Proposed Student Guide to the SBI3UI June Exam Mark Value: 30% of your year-end mark Length: 2 hours

Will be modified Part A: Matching Part B: Multiple Choice Part C: Diagrams (no student drawn labelling only) Part D: Short Answer Part E: Long Answer Part F: Sight Passage Check and Review Total Mark Value 7 28 23 21 15 6 100 Recommended Time Allotment (minutes) 5 30 15 20 25 15 10 120

UNIT 1: PLANTS: Anatomy, Growth and Function Chapter 14: Plant Characteristics and Functions Chapter 15: Using Plants Other Materials: Section 16.2, Section 9.5 Focus on: o Vascular bundles (components and functions) o Movement of materials in plants (Section 9.5) o Structure and function of leaves, stems, and roots o Functions of plant hormones o Adaptations of plants to different habitats (hydro, meso and xerophytes) UNIT 2: ANIMALS: Structure and Function Chapter 8: The Breath of Life Chapter 9: Transport and Circulation Chapter 10: Nutrients, Digestion and Nutrition You are responsible for Figure 8.16, Figure 9.25 and Figure 10.10 Focus on: o Importance of surface area to improve efficiency of function o How the circulation system is connected to both the Respiratory and Digestive systems in humans o The various gas exchange sites and their characteristics o Survey of the development from primitive systems to advanced systems in gas exchange, circulation and digestion UNIT 3: Genetic Processes Chapter 4: Heredity Chapter 5: Cellular Reproduction and Chromosomes Chapter 7: Human Genetics You will not be given problems where you have to show your work. Your study to include Figure 5.13. The majority of this unit will be examined using multiple choice questions. Here are two examples:

1. In fruit flies, winged is dominant to wingless, and red eyes are dominant to white eyes. If a
fully heterozygous fruit fly is crossed with a homozygous recessive fruit fly, the expected phenotypic ratio is A 1:2:1 Note: A Punnett Square is not being marked but B 9:3:3:1 you need to do one (in rough) to be able to C 3:1 answer the question. D 1:1:1:1 E none of the above

2. Which diagram below shows telophase? A B C D

UNIT 4: Diversity of Living Organisms Chapter 11: Patterns of Life Chapter 12: Mostly Micro-organisms Chapter 13: Plants and Animals Focus on: o Characteristics of 6 kingdoms and viruses o Protista Responsible for phyla (know difference between protozoa and algae; be able to recognize diagrams of diatoms, Amoeba and Paramecium) o Plantae Not responsible for phyla (know differences between gymnosperms and angiosperms; non-vascular and vascular plants) o Animalia Responsible for characteristics and correct spelling of Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, Chordates and classes of chordates. UNIT 5: Evolution (Except for Section 11.4, the text does not cover evolution) Focus on: o History of Evolution (Malthus, Lamarck and Darwin) o Evidence for evolution o Theory of Natural Selection (Darwin) o Mechanisms Limited resources, competition, genetic variation, natural selection o Speciation What is a species and how do they arise?

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