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OCR Gateway GCSE Combined Science November 2020 Paper 8

  • J250/08
  • Higher
  • Biology 2
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
  • 60 marks

Question paper, Mark scheme: on the OCR website.

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  • Health, lifestyle and cancer
  • Communities, abiotic and biotic factors, adaptations
  • Higher: full genetic crosses and genetic engineering
  • Protists, defences, vaccination and antibiotics
  • Reproduction, meiosis, DNA and inheritance
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What it tested

  • Organisation20 marks
  • Ecology15 marks
  • Inheritance, variation and evolution14 marks
  • Infection and response11 marks
  1. Q1Higher: full genetic crosses and genetic engineering1 mark
  2. Q2Reproduction, meiosis, DNA and inheritance1 mark
  3. Q3Communities, abiotic and biotic factors, adaptations1 mark
  4. Q4Communities, abiotic and biotic factors, adaptations1 mark
  5. Q5Higher: full genetic crosses and genetic engineering1 mark
  6. Q6Food chains, sampling and material cycles1 mark
  7. Q7Higher: full genetic crosses and genetic engineering1 mark
  8. Q8Pathogens: viral, bacterial and fungal diseases1 mark
7 more questions
  1. Q9Reproduction, meiosis, DNA and inheritance1 mark
  2. Q10Classifying living organisms1 mark
  3. Q11Health, lifestyle and cancerDigestion, enzymes, the heart and blood12 marks
  4. Q12Protists, defences, vaccination and antibioticsFossils, extinction and resistant bacteria10 marks
  5. Q13Communities, abiotic and biotic factors, adaptationsFood chains, sampling and material cycles12 marks
  6. Q14Higher: full genetic crosses and genetic engineeringHormones, blood glucose and contraception8 marks
  7. Q15Health, lifestyle and cancerHigher: full genetic crosses and genetic engineering8 marks

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