences about how the fossils of trilobites A and B were...EasyQ07.5.2The __________ of the animal decay.EasyQ07.5.3The remains which do not decay are replaced by __________.EasyQ07.6Trilobites A and B are now extinct. Give three possible causes of extinction.Medium