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LCE
S3 BIOLOGY
November, 2023
2 hours
LCE EXAMINATIONS 2023
Uganda Certificate of Lower Secondary Education
END OF YEAR ASSESSMENT 2023
SENIOR THREE
BIOLOGY
2 hours
INSTRUCTIONS
All items in section A are compulsory
Attempt any TWO items in section B.
SECTION A: (Intermediate level)
1. LCE’s farm has many plants with so many roots. The suitability of roots in the farm is
unknown to the Bureau. Use the photographs below to respond accordingly.
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Task
Sensitize LCE and other farmers, how roots may be modified to perform different
functions for plants? (05 scores)
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2. An assistant in the biology laboratory is looking for a housefly, cockroach, mosquito,
termite, bee and butterfly for the practical examinations.
Task
Advise him on where he can find and how he can identify each insect with a unique
structural feature from the rest? (10 scores)
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3. The farmer in Mukono has a well-established fish farm. Fishes are exchanged among
different ponds by trained employees. Employees were previously trained to drain
fishes together with water from pond to pond simultaneously, but without an
explanation. The farmer, recently recruited untrained new employees who are draining
water from ponds first, before moving fishes from one pond to another. The farmer is
now challenged with an increased number of fish deaths under new employees’ care
unlike in those days of old trained employees.
Task
Write an explanation you may give to the fish farmer to solve this challenge?
(05 scores)
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4. You were part of the village health team which investigated, causes and prevention of
high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and stroke.
Task
Write a report back to members of your village? (05 scores)
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5. The school warden called for an assembly where he informed the school that he won’t
tolerate boys who bath but forget to brush. Anyone found shall be suspended
immediately.
Task
Write a message to support the school warden as the school health prefect? (05 scores)
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6. You’re a group leader in a class where the teacher taught the process involved in the
digestion of starch in the alimentary canal. All group members failed to understand the
flow.
Task
Use the tree diagram to summarise the key aspects involved in the process of digestion
of starch? (10 scores)
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SECTION B: (High order level)
7. The farmers of Kigezi highlands, Karamoja and Lake Victoria basin presented their
concerns of reduced soil fertility which has resulted into low yields in their regions.
This was tabled on the floor of parliament and the matter was referred to the Ministry
of Agriculture, Animal industry and Fisheries (MAAIF).
Write a statement, explaining causes of reduced soil fertility and methods of promoting
soil conservation in each region as a permanent secretary and biologist?
(20 scores)
8. The most accurate tailor in Kampala took chest circumference measurements for John
and Joel. Measurements were taken when John was breathing in and Joel was breathing
out. The tailor made shirts for John and Joel following their accurate measurements.
However, neither the shirt made for John nor Joel fitted them in the chest. Both John
and Joel are complaining and the tailor has no clear explanations for each and for
himself.
John Joel
Write an explanation which you may give to John, Joel and the tailor? (20 scores)
9. Teaching children how lungs function to ensure ventilation seems difficult. As a
graduate of biology in gaseous exchange, design a model and demonstrate how it can
be used to teach the mechanism of breathing in, to enable children understand it with
locally available materials.
Your design should include aspects like title, list of each material and the part it
represents on the human respiratory system, Procedures, illustration of the model,
explanation of how it works and conclusion. (20 scores)
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