CHARLES JOW MEMORIAL ACADEMY

END OF SECOND TERM EXAMS MARCH, 2020

GRADE 10 BIOLOGY PAPER TIME: 2HOURS

INSTRUCTION: This section (part) consists of four (4) questions. Answer all the questions.

1. (a). Differentiate between Biological classification and biological Nomenclature.

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(b). Give the scientific name of the following:

No. Organism Scientific Name

1 Amoeba

2 Rice

3 Orange

(c). State two reasons why viruses are not usually regarded as living thing?
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(d). explain the following terms giving one suitable example for each

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ii. Heterotrophic: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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iii. Symbiosis: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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(e). In a tabular form, state (2) differences between a plant cell and an animal cell
No. Plant Cell Animal Cell

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 (f). State 2 plant features of Euglena
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2. (a). With the aid of a clear labelled diagram, explain briefly the life cycle of either a moss or fern plant

(b). What is alternation of generations?

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(c). Indicate whether each of the following stages in a life-cycle of bryophytes is haploid(n) or diploid (2n).
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ii. Zygote: …...………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

iii. Gametophyte: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

iv. Spore: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

v. Gamete: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

(d). What is a:
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ii. Gametophyte:…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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3. (a). Explain briefly the following terms:
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(b). Describe briefly what happens to a red blood cell when it is placed in
i. Hypertonic solution:

ii. Hypotonic solution:

(c). Differentiate between the following terms

Hypertonic solution Hypotonic solution

Turgidity Flaccidity

Translocation Transpiration

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4. (a). Draw either a plant or an animal cell 8cm to 12 cm long fully labelled.

(b). What are the function of the following plant tissues?

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(ii). State 2 importance of classification.

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 CHARLES JOW MEMORIAL ACADEMY
END OF SECOND TERM EXAMS MARCH, 2020
GRADE 10 BIOLOGY PAPER TIME: 50 MINUTES

INSTRUCTION: Answer all the questions in this section by finding the correct option for each question
and shade in pencil on your answer sheet.

1. Which of the following structures will not be 6. Cholera is mostly spread by

found in the nucleus of a cell? A. Air
A. DNA B. Soil
B. Nucleolus C. Water
C. Lysosome D. Noise
D. Centriole
7. Which of the following resources is renewable?
2. An example of organ level organisation is A. Petroleum
A. Bird B. Coal
B. Kidney C. Iron
C. Spermatozoon D. Trees
D. Xylem
The diagram below is an illustration of the
longitudinal section of a flower. Study it and answer
3. A structural similarity between paramecium and question 8, 9, 10.
Amoeba is presence of
A. One food vacuole
B. Two contractile vacuole
C. Two nuclei
D. One gullet

4. The major mineral present in the shell of

molluscs is
A. copper
B. sodium 8. Which part of the flower is responsible for the
C. iron protection of the young flower buds?
D. calcium A. I
B. II
C. III
5. the digestion of proteins starts in the
D. IV
A. small intestine
B. stomach 9. The essential parts of the flower are labelled
C. large intestine A. I, II and III
D. mouth B. II, III and IV
C. III, V, and VI
D. IV, V and VI

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10. Which part of the flower receives the pollen 16. Which of the following groups embraces the
grains? rest?
A. I A. Class
B. II B. Kingdom
C. VI C. Phylum
D. III
D. Species

11. The products of tissue respiration are

17. The group Mollusca is characterized by the
A. Glucose, oxygen and water
B. Oxygen, water and energy presence of
C. Glucose, carbon dioxide and energy A. Jointed appendages
D. Water, carbon dioxide and energy B. Star shaped bodies
C. Backbones
12. Which part of gills of a fish is involved in D. Soft-non segmented bodies
gaseous exchange?
A. Gill slits
18. A virus can sometimes be regarded as living
B. Gill bars
C. Gill covers organism because
D. Gill filaments A. It is visible with the aid of electron
microscope
13. Which of the following statements is true about B. Causes diseases to both plants and
arthropods? animals
A. Prothorax bears only legs C. Exist in varieties of shape
B. Mesothorax bears only legs
D. Reproduces in living cells
C. Metathorax bears only wings
D. Prothorax bears only wings
19. Which of the following substances pass through
14. Which of the following cell organelles is found the cell membrane of the root hair by osmosis?
only in plant cells? A. Cell sap
A. Mitochondria B. Carbon dioxide
B. Ribosome C. Oxygen
C. Lysosome D. Water
D. Plastids
20. The following process are common to both
plants and animals except?
15. Active transport differs from diffusion in that
A. Respiration
active transport
B. Growth
A. Is a very fast process C. Reproduction
B. Allows the movement of substances against D. Photosynthesis
the concentration gradient
C. Takes place in both light stage and dark 21. The structure used for movement in Amoeba is
stage reaction of photosynthesis A. Cilia
D. Occurs in both plants and animal tissues B. Pseudopodia
C. Flagella
D. Endoplasm

