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What is the role of the cereba cortex?

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Controls intelligence, consciousness, memory and language.

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What is the role of the cerebellum?

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Controls muscular activity and balance.

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What is the role of the medulla?

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Controls unconscious activity e.g such as heart beat, breathing, digestion.

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What is the role of the Lens?

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Focuses the light rays by refraction onto the retina.

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What is the role of the Cornea?

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Protects the front of the eye and helps to focus the light.

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What is the role of the Iris?

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Made of muscle that can increase or decrease pupil size.

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What is the role of the Pupil?

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Gap between iris that allows light to reach the retina.

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What is the role of the Retina?

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Contains light-sensitive cells that receive an image and pass it to the brain.

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What is the role of the Suspensory ligaments?

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Hold the lens in position.

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What is the role of the Ciliary muscles?

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Contract to stretch the lens and relax to make the lens rounder.

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What is the role of the Sclera?

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Tough outer coating of the eye.

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What is Myopia?

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*Short-sightedness
*Caused by lens too round or long eyeball
*treated by concave lens glasses

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What is hyperopia?

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*Long-sightedness
*Cause by lens to flat or eyeball too short
*Fixed by convex lens glasses

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How do the eyes adjust to bright light?

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*Circular muscles contract
*Radial muscles relax
*Pupil constricts

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How do eyes adjust to dim light?

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*Circular muscles relax
*Radial muscles contract
*Pupil dilates

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How do the eyes focus on near objects?

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*Ciliary muscles contract
*Suspensory ligaments loosen
*Lens is then thicker and refract
*Light rays strongly

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How do the eyes focus on distant objects?

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*Ciliiary muscles relax
*Suspensory ligaments pulled tight
*Lens pulled thin and only slightly refracts light

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How are lenses when they are relaxed?

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*Lens spring, unless pulled will be fat
*Fat lenses refract more light

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Describe the reflex arc?

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Stimulus–> Receptor –> Coordinator –> Effector–> Response

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What is the reflex arc?

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Transmission of a nerve impulse from a receptor to the central nervous system and effector, to bring about a response to a stimulus.

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How do scientists use patients with brain damage to study the brain?

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*Study patients with brain damage-you can tell what area is damaged by the affect it has.

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How do scientists use electronic stimulation of the brain to study it.

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Pushing a tiny electrode into the tissue and giving it a small zap of electricity and observing the effects of different areas being stimulated.

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How do scientists use MRI scans to study the brain?

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It produces a very detailed picture of the brain’s structure to find out what areas are active during certain activities.

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What are the problems with studying the brain?

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*Incredibly complex and delicate
*Risks physical damage to the brain or problems with brain fuction.

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How is body temperature controlled when body is too hot?

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*Temperature receptors detects that the body is too hot
*Thermoregulatory centre acts as coordination centre, receiving information from the temperature receptors and triggers effectors automatically
*Effectors produce a response to counteract change

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How is body temperature controlled when the body is too cold?

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*Temperature receptors detect temperatures are too low
*Thermoregulatory centre acts as a coordination centre, receiving information from temp receptors and triggers effectors automatically
*Effectors produce a response and counteract change

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How does the body cool itself down?

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*Sweat produced by sweat glands and evaporates from skin, transferring energy to the environment
*Blood vessels supplying the skin dilate so more blood flows close to the surface to transfer energy from skin to environment (vasodilation)
*Hairs lie flat to allow heat to transfer to surroundings

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How does the body warm itself up?

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*No sweat produced
*Blood vessels constrict to prevent transfer of heat to the surroundings (vasocontriction)
*Hairs erect to trap an insulating layer of air
*Shiver to produce thermal energy from respiration of muscles

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What is the endocrine system?

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Sending chemical messengers known as hormones around the body via the bloodstream

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What is the role of the pituitary gland?

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  • Produces many hormones that regulate body conditions
  • sometimes called the ‘master gland’
  • stimulates other glands
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What is the role of the thyroid gland?

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  • Produced thyroxine
  • regulating rate of metabolism, heart rate and temperature
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What is the role of the adrenal gland?

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  • produces adrenaline
  • prepares for ‘fight or flight’ responses
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What is the role of the pancreas?

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  • produces insulin
  • used to regulate blood glucose levels
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What is the role of the ovaries?

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  • produce oestrogen
  • involved in menstrual cycle
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What is the role of the testes?

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  • produces testosterone
  • controls puberty and sperm production
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What is the difference between hormones and nerves?

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  • nerves very fast - hormones much slower
  • nerves act for short tie - hormones act for long time
  • nerves act on a very precise area - hormones act in a more general way
  • nerves are electrical impulses - hormones diffuse through blood
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How does the body respond when blood glucose is too high?

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  • insulin secreted by pancreas
  • glucose moves from blood into liver and muscle cells
  • insulin makes liver turn glucose into glycogen
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How does the body respond when blood glucose is too low?

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  • glucagon secreted by pancreas
  • but glucagon as well
  • glucose released into blood by liver
  • glucagon makes liver turn glycogen into gluucose
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How are water levels maintained in the body?

