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What is a tissue?

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Group of cells with a similar structure and function

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Whats an organ?

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Group of tissues working together for a specific function

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Whats an organ system?

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Organs which work together to form organisms

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Example of a tissue

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Muscle cells work together to make muscle tissue

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Example of an organ?

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The stomach contains stomach tissue and glandular tissue which release enzymes

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Example of organ systems

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Digestive systems

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What nutrients do foods contain?

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Carbohydrates, protein and lipids

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What must occur so nutrients to be absorbed into the blood stream

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Due to them being large molecules, they must be digested

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What happens during digestion, for large food molecules to be broken down

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During digestion, large food molecules are broken down by enzymes so they can be absorbed into the bloodstream

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Whats the mouth?

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Food is chewed in the mouth, which enzymes in the saliva begin to digest the starch into smaller sugar molecules

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Where does the food go after the mouth?

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Goes down the oesophagus

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Where does the food go after the oesophagus

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Goes into the stomach.

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What occurs in the stomach?

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Enzymes begin the digestion of proteins.
Also, contains hydrochloric acid which helps the enzymes digest proteins. This occurs for several hours, and the stomach churning action of the stomach muscles turns the food into a fluid increasing the surface area for enzymes to digest

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Where does the fluid go after the stomach?

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Goes into the small intestine

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Where are the chemicals realeased from in the small intestine?

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Pancreas and liver

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What does the pancreas do?

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Produce digestive enzymes

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What does the liver do?

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Releases bile which helps to speed up the digestion of lipids. Bile also neutralises the acid released from the stomach

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What do the walls of the small intestine do?

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Release enzymes to continue the digestion of protein and lipids

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What occurs in the small intestine?

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The small food molecules produced by digestion are absorbed into the blood stream either by diffusion or active transport

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Where does the fluid go after the small intestine?

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Makes its way to the large intestine where all water is absorbed into the blood stream

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Whats after the large intestine

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Finally all feaces are released from the body

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What are the products of digestion used by the body for?

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Build new carbohydrates, lipids and proteins
Some of the glucose is used for respiration

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What do enzymes do?

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Catalyse chemical reactions

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What are enzymes?

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Large protein molecules which have a groove on their surface called the active site

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What does the active site bind to?

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A substrate

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Whats the lock and key theory?

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The shape of an activate site is structured to fit a specific substrate

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What enzymes are protein broken down by?

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Proteases

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Where are proteases found?

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The stomach
Pancreas
Small intestine

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29
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What are the structure of protein?

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Long chains of amino acids

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What does protease do to proteins?

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Converts the protein back to the individual amino acids, which are then absorbed into the bloodstream
This is then absorbed by body cells and joined in different orders to make human proteins

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Structure of starch molecules

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Chain of glucose molecules

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What enzyme are starch broken down by?

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Carbohydrases, in specific amalyse

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What is produced when carbohydrates like starch are digested?

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Simple sugars/Glucose

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34
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Where is amalyse found?

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Saliva
Pancreas

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35
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Structure of a lipid molecule?

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Molecule of glycerol attached to three fatty acid molecules

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36
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What enzyme are lipids digested by?

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Lipase

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37
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Whats produced when lipids are digested?

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Glycerol and fatty acids

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38
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Where is lipase found?

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Pancreas
Small intestine

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39
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Where is bile made?

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Liver and stored in gall bladder

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40
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What does bile do?

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Help speed up the digestion of lipids but is not an enzyme

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41
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What does bile do to lipids?

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Bile emulsifies the lipid into small droplet molecules

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Advantages of bile emulsifying lipids?

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Massively increases surface area of the lipid droplets which increases the rate of reaction by lipase enzyme

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43
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How does bile neutralise stomach acids?

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Bile is an alkaline and neutralises hydrochloric acid in the stomach, creating better conditions for enzymes in the small intestine to digest food efficiently

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What happens if we increase the temperature of an enzyme

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The rate of reaction of the enzyme increases

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Why does increasing the temperature, cause a faster rate of reaction

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The enzyme and substrate are moving with more kinetic energy and are moving faster so there are more collisions per second between the substrate and active site

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Whats the optimum temperature?

