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.