MAY, 2026

Name: ………………………………….
MOCK
BIOLOGY 2
Essay
2 Class: ………………………………..…

1 hour 40 minutes

ANGLICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, KUMASI

MOCK EXAMINATION, MAY, 2025
BIOLOGY
SHS 3 DURATION: 1 hour 40 minutes

For Examiner’s
INSTRUCTION S TO CANDIDATES Use Only
1. In the spaces provided above, insert your name, full index
Question
number, normal signature and the date of examination. Number Mark

2. This booklet consists of two sections; A and B. Answer three

questions in all: two questions from section A and the compulsory
question in section B.

3. Write your name, index number and the number of each

question you answer, at the top of each page.

4. Write on both sides of the paper unless otherwise instructed on the

question paper.

5. Begin each answer to a question on a page. Leave two lines

between answers where there are subsections to the same question.

6. On no account should you tear off any part of the booklet. It is an

examination malpractice to do so. The answer booklet will be
collected at the end of the examination.

7. Write in the spaces provided below, the question number of the

questions you have answered, in the order in which you have
written them.

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 ESSAY
[70 marks]

Answer three questions in all; two from Section A and one compulsory question in Section B. Write your
answers in ink in this booklet.

Large labelled diagrams should be used where they make an answer clearer. The names given for chosen
species must be English or scientific and not vernacular.
Credit will be given for clarity of expression and orderly presentation of answers.

SECTION A

Answer two questions only from this section

1. (a) (i) Explain the term homeostasis. [1 mark]

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(b) Complete the table below by naming four types of hormones produced by the pituitary gland and
stating one function of each hormone.

PITUITARY GLAND HORMONES ONE FUNCTION OF HORMONE

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 (c) Make a drawing, 10 – 12 cm long of a motor neuron and label fully. [5 marks]

(d) (i) Define accommodation in relation to the human eye. [2 marks]

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(ii) List two eye defects and how each can be corrected. [2 marks]
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(iii) State two ways of caring for the human eye. [2 marks]
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2. (a) State two differences between primary and secondary succession.

PRIMARY SUCCESSION SECONDARY SUCCESSION

[2 marks]

(b) Place the following sites of succession under their appropriate headings.

Rocky surface, Newly formed sand dunes, Volcanic eruption sites, Abandoned farmlands,
Shallow pond, Forest after a fire.

Primary succession Secondary succession

[3 marks]

(c) (i) List four factors that increase human population in an area. [4 marks]
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(ii) State two effects of overcrowding. [2 marks]

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(d) State four adaptations of plants to overcrowding. [4 marks]

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(e) Explain the term camouflage, giving two examples of animals that use camouflage in their
life cycle. [5 marks]
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3. (a) (i) Complete the table below [4 marks]

DIGESTIVE ENZYME ACTION ON SUBSTRATE

Sucrase

Lactase

Erepsin

Renin

(ii) List four causes of variation. [4 marks]

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 (b) (i) Explain briefly the Theory of use and disuse of body parts. [2 marks]
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(ii) Name the scientist who proposed that Theory of use and disuse of body parts. [1 mark]

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(c) (i) Describe the process of inhalation in humans. [4 marks]

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(ii) What is a nucleotide [1 marks]
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(iii) Name the four nitrogenous bases each found in:

(α) RNA
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(iv) State two ways by which parasites are adapted to their modes of life. [2 marks]
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4. (a) A cross is produced between plants that were pure for long stems, (T), with round seeds,( R), and
plants that are short,( t), with wrinkled seeds,( r). The long stem plants with round seeds are dominant.
(i) With the aid of genetic diagram, state the genotypes and phenotypes of F1 generation.
[7 marks]

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 (ii) The F1 generation was self-pollinated. With the aid of genetic diagram, determine the F2 genotypes and
phenotypes. [8 marks]

(iii) What is the F2 phenotypic ratio [1 mark]

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( b) (i) Give two importance of lipids to animal [ 2 marks]

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( ii) Give two adaptations of a carnivore [2 marks]

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SECTION B
Answer all questions in this section
5. (a) A student drunk a lethal poison that heavily affected the liver. State three functions of the liver
that may be affected in the body of the student. [3 marks]
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(b) State two features each of the tissues below in plants:
(i) Parenchyma [2 marks]
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 (ii) Collenchyma [2 marks]
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(iii) Sclerenchyma [2 marks]

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( c) Define each of the following:
(i ) Action potential
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(ii ) Resting potential
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(iii ) Refractory period
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(iv) Instinctive reflex
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(d) (i) Give three importance of mitosis in animals. [3 marks]
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(ii) Give three differences between a cell membrane and cell wall [ 6 marks]
CELL MEMBRANE CELL WALL

(iii) List four importance of the lymphatic system in animals [4 marks]

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