Ppt Rte 6106/02 W2 Edexcel GCE Biology Biology (Human) Advanced Unit Test 6 Paper 02 (W2) Monday 29 January 2007 — Morning Time: 1 hour 20 minutes ation Items included ‘Answer Book (ABO8) Nil Graph Paper (ASG2) Ruler question papers Instructions to Candidates In the boxes on the answer book provided, write the name of the examining body (Edexcel), your centre number, candidate number, the subject title, the paper reference, your surname, other names and signature. The paper reference is shown above. Answer BOTH questions in the answer book. Show all the steps in any calculations and state the units. Calculators may be used. Include diagrams in your answers where these are helpful. Additional answer sheets may be used. Information for Candidates ‘The marks for individual questions and the parts of questions are shown in round brackets: e.g. (2). ‘The total mark for this paper is 32. You will be assessed on your ability to organise and present information, ideas, descripti arguments clearly and logically, taking account of your use of grammar, punctuation and spelling. N24737A eee wee edexcel Wis publication may be reprodced ony in accordance with Eden Linitd copyright policy, C2007 Edexcel Limite advancing leaming, changing livesAnswer BOTH questions. 1. Skylarks are birds in the British Isles that are in serious decline. A sixth form student assisted in a piece of research to determine if the height of wheat stems left after harvesting affected the number of skylarks The study was conducted between October and March. Ten separate fields, numbered 1-10, were used on different ferms. An area of two hectares in each field was fenced. This area was divided into two plots, each of one hectare. In late October, one plot in each field was randomly selected and the wheat stems were cut to reduce their height. The other plot contained uncut stems and acted as a control. Five visits were made to each field in a randomly selected sequence. Each time, the numbers of skylarks were estimated by walking parallel transects across cut and uncut plots and counting the number of birds that flew out from each of them. An extract from the student’s field record is shown below. Plots with cut st 7 Visit number 12345 12345 Field number 1 Field number 2 Number of skylarks o10i11 ooiot | Field number 3 Field number 4 | Number of skylarks 21301 00900 | Field number 5 Field number 6 Number of skylarks 33232 21322 | Field number 7 Field number 8 Number of skylarks 01000 00000 Field number 9 Field number 10 Number of skylarks 12005 8765 5 it cut ste Field number 1 Field number 2 Number of skylarks 242i 01000 Field number 3 Field number 4 Number of skylarks 23432 55432 Field number 5 Field number 6 Number of skylarks 52220 34341 Field number 7 Field number 8 Number of skylarks 22221 OOOH | Field number 9 Field number 10 | Number of skylarks 21132 89957 | NUTHIA 2(a) For each field, calculate the mean number of skylarks in the plot with cut wheat stems and the mean number of skylarks in the plot with uncut wheat stems. Prepare a table, that includes the raw data, so that the means for each field can be compared. @ (b) Use the data in your table to present the data in a suitable graphical form. @) (©) State the null hypothesis for this investigation, Qa (d) The student decided to apply the Wilcoxon signed rank test to the paired data. This statistical test uses the differences between paired samples and is equivalent to a (-test for paired data. ‘The calculations produced a W value of 7. In order to support the student’s hypothesis, the W value is required to be less than the critical value. The table below shows the critical values for the Wilcoxon signed rank test at the p = 0.05 level. ‘Number of paired samples formation in the table to draw conclusions from this investigation. @) (Total 11 marks) NUT37A, 3 ‘Turn over2. Some students argue that listening to music helps them to memorise their notes when revising for examinations. Plan an investigation, which you personally could carry out, to test the hypothesis that listening to music will increase the performance of students on a specific learning task. Your answer should be given under the following headings. (a) Plan of the investigation to be carried out. (10) (b) Recording of raw data measurements, presentation of results and methods of data analysis. (6) (©) Limitations of your method and an indication of further work, which could be undertaken, to provide additional evidence for the conclusions. o) (Total 21 marks) TOTAL FOR PAPER: 32 MARKS 247370 4