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[Personal identifier removed] Biology Higher level Paper 3 © International Baccalaureate Organization 2017 40 pages 2217 – 6009 Instructions to candidates • Write your session number in the boxes above. • Do not open this examination paper until instructed to do so. • Answers must be written within the answer boxes provided. • A calculator is required for this paper. • The maximum mark for this examination paper is [45 marks]. Section A Questions Answer all questions. 1 – 3 Section B Questions Answer all of the questions from one of the options. Option A — Neurobiology and behaviour 4 – 7 Option B — Biotechnology and bioinformatics 8 – 12 Option C — Ecology and conservation 13 – 17 Option D — Human physiology 18 – 22 1 hour 15 minutes Tuesday 2 May 2017 (morning) 40EP01 M17/4/BIOLO/HP3/ENG/TZ1/XX – 2 – Section A Answer all questions. Write your answers in the boxes provided. 1. A study was carried out to explore the impact of various sports on pulmonary functions in professional athletes. The forced vital capacity (FVC) is the maximum volume of air a person can expel from the lungs after full inspiration. Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV) is the volume of air that can forcibly be blown out in one second, after full inspiration. The table below summarizes the mean results for the different sports including the standard deviation. (a) (i) State one type of apparatus that could be used to measure lung capacity. [1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (ii) Outline how the FVC could be measured using the apparatus in (a)(i). [2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
File information
Subject
Biology
Document type
Question paper
Year
2017
Session
May
Level
HL
Paper
3
Examination zone
TZ1
Language
Not labelled in the archive
File size
1.7 MB
Pages
40
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