One to four mark example questions

Question

Erythromycin is an antibiotic drug.

What is an antibiotic? [2 marks]

OCR Gateway, GCE Biology, Paper J247 - Higher, 2016.

In many countries people rely on bananas for food.

Black sigatoka is a disease of banana plants.

It is caused by a fungus.

Explain how the good security/growth of bananas could be improved by using a fungicide. [1 mark]

OCR Gateway, GCE Biology, Paper J247, 2016.

Scientists are developing a genetically engineered banana plant.

This would be resistant to black sigatoka.

Look at the newspaper headline from an African newspaper.

Trouble at the genetic research station

Police have been called to a research station.

They are needed to guard the genetically modified plants.

This is because people have been trying to steal the plants to grow themselves.

In Europe, police have been used to guard genetically engineered crops from protesters.

Suggest why the protesters in Europe want to destroy the crops and why the response in Africa is so different. [2 marks]

OCR Gateway, GCE Biology, Paper J247 - Higher, 2016.