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Biology Mid-Term Exam Paper 2025

This document is an examination paper for Senior Three Biology students at El-De'ot Secondary School in Uganda, scheduled for March 2025. It contains instructions for the exam, which consists of four items, including questions related to respiration in athletes and the digestion of food. Students are required to answer all questions in the provided answer sheets.

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Biology Mid-Term Exam Paper 2025

This document is an examination paper for Senior Three Biology students at El-De'ot Secondary School in Uganda, scheduled for March 2025. It contains instructions for the exam, which consists of four items, including questions related to respiration in athletes and the digestion of food. Students are required to answer all questions in the provided answer sheets.

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BIOLOGY
Paper 1
(Theory)
March 2025
2 hours

EL-DE’OT SECONDARY SCHOOL BUDDO


Uganda Certicate Of Education
MID TERM ONE EXAM 2025
SENIOR THREE
BIOLOGY
Paper 1
(Theory)
2 Hours
INSTRUCTIONS:
 This paper consists of four items
 Attempt all questions
 All answers to these questions must be written in the answer sheets provided
FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY
ITEM MARKS

1
2

3
4

TOTAL

EL-DE’OT BIO DEPT- MOT 1 2025 “the lord teaches the learned” Page 1 of 4
ITEM 1:

ITEM 2
Tobi amusan an athlete in Africa, during her interview after winning the Olympics
medal 2022, she narrated how her life journey started and why she was grateful for
the great achievement. In the story, she experienced many challenges in the start of
the hobby, where she could experience muscle cramps during running and also she
could breathe faster and deeply and faster just after running. When asked on which
things she could eat before a run, only glucose and water she replied. Study the race
in picture below and attempt the following questions

EL-DE’OT BIO DEPT- MOT 1 2025 “the lord teaches the learned” Page 2 of 4
a) Describe how respiration was a key factor in the victory of Tobi amusan. (03marks)
b) During running, both aerobic and anaerobic respiration occurs; Tobi amusan claimed.
i). State why anaerobic respiration during running. (02marks)
ii). State three differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration during running. (03marks)
c) Explain why Tobi amusan could
i). Suffer from muscle cramps during faster running. (02marks)
ii). Breathe faster and deeply after running. (02marks)
d) Give a reason why athletes are given glucose than eating food five minutes to the start of the race.
(02marks)

ITEM 3
Otim, an S.2 student ate a meal consisting of an egg, cooked cassava and ground nuts during his
breakfast. After eating his breakfast, Otim went back to class for his mid-morning lessons. As a
student who has acquired knowledge about how animals obtain their food, ingest it, digest it and
final products of digestion absorbed; help Otim understand how the meal he ate was broken down
in the body until when the final products of digestion were absorbed. (15 marks)

EL-DE’OT BIO DEPT- MOT 1 2025 “the lord teaches the learned” Page 3 of 4
ITEM 4

20 scores

EL-DE’OT BIO DEPT- MOT 1 2025 “the lord teaches the learned” Page 4 of 4

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