Biology Flashcards

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Respiration

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The release of energy from our food

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MRSFERG

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Movement Respiration Sensitivity Feeding Excretion Reproduction Growth

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Invertebrate

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No backbone e.g worm

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Vertebrate

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Backbone e.g. Fish

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key

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set of questions to identify animal/plant

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Excretion

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Removal of waste products made in the body

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Photosynthesis

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Plants made their own food

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Chlorophyll

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Green pigment in plants

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Ovaries

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Store and release eggs

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The Fallopian

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Tubes carry the egg to the uterus fertilisation occurs here

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The uterus

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Womb is where the fertilised egg becomes implanted and finds nourishment

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The cervix

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Leads from the vagina to the uterus

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The vagina

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Holds the penis during sexual intercourse forms the birth canal during child birth

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Gametes

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Sex sell

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Male gamete

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Is the sperm

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Female gamete

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Is the egg/ovum

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Ovulation

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An eggs is released from the ovary an average of every 28 days

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Fertile period

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These are the days of the menstrual cycle when the woman is the most likely to become pregnant

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Copulation

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Is another name for sexual inter course

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Implantation

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Occurs when the fertilised egg lodges it’s self on the lining of the uterus

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Zygote

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The egg and sperm fuse to from a single cell

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Embryo

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Devision of the zygote occurs and it grows it attaches to the lining of the uterus Impaintation

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Foetus

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After 8 weeks looks like a human

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Pregnancy

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The average of a human pregnancy is 40 weeks

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Amniotic fluid

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As the embryo develops in the uterus it is protected inside a bag of fluid called amniotic fluid the fluid provides a cushion for the embryo this bursts during delivery of the baby waters breaking

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Umbilical cord

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The tube called the umbilical cord joins the embryo to the placenta

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Placenta

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Is rich in blood vessels it is here that the food and oxygen from the mothers blood pass into the baby’s blood also wastes such as carbon dioxide pass from be baby’s blood onto the mothers

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Birth

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Begins when the uterus muscles start to contract the bag of amniotic fluid bursts waters burstings and the further contractions push the baby out usually head first the umbilical cord is cut and the placenta afterbirth comes out after

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Labour

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Muscles of the uterus contracts

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Family planning

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To control the number of children you have you need to control the number of times fertilisation takes place

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Natural methods of contraception

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Aim to detect the day ovulation takes place and avoid intercourse during the fertile period

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Artificial methods of contraception

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Prevent the sperm and egg meeting

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Genetics

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Is the study of the inheritance of characteristics