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DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
Time: 2 ½ HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Attempt all questions in section A and B.

Answers to section A must be by ringing the letter before the correct alternative.
SECTION A (30 MARKS)
1. Which one of the following blood vessels contains blood with the highest amount of
oxygen?
A. Venacava
B. Hepatic vein
C. Pulmonary vein
D. Hepatic portal vein
2. When testing for starch in a leaf, it is boiled in alcohol in order to
A. Kill the protoplasm
B. Make it permeable to iodine
C. Remove the chlorophyll
D. Make it soft
3. Which one of the following cell structures is possessed by both animal and plant cells?
A. Chloroplast
B. Cell wall
C. Flagellum
D. Cell membrane
4. Beans are usually included in crop rotation cycle because they
A. Act as cover crops
B. Improve water retention of the soil
C. Increase humus content in the soil
D. Restore nitrogen in the soil
5. Which of the following are end products from digestion of cane sugar?
A. Sucrose and maltose
B. Glucose and fructose
C. Maltose and galactose
D. Fructose and galactose
6. Which one of the following is a characteristic of the class insecta?
A. Cutaneous outer skeleton
B. Jointed limbs
C. Two pairs of wings
D. Three body parts
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7. In grasses, the anthers hang out below the flower and the stigma is held out above the
anthers. The importance of this arrangement is to
A. Improve the chances of pollination
B. Encourage cross pollination
C. Minimize waste of pollen grains
D. Encourage self-pollination
8. The best way to ensure that yeast added to sugar produces ethanol is by
A. Supplying a lot of oxygen to the mixture
B. Placing the mixture in warm conditions
C. Excluding air from the mixture
D. Using a lot of sugar in the mixture
9. Which of the following diseases are all transmitted by mosquitoes?
A. Elephantiasis, river blindness and yellow fever
B. Malaria, elephantiasis and river blindness
C. Yellow fever, river blindness and malaria
D. Yellow fever, malaria and elephantiasis
10. Which one of the following characteristics of an organism is most important in
constructing a dichotomous key?
A. Body structure
B. Body colour
C. Body size
D. Age of organism
11. When 80 cm3 of water was added to 100 cm3 of soil, the volume of the mixture was 140
cm3. What was the percentage of air in the soil sample?
A. 20%
B. 40%
C. 60%
D. 80%
12. Which one of the following sets of characteristics of leaves enables them to absorb
maximum light?
A. Broad lamina, tightly packed palisade cells
B. Being thin, possession of numerous stomata
C. Possession of numerous stomata, waxy cuticle
D. Being thin, large intercellular spaces
13. Figure 2 is a transverse section of a dicotyledonous root.
Which one of the parts labelled, is responsible for the conduction of mineral salts and
water?
A. W
B. X
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C. Y
D. Z
14. Controlled feeding on food rich vitamin A may improve

A. Calcium deposition
B. Number of red blood cells
C. Night vision
D. Healing of wounds
15. Which one of the following groups contains the largest number of organisms?
A. Order
B. Species
C. Class
D. Phylum
16. People living at high altitudes have more red blood cells than those at lower altitudes in
order to
A. Breathe more quickly
B. Keep the body warm
C. Pump more blood
D. Absorb enough oxygen
17. The best description of the leaf in fig. 1 is
A. Pinnate and parallel veined

B. Palmate and net veined
C. Pinnate and net – veined
D. Bi pinnate and parallel veined
18. Which of the following parts of a microscope are adjusted in order to bring the specimen
into focus?
A. Eyepiece and coarse adjustment
B. Coarse and fine adjustment
C. Eyepiece and fine adjustment
D. Mirror and fine adjustment
19. P, Q, R and S are characteristics of insects
P – undergo complete metamorphosis
Q – possess wings
R – have three pairs of legs
S – divided into three body parts
Which of them are common to all insects?
A. P and Q
B. R and S
C. Q and S
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D. P and R
20. Green plants give less carbon dioxide during day than at night because during day
A. The rate of photosynthesis is low
B. Transpiration interferes with escape of carbon dioxide
C. Most stomata close
D. Some of the carbon dioxide produced is used for photosynthesis
21. Which one of the following structures of a flower develops into a seed coat after
fertilization?
A. Embryo sac
B. Integuments
C. Receptacle
D. Ovary
22. Which one of the following would happen to plasmolysed cells of a plant tissue that has
been placed in water for some time?
A. Their cell vacuoles would shrink
B. They would not experience any change in size
C. They would increase in volume
D. They would become shorter
23. When milk is the main food in the diet of a child, it should be supplemented with food
rich in
A. Iron
B. Calcium
C. Sugar
D. Vitamin D
24. Which one of the following is the least important function of humus in the soil?
A. Improving soil aeration
B. Prevention of soil erosion
C. Water retention
D. Increasing soil fertility
25. The main reason why birds sit on their eggs during the incubation period is to ensure that
A. Hatching occurs quickly
B. Rain does not destroy eggs
C. Eggs are kept at a constant temperature
D. All eggs develop chicks at the same time
26. Which one of the following pairs of organs is important in the digestion of fats?
A. Stomach and liver
B. Pancreas and stomach
C. Liver and pancreas
D. Stomach and mouth
27. Which of the following is a likely effect of a decrease in the number of platelets in the
blood?
A. The blood may not be able to carry enough oxygen
B. There may be prolonged bleeding in case of an injury
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C. The body may not be able to fight disease
D. The body may not be able to distribute heat efficiently
28. Which one of the following characteristics may be used to determine whether leaves are
compound?
A. Nature of margin
B. Number of leaflets
C. Type of venation
D. Presence of leaflets
29. Which of the following parts of a microscope magnify the object?
A. Eyepiece and mirror
B. Objective lens and mirror
C. Eyepiece and objective lens
D. Eyepiece and fine adjustment
30. While analyzing a soil sample, the following results were obtained:
Sand = 200 cm3
Water = 300 cm3
Water and sand after stirring = 450 cm3
What was the percentage of air in the sand?
A. 10%
B. 20%
C. 25%
D. 30%
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DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

INSTRUCTIONS: Attempt all questions in section A and B.

14. Controlled feeding on food rich vitamin A may improve

A. Pinnate and parallel veined

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