VCE Biology Past Exam Questions
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Question 3 (9 marks) A Year 12 student knew that photosynthesis and photorespiration both occur in C3 , C4 and CAM plants.
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Question 3 (8 marks) Cavendish bananas make up around 97% of bananas grown in Australia. The plants can be affected by a disease, tropical race 4 (TR4), which causes the plant to w
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a. Outline how an isolated functional RGA2 gene may be incorporated into a bacterial plasmid. 3 marks o ° =) S H FE he Id I ® 2 £ 8 = [=]
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a. C3 , C4 and CAM plants all use Rubisco in photosynthesis. Place a cross (X) in the correct boxes in the following table to indicate the location of Rubisco activity for each pla
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b. Explain why the rate of photorespiration increases with an increase in temperature in C3 plants. 2 marks
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b. The functional RGA2 genes were transferred into the genomes of Cavendish banana cells using the plasmid. These banana cells then grew into Cavendish banana plants resistant to T
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ii. Justify whether the TR4-resistant Cavendish banana plants are transgenic or genetically modified. 2 marks Infer three reasons why there are no plans for Australian farmers to g
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c. The student wanted to test the statement by conducting a controlled experiment. The student proposed that they would need to control the amount of sunlight and water that each p
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i. Describe how the student could control each of these variables. 2 marks
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ii. The student proposed using the amount of glucose in the plant as the dependent variable. Their teacher suggested that this would not be an appropriate dependent variable for th
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Question 4 (8 marks) Swine flu is a respiratory disease caused by a type A influenza virus that mostly infects pigs and on rare occasions humans. The World Health Organization (WHO
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Question 4 (4 marks) Genetic engineering has been used to modify the traits of many plants. The following table shows examples of genetic engineering in two agricultural crop plant
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