- SPECIMEN'S PROVIDED
Specimen A - Mixture of groundnut paste and water.
Specimen B - Lizard/ Agama Lizard.
Specimen C - Grasshopper.
Specimen D - Grass (freshly uprooted, standing in water)
Specimen E - Garden soil.
Specimen F - Branch of Cactus plant
Specimen G - Quill feather
Specimen H - Bony scales.
Specimen J - Spirogyra filament.
Specimen L - Branch/twig of Cocoa
(Theobroma cacao)Fig/Avocado pear/Gimelina/Cashew with leaves in a bucket ofwater.
Specimen M - Freshly uprooted Elephant grass (Panicum maximum)/any
wild grass(not sedges) with soil washed off the roots in a
bucket of water.
Question 1
(a) Specimen A is a food mixture.
Carry out the instructions given in 1 (a)(i) to (iii) and record your observations
and inference as shown in the format of the Table below:
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(i) Put a drop of A on a white tile and add a few drops of iodine solution.
Record your observation and inference.
(ii) Put 2cm2 of A in a test tube and add 1cm3 of sodium hydroxide solution and shake the mixture. Add 1.0% copper (II) sulphate solution drop by drop to the mixture in the test tube. Shake the test tube after each drop and record your observation and inference.
(iii) Smear a drop of the mixture A on a piece of white paper, hold the paper against sun light, record your observation and inference. [6 marks]
(b) Which of the classes of food in mixture A is likely to be absorbed first into the blood stream after digestion? [1 mark]
(c) For each class of food identified in mixture A;
(i) name two local sources;
(ii) state two uses to the human body. [12 marks]
(d) Name two elements each present in the food classes identified in the mixture A. [6 marks]