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Certain temperature which the enzyme is working at the fastest possible rate and the maximum frequency of successful collisions between the subtrate and the active site

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Whats the optimum temperature for most human enzymes

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37°C

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What happens if an enzymes temperature is past its optimum

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The activity of the enzyme rapidly decreases to zero and becomes denatured

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What occurs if an enzymes temperature is past its optimum?

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The activity of the enzyme rapidly decreases to zero and the active site becomes denatured

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Why does an enzyme become denatured as its temperature is past optimum?

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The enzyme molecule vibrates and the shape of the active site changes and the substrate cant fit perfectly into the active site

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What happens if the PH of an enzyme is less or more than optimum?

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If the pH is too acidic or too alkaline then the activity drops to zero due to the active site becoming denatured

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Example of an enzymes which works best at alkaline and acidic pH levels?

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Acidic: Protease enzyme in the stomach
Alkaline: Enzyme release from the pancreas into the small intestine

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53
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How has the small intestine been adapted?

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.Has a length of around 5m which provides a very large surface area for absorption of the products of digestion
.Contains millions of villi which increase the absorption of molecules

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How have villis been adapted?

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On the surface has a microvilli which increase the surface area further
Has very good blood supply so the bloodstream rapdily removes products of digestion and increase concentration gradiant
Thin membrane for short diffusion path

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What occurs if a molecule cant be absorbed by diffusion?

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Are absorbed by active transport

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56
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Circulatory system of a fish

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Single circulatory system
Doxygenated blood is pumped from the heart to the gills which become oxygenated
Gills sends oxygenated blood back to the organs where the oxygen diffuses out od the blood and into the body cell
The blood now returns to the heart

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What is the disadvantage of single circulatory systems?

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The blood loses a lot of pressures as it passes through the gills. This means it delivers the oxygenated blood slowly and cant deliver a lot of oxygen

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Benefits of the double circulatory system?

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The blood passes to the heart twice and the oxygen can be transferred rapidly

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Process of the double circulatory system?

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Deoxygenated blood Is pumped into the right atrium then right ventricle to be pumped to the lung for gas exchange
Oxygenated blood flows into the left atrium then the left ventricle which pumps oxygenated blood around the body

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Structure of the heart

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Muscular walls to provide a strong heartbeat
Muscular wall is thicker on the left ventricle because blood needs to be pumped around the whole body rather than just to the lung like the right ventricle
4 chambers which seperate oxygenated and deoxygenated blood
Valves to make sure blood doesn’t flow backwards
coronary artery cover heart to provide own oxygenated blood supply

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Process of the heart pumping blood around the whole body

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Blood flows into the right atrium through the vena cava, and left atrium through the pulmonary vein
Atria contract forcing blood into ventricles
Ventricles contract pushing blood in the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery to be sent to the lungs, and the left ventricle into the aorta to go around the body
As this happens the valves close to not allow any backflow

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62
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Natural resting heart rate?

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70 BPM

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What is the heart rate controlled by?

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Group of cells found in the right atrium which act as a peacemaker.

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How does the peacemaker control the heart rate?

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Provide stimulation, through small electrical impulses which pass as a wave across the heart muscle causing it to contract

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What happens without a peacemaker?

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Heart would not pump fast enough to deliver enough oxygen around the body

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What can be used if the hearts peacemaker doesn’t function properly?

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Artificial peacemaker

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What does an artificial peacemaker do?

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Electrical device which produces a signal so the heart beat at normal speed

68
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What are the three blood vessels?

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Arteries, Veins and capillaries

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What do arteries do?

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Carry blood away from the heart

70
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How have arteries been adapted to their job?

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Layers of muscles make them strong
Elastic fibre allow them to stretch which help vessels withstand high pressure created by pumping of the heart

71
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What do Veins do?

