Candidates Name: ……..............................................................................................

Random No. Personal No.

Signature: …...........................................

(Do not write your School/ Centre Name or Number anywhere on this Booklet.)
553/2&3
BIOLOGY
Paper 2
2024
2½ hours

UGANDA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD

Uganda Certificate of Education

BIOLOGY

Paper 2&3
Practical

2 hours 30 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:

This paper consists of two examination items. Answer all the items in the spaces
provided.

Drawings should be made in the spaces provided. Use sharp pencils for your
drawings. Coloured pencils or crayons should not be used.

No additional sheets of writing paper are to be inserted in the booklet.

Work on additional sheets will not be scored.

© 2024 Uganda National Examinations Board Turn Over

Item1.
Mary’s 5-year-old baby frequently falls sick and has to visit the hospital regularly.
The doctor told her that the frequent sickness is as a result of feeding. Mary feeds
her baby on food nutrients; A and B plus food supplement containing mineral salts,
fats and roughages. Mary is wondering what could be missing in her baby’s food.
Task:
Carry out investigations on the food samples A and B and use your findings to
advise Mary accordingly.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
2
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

3 Turn Over
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

4
Item 2.

Biteke Secondary School had some classroom blocks constructed using wood.
After One year the head teacher realised that the poles in S1 classroom block were
partly destroyed with holes in them. The school had spent a lot of money on the
classroom block and did not have any money to construct another one.

Specimens X and Y were some of the most common organisms that S.1 students
collected from their classrooms.

Task:
(a) (i) How do the features on the organisms enable the organism to enter
and survive in the
classroom?

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

5 Turn Over
__________________________________________________________________

6
(ii) Explain to the head teacher which organism was able to cause such
serious damage to the classroom block.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
(b) Draw and label the head of specimen X.

7 END