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What is a Hormone?

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Chemical released into the bloodstream, that travels to a distant site and acts upon a target receptor to cause a particular physiological response

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Where is insulin produced?

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Pancreas

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What does Insulin in the liver do?

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Stimulates the liver to turn glucose into glycogen

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Things you need to keep the same in the body?

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Water, Ions, Blood Sugar, Temp c’ and pH levels

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What is Homeostasis?

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Maintainance of a constant internal environment

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What happens to urine concentration and volume when your in a hot place or excercising?

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Sweating more –> Losing More Water

Blood water levels will be lower

High ADH

Reabsorbs more water from urine

Urine Volume is much lower

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What Happens when you are too hot?

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Sweat –> Evaporates transferring heat energy from the skin to the environment

Vasodilation –> Blood vessles near the skin surface widen, allowing more blood flow to the surface of the skin. This allows more heat to be lost to the environment

Hairs Lie Flat

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What happens when you’re too cold?

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Very little sweat is produced

Vasoconstriction –> blood vessels near the surface of the skin constrict, reducing blood flow near the surface of the skin helping to reduce the amount of heat lost from the surface of the skin

Shiver –> Increases the rate of respiration because of increased muscle contraction and increased requirement of energy –> Heat energy warms the body

Piloerection –> Hairs stand up –> Trap heat to produce insulating layer around the skin

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9
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Do large animals have a high SA:V?

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Low SA:V (SO NO)

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Do large animals cool down slower or faster?

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Cool down slower as they lose heat to surroundings at a slower rate

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2 Responses to stimuli?

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Geotropism

Phototropism

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What are Auxins?

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Plant hormones that control growth at the tips of shoots and roots

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What is a Shoot’s response to light?

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Positively Phototropic

When a shoot tip is exposed to light, it accumulates more auxins on the shaded side than the side in the light

This makes the cells grow (elongate) faster on the shaded side compared to the non-shaded side

This helps to bend the shoot towards the light

(Auxins promote growth in shoots)

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What is a Roots response to light?

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Negatively Phototropic

Auxins inhibit Growth

If a root starts being exposed to some light, more auxins accumulate on the more shaded side

The auxins inhibits cell elongation on the shaded side, so the root bends downwards back into the ground

Roots that are underground aren’t exposed to light, they grow downwards due to positive geotropism

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What is a Chromosome?

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Long lengths of DNA coiled up around proteins

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Diploid?

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Have 2 copies of each chromosome arranged in pairs

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Differences between DNA and RNA?

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DNA HAS A T C G
RNA HAS A U C G

Thymine is too big to get out of the nucleus

RNA contains sugar
DNA doesn’t contain sugar

18
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What is Meiosis used for?

What is Mitosis Used for?

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Making Gametes

Mitosis used for growth and repair

19
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What is the Male Reproductive Part of the Flower?

What is the Female Reproductive Part of the Flower

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Stamen (male)

Carpel (female)

20
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What are the Male Reproductive Parts of the Flower

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Anther –> Produce male sex cells (pollen grains)

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What are the Male Reproductive Parts of the Flower

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Anther –> Produce male sex cells (pollen grains)

Filament–> Supports the Anther

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What are the Female Reproductive Parts of the Flower?

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Stigma –> The top of the female part of the flower which collects pollen grains
Style –>
Ovary –> Produces the female sex cells (contained in the ovules)

23
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Pollination?

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Transfer of Pollen from Anther –> Stigma so that the male gametes can fertilise the female gametes in sexual reproduction

24
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Investigating Seed Germination?

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Have 4 Test Tubes

1- Water, O2, Temperature
2- No water, O2, Temperature
3- Water, O2, Low Temp
4- Water, no O2, room temp

Tube 1 will grow the most

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What are two ways of Asexually producing plants?

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Runners –> Only works in Strawberry plants
Fast growing stems that grow out sideways just above the ground which take root at various points
(Short distance away from parent plant to form new genetically identical plants)

Artificial Cutting –> Take cuttings from good parent plants and planting them to produce genetically identical copies of the parent plant

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What does Oestrogen do in woman?

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Breasts develop

27
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What does the Corpeus Luteum produce?

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Produces Progestorone which maintains the lining of the uterus

HCG allows the Corpus Luteum to survive

28
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What does Amniotic Fluid do?

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Protects the embryo against knocks and bumps

29
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How is a carrier represented on a family tree diagram?

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Half Shaded

30
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What is Population?

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All the organisms of one species in a habitat

31
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What is an Ecosystem?

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All the organisms living in a particular area and all the non-living conditions

32
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What is Biodiversity?

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The Variety of different species on Earth or in an ecosystem

33
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How to use a Quadrat to find the population of X?

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Use Random Number Generator to pick coordinates in which you will place your quadrats

Count all the organisms of interest within a quadrat and repeat multiple times.

Work out the mean number of organisms per quadrat (1st sample area)

Repeat step 1 to 3 for 2nd sample area and finally compare the 2 means

Estimate Population size by scaling up

34
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How to study the Distribution of Species in an environment?

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Use Bell Transect to study the distribution across a habitat

Mark out a line in the area you want to study

Collect data using Quadrats which are placed next to each other

Count Number of organisms of interest/ or measure abiotic factor (pH) at each Quadrat

Measure the mean number of Organisms in each Quadrat or the percentage cover when appropriate’

Plot the Graph to see if changing abitiotic factors is correleated with a change in the distribution of species you are studying

35
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Producers?

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Organisms which make their own food using energy from the sun

36
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How is energy lost in a trophic level?

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Staying Alive

Some parts of food are indigestible so pass through the organism as faeces

37
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What are the 4 types of Bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle?

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Decomposers –> Break Down Proteins and Urea into Ammonium Ions

Nitrifying Bacteria –> Ammonium Ions –> Nitrates (Nitrification)

Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria –> N2 –> Nitrogen compounds taken up by plants

Denitrifying Bacteria –> Nitrates –> N2

38
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Where is Sulfur Dioxide formed from?

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Sulfur Impurities from fossil fuels

39
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What is the Greenhouse effect?

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Greenhouse Gases (H2O, Methane Gas,Co2)

Build up of these gases in the atmosphere that causes the greenhouse effect

These gases trap heat within the atmosphere hezating up the Earth

40
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Man made Sources of Methane?

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Cattle Farming

Rice Farming

41
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What does Deforestation lead to?

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Leaching –> When trees are removed, nutrients gets leached away but don’t get replaced leaving the soil infertile

Soil Erosion –> Tree Roots hold the soil together when trees are removed. Soil can be washed away by rain leaving an infertile ground

Global Warming

Disturbs Evapotranspiration

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