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O-LevelBiologyCoordination & Response5090/22 · Oct/Nov 2017 · Q58 Marks

Muscles are arranged around joints in pairs. One muscle contracts to bend a limb at a joint, and the other contracts to straighten it. [Figure 5.1]

  1. (a)(i)State the term for muscles that act in this way[1]
  2. (a)(ii)Name the muscle in your arm that contracts to move your hand away from your nose after smelling a flower.[1]
  3. (b)(i)Using the letters in Fig. 5.1, identify the two muscles that contract to move the leg off the ground from position R to position S. and[2]
  4. (b)(ii)State what happens to the other muscles in Fig. 5.1 during this action.[1]
  5. (c)Describe how a similar arrangement of muscles in the eye helps vision in dim light.[3]

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Mark scheme

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  1. [1] antagonistic;
  2. [1] triceps;
  3. [2] W;
  4. [2] Y;
  5. [1] relax;
  6. [3] 1 (muscles) in iris ;
  7. [3] 2 radial + contract ;
  8. [3] 3 circular + relax ;
  9. [3] 4 pupil + wider / dilates / expands AW ;
  10. [3] 5 more light;
  11. [3] 6 retina / rods / cones / photoreceptors AW ;

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Topic
Coordination & Response, O-Level Biology (syllabus 5090). Structured question, 8 marks.
Source
O-Level Biology, Oct/Nov 2017 Paper 2 Variant 2, question 5.

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