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B1 KEY CONCEPTS Flashcards

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What is magnification

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The number of times bigger something appears under a microscope

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What is the eyepiece lens

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The lens on a microscope that you look through

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What is the objective lens

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The lens at the bottom of a microscope. There are normally three you can choose from

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What is total magnification

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Eyepiece lens x objective lens

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What is resolution

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The smallest distance between two points did so that they can still be seen as two separate points

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6
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What are stains

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Dyes added to microscopes slides to show the details more clearly.

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What’s a milli

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Thousandth, 1x10-3

a millimetre is a thousandth of a metre

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What is a micro

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Millionth, 1x10-6

A micrometre is a millionth of a metre

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What is a nano

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Billionth, 1x10-9

A nanometre is a billionth if a metre

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What is a pico

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Trillionth, 1x10-12

A picometre is a trillionth of a metre

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11
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Cell

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The basics structural unit of all living things (the building blocks of life)

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Parts of an animal cell

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Cell membrane 
Cytoplasm 
Nucleus 
Ribosomes 
Mitochondria 
Cell wall 
Permanent vacuole 
Chloroplasts
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Parts of a plant cell

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Cell membrane 
Cytoplasm 
Nucleus 
Ribosomes 
Mitochondria 
Cell wall 
Permanent vacuole 
Chloroplasts
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Cell membrane

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Controls what enters and leave the cell

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Cytoplasm

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A jelly like substance where chemical reactions take place

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Nucleus

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Contains DNA and controls the cell

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Ribosomes

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Produces protein

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Mitochondria

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Releases energy by aerobic respiration

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19
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Cell wall

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Protects and supports the cell

Made of cellulose

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Permanent vacuole

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Store sap and helps to support the cell

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21
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Chloroplasts

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Where photosynthesis happens

Contains chlorophyll

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Micrograph

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A picture produced by a microscope

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23
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Light microscopes

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A microscope that uses light can magnify up to 1500 times

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Electron microscope

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A microscope that uses electrons to produce an image can magnify up to 1000000 times

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25
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Actual size of cell

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Actual size= measured size: magnification

26
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Convert mm to um

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Micrometers (um) = millimetres (mm) x 1000

27
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Small intestine

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Job- to absorb small food molecules produced during digestion

Adaptations - tiny folds called microvilli that increase their surface area

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Sperm cell

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Job- fertilise an egg and deliver male DNA

Adaptations- a tail to swim mitochondria to give energy for swimming. An acrosome to break through the eggs jelly coat , haploid nucleus with only half the total DNA

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Egg cell

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Job- to be fertilised by a sperm and then develop an embryo

Adaptations- jelly coat to protect the cell many mitochondria and nutrients to provide energy for growth haploid nucleus with only half the total DNA

30
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Ciliated epithelial cell

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Job- to clear mucus out of your lungs

Adaptations- small hairs on the surface called cilia which wave to sweep mucus along

31
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Parts of a bacterial cell

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All bacteria - cell memebrane, cell wall , cytoplasm , ribosomes , chromosomal DNA , plasmid DNA

Some bacteria - flagellum

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Chromosomal DNA

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Large piece of DNA containing most genes

33
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Plasmid DNA

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Small loops of DNA containing a few genes

34
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Flagellum

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A tail used for movement

35
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Eukaryotic cells

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Cells with a nucleus

36
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Prokaryotic cells

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Cell without a nucleus

37
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Digestion

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Breaking large food molecules down into ones small enough to absorbed by the small instestine

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Catalyst

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A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being used up

39
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Enzyme

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A protein that works as a catalyst to speed up the reactions in our cells

40
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Digestive enzymes

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Enzymes that break large food molecules down into smaller ones

41
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Amylase

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Where found- saliva
Small intestine

What it does- breaks down starch into simple sugars such as maltose

42
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Lipase

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Where found - small intestine

What it does- breaks down proteins into amino acids

43
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Protease

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Where found- stomach
Small intestine

What it does- breaks down proteins into amino acids

44
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Substrate

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The chemicals that an enzyme works on

45
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Active site

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An area of an enzyme with the same shape as the substrate

46
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Lock and key mechanism

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The substrates moves into the active site and reacts to form the products
The products leave the active site do another substrate can then enter and so on

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Specificity

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Each enzyme can only work on one substrate because the shape of the active site to match

48
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Denature

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When the shape of the active site changes shape so the enzyme stops working

49
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Optimum temperature

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The temperature when an enzyme works fastest

50
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Increasing the temperature

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Increasing to optimum
Rate increases because particles move faster

Increasing past optimum
Rate decreases as enzyme denatures

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Optimum pH

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The pH when enzyme works fastest (around pH 6-8 for most human enzyme)

52
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Changing pH

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Rate decreases as you move away from the optimum because the enzyme denatures

53
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Increasing substrate concentration

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As first rate increases but then it levels out as the enzyme is working as fast as possible

54
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Concentration

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The number of particles In a given volume

55
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Concentration gradient

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The difference in concentration between neighbouring areas

56
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Diffusion

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The movement of particles from high to low concentration

57
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Diffusion examples

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Lungs- oxygen into blood carbon dioxide out of blood

Leaf-carbon dioxide into leaf oxygen out of leaf

58
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Partially permeable membrane

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A membrane that allows some molecules but not others to pass through it

59
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Osmosis

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The movement of water across a partially permeable membrane from high water/low solute conc to low water/high solute conc

60
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Osmosis examples

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Water into plant roots water in/out of any cells

61
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Active transport

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Using energy to move substances from low to high concentration

62
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Active transport examples

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Minerals being absorbed into plant roots

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