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Carry blood towards the heart

72
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What’s a lumen?

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The actual tube which blood flows in

73
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How have veins been adapted to its job?

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Has a wide lumen to allow low pressure blood to flow through
Have valves to not allow any blood to go in the wrong direction

74
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What are capillaries

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Allow blood to flow very close to the cells to enable substances to flow between them

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How have capillaries been adapted?

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One cell thick walls to create short diffusion pathway
Permeable walls so substances can move across them

76
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How to calculate rate of blood flow?

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Volume of blood/Number of minutes

77
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What’s the thorax?

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Area of body between the neck and abdomen

78
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Where are lungs found?

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In the lorax and are protected by your ribcage

79
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What is the gas exchange system of the lungs made up of?

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Trachea ( The windpipe, air moves up here)
Intercostal muscle (Contract and relax to ventilate lungs)
Bronchi ( Air from trachea move into these, lead to each lung)
Bronchioles (Bronchi split into these and air moves into)
Alveoli (Tiny air sacs for gas exchange where bronchioles lead to)
Diaphragm (Separates lungs from digestive organs, moves down causing inhalation)

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What occurs in the ventilation phase?

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Ribcage moves up and down, diaphragm moves down causing volume to increase
Increased volume = less pressure
Air drawn into chest as air move form area of high pressure to low pressure
Opposite happens when exhaling

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What occurs in the gas exchange phase?

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upon inhalation, alveoli fills with oxygen
Blood in capillaries surrounding alveoli is deoxygenated (Came from pulmonary vein). Has a lot of co2 from product of respiration
Oxygen diffuses down concentration gradient into capillary bloodstream
Co2 diffuses down concentration gradient from blood to alveoli

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How have alveoli been adapted?

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Very small and arranged in clusters increasing the surface area for diffusion
Capillaries provide large blood supply maintaining concentration gradient
Walls of alveoli very thin meaning short diffusion pathway

83
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How to calculate breathing rate?

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Number of breaths/Number of minutes

84
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What is blood made of?

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Plasma, Red blood cells, White blood cells and Platelets

85
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What is a plasma?

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Liquid which carries the components in the blood: Red and white blood cells, platelets, glucose, amino acids, co2, urea hormones, proteins, antibodies and antitoxins

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What is a red blood cell?

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Carry oxygen molecules from the lungs to all the body

87
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How have red blood cells been adapted?

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Bioconcave disc shape provides large surface area
No nucleus to carry more oxygen
Red pigment haemoglobin which binds to oxygen to form, oxyhaemoglobin

88
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What are white blood cells?

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Part of the immune system which is the body’s defense against pathogens. Contain nucleus

89
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What are pathogens?

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Microorganisms that can produce disease

90
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What are the different type of white blood cells.

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  1. One that produces antibodies
  2. Ones that engulf and digest pathogens
  3. Those that produces antitoxins to neutralise toxins produced by microorganisms
91
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What do platelets do and the structure

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Help the blood clot form on the wound
Small fragments of cells, contain no nucleus

92
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How do platelets cover a wound?

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Clot dries and hardens to form a scab, which allows new cells to grow underneath while preventing microorganisms to enter

93
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What would happen if there is no platelets

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Cuts would result in excessive bleeding and bruising

94
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Whats coronary heart disease?

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When coronary arteries are blocked with build up of fatty materials

95
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What are the treatments to coronary heart disease?

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Stents
Statins

96
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What can coronary heart diseases lead to?

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Less blood to the heart, reducing oxygen supply. May lead to heart attacks

97
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What are stents and what do they do?

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Metal mesh tubes inserted in arteries to keep them open

98
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Advantages of Stents to prevent coronary heart disease?

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Effective in lowering risk of a heart attack
Recovery time of surgery is quick

99
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Disadvantages of stents to prevent coronary heart disease?

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Risk of heart attack during procedure, or that infection following it
Chance that blood clots can form near stent

100
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What are antibodies?

