BOKAKE CLUSTER EXAMINATIONS
231/3 - BIOLOGY Practical
END OF TERM 2, 2025.
Time - 1 ¾ hours
Name …………………………………… Adm Number………. Class……
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. Write your name, class and admission number in the spaces provided above.
2. Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
3. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
4. You are required to spend the first 15 minutes of the 1 ¾ hours allowed for this paper
reading the whole paper carefully before commencing your work.
5. Additional pages must not be inserted.
6. Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
FOR EXAMINERS USE ONLY
Section Maximum Candidate
Marks Score
1 13
2 12
3 15
TOTAL 40
SCORE
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1. You are provided with the following:
- specimen Y
- Specimen X
- hydrogen peroxide
- 2 test tubes in attest tube rack
- 2 labels
- 10ml measuring cylinder.
- A scapel.
- 2 wooden splints.
- 100ml beaker.
Procedure.
i) Label two test tubes A and B.
ii) Measure 2cm3 of hydrogen peroxide and put in test tube A. Repeat the
same procedure for test tube B.
iii) Cut a small piece of specimen Y to two smaller pieces using a scapel.
Place one of the pieces in test tube A and retain the other piece for the
subsequent procedure for test tube B.
iv) Immediately, introduce a glowing splint into the mouth of the test tube.
Record your observations in the table below.
v) Put the other piece of specimen Y in an empty 100ml beaker then add
50ml boiling water from a hot water bath maintained at 800 C. leave the
set up for 5 minutes.
vi) Remove specimen Y from the boiling water using a pair of forceps and
place in test tube B. immediately, introduce a glowing splint at the mouth
of the test tube. Record your observation in the table below.
a) Record your observations in this table. (4mks)
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TEST TUBE OBSERVATION
On placing specimen Y On introducing a glowing
splint
A
b) Explain your observations:
i) On placing specimen Y on test tube A. (2mks)
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ii) On introducing the glowing splint on test tube B. (2mks)
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c) State the role of experimental set up in test tube B. (1mk)
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d) Specimen Y is an organ in animals. State its one other function apart from
the one being investigated above. (1mk)
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e) You are provided specimen X. Make a longitudinal section through one of
the specimen X using a scapel to obtain two halves. Carefully observe one of
the halves and make a drawing. On the diagram label the position of the
plumule and radicle. (3mks)
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2. Study the photographs below and answer the questions that follow.
(a) Give two visible survival adaptive features for the organism in photograph X.
(2 marks)
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(b) Identify the dentitions exhibited in photograph Y and Z (2 marks)
Y
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Z
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(c) Study the photographs below showing a certain type of tooth and teeth
arrangement in man.
(i) Label any three parts of the tooth in photograph S. (3 marks)
(ii) Give two adaptations of the tooth to its function. (2 marks)
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(iii) Write the dental formula for the teeth arrangement in photograph T. (3 marks)
3. The diagrams below show a method of reproduction.
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(a). Name the mode of reproduction above and give an example of organism where
it occurs (2mks).
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(b). Briefly explain how the process occurs (4mks)
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(c) Study the following photograph and answer the questions that follow
(d)Describe the features of the above photograph with respect to the following.
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(i) Androecium (3mks)
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(ii) Gynoecium (3mks)
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(e) (i)Suggest the agent of pollination of the flower (1mk)
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(ii)Explain how it is adapted to pollination agent you have named in (b)(i) above
(2mks)
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