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What is the nervous systems job?

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To detect stimuli because this allows us to coordinate behaviour

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What is the definition of stimuli?

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Changes in the environment, such as sound, temperature, light and smell

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What receptors do eyes have?

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Light receptors for sight (rods and cones that both have a cell membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus)

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What receptors does the nose have?

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Chemical receptors for smell

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What receptors does the tongue have?

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Chemical receptors for taste

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What receptors does skin have?

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Ones that are sensitive to touch, pressure, temperature and pain

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What receptors do ears have?

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Sound receptors and receptors that detect position to help balance

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What is the central nervous system?

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The brain and spinal chord

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When receptors detect a change in the environment where do they send a message to?

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The CNS as an impulse

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If you touch something hot, what happens to make you move your hand?

(Check this with Dr E book)

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Stimulus - receptor in sense organ - sensory neurone - relay neurone - spinal chord - motor neurone - effector (eg muscle) - response (eg move hand)

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What are effectors?

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A muscle or a gland

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What are glands?

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Parts of the body which release hormones or sometimes enzymes

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What is a synapse?

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A small gap between 2 neurones

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What are reflexes?

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Responses designed to protect you. Does NOT involve the brain.

Stimulus - sensory neurone - spinal chord - relay neurone - motor neurone - effector (e.g. Muscle) - response (e.g. Move hand)

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If you aren’t eating or drinking how does your body raise your blood sugar?

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A hormone will release glucose from stores in the body from the liver and the muscles

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How can body temperature increase?

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Exercise
Warm weather
Blood flowing as far as it can from the skin

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How can body temperature decrease?

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Sweating

Blood flowing closer to the skin to radiate heat

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Why does the body require a temperature of 37 degrees Celsius?

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Because the enzymes can’t work much above or below 37 degrees Celsius

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What does homeostasis mean?

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Controlling conditions and substances in the body

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Why is water important in the body?

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All chemical reactions happen in a watery environment, so reducing the amount of water limits the ability of those chemical reactions

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How can water get into the body?

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Drinking

Eating

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How can water leave the body?

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Breathing
Sweating
Urinating

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How do ions get into the body?

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Eating

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How are ions lost from the body?

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Sweating

Urinating

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What are calcium ions used for?
Strengthening teeth and bones
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What are sodium and potassium ions used for?
Helping nerve cells to send messages
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How does blood sugar increase?
Eating | Drinking
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How does blood sugar decrease?
Exercise | Insulin (a hormone which helps to reduce blood sugar)
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What do hormones control in the body?
Blood sugar Water levels Release of eggs Growth
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What does the pituitary gland do?
Produces FSH | Produces LH
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What does FSH do?
Matures the egg | Produces oestrogen
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What does oestrogen do?
Thickens uterus lining Switches off FSH Produces LH
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What does LH do?
Releases the egg | Switches off oestrogen
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What happens on day 1-5 in the menstrual cycle?
Old egg is removed, uterus lining is thinned
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What happens on day 1-12 in the menstrual cycle?
New egg matures in ovaries
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What happens on day 12-16 in the menstrual cycle?
Egg is released from ovaries
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What happens on day 20-28 in the menstrual cycle?
Egg is in womb
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What is used to stop pregnancy?
Oral contraceptive
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What is used to encourage pregnancy?
IVF
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What was the problem with the first contraceptive pills made?
They caused lots of side effects including headaches and high blood pressure
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What do contraceptive pills today contain?
A lower dose of oestrogen with progesterone, or just progesterone
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What happens in IVF treatment?
~ Fertility drug given to woman containing FSH and LH, which releases eggs ~ Mature eggs removed and put in a glass petri-dish ~ Eggs fertilised with mans sperm, then the eggs grow into embryos (small balls of cells) ~ Embryos put back into the woman's womb
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What do enzymes do?
Ensure reactions in the body happen quick enough to keep us alive
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How do plants act towards light?
They grow in a direction so that they are in the sun (this is called phototropism)
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What is it called when shoots of plants grow up against gravity?
Negative geotropism / gravitotropism
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How do plants ensure they get enough moisture?
Their roots grow towards the force of gravity so they can get all the moisture deep underground
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What does the hormone auxin do in plants?
~ Encourages growth of shoots | ~ Slows growth of roots
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What is the process of phototropism in shoots? (Growing towards light)
~ Auxin flows down shoots ~ When there is a source of light from a direction, the auxin moves away from that direction (which causes the shoot to bend towards the light)
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What does auxin do in the roots of a plant?
If a root is growing horizontally, the auxin will move to the bottom, which will slow the growth on that side and the root will bend downwards
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What can plant hormones by used for?
~ Encouraging cuttings to grow roots | ~ Killing weeds
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What are neurones?
Specially adapted cells that can carry an electrical signal
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What are plants sensitive to?
~ Light ~ Moisture ~ Gravity
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What does auxin control?
~ Phototropism | ~ Gravitropism (geotropism)
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Where is more stomata found?
More stomata is found on the lower surface of leaf than upper surface
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Where do plants mostly lose water vapour from?
Their leaves
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When conditions cause more evaporation in a plant?
Hot, dry and windy conditions
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What can the stomata do if plants lose water faster than it is replaced by?
The stomata can close to prevent wilting
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What is the size of stomata controlled by?
Guard cells
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What does the relay neurone do?
Sends a message from one nerve cell to another nerve cell
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Why is the hormone oestrogen used in contraceptive pills?
Because it inhibits FSH which stops the process of eggs maturing

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