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Biology 1b enviroment&evolution Flashcards

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Why has an offspring got features of both mum and dad ?

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Because each parent contain 23 pairs of chromosomes which carry genes.these genes carry DNA which controll eye color and hair

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What is sexual reproduction?

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Is where 2 organism (sperm and a egg ) combine to produce an offspring

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What is Asexual reproduction ?

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Had exactly the same genetic information as 1 of the parent . The offspring are genetically identical to the parent - clones

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What are the 2 different ways plants can be clones ?

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Cutting - gardener a take cutting from good parent plant, and then plant them to produce genetically identical copies

Tissue Culture- few plant cells are put into growth medium with hormones into new plants clones of the parent plant

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What are the adv of tissue culture ?

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They are made very quick
In little space
And be grown all year

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What is adult cell cloning ?

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Taking an unfertilised egg cell and removing the nucleus
A complete set of Christine’s from an adult body cell eg skin cell is inserted into the empty egg cell

The egg cell is stimulates be an electric shock so the egg cell divides like a normal embryos

The embryo is a ball of cells and is implanted into surrogate mother

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Give 3 ways desert animals have adapted to save water and keep cool?

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  • Lose less water by producing small amount of contracted urine
  • Have thin layers of body fat and thin coat to help lose body heat
  • Large surface area to volume which lose more body heat
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How has artic animals adapted ?

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Well insulated - thick layer of blubber & acts as energy store when. Food is little
Thick hairy coats keeps body heat in and greats sheds water

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How are desert plants adapted to having little water ?

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Plants loose water vapour from the surface to their leaves
Water storage tissues eg thick stem
Max water adoration so extensive roots to absorb water quickly over large area

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How are aome animals and plants adapted to deter predators ?

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Have amour eg: throbs and sharp spines and shells
Poisons eg bees
Warning colours

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Why do organism compete for resources ?

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To survive and reproduce

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What do plant compete for?

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Light
Space
Water
Minerals from the soil

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What do animals compete for

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Space
Food
Water
Mates to reproduce

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What are the living factors of enviromental changes ?

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Infectious diseases
Number of predators
Change In no. Of prey affects availability of food source

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What are the non living factors of enviromental changes ?

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Change in avg tempteture
Change in avg rainfall
Change in level of air/water pollution

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How does enviromental changes affect population ?

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Population size decrease
Population size increase
Population distribution changes

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How does environmental changes affect the population size when increasing?

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If the number of prey increases there is more food available for the predators so more predators survive and reproduce so the predators increases

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How does environmental changes affect if the population size decreases?

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Maybe if pesticides are having a negative effect on insects or animals
There is less food available
There is more diseases

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How does environmental changes affect the population distribution?

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Maybe a specific animal species is changing because of a rise in average temperature

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What are enviromental factor which might affect the growth of a plant ?

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Water
Tempteture
space

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What are the stages of Carbon Cycle ?

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  • Photosynthesis occur removing CO2 from the atmosphere
  • Some CO2 returns back when the plant respire
  • Carbon moves through the food chain as eaten by animals
  • Some carbon return to the atmosphere as CO2 when animal respire
  • when plant or animal for organism feed on remain-When Organism respire CO2 return to the atmosphere
  • animal produce waste and broken by detritus feeders and microorganism
  • Compounds from waste take. From the soil by plants as nutrient - back into food chain
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What term would you describe an organism that can survive in serve condition ?

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Ex trophies

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What do animal compete for ?

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Territory
Food
Mates
Water

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Why can animals not survive in different habitats?

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Exposed to predators
Wrong food
Cannot compete with other animals

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How does Darwin’s theory of natural selection occur ?

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Variation occurs between organism within species
Organism with better characteristic are fittest to survive so better adapted
Genes passed onto offspring - next generation

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Why wouldn’t a vaccination against measles not protect against rubella ?

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Because antibodies are specific to measles antigens

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How to prepare an un contaminated culture of the bacterium in Petri dish ?

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Petri dish and algae are sterilised before use to kill unwanted bacteria

Loob/ swab used to spread bacterium onto agar

Lid of Petri dish opened as little as possible to prevent microbes from entering

Sealed with tape to prevent microbes from entering the air

Incubate to allow growth of bacteria

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What processes occur in the Carbon cycle ?

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Respiration
Combustion
Photosynthesis

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Why are respiration faster in tropic Forrest

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Because conditions are humid and moist so many microorganism so a lot of material to decay

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How could enviromental changes be measured ?

Give an example

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Living indications
Air-pollution can be monitored by looking at particular types of like lichens that are very sensitive to the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere

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Is light-chain is a Good or bad living indicator

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The number and type of Leitch in a particular location will indicate how clean the areas four example if the area is clean there will be lots of lichens

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What are good indicators of water pollution?

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Mayfly are good indicators for water pollution because they are very sensitive to the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the water if you find may file in a river it indicates that the water is clean

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How can you make animal cloned you send embryo transplant ?

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Sperm cells are taken from a prize bull and egg cells are taken from a prize cow . The sperms I didn’t use to artificially fertilise an egg cells. The embryo that develops is then split many time to form clones before any cells becomes specialise

These cloned embryos can then be implanted into lots of other cowls where they grow into baby calves which will be all genetically identical to each other

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How is adult cell cloning another way to make a clone?

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This involves taking an unfertilised egg cell and with moving its genetic material e.g. the nucleus. A complete set of chromosomes from an adult body cell e.g. skin cell is inserted into the empty egg cell

The Egg cell if then stimulated by an electric shock this makes it divide just like a normal embryo

When the embryo is a ball of sale in instead and implanted into an adult female to grow into a clone of the original adult body cell

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What are some issues that surround the cloning

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Cloning should be used to help preserve endangered species is

Cloning could possibly suggest it may not be as healthy as the normal one

There will be a reduced Gene pool

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Describe the process of using enzymes for genetic engineering

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A useful gene is cut from one organism chromosome using enzymes

Enzymes are then used to cut another organism chromosome and then to insert a useful gene

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What is genetically modified crops

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This is when the jeans have been modified e.g. to make them resistant to viruses, insects or herbicide

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What ours are a few disadvantages with GM crops?

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Some people would say GM crops will affect the number of weed and flower so the population of insects that live in and around the area decreases -reducing farmland biodiversity

People are worried they may develop allergies to the food

Transplanting genes may get out into the natural environment

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What are some advantages of a GM crops?

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GM crops can increase the yield of a crop making more food

People living in the Developing nations often lack nutrition in their diet. GM crops could be engineered to contain the nutrients that is missing

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