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Chapter 2 - Organisation Flashcards

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What is a tissue?

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The tissue is a group of similar cells that work together to carry out a particular function

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What is an organ?

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And organ is a group of different tissues that work together to perform a certain function

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What is an organ system?

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A group of organs working together

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What are examples of organ systems?

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The digestive system
it is made up of glands e.g. the pancreas and salivary glands
the stomach and small intestine which digests food
the liver which produces bile
the small intestine which absorbs soluble food molecules
the large intestine which absorbs water from undigested food leaving faeces

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What is a catalyst

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A catalyst is a substance which increases the speed of a reaction without being changed or used up in the reaction

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What are enzymes

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Enzymes are all large proteins and all proteins are made up of chains of amino acid’s

They act as biological catalysts

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What do enzymes do

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They reduce the need for high temperature and we only have enzymes to speed up useful chemical reactions in the body

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Do you chemical reactions usually involve?

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They usually involve things being either split apart or joined together

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what does every enzyme have

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Every enzyme has an active site with a unique shape that fits onto substance involved in a reaction

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What is the name of the model that shows an enzyme in action

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The lock and key model

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What can change the rate of an enzyme catalysed reaction

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The temperature and pH

However if it gets too hot some of the bonds holding the enzyme together break this changes the shape of the enzymes active site so the substrate won’t fit anymore the enzyme is said to be denatured

If the pH is too high or too low it interferes with the bonds holding the enzyme together this changes the shape of the active site and denatures the enzyme

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On average what is the optimum pH that enzymes work best at

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Neutral pH 7

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How do you calculate the rate of reaction

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Rate=1000/time

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What do you digestive enzymes do

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They break down big molecules such as starch, proteins and fats. These are too big to pass through the walls of the digestive system so digestive enzymes break these big molecules down to smaller ones such as sugars, amino acids, glycerol and fatty acid’s so they can pass easily through the walls of the digestive system allowing them to be absorbed into the bloodstream

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What enzyme converts carbohydrate and what do they convert it into

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Carbohydrates this convert carbohydrates into simple sugars

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What is an example of carbohydrase

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Amylase

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What does amylase do?

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It breaks down starch

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Where is Amylase made

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salivary glands
pancreas
small intestine

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What does amylase break down starch into?

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Maltose

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What enzyme convert proteins and what into?

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Proteases convert proteins into amino acid’s

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Where is protease made?

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Protease is made in:
the stomach
the pancreas
the small intestine

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What enzyme converts lipids and what into

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Lipases convert lipids into glycerol and fatty acid’s

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Where are lipases made?

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The pancreas and

small intestine

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What does the body use the products of digestions to do

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They can be used to make new carbohydrates proteins and lipids and some of the glucose that’s made is used in respiration

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Where is bile produced?
Where is it stored?
Where does it go once it is released?

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File is produced in the liver it stored in the gall bladder before it’s released into the small intestine

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What does bile do

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The hydrochloric acid in the stomach makes the pH to acidic for enzymes in the small intestines to work properly. Bile is an Alkaline - it neutralises the acid and makes conditions alkaline

It’s emulsifies fats which means it breaks the fat into tiny droplets. This gives a much bigger surface area of fat for the enzyme lipase to work on which makes digestion faster

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Where are the enzymes used in digestion produced?

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Enzymes used in the digestive system are produced by specialised cells in glands and in the gut lining

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What do the salivary glands produce

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These produce amylase in the saliva

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What does the stomach do during digestion?

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It pummels the food with its muscular walls
it produces the protease enzyme
it produces hydrochloric acid for two reasons:
-to kill bacteria to give the right pH
-for the protease enzyme to work which is pH 2 (acidic)

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What does the liver do during digestion

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This is where bile is produced

Bile neutralises stomach acids and emulsifies fats

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What does emulsifies mean

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To make something into smaller droplets

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What does the gall bladder do during digestion?

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This is where bile is stored before it’s released into the small intestine

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What does the pancreas do during digestion

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The pancreas produces protease, amylase and lipase enzymes. It releases these into the small intestine.

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What does the large intestine do during digestion?

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This is where excess water is absorbed from the food

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What does the rectum do during digestion?

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This is where faeces are stored before they leave through the anus

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What does the small intestine do during digestion?

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It produces protease lipase and amylase enzymes to complete digestion
this is also where the digested food is absorbed out of the digestive system into the blood

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How do you prepare a food test

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1) Get a piece of food and break it up using a pestle and mortar
2) Transfer the ground up food to a beaker and add some distilled water
3) Give the mixture a good start with a glass rod to dissolve some of the food
4) filter the solution using a funnel lined with filter paper to get rid of the solid bits of food

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What test can you use to test for sugars

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You can use the Benedict’s test

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How do you do the Benedict’s test?

