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AQA A-level BIOLOGY Paper 1 June 2023
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AQA A-level BIOLOGY Paper 1 June 2023
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A-level
BIOLOGY
Paper 1
Wednesday 7 June 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours
Materials
For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you must have:
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Instructions 2
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
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Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
Answer all questions. 4
You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do 5
not write outside the box around each page or on blank 6
pages.
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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 8
answer(s). 9
Show all your working. 10
Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do
not want to be marked. TOTAL
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The marks for the questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 91.
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Answer all questions in the spaces box
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0 1 .1 Give the three structural features found in all virus particles and describe the
function of one of these features.
[2 marks]
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Function of one named feature
0 1 .2 Explain why viruses are described as acellular and non-living.
[2 marks]
0 1 .3 Give one reason why antibiotics are not effective against viruses.
[1 mark]
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0 2 .1 Chitin is a polysaccharide. The chitin monomer is a β-glucose molecule box
with one OH group replaced by an NHCOCH3 group. NHCOCH3 can be
represented by N(Ac).
Figure 1 shows the monomer that forms chitin and the chitin
polymer.
Figure 1
Chitin has a similar structure to cellulose.
Use Figure 1 to describe three ways the structure of chitin is similar to the
structure of cellulose.
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Question 2 continues on the next page
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