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22. Which of the following organism feed both 29. The mechanism of gaseous exchange in living
autotrophically and heterophically? organism is essentially by
A. Hydra A. Osmosis
B. Paramecium B. Inhalation
C. Mucor C. Diffusion
D. Euglena D. Breathing

23. Which of the following instruments is used to 30. The respiratory organ found in cockroach is the
measure wind speed? A. Air sac
A. Thermometer B. Trachea
B. Barometer C. Lung hook
C. Hygrometer D. Gill
D. Anemometer
31. Which of the following organisms exist as a
24. Primary growth in plants is brought by the filament?
activity of the A. Euglena
A. Meristem B. Amoeba
B. Endodermis C. Volvox
C. Epidermis D. Paramecium
D. Mesophyll
32. Rhizoids are characteristics of
25. Which of the following organism is not classified A. Algae
as an animal? B. Euglena
A. Amoeba C. Mushroom
B. Paramecium D. jellyfish
C. Euglena
D. Obelia 33. Ascomycetes are commonly known as the
A. Cup fungus
26. Which of the following processes involve B. Filamentous fungus
diffusion? C. Hyphal fungus
A. Opening and closing of the stomata pores D. Mycelial fungus
B. Turgidity of herbaceous plants
C. Absorption of water through the root-hair 34. The enclosed asci and ascospores of Ascoma is
D. Absorption of digested food into the villi called
A. Cleistrothercium
27. The mechanism of opening and closing of
B. Ascodermis
stomata in plants is based on
C. Multinucleated
A. Turgidity and diffusion
B. Turgidity and flaccidity D. Vegetative mycelium
C. Osmosis and diffusion
D. Turgidity and diffusion 35. Oomycota “means “egg fungi” and refers to a
large round
28. To which phylum of kingdom fungi does the A. Oogonium
yeast belong to
B. Oosphere
A. Zygomycota
B. Ascomycota C. Antheridium
C. Oomycote D. Basidiomycota D. Conidia

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36. Ferns have
A. A dominant gametophyte generation 44. Gymnosperms include the following except
B. Vascular tissue A. Conifers
C. Seeds B. Cycads
D. Both A and B are correct C. Ginko biloba
D. Fern
37. In the moss life cycle, the sporophyte
A. Consist of leafy green shoots 45. Which of the following does not belong to the
B. Is the heart-shaped prothalus phylum Echinodermata?
C. Consists of a shoot-stalk and a capsule A. Starfish
D. Is the dominant generation B. Urchins
C. Sea cucumbers
38. An example of an organism that exist as a D. Jellyfish
colony is
A. Spirogyra C. Euglena 46. The following organism have bilateral body
B. Paramecium D. Volvox symmetry except
A. Sponges
39. Flaccidity in plant is associated with B. Man
A. Termination of photosynthesis C. Cockroach
B. Wilting D. Ant
C. Turgidity
D. Discoloration of leaves 47. The female gametangia is called
A. Archegonia
40. The treaming of movement of cytoplasm within B. Antheridia
the paramecium is known as C. Sporangia
A. Transpiration D. Spermatogonia
B. Digestion
C. Cyclosis 48. Animals store excess carbohydrate in the form
D. Osmosis of
A. Glycogen C. Fats
41. Animals that have irregular body shape are likely B. Starch D. Lipids
to have
A. Bilateral symmetrical body plan 49. Acoelomates have
B. Radial symmetrical body plan A. A true body cavity
C. Ventral symmetrical body plan B. A false body cavity
D. Asymmetrical body plan C. No body cavity
D. A, B and C all correct
42. An animal which possesses scales, rares and a
backbone is likely to be a 50. Tunicate is an/a
A. Toad C. Rat A. Vertebrate chordate
B. Lizard D. Bat B. Invertebrate chordate
C. Echinoderm
43. The non-vascular plants, include the following D. Arthropod
except
A. Mosses C. Liverwort
B. Hornwort D. Cycads

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