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  • Water leaves body via lungs during exhalation
  • water, ions and urea are lost from the skin in sweat
  • no control over loss by the skins or lungs
  • excess water, ions and urea removed via kidneys in the urine
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How the kidney’s remove urea?

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  • proteins and amino acids can’t be stored by the body so any excess amino acids are converted into fats and carbohydrates in the liver, which can be stored
  • ammonia produced as a waste product
  • ammonia is toxic so converted to urea in the liver
  • urea transported to kidneys where filtered out of blood and excreted as urine
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How do the kidney’s remove ions?

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  • ions such as sodium taken in by food and absorbed into blood
  • if ion content wrong, could upset balance between ions and water, meaning more or less water drawn in or out of the cell by osmosis
  • some ions lost in sweat which is not regulated so balanced must be maintained by the kidneys
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Why is kidney failure so dangerous?

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Kidneys remove waste substances, waste substances build up and lose ability to control water and ion levels

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How does dialysis work?

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  • blood flows between partially permeable membrane surrounded by dialysis fluid
  • dialysis fluid contains same concentration of dissolved ions and glucose as healthy blood so no ions or glucose lost
  • only waste substances such as urea and excess ions and water diffuse across
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What are the disadvantages of dialysis?

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  • need sessions 3 times a week
  • each session takes 3-4 hours
  • may cause blood clots or infections
  • more expensive in the long run
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How do kidney transplants work?

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  • healthy kidneys usually transplanted from someone who has died suddenly
  • kidneys can also be transplanted from people still alive
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What are the disadvantages of kidney transplants?

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  • can be rejected by immune system
  • need to take immunosuppressants to minimise risk of rejection which can cause other illnesses
  • long wait
  • risk to person donating
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What is stage 1 of the menstrual cycle?

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  • menstruation starts and uterus lining breaks down for about 4 days
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What is stage 2 of the menstrual cycle?

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Uterus lining builds up again - from day 4 to 14 into thick spoungy layer of blood vessels to prepare for egg

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What is stage 3 of the menstrual cycle?

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An egg develops and is released from ovary at day 14 - ovulation

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What is stage 4 of the menstrual cycle?

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Wall is maintained for about 14 days until day 28 - if no fertilised egg received lining breaks down

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What are the 4 hormones involved in the menstrual cycle?

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  • FSH
  • Oestrogen
  • LH
  • Progesterone
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What is the role of FSH in the menstrual cycle?

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  • produced in pituitary gland
  • causes egg to mature in one of the ovaries as a follicle
  • stimulates ovaries to produce oestrogen
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What is the role of Oestrogen in the menstrual cycle?

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  • produced in the ovaries
  • causes lining of the uterus to grow
  • stimulates the release of LH (which causes egg release) and inhibits release of FSH
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What is the role of LH in the menstrual cycle?

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  • produced by the pituitary gland
  • stimulates release of egg at day 14
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What is the role of Progesterone in the menstrual cycle?

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  • produced in ovaries by the remains of follicule after ovulation
  • maintains lining of the uterus during second half of cycle - when progesterone levels fall, lining breaks down
  • inhibits release of LH and FSH
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How can hormones be used to reduce fertility?

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  • Oestrogen used to prevent release of egg as level kept permenantly high and inhibits FSH
  • Progesterone causes thick mucus that prevents sperm reaching egg
  • can be used as pill, patch, implant or IUD
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How can barriers be used as contraception?

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  • stop sperm meeting egg
  • condoms prevent sperm meeting egg and are the only contraception that protect against STD’s
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How is sterilisation used to avoid pregnancy?

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  • cutting or tying fallopian tubes or sperm ducts - permenant procedure
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Natural methods of contraception

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  • only having intercourse in the least fertile sections of cycle
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What is the role of auxin?

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  • plant growth hormone
  • controls growth near tips of shoots and roots
  • controls growth in response to light (phototropism) and gravity (gravotropism)
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How does auxin affect the shoots?

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  • shoot grows towards light
  • when shoot tip exposed to light more auxin accumulates on the side that’s in the shade so shoot bends towards light - when a shoot growing sideways, gravity produces unequal distribution of auxin in the tip with more auxin on lower side
  • lower side grows faster with more auxin on lower side
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How does auxin affect roots?

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  • root growing sideways always has more auxin on lower side
  • in a root extra auxin inhibits growth so cells on top elongate faster and root bends downwards
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How can auxins kill weeds?

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disturb normal growth patterns of broad-leaved plants which soon kills them

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How can auxins cause growth from cuttings with rooting powder?

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  • add rooting powder and stick in soil - produce roots rapidly that start growing as new plants
  • produce lots of clones very quickly
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How can auxins be used to grow cells in tissue cultures?

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  • auxins added to growth medium to stimulate cells to divide
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How can gibberelins be used?

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  • Controlling dormancy - make them germinate at different times of the year they normally wouldn’t
  • Inducing flowering - flower without changes in environmental conditions
  • Growing larger fruits
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How can ethene be used in plants?

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  • influences growth of plant by controlling cell division and stimulates enzymes that cause fruit to ripen
  • fruit can be picked unripe and ripened using ethene on the way to shops
  • can also be delayed with chemicals that block ethenes effect

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