PAPER 2- WRONG QUESTIONS Flashcards
stages required to clone a bull (4 marks):
- take a nucleus from a body cell of the bull
- insert this nucleus into an enucleated egg
- electric shock to bind
- mitosis/ cell division begins
- insert embryo into uterus of surrogate mother
tissue that transports water to the leaves (1 mark):
xylem
also transports mineral salts
effect of increasing transcription in cells (3 marks):
- increasing transcription means more mRNA is made
- means an increase in translation
- means more proteins for growth and repair
- means more muscle
🦠 describe different types of pathogen and refer to a disease for each pathogen (humans) (6 marks):
- virus- non-living organisms
- AIDS
- bacteria- microscopic single celled
- pneumonia
- fungus- not able to carry out photosynthesis
- athletes foot
- protoctist- microscopic single celled
- malaria
💉 explain how vaccination prevents humans from pathogens (3 marks):
- injected with dead pathogen
- lymphocytes produce memory cells
- secondary immune response
- faster/ more antibody production
🧬 explain how the change in DNA of a microorganism can reduce its ability to digest a substance (5 marks):
- different sequence of bases in DNA
- changes mRNA
- transcription
- changes tRNA
- translation
- changes structure/ shape of DNA
- changes active site
- enzyme not functional
🧬 explain why a change in DNA may not affect the phenotype of an organism (4 marks):
- codons code for the same amino acids
- no change in protein
- active site not changed
- allele may be recessive
- so not expressed in phenotype
why does having a developed root system make regrowth quicker (2 marks)?
- absorb water
- absorb mineral ions
similarities and differences between fossil fuels and biofuels (3 marks):
- biofuel is renewable
- both are burnt
- both produce CO2
role of insulin (2 marks):
- lowers blood glucose levels
- to glycogen
describe how bacteria are genetically modified to produce human insulin (3 marks):
- human gene/allele
- cut with restriction enzyme
- join with ligase
- vector/ plasmid
suggest two reasons why many eggs are needed for cloning to be successful (2 marks):
- not all eggs survive
- not all embryos implant
explain what scientists should do with a zygote so that is develops into a foetus (4 marks):
- mitosis
- place embryo in uterus
- surrogate mother
- correct kind of mother e.g. southern white rhino
explain how to set up a potometer (4 marks):
- cut plant underwater
- seal connection
- introduce air bubble
- measure movement
- tap to reset bubble
DNA base pairings:
C- G
A- U/T
T- A