FORM THREE MID TERM ONE
EXAMS
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
BIOLOGY
FEB. 2025 – 2 hours
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Name……………………………………………………………………………………………………
Admission Number……………………………………
Candidate’s Signature……………………………………..Date………………………………………
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Instructions to candidates
(a) Write your name and class number in the spaces provided above.
(b) Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
(c) Answer all the questions in this paper.
(d) All answers should be written in the spaces provided in the question paper.
(e) This paper consists of 8 printed pages.
(f) Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and no questions are missing.
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1. What is irritability? (1mark)
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(b) State the importance of nutrition in living things. (1mark)
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2 (a) Give one difference between plants and animals in terms of growth. (1mark)
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(b) Name the apparatus that can be used for collecting each of the following specimens.
(i) Centipedes. (1mark)
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(ii) Mosquito (1mark)
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3. Define the following terms as used in ecology (3 marks)
(i). Population………………………………………………………………………………………………
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(ii). Community…………………………………………………………………………………………….
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(iii). Biosphere……………………………………………………………………………………………...
4. The diagram below shows the traverse section of a young stem.
(a) State the functions of the structures labeled A and B. (2 marks)
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(b) What type of cells are found in the parts labeled D. (1mark)
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(c) Name the part labelled C. (1mark)
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5 (a) Name the site of gaseous exchange surface in mammals. (1mark)
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(b) State three characteristics of the site named in (a) above. (3 marks)
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6. Study the following food web and answer questions that follow:
(a) Write down one food chain from the food web that ends with badger as tertiary consumer.
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(b) Giving reasons state the organism with largest biomass (2marks)
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(c).Identify the producer in the food web above (1mark)
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(d).Name trophic level occupied by hedgehog (1mark)
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7 (a) Distinguish between excretion and secretion. (2 marks)
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(b).Plants lack complex excretory products,give three reasons for this (3marks)
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8 (a) Sate the reason for the following procedures during preparation of temporary slides in the
laboratory (3marks)
(i) Adding drops of water to the section
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(ii). Cutting into thin sections…………………………………………………………………………..
(iii).Fixation……………………………………………………………………………………………
9. . The diagram below shows the nitrogen cycle.
(a). Name processes C,D and H (3marks)
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(b). Explain how process marked C occurs abiotically. (2 marks)
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(c).Name one organism that is involved in the following marked processes organism (2marks)
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10.Stat the role of the following in mammalian the heart (3marks).
(i). Septum…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
(ii). Valve tendon…………………………………………………………………………………………………….
(iii). Coronary artery………………………………………………………………………………………………….
11.a) State the role of the following plant excretory products (2marks)
(i). Colchicine…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
(ii). Caffein……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
(b). State two methods used by plants to excrete excess water (2marks)
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12. Study the photographs below and use them to answer the questions that follow
A B C D E
a) i State the phylum of organism A (1mark)
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iii). Give two reasons for your answer above (2marks)
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b) i.State the class of organism E (1mark)
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c).Give one reason for your answer above (1mark)
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13 .a) State three adaptatations of prey evade predation (3marks)
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(b) Name the causative organisms of the following diseases (2 marks)
(i) Cholera……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
(ii) Bilharzia…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
14. State two structural differences between xylem and phloem (2 marks)
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15.Form three carried a experiment on a certain physiological process .They arranged the set up as shown. Use it
to answer that follows.
(i). State the physiological process under investigation. (1mark)
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(ii). State the observations in:
Dialysis sac (1mark)
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Beaker (1mark)
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16.Explain three ways in which xerophytic plants are are adapted to their habitats (3marks)
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17. State two characteristics of the organisms of the same specie (2marks)
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18. T h e di a gr am bel o w sh o ws a se cti o n th r o u gh th e ma mm ali a n sk i n.
(a) (i) Name the fluid produced by the part labeled G. ( 1mark)
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(ii) State two functions of the substance named in 2(a) (i). (2 marks)
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(b) i.Using letter X label erector pili musce on the diagram (1mark)
(ii). State two adaptations of skin to its functions (2marks)
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(iii).Name part H (1mark)
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19 (a) Name two stages of aerobic respiration (2marks)
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(b). In an experiment on respiration, a mouse was observed to have inhaled 200 cm3 of oxygen exhaled 199.75
cm3 of Carbon (IV) oxide in ten minutes
(i). Calculate the respiratory quotient of the activity in the experiment (2marks)
(ii). Identify the possible food substrate consumed by the mouse (1mark)
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(iii). State one property of cell membrane (1mark)
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20. Xylem is a tissue that is made up of cells, name two cells that form xylem (2mark)
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21.Name the spore producing structure in; (2marks)
(i). Division Pteridophyta……………………………………………………………………………………………..
(ii) Kingdom Fungi…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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