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Clump of proteins to not allow any microorganisms entering

101
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What are blood clots which form near the stent called?

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Thrombosis

102
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What are statins?

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Drugs that decrease levels of LDL (The bad cholesterol which leads to coronary heart disease)

103
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Advantage of statins

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Reduce risk of strokes, coronary heart disease and heart attacks
Increase level of HDL

104
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Disadvantages of statins?

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Need to be taken continuously which may be an inconvenience
Can produce side effects
May not have immediate effect as it only slows down rate

105
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What are consequences of faulty valves?

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When a heart valve becomes stiff so cannot open or it is damaged so it leaks the blood goes in the wrong direction meaning the heart does not work as efficient

106
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What are solutions of faulty valves?

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Replacing with biological/mechanical valves

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Advantages and disadvantages of using mechanical valves?

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Advantages : Last for a long time
Disadvantages: Constant medication is needed to stop blood clotting around valve

107
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Advantages and disadvantages of using biological valves?

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Advantages : Works very well
Disadvantage: Only last 12-15 years

108
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Advantages of artificial heart transplant?

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Advantages: Less likely to be rejected by the immune system - metal and plastic are not seen as foreign

108
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Methods to cure heart failure?

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Heart transplant
Artificial Heart

108
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Advantages and disadvantages of heart transplant?

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Advantages: Heart transplant patients live longer
Disadvantage: Need to wait for a donor that recently have died. May be rejected by patient body

109
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Disadvantages of artificial heart transplant?

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Disadvantages:
Surgery temporarily leaves body open exposed to infections
Mechanical part could wear out and motor will fail
Blood clots can form and lead to stroke

109
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How to prevent possible risks of artificial heart?

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Drugs are taken to thin patients blood to affect individual bleeding if they are hurt

110
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What is artificial blood?

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A salt solution which can keep people alive if they lose 2/3 of their blood cells

110
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How can extreme blood loss be treated?

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By giving artificial blood

111
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Advantages and disadvantages of using artificial blood

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Advantage: Patient has more time to produce new cells
Disadvantage: Can only be used for a short period of time and blood transfusion would need to be used

112
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What two categories can diseases fall into?

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Communicable and Non-communicable diseases

112
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What is health?

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State of physical, mental and social well being

112
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Factors which can cause ill health?

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Diet, Stress, disease

112
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What are communicable diseases?

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These are infectious diseases caused by pathogens which can be passed from one another

113
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Examples of diseases influencing eachother

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A poor immune system, can cause them to become more likely to become infected with a communicable disease as the body cant fight it off

Someone who’s disabled and is unable to carry out tasks can lead them to depression

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What are non-communicable diseases?

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Diseases which cannot be passed on from person to person

115
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How can diet affect health?

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Eating too little or too much food, can prevent them having a good diet which can affect physical and mental health causing issues such as obesity and diabetes type 2

116
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How does stress affect health?

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Places strain on bodies and can cause heart disease, cancer and mental illness

117
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How do scientists prove causation(correlation) between diseases?

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Find casual mechanism and how one disease influence another

118
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How can cardiovascular disease be caused?

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Diet containing lots of LDL resulting in arteries becoming blocked
Smoking damages arteries walls

119
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How can cardiovascular disease be prevented?

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Exercise and having a healthy diet

119
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How does obesity cause type 2 diabetes?

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Fat molecules are released and increases blood sugar levels as it breaks into glycerol

120
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How can alcohol cause liver and brain issues?

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Causes fatty liver which lead to liver failure
Alcohol can damage nerve cells in the brain

120
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What is a malignant tumours?

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Tumour can grow and spread to other tissues

120
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Lifestyle risk factors of cancer

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Smoking (Lung, Mouth, Bowel, stomach and cervical cancer)
Obesity (Bowel, Liver and kidney cancer)
UV Light (Skin cancer)
Viral Infection (Liver cancer from hepatitis B and C
Genetic risk, certain genes

121
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What is cancer?

