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All the chemical reactions going on in cells
Metabolism
Cell specialised to carry electrical impulses. Nerve cells.
Neurone
Carrying out a process, such as producing food, with the minimum loss of energy.
Efficiency
The amount of useful product e.g. crop from plants.
Yield
A way of showing what organisms eat, showing the flow of energy from one organism to the next.
Food chain
Change in the structure of a gene. This may results in a different characteristic being developed.
Mutation
Organ such as a gland or muscle that responds to a stimulus.
Effector
The survival of organisms better adapted to their environment.
Natural selection
The brain and spinal cord.
Central nervous system (CNS)
Testing a drug to make sure it works and has no harmful side effects.
Clinical trial
Scientific equipment that enables pollution levels to be monitored e.g. pH meters.
Non-living indicators
Microscopic organism such as bacteria or fungi.
Microbe
Being very overweight
Obese
The number of organisms of a species in a given area.
Population
Dummy pill or treatment with NO active drug in it.
Placebo
Chemical reaction in plants that builds glucose from carbon dioxide and water, using sunlight energy.
Photosynthesis
The ability some bacteria develop meaning that an antibiotic will not kill them anymore.
Antibiotic resistance
Organ or part of the body that responds to a particular hormone.
Target organ
A female sex hormone involved in regulating the menstrual cycle.
Oestrogen
The body becomes dependent on a drug and will not function properly without it.
Addiction
Your body?s system that fights infections, involving white blood cells and antibodies.
Immune system
Release of a mature egg from an ovary.
Ovulation
Clinical trial in which neither the patients nor the doctors know whether they are getting the real treatment or a placebo.
Double blind trial
Taking part of a plant and making new plants by asexual reproduction.
Cuttings
A substance that prevents conception (getting pregnant).
Contraception
Sudden outbreak of a disease that affects many people within a country.
Epidemic
A plants response to the pull of gravity. Roots grow towards it, and sshoots grow away from it.
Geotropic
Hormones produced in the sex organs (ovaries and testes).
Sex hormones
Chemical that carries the genetic code.
DNA
Changing an organism?s genes to give it desirable characteristics.
Genetic modification
Weedkiller.
Herbicide
Chemical sprayed onto crop plants to kill pests such as insects.
Pesticide
Fertilisation carried out outside the body, so the egg and sperm join in a glass dish to form an embryo that is injected back into the women?s uterus.
In vitro fertilisation (IVF)
If you are addicted to a drug, when you stop taking it you get unpleasant symptoms such as pain and tremors.
Withdrawal symptoms
Fast automatic response of the body to a potentially dangerous stimulus, coordinated by the spinal cord.
Reflex action
Small gap between neurones, or between a neurone and effector.
Synapse
A female sex hormone, involved in making eggs mature in the ovaries.
FSH
Single-celled microorganism, 1-5 ?m long. They do not have DNA enclosed inside a nucleus
Bacteria
Segment of DNA that codes for a particular characteristic or protein.
Gene
Reproduction without gametes/sex cells, using mitosis.
Asexual reproduction
Charged particle, e.g. Na+, K+, Mg+.
Ion
A process by which microbes break down dead bodies or waste.
Decay