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B1
CELL BIOLOGY
TEST 1

GCSE Mark Score (%)

BIOLOGY
AQA - COMBINED SCIENCE
Materials
For this paper you must have:
Ruler
Pencil, Rubber, Protractor and Compass
Scientific calculator, which you are expected to use when appropriate

Instructions
Answer all questions
Answer questions in the space
provided All working must be
shown
Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any rough work you don't
want to be marked

Information
The marks for the questions are shown in brackets

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 Muscle cells divide to form new muscle cells.
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(a) Which two cell components are copied before the muscle cells start to
divide?

Tick two boxes.

Cytoplasm

Mitochondria

Plasmids

Ribosomes

Vacuole

(2)

(b) Why do muscle cells need to divide by mitosis more often than most other
cells?

Tick one box.

To contract the muscles

To repair the muscles

To supply more oxygen to the muscles

To transmit nerve impulses

(1)

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Mitosis is part of the cell cycle.

The diagram below shows the percentage of time taken by each stage of a cell cycle.

(c) The cell cycle shown in the diagram above takes 21 hours in total.

Cell division takes 5% of the total time.

Calculate how many hours cell division takes.

Time taken = hours

(2)

(d) What percentage of time is spent copying DNA in the cell cycle shown in the diagram
above?

Percentage =
(2)

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(e) A sperm cell from a dog contains 39 chromosomes.

How many chromosomes are there in each dog muscle cell?

Tick one box.

39

78

156

312

(1)

(f) A sperm cell fuses with an egg cell.

What is this process called?

Tick one box.

Fertilisation

Meiosis

Ovulation

Respiration

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(Total 9 marks)

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2 Figure 1 shows an animal cell.

Figure 1

© alex-mit/iStock/Thinkstock

(a) What is structure A?

Tick one box.

Cell membrane

Cell wall

Chromosome

Cytoplasm

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(b) What is structure B?

Tick one box.

Chloroplast

Mitochondria

Nucleus

Vacuole

(1)

(c) Figure 2 shows a sperm cell.

Figure 2

Describe how a sperm cell is adapted to carry out its function.

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(d) Substances can move into and out of cells by three processes.

The diagrams show the concentration of different substances inside and outside a root hair
cell.

How would each substance move into the root hair cell?

Draw one line from each root hair cell to the correct process.

Root hair cell Process

(2)
(Total 5 marks)

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3 The figure below shows a scale drawing of one type of cell in blood.

(a) Use the scale to determine the width of the cell.

Give your answer to the nearest micrometre.

Width of cell = micrometres

(1)

(b) Complete the table below.

Part of the blood Function

Carries oxygen around the body

Protects the body against infection

Plasma

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 (c) Platelets are fragments of cells.

Platelets help the blood to clot.

Suggest what might happen if the blood did not clot.

(1)
(Total 5 marks)

4 The figure below shows four different types of cell.

(a) Which cell is a plant cell?

Give one reason for your answer.

Cell
Reason
(2)

(b) Which cell is an animal cell?

Give one reason for your answer.

Cell

Reason
(2)

(c) Which cell is a prokaryotic cell?

Give one reason for your answer.

Cell

Reason
(2)

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 (d) A scientist observed a cell using an electron microscope.

The size of the image was 25 mm.

The magnification was × 100 000

Calculate the real size of the cell.

Use the equation:

Give your answer in micrometres.

Real size = micrometres

(3)
(Total 9 marks)

5 Living organisms are made of cells.

(a) Animal and plant cells have several parts. Each part has a different function.

Draw one line from each cell part to the correct function of that part.

(3)

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 (b) The diagram below shows a cell from a plant leaf.

Which two parts in the diagram above are not found in an animal cell?

1.

2.
(2)
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6 Cells, tissues and organs are adapted to take in different substances and get rid of different
substances.

The table shows the concentration of four ions outside cells and inside cells.

Concentration outside Concentration inside cells

Ion
cells in mmol per dm3 in mmol per dm3

Sodium 140 9

Potassium 7 138

Calcium 2 27

Chloride 118 3

(a) Use information from the table above to complete the following sentences.

Sodium ions will move into cells by the

process of .

Potassium ions will move into cells by the process

of .
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(b) Some students investigated the effect of the different concentrations of sugar in four drinks,
A, B, C and D, on the movement of water across a partially permeable membrane.

The students:

• made four bags from artificial partially permeable membrane

• put equal volumes of 5% sugar solution in each bag

• weighed each bag containing the sugar solution

• placed one bag in each of the drinks, A, B, C and D

• after 20 minutes removed the bags containing the sugar solution and weighed
them again.

The diagram below shows how they set up the investigation.

(i) The bag in drink A got heavier after 20 minutes.

Explain why.

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 (ii) In which drink, A, B, C or D, would you expect the bag to show the smallest change
in mass?

Tick (✔) one box.

A B C D
(1)

(iii) Explain why you think the bag you chose in part (b)(ii) would show the smallest
change.

(2)
(Total 8 marks)

7 The image below shows an epithelial cell from the lining of the small intestine.

(a) (i) In the image above, the part of the cell labelled A contains
chromosomes.

What is the name of part A?

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 (ii) How are most soluble food molecules absorbed into the epithelial cells of
the small intestine?

Draw a ring around the correct answer.

diffusion osmosis respiration

(1)

(b) Suggest how the highly folded cell surface helps the epithelial cell to absorb soluble food.

(1)

(c) Epithelial cells also carry out active transport.

(i) Name one food molecule absorbed into epithelial cells by active transport.

(1)

(ii) Why is it necessary to absorb some food molecules by active transport?

(1)

(ii) Suggest why epithelial cells have many mitochondria.

(2)

(d) Some plants also carry out active transport.

Give one substance that plants absorb by active transport.

(1)
(Total 8 marks)

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