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Changes in cells which result in uncontrollable growth and division, forming a tumour

122
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What are benign tumors?

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Growth of cells contained into one place, usually within a membrane

122
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Features of benign tumours?

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Not cancerous
Grows until no more room
Does not invade other tissues
Causes pressure or damage to an organ

122
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Features of malignant tumours?

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Cancerous
Tumour may split, resulting in cells being carried in the bloodstream
Can travel and stay at other organs, causing secondary tumours
Cancer cells divide more rapidly, and have a longer life span

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Where is the palisade mesophyll tissue found?

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Underneath the epidermal tissue?

124
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Where is epidermal tissue found?

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Covers the whole plant

124
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Feature of epidermal tissue?

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Covered with waxy cuticles

125
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Function of waxy cuticles?

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Helps to reduce water loss by evaporation as the waxy cuticles prevent water getting out

126
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Feature of the palisade mesophyll tissue?

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Has lots of chloroplasts

127
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Function of having lots of chloroplasts

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Having lots of chloroplasts means photosynthesis can happen more rapidly
They are positioned at the top of the leaf to receive lots of light

128
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Where is the spongy mesophyll tissue found?

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Underneath the palisade mesophyll tissue

128
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Features of the spongy mesophyll

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Has lots of air spaces

128
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Function of spongy mesophyll

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To exchange gases and store sugars and amino acids generated in the pallidade layer

128
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Where are xylems found?

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Roots, stems and leaves

128
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Features of xylems

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Made of dead cells joined together creating a tube
Strengthened with a substance called lignin, but has some holes along called bordered pits

128
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Function of the xylem and adaptations?

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Allows movement of water and mineral ions from the roots to the stem and leaves where it evaporates and leaves the plant. This is called Transpiration stream

Lignin makes it strong and waterproof so water will not leave except at bordered pits allowing minerals to go specific places around the plant

129
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Where is the phloem found?

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Roots, stems and leaves

129
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Features of the phloem

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Elongated cells with holes in the cell wall (Sieve Plates)
Many organelles are removed so cell sap can move through

129
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Function of the phloem?

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Moves food substances that the plant has produced by photosynthesis to where they are needed. This is called translocation

130
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Where is the meristematic tissue found?

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Tips of shoots and roots

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Features of the meristematic tissue?

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Able to differentiate into different type of plant cells

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Function of the meristematic tissue?

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Allows plants to grow

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What is a leaf and what does it contain?

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Plant organ which has the following tissues : epidermis, palisade, spongy mesophyll, xylem, phloem and guard cells

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What is transpiration in plants?

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Loss of water/water vapour from leaves and stems of plants due to a consequence of gaseous exchange as the stomata is open

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What are factors which affect transpiration?

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Increase in temperature, Increase in relative humidity, Increase in air movement, Increase in light intensity

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How does increasing temperature increase rate of transpiration

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Molecules move faster meaning evaporation occurring faster therefore transpiration rate is faster
Rate of photosynthesis increasing, meaning more stomata are open for gas exchange

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What occurs if there is a increase in the relative humidity of water vapour in the air?

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There will be a lower concentration gradient between the water vapour inside and outside of the leaf, decreasing diffusion and decreasing rate of transpiration

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What happens if there is an increased air movement?

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Wind will take away water vapour around the plant, creating a steeper concentration gradient and leading to high rate of diffusion and higher rate of transpiration

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What happens to the rate of transpiration if there is an increase in light intensity?

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Increase in rate of photosynthesis, more stomata open meaning more water can evaporate

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Features of guard cells?

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They are kidney shaped
Have thin outer walls and thick inner walls

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How to measure rate of transpiration?

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Using a potometer. Place a plant in a tube of water and measure distance bubble travels

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How have stomata adapted?

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When lots of water is available the stomata opens to allow transpiration
Found at the bottom of a plant as the bottom has shade and is cooler to minimise loss of water

Biology (3 decks)

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