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Secondary 3 Express Biology

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Class Test #6: Transport in Mammals

Duration: 30 minutes

5100 / 2 : Section A (Short-Structured Questions)

Answer the following questions in the spaces provided.

1. Fig 1.0 shows a section through a blood vessel.

Fig 1.0

(a) Name the type of blood vessel shown. [1]

Vein

(b) Give two reasons to justify your answer to (a). [2]

Presence of valve;
Thin wall and large lumen.

(c) The type of blood vessel shown in Fig 1.0 carries oxygenated blood. State the
specific name of this blood vessel and briefly state its function [2]

Pulmonary vein;
Transport oxygenated blood from lungs to the heart.
[Total: 5]

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2. Fig. 1.1 shows a diagram of a human heart.

Fig 1.1

(d) Left Ventricle

[1]
Correct area
shaded [1]

(a) Name structure X. [1]

Septum.

(b) Briefly describe the importance of structure X. [2]

Prevents mixing of oxygenated blood with deoxygenated blood;
Ensures all oxygenated blood is sent to all parts of the body;
Ensures all deoxygenated blood is sent to the lungs.
Any 2 of the above.

(c) Suggest the implication of a hole existing at X at the location labeled in Fig 1.1.
[3]
Ref to Left Ventricle: Oxygenated blood in LV will be mixed with
deoxygenated blood from RV;
Lower concentration of oxygen carried in blood inside LV compared to
normal case;
Non-fully oxygenated blood does not contain enough oxygen to be
distributed to body cells in systemic circulation.

(d) Shade and name the regions with the thickest wall. Justify your answer. [3]

Reject if shaded area overlaps with region of RV.

Justification: Enables LV’s muscular walls to pump blood more forcefully
with higher pressure to all body cells in systemic circulation. [Total: 9]

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3. Compare the differences in the structures and blood flow inside the three named types
of blood vessels you have studied. [6]

Blood vessel [1] Artery Capillary Vein

Wall [1] and Wall is thick, Wall is one-cell Wall is thin, less
Lumen size [1] muscular and thick, lumen size muscular and
elastic, relatively of a RBC elastic, lumen
small lumen size large
relatively
Valves [1] Absent Absent Semi-lunar
valves to
prevent
backflow of
blood
Blood flow [2] 1. Blood moves 1. Blood flows 1. Blood flows
along by smoothly smoothly and
contraction of slowly
the muscles of 2. Pressure at
its walls. arteriole end > 2. Blood moves
pressure at along vein by
2. Blood flows venule end. contractions of
under great the body
pressure, fast, in muscles on the
spurts. vein

[Total: 6]

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