Biology Form One - 100 Homework Questions & 25-Question Model Exam

Form One Biology serves as the gateway to all life sciences in secondary education, establishing fundamental scientific inquiry,experimental safety, and cellular concepts. Developed strictly in accordance with the Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE)
Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (CSEE) Biology Syllabus and the curriculum framework curated on the Dadisi
Digital Library (Grade 1 Biology), this comprehensive workbook covers all 5 official syllabus topics:
• Introduction to Biology: Concept of biology and life, seven characteristics of living things (MRS GREN), classical and applied
branches (Botany, Zoology, Microbiology, Physiology, Genetics, Ecology), relationship with other sciences, importance of
biology, the scientific method, biological apparatus, field collecting safety, scientific drawing rules, and magnification calculations.
• Safety in Our Environment: First Aid concepts and objectives, First Aid kit components and uses, emergency administration
for severe bleeding, burns and scalds, shock, fainting, choking (Heimlich maneuver), chemical and food poisoning, snake bites,
electric shock, fractures, and stings; biology laboratory safety rules, hazard warning symbols (Toxic, Flammable, Corrosive,
Explosive, Biohazard, Oxidizing, Irritant), and safe waste disposal.
• Health and Immunity: WHO definition of health, immunity mechanisms (Natural innate vs acquired, Artificial active vs
passive), predisposing factors, personal and menstrual hygiene, water-borne diseases and oral rehydration salts (ORS), sexually
transmitted infections (STIs: Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Candidiasis, Trichomoniasis), HIV/AIDS virology, transmission routes, clinical
progression stages, prevention (ABC, PMTCT, PEP, PrEP), Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), and compassionate home-based care.
• Cell Structure and Organisation: Concept of cell, cell theory and historical milestones (Hooke, Leeuwenhoek, Schleiden,
Schwann, Virchow), compound light microscope mechanics and optics, specimen slide preparation (onion epidermal wet mount),
plant vs animal cell organelles (nucleus, cell wall, chloroplasts, mitochondria, vacuoles, ribosomes, ER, Golgi apparatus), cell
specialization (erythrocytes, sperm, neurons, root hairs, xylem, guard cells), and hierarchical levels of biological organization
(cells → tissues → organs → systems → organism).
• Classification of Living Things: Concept and importance of systematics, artificial vs natural classification systems, Linnaean
taxonomic hierarchy (Kingdom to Species), biological species concept, binomial nomenclature rules, Whittaker's Five Kingdom
system, Kingdom Monera (bacterial anatomy and economics), Kingdom Protoctista (Amoeba, Paramecium, Euglena), Kingdom
Fungi (Rhizopus bread mould, yeasts, penicillium), and acellular viruses