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CHAPTER 4 :

Q.1

MICROORGANISMS

Write in dark blue or black

pen.
You may use a soft pencil for
any diagrams, graphs or
rough working.
Do not use highlighters, glue
or correction fluid.
Show all your working in the
booklet.

Name
:

Roll
No.

(a)

Maya and Leela divided a ball of bread dough made with yeast into three equal sizes (by
weight) and placed the dough balls in containers of the same shape and size. The height of the
dough was the same in each container at the start. A piece was placed in:
(a) A warm window sill (b) A cool corridor
(c) A cold fridge
They measured in millimetres how much the dough had risen in each container in 60 minutes.
Was this a fair test? Why?

Ans.

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(b)

Look at the table of their results. Draw a bar chart of their results on the given graph. Give
your graph a title and label the axes.
Place
How much the dough raised in 60 minutes (mm)
Warm window sill

30

Cool corridor

20

Cold fridge

(b)

Which dough raised the most? ___________________________________

(c)

How much higher was the dough on the window sill than the one in the cold fridge after 60
minutes?
___________________________________________________________________________

Ans.

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(d)

Where should a baker leave dough to rise quickly?

Ans.

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Q.2
(a)

The photograph below shows bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics. They are
called MRSA bacteria.
When MRSA bacteria reproduce, they pass on their
resistance to antibiotics to the next generation.
What part of a cell passes on information?

Ans.

______________________________________________

(b)

MRSA bacteria can cause serious infections in people

who are ill in hospital. The bacteria can live on a healthy
persons skin or in their lungs without causing any harm.
Use this information to fill in the table below. Suggest
two ways MRSA bacteria can be spread from person to person. Suggest how the spread of the
bacteria can be prevented for each method.

(c)

People can be vaccinated against some diseases caused by bacteria or viruses. Describe how
vaccination prevents a person getting a disease.

Ans.

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Q.3
(a)

The figure shows an amoeba.

How does an ameba move? ___________________________

(b)

What structure contains the amoeba's DNA? __________________

(c)

When an ameba engulfs a particle of food a __________________

is formed.

(d)

How does an ameba reproduce? ___________________________

(e)

Fingerlike extensions of the ameba's cytoplasm are

called___________________

(e)

To what Kingdom does the ameba belong? ______________________________

(f)

The process of engulfing food particles is called __________________________________

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Q.4

Bacteria are micro-organisms and can be used

in food production. It is important to find out
the best conditions for bacteria to reproduce.
When bacteria reproduce they form colonies.
This Petri dish has six bacterial colonies.
Here are the results for identical Petri dishes
kept in different conditions.

(a)

How do you know these bacteria need oxygen to reproduce?

Ans.

___________________________________________________________________________

(b)

The colonies formed are different sizes. Suggest a method for measuring size of the colony.

Ans.

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(c)

Here is a graph of the results without oxygen.

(i)

Draw the results with oxygen on the same graph.

(ii)

Use the graph to predict the number of colonies at 60C.

Number of colonies at 60C without oxygen = ________________________
Number of colonies at 60C with oxygen = ________________________

Q.4

Sara investigated making bread. She described what she did below.

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Sara repeated the experiment with the water bath at different temperatures. Her results are
shown below.

(a)

Use the table of results. What question did Sara investigate?

Ans.

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(b) At each temperature Sara used dough from the same mixture.
(i) Give one other way Sara made her experiment fair.
Ans.

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(ii) Why would using dough from a different mixture make Sara's experiment unfair?
Ans.

___________________________________________________________________________

(c)

Sara plotted her results on the graph below. Describe the relationship between the variables on
the graph from 30C to 90C.

Ans.

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(d)

Sara made a prediction.

What could she do to test her prediction?

Ans.

____________________________
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Q.5

Select the most appropriate answer:

(a) What type of microbe is the smallest?

fungus bacterium virus
(b) Which type of microbe is shown in the diagram?
fungus

bacterium

virus

(c) What causes tuberculosis (TB) ?

fungus bacterium virus
(d) What causes athletes foot ?
fungus bacterium virus
(e) What causes influenza (flu) ?
fungus bacterium virus
(f) Which type of cell can engulf bacteria or make antibodies?
WBC RBC Platelets
(g) Immunisation can involve
injecting harmful microbes

injecting dead microbes

injecting antibodies

Q.4(b) Draw line to match the boxes to group the facts together.

Bacteria

These are the smallest type of

microbe. They are very simple
and do not really have cells.

Most of these are formed

from thin, threads called
hyphae.

Fungi

They reproduce by growing

and then splitting in two.

These are tiny, single cells.

The cells are different from
ours because they do not
have a nucleus.

Viruses

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They are easy to see

because they have big
reproductive structures.
They make dust-like spores
that spread in the air.

They need to be in the cells

of other living things to
reproduce, this is why they
cause diseases.

Q.4(b) Use the names of the types of microbe to finish off the sentences...

....................are used to make bread and beer.

Food poisoning is usually caused by....................
.................... cause illnesses such as flu, colds and measles.
.................... are used to make cheese and yoghurt.
Mould on bread is caused by ....................
.................... are the smallest.
.................... are usually made up of branched threads.
.................... can only reproduce inside the cells of animals or plants.