AS Level Biology A
H020/01 Breadth in biology
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AS Level Biology A
H020/01 Breadth in biology
Sample Question Paper
Date – Morning/Afternoon Version 2.0
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
You may use:
• a scientific or graphical calculator
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• The total mark for this paper is 70.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document consists of 24 pages.
You should spend a maximum of 25 minutes on this section.
Answer all the questions.
1 Young mammals receive antibodies in their mother’s milk.
This is an example of which type of immunity?
A artificial active immunity
B artificial passive immunity
C natural active immunity
D natural passive immunity
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Your answer
Which of the following descriptions is correct?
EN [1]
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A Vaccination gives long-term protection, immunisation gives short-term protection.
B Vaccination involves injection of antigenic material and immunisation is the process of
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developing immunity.
C Vaccination involves injection of antigenic material, immunisation is injection of antibodies.
D Vaccination and immunisation have the same meaning.
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Your answer [1]
3 When you listen to a human heartbeat through a stethoscope you can hear a two stage ‘lub–dub’
sound.
Which of the following causes the first ‘lub’ component?
Select the row that shows the correct use for each type of microscope.
Type of microscope and what it is used to observe
Light microscope Transmission Laser scanning
electron microscope confocal microscope
an object at a certain
A cell surfaces organelles
depth within a cell
an object at a certain whole cells and
B cell surfaces
depth within a cell tissues
whole cells and
C organelles cell surfaces
tissues
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whole cells and an object at a certain
D organelles
tissues depth within a cell
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Your answer [1]
7 Cyanobacteria are photoautotrophs and fossil records confirm their existence 3.5 billion years ago.
Which row describes the structure of cyanobacteria?
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Feature
Nucleus Circular DNA Mitochondria Ribosomes Chloroplast Cell wall
A
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