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2024 AQA AS BIOLOGY 7401/1 Paper 1 Verified Question Paper and Marking Scheme Attached June 2024 BIOLOGY Paper 1 Monday 13 May 2024 Materials For this paper you must have: Morning • a ruler with millimetre measurements • a scientific calculator. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. • Answer all questions. Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes • You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. • If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of this book. Write the question number against your answer(s). • Show all your working. • Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. Information • The marks for the questions are shown in bracket
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Verified Question Paper and Marking Scheme Attached June 2024
Monday 13 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
For this paper you must have:
outside the box around each page or on blank pages.
this book. Write the question number against your answer(s).
want to be marked.
For Examiner’s Use Question Mark 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
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Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
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Figure 1 shows a diagram of the human gas exchange system.
Figure 1
Structure B is muscle. The volume of the thorax is increased when structure B
contracts.
Name the structures labelled A and B.
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Describe and explain one adaptation of a single alveolus for gas exchange.
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. 1 Table 2 contains information on the digestion of two biological molecules. Complete
Table 2.
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Table 2
Biological
molecule
Enzyme
Name of bond
hydrolysed
Product of digestion
Starch Maltose
Dipeptide Dipeptidase
A student investigated starch digestion by mixing starch with a solution of the enzyme used to digest starch.
The student did a biochemical test for protein when starch digestion was completed.
Describe a biochemical test to show the presence of protein.
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Describe how viruses are replicated.
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A scientist investigated the effect of a virus species on a bacterial culture.
The scientist:
Figure 3 shows the appearance of the Petri dish after 24 hours.
Figure 3
Explain why clear zones are present in Figure 3.
[1 mark]
Predict the appearance of the Petri dish if the incubation was extended by a few more
hours.
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. 1 Complete Table 3 to show whether the feature of DNA is associated with the DNA
molecule found in each of these locations.
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Tick (✓) the appropriate boxes.
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Table 3
Feature of DNA
Location of DNA molecule
Prokaryotic cell Nucleus Chloroplast
Is circular
Contains four
different types of
nucleotide
Is associated with
histones
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Using Figure 5 , a student calculated that out of all the people who died when
antibiotic-resistant E. coli were present, 25% of those deaths involved causal E. coli.
The student’s calculation is incorrect.
Use Figure 5 to calculate the correct percentage of deaths involving causal E. coli in
people who died when infected with antibiotic-resistant E. coli.
Identify the mathematical step the student performed incorrectly in their calculation.
[3 marks]
Correct answer %
Incorrect mathematical step
3 Which method is most likely to be successful in decreasing
the frequency of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria in populations of people?
Tick (✓) one box.
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Give people lower doses of antibiotics to treat disease.
Test more people to determine if they are infected with
antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Vaccinate more people to reach herd immunity against bacteria
that cause diseases common in human populations.
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Malva sylvestris is a plant species.
A student wanted to determine the mean height of M. sylvestris plants growing in a
field.
Describe how the student should obtain measurements of the plants and then process
these measurements to obtain a reliable mean height of plants growing in that field.
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. 3 A student investigated biodiversity in a community of bee species in a field of
wild flowers.
The student trapped and identified the bee species in the field over 6 months.
Table 4 shows some of the student’s results.
Table 4
Bee species
Total number of trapped bees after 6
months
Cuckoo bee 250
Domestic honeybee 800
Clover bee 200
The index of diversity in a community of organisms is determined using the formula
where N = total number of organisms of all species
and n = total number of organisms of each species.
Use the formula and information in Table 4 to calculate the index of diversity in this
community of bee species.
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In a different investigation, the student found that:
the species richness of plants in a field of wild flowers is greater than the species
richness of plants in a field of wheat
the species richness of bees in a field of wild flowers is greater than the species
richness of bees in a field of wheat.
Suggest one reason why the species richness of bees in a field of wild flowers is
greater than the species richness of bees in a field of wheat.
Explain your answer.
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Scientists measured the concentration of inorganic ions in the cytoplasm of
mammalian cells and in the tissue fluid surrounding those cells.
Figure 7 shows their results.
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. Use Figure 7 to describe two patterns shown in the total concentrations of positively
and negatively charged ions in the cytoplasm and in tissue fluid.
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In these mammalian cells, the:
Use this information and Figure 7 to suggest and explain the ion transport
mechanisms involved in the transport of sodium ions.
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