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Biology for Secondary Schools

Write TRUE for a correct statements and FALSE for an incorrect statements in
the spaces provided.
8. A virus is an extremely small organism. _______
9. Kingdom Monera includes Amoeba sp. _______
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10. Plasmodium sp. is a parasite that causes sleeping sickness. _______
11. Rhizoids are found in moulds and mosses. _______
12. Coniferophyta is one of the divisions of the Kingdom Plantae. _______

13. Explain the effects of the following organisms to humans.
(a) Entamoeba sp.
(b) Plasmodium sp.
(c) Trypanosoma sp.

14. List characteristics of phylum to which Euglena sp. belongs.
15. A bread was put in a moist cupboard. After a few days black thread-like
structures which ended up in club-like structure appeared on the bread.

(a) Write the common name of the organism that grew on the bread
surface.
(b) Name the kingdom to which the observed organism belongs.
(c) Name the phylum or division in which the observed organism belongs.
(d) Outline the advantages of the members of the kingdom you mentioned
in (b) above.
16. What features make cockroach and human being to belong in the same
kingdom?
17. Classify each of the following organisms to phylum level; (a) tape worm,
(b) housefly and (c) monkey.

18. Mtakuja villagers believe that all insects are dangerous. They decided
to kill them by spraying insecticide. As a biologist, convince them that
insects are beneficial to their lives.

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