UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

International General Certificate of Secondary Education

BIOLOGY

Paper 6 Alternative to practical

*061006*
0610/06

May/June 2005

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1 Catalase, an enzyme, is present in all living cells including those of potato and liver. It For
speeds up the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide as shown by the equation: Examiner's
Use

catalase
hydrogen peroxide oxygen + water

The oxygen is given off as a gas which can be collected over water, as shown in Fig. 1.1.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
cm3
hydrogen
peroxide

potato or
liver tissue

Fig. 1.1

Two different tissues, potato and liver, were used for this investigation. Samples, each of one
gram, were prepared from both tissues. Some of the samples were left raw and others were
boiled. Some samples were left as one cube and others were chopped into small pieces as
shown in Table 1.1 on page 4.

2 cm3 hydrogen peroxide was added to each sample. The volume of oxygen produced in five
minutes was collected in the measuring cylinders, as shown in Table 1.1.

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Table 1.1 For

Examiner's
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sample A B C D
treatment

raw raw boiled boiled

results for
potato 2 2 2 2

4 4 4 4

6 6 6 6

8 8 8 8

10 10 10 10
cm3 cm3 cm3 cm3

results for
liver 2 2 2 2

4 4 4 4

6 6 6 6

8 8 8 8

10 10 10 10
cm3 cm3 cm3 cm3

(a) (i) Complete Table 1.2, by reading the values for oxygen collected in the measuring
cylinders in Table 1.1.

Table 1.2

volume of oxygen collected from each sample / cm3

tissue
A B C D

potato

liver
[2]

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(ii) Plot the volumes of oxygen collected from the samples as a bar chart on the grid. For
Examiner's
Use

[4]

(iii) Describe the difference in results between sample A for potato and sample A for
liver.

[2]

(iv) There is a difference between the samples for A and B for liver.

Suggest an explanation for this difference.

[2]

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(b) State the importance of samples C and D in this investigation. For

Examiner's
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[1]

(c) Suggest how you could test that the gas given off was oxygen.

[1]

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2 Fig. 2.1 shows an insect-pollinated flower, cut in half longitudinally. For

Examiner's
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Fig. 2.1

(a) (i) Make a large drawing of the cut surface of the half-flower shown in Fig. 2.1.

[4]

(ii) On your drawing, label each of the following with a label line and the letter X, Y or Z:

X for the part of the flower in which the pollen grains are produced,

Y for the part of the flower to where the pollen grains are transferred during
pollination,

Z for the part of the flower through which the pollen tube grows, shortly after
pollination.
[3]

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(b) (i) Insects such as the honey bee, Apis mellifera, collect nectar to make into honey. For
Describe how you could test a sample of honey for the presence of each of the Examiner's
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following:

reducing sugar;

starch.

[3]

(ii) Honey contains reducing sugar.

State the colour change you would observe during the reducing sugar test in (b) (i).

[1]

(c) Fig. 2.2 shows one pollen grain, as seen with the aid of an electron microscope. This
pollen grain has been magnified 200 times.

Fig. 2.2

(i) Calculate the actual size of this grain.

Show your working.

actual size [2]

(ii) State one feature visible in Fig. 2.2, that suggests that this pollen grain is from an
insect-pollinated flower.

[1]

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(d) It has been suggested that petal colour is important to attract insects to collect nectar For
and to pollinate the flowers. Examiner's
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(i) Outline how you would carry out an investigation to find out which petal colour
would attract most insects.

[4]

(ii) Some insect-pollinated flowers do not have brightly coloured petals to attract
insects to collect nectar.

Suggest how insects might be attracted to these flowers.

[1]

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3 Two cress seeds were germinated in shallow dishes, which were placed in boxes as shown For
in Fig. 3.1. The boxes were placed by a sunlit window. Examiner's
Use

clear plastic box box made of black card

Fig. 3.1

The dishes were removed from the boxes after a week and the seedlings observed.

The seedlings differed in appearance, as shown in Fig. 3.2.

the seedling from the seedling from

the clear plastic box the box made
of black card

Fig. 3.2

(a) (i) Complete the table to describe two differences, visible in Fig. 3.2, between the
seedling from the clear plastic box and the seedling from the box made of black
card.

seedling from the clear plastic box seedling from the box made of black card

[2]

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(ii) Outline how this method could be improved to obtain more accurate and reliable For
results. Examiner's
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[4]

Fig. 3.3 shows a box with a slit in one side and the seedling that was grown in the box.

Fig. 3.3

(b) Describe and explain the appearance of the seedling grown in this box.

[3]

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