Candidate's Strength
The observed strengths of the candidates include:
- some candidates were able to state a role of glucose and oxygen in respiration;
- ability to list the types of cellular respiration;
- ability to make a drawing of an open stoma;
- some candidates were able to name the structure of gaseous exchange in some organisms;
- ability to explain the terms ecosystem and abiotic environment;
- ability to list some ecological factors specific to aquatic and terrestrial habitat;
- ability to state Mendel’s laws of inheritance;
- ability to define evolution;
- ability to state the harmful effects of microorganisms to humans.