NAME……………………………………………………….. INDEX NO……………………...........

231/3 CANDIDATE’S SIGN………….……

BIOLOGY
PAPER 3 DATE……….………………………...
(PRACTICAL)
JULY/AUGUST, 2015
TIME: 1¾ HOURS

CENTRAL KENYA NATIONAL SCHOOLS JOINT MOCK - 2015

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

BIOLOGY
PAPER 3
(PRACTICAL)
TIME: 1¾ HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
(a) Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
(b) Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
(c) Answer all the questions in the spaces provided.
(d) You are required to spend the first 15 minutes of the 1¾ hours allowed for
this paper reading the whole paper carefully before commencing your work.
(e) Additional papers must not be inserted.
(f) This paper has three questions and pages.
(g) Students should check the question paper to ascertain that all the papers are
printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.

FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY:

Question Maximum Candidate’s
Score Score
1 12

2 14

3 14

Total Score 40
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1. You are provided with the following:
 25ml Bromothymol blue.
 Solution X.
 A drinking straw.
 2 test tubes.
 10ml measuring cylinder.
 A boiling tube.
 Dilute hydrochloric acid.
 Dilute sodium hydroxide.
(a) Place 2ml of Bromothymol Blue (B.T.B) in a clean test tube. Add dilute hydrochloric
acid drop by drop and shake after each drop till there is a permanent colour change.
(i) State the resulting colour. (1 mark)
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(ii) To the mixture obtained above, now add sodium hydroxide solution drop
by drop until there is a colour change. Record your observation. (1 mark)
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(iii) From your observations in (a)(i) and (a)(ii) above what is the nature of
Bromothymol blue. (1 mark)
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(b) Place 10ml of fresh Bromothymol blue in a boiling tube. Using the drinking straw,
bubble air through the bromothymol blue until there occur colour change.
(i) Record your observation. (1 mark)
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(ii) What does the colour obtained in (b)(i) above suggest about the nature of the
gas breathed out? (1 mark)
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(c) Rinse the measuring cylinder and use it to place 2ml of solution X in a clean test tube.
Rinse the drinking straw used in (b) above and use it to bubble air through solution X.
(i) Record your observation. (1 mark)
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(ii) Suggest the identity of solution X. (1 mark)
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(iii) Suggest the identity of the gas that gave rise to the observation above. (1 mark)
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(d) (i) Name the physiological process in cells that leads to formation of the
gas named in c(iii) above. (1 mark)
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(ii) Write down a word equation for the process named in d(i) above. (2 marks)
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(iii) What is the importance of the identified process in cells of living organisms?
(1 mark)
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2. Study the photographs and answer the following questions.

PLATE 5

PLATE 6 PLATE 7
(I) The photograph in Plate 5 shows the germination process in a species of legume.
(a) (i) Name the type of germination shown in the photograph. (1 mark)

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(ii) Give a reason for your answer. (1 mark)
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(b) Other than germination the seedling have shown some responses.
(i) Name two responses shown in the photograph. (2 marks)
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(ii) State one survival value of each of the response named above. (1 mark)
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(II) Examine the photograph in Plate 6 and Plate 7 which show different essential parts
of a flower of a species on two different plants.
(a) Name the flower parts shown in Plate 6 and Plate 7. (2 marks)
Plate 6___________________________________________________________
Plate 7 __________________________________________________________
(b) (i) Name the phenomenon described in the statement above. (1 mark)
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(ii) Explain the significance of the phenomena stated in (a)(i) above. (1 mark)
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(c) (i) State the mode of pollination of the flower shown in the photograph. (1 mark)
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(ii) Give a reason for your answer. (1 mark)
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(d) (i) State the type of pollination of the flower shown in the photograph. (1 mark)
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(ii) Give two reasons for your answer. (2 marks)
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3. The photographs in Plate J, K and L shows the anterior part of two different animals,
Plate L shows the longitudinal dissection of Plate K. Examine the photographs and answer
the questions below.

PLATE J PLATE K

PLATE L
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(a) (i) State the class to which the animal organ in Plate J belongs. (1 mark)

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(ii) State the habitat of the animal. (1 mark)
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(iii) Give a reason for your answer in (ii) above. (1 mark)
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(b) (i) Name the organ shown in the photograph in Plate J. (1 mark)
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(ii) State the function of the organ named above (i). (1 mark)
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(iii) Name the structure that protects the organ named in (b(i) above from
mechanical damage. (1 mark)
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(iv) From observable features only explain three adaptation of the organ to
its function. (3 marks)
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(c) (i) Identify the structure in the photograph Plate K and L. (1 mark)
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(ii) Give a reason for your answer. (1 mark)
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(iii) Using observable features only state three adaptations of the structure to
its functions. (3 marks)
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