Biology B1

Question 1

What does Metabolic rate mean?

Answer 1

How fast you digest food

Question 2

What is a reflex?

Answer 2

An automatic action such as blinking or gagging

Question 3

What does a receptor do?

Answer 3

Senses things

Question 4

What does a sensory neurone do?

Answer 4

Carries a nerve from a receptor to the spinal chord.

Question 5

What is the role of the synapse?

Answer 5

To be a junction between two nerves

Question 6

Pathogen

Answer 6

A disease causing micro-organisms, bacteria, virus and fungi

Question 7

Extremophile

Answer 7

Lover of far from normal

Question 8

Thermophile

Answer 8

Lover of heat- can survive high temps because they have a special enzymes that do not denature in high temps

Question 9

Halophile

Answer 9

Lover of salt

Question 10

Barophile

Answer 10

Lover of pressure

Question 11

Lymphocytes

Answer 11

Makes antibodies

Question 12

Phagocytes

Answer 12

Ingest pathogens

Question 13

Antigen

Answer 13

Foreign substance that induces an immune response, often the production of antibodies

Question 14

Antibodies

Answer 14

Protein molecule, produced by whit blood cells in response to an antigen

Question 15

Vaccines

Answer 15

• Injected with a small amount od dead or inactivated pathogen
• White blood cells remember the shape of the antigen