Biology

Question 1

What is the function of the stomach?

Answer 1

Food is mixed with strong acid and enzymes to break down food

Question 2

What is the function of the gall bladder?

Answer 2

Stores bile until it is released into the small intestine where it helps break down fats

Question 3

What is the structure and function of capillaries?

Answer 3

Form networks at tissues and organs. Very small only one cell thick. Allows substances to be exchanged between blood vessels and tissues

Question 4

What does every living cell need?

Answer 4

Oxygen and glucose

Question 5

What is the function of the Uterus?

Answer 5

Where the baby grows

Question 6

What is the function of the oviducts?

Answer 6

Carry the egg to the uterus

Question 7

What is the function of the penis?

Answer 7

carry sperm out of the body

Question 8

What is the function of the sperm tube?

Answer 8

Carries sperm to the penis

Question 9

What is the function of the testes?

Answer 9

Produce sperm cells

Question 10

When is it called a zygote?

Answer 10

When the egg has been fertilized

Question 11

When the egg is beginning to divide what is it called?

Answer 11

A embryo

Question 12

When is it called a fetus?

Answer 12

When all the vital organs have formed around 10 weeks

Question 13

What is the function of the uterus?

Answer 13

Where the fetus develops

Question 14

What is the function of the ammonitic fluid?

Answer 14

The fluid the fetus develops in, protects it as it acts as a cushion.

Question 15

What can harm a fetus/embryo?

Answer 15

Smoking, drugs, too much caffeine and alcohol

Question 16

What is the function of the first line of defense?

Answer 16

To stop microbes entering

Question 17

How many lines of defense does the immune system have

Answer 17

3

Question 18

Examples of the first line of defense and their function?

Answer 18

Tears- produce chemicals called enzymes which can kill some microbes on the surface of the eye
Skin- Stop microbes entering the body unless hurt or damaged

Question 19

What are phagocytes and what is their function?

Answer 19

White blood cells that are non-specific. When their is anything forgin. They move towards it and engulf it destroying it

Question 20

How do you birng about immunity ?

Answer 20

People develop immunity naturally after being affected by a disease or artificially using a vaccine.

Question 21

How do vaccines work?

Answer 21

The body makes antibodies against them but you are not affected by the disease. If you become infected by the real microbe which causes the disease your body rids it from your system become you feel the effects and become ill.

Question 22

What organ is beneath the mouth?

Answer 22

Salivary glands

Question 23

What organ is beneath the stomach?

Answer 23

Pancreas

Question 24

What organ is above the anus?

Answer 24

Rectum

Question 25

What is the function of the anus

Answer 25

Faces are eliminated through this structure

Question 26

What organ is below the liver directly?

Answer 26

Gall-bladder

Question 27

What is the function of the rectum

Answer 27

faces are stored here before elimination

Question 28

What are the top two chambers of the heart called?

Answer 28

Atrium+Atrium

Question 29

What are the bottom two chambers of the heart called?

Answer 29

Ventricle +Ventricle

Question 30

What is the purpose of the heart?

Answer 30

To pump blood around the body

Question 31

What makes up the Circulatory system

Answer 31

Heart and blood vessels

Question 32

What is the function of the large intestine?

Answer 32

Water is absorbed and what is left forms faces

Question 33

What is the function of the small intestine?

Answer 33

Nutrients are absorbed from the food

Question 34

What is the function of the oesophagus?

Answer 34

Food is passed from the mouth to the stomach

Question 35

What are the organs of the female reproductive system? (4)

Answer 35

Oviducts, Uterus, Ovaries, vagina

Question 36

What are the organs of the male reproductive system? (3)

Answer 36

Penis, Sperm tube, testes

Question 37

What is the function and structure of veins

Answer 37

Carry blood back to the heart. Thinner and wider central passage then arteries. They also have values to prevent back flow of blood

Question 38

What is the structure and function of Arteries?

Answer 38

Carry blood away from the heart. Thick muscular walls and a narrow central channel. You can feel the pulse of arteries

Question 39

What is the function of the vagina

Answer 39

receives the sperm

Question 40

What is the function of the ovaries?

Answer 40

make egg cells

Question 41

What does the term immunization mean?

Answer 41

What you are made immune to a disease by either being effected by the disease or artificially using a vaccine

Question 42

What is the male sex cell?

Answer 42

Sperm

Question 43

What is the female sex cell?

Answer 43

Egg

Question 44

What is the proper name for the sex cells?

Answer 44

gamete

Question 45

What is the function of the Placenta?

Answer 45

Provide nutrients and oxygen to the fetus and removes waste

Question 46

What is the function of the umbilical cord?

Answer 46

carries blood to from the placenta to the fetus and from the fetus to the placenta

Question 47

What is the definition of fertilization?

Answer 47

When the sperm cell fuses with the egg

Question 48

Where does fertilization take place?

Answer 48

Oviducts

Question 49

What is the function of the pancreas

Answer 49

Make digestive enzymes which are transported to the small intestines that help break down food

Question 50

What is the function of the mouth and salivary glands

Answer 50

Food enters here, enzymes in saliva begin the process of digestion.

Question 51

What are anti-bodies and there function?

Answer 51

The antibodies are are specific white blood cells and act as markers. They find there matching antigen on the harmful microbes and lock onto them marking them for destruction.

Question 52

What is the function of the liver?

Answer 52

Make a substance called bile