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1) prepare a food sample and transfer 5 cm³ to a test tube
2) prepare a water bottle that it set to 75°C
3) add some benedicts solution to the test tube (about 10 drops) using a pipette
4) Placed the test tube in the water bath using a test tube holder and leave it in there for five minutes
5) If the food sample contains a reducing sugar the solution in the test tube or change from the normal blue colour to green yellow or brick red it - depends on how much sugar is in the food

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What solution can use to test for starch and what colour will the solution be at the start and at the end of the test?

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You can use the iodine solution to test for starch.

The colour of the solution will change from browny orange to black or blue-black

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What test can you use to test for proteins?

What colour will the solution be at the start and at the end of the test?

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You can use the biuret test

The solution will change from blue to pink or purple. If no protein is present, the solution with a blue

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What test can you test for lipids?

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Sudan III Test

43
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What is the thorax?

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The thorax is the top part of your body

44
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What did the alveoli do?

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The alveoli carry out gas exchange in the body

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What happens during gas exchange in the alveoli?

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Blood passes next to the alveoli. This blood has just returned to the lungs from the rest of the body so it contains lots of carbon dioxide and very little oxygen. Oxygen defuses alt of the Alveolus and into the blood. Carbon dioxide defuses out of the blood into the alveolus to be breathed out.

When the blood reaches body cells, oxygen is released from the red blood cells and diffuses into the body cells

At the same time carbon dioxide defuses out of the body cells into the blood. It’s carried back to the lungs

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What are the walls of the heart mostly made of

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Muscle tissue

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How does the heart use it for Chambers the pump blood around?

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1) blood enters the right atrium through the vena cava and then flows into the right ventricle. This blood is deoxygenated. The blood is then taken to the lungs to take in the oxygen before being pumped back to the heart.

Then the blood enters the pulmonary vein Before entering the left atrium. The blood then goes into the left ventricle before being pumped back around the body. This blood is oxygenated

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Why does the heart have valves.?

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The heart has valves to make sure that blood flows in the right direction-they prevent it flowing backwards

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How is your heart rate controlled?

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Your resting heart rate is controlled by a group of cells in the right atrium that acts as a pacemaker. The cells produced a small electric impulse which spreads to the surrounding muscle cells causing them to contract.

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How do you Artificial pacemakers Control heartbeat?

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It’s a little device that is implanted under the skin and has a wire going to the heart. It produces an electric current to keep the heart beating regularly

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What are the three types of blood vessels? What do they do?

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Arteries- these carry the blood away from the heart
capillaries- These are involved in the exchange of materials at the tissues
veins- These carry the blood to the heart

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Describe what an artery is and what it does?

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They pump the blood out at high-pressure
The artery walls are strong and elastic
They have a small lumen
They contain thick layers of muscle to make them strong and elastic fibres to allow them to stretch and spring back

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Describe what the capillary is and what it does?

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Capillaries are really tiny they are too small to see.
They carry the blood really close to every cell in the body to exchange substances with them
They have permeable walls so substances can diffuse in and out
They supply food and oxygen and takeaway waste such as CO2
The wall is the only one cell thick. This increases the rate of diffusion by decreasing the distance over which it’s occurs

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Describe what a vein is and what it does?

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The blood is that lower pressure in the veins so the walls don’t need to be as thick as artery walls
They have a bigger lumen than arteries to help the blood flow despite the lower pressure.
They also have valves to help keep the blood flowing in the right direction

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Describe what a red blood cell is and how to specialised for its function

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The drop of red blood cells is to carry oxygen from the lungs to all the cells in the body
The shape is the bio concave disk (like a doughnut). This gives them a large surface area for absorbing oxygen.
They don’t have a nucleus. This allows them to carry more oxygen
They contain a red pigment called Haemoglobin
In the lungs haemoglobin Binds to oxygen to become oxyhaemoglobin. In body tissues, the reverse happens. Oxy haemoglobin splits up the haemoglobin and oxygen to release oxygen to the cells

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What is the function of white blood cells?

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Some white blood cells can change shape to kill unwelcome microorganisms in a process called phagocytosis

Others produce antibodies to fight microorganisms as well as antitoxins to neutralise any toxins produced by the microorganisms

Unlike red blood cells, white blood cells to have a nucleus

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What is the function of platelets in the blood?

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These are small fragments of cells that have no nucleus
They help the blood to clot at a wound. This is to stop all your blood pouring out and to stop microorganisms getting in
Lack of platelets can cause excessive bleeding and bruising

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What is plasma and what does it carry ?

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Plasma is the liquid that carries everything in the blood. It is a pale straw coloured liquid.
It carries:
Red and white blood cells and platelets
Hormones
Proteins
Antibodies and antitoxins
Carbon dioxide - from the organs to the lungs
Nutrients like glucose and amino acid
59
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What are stents?

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Stents or tubes that are inserted inside arteries. They keep them open making sure blood can pass through to the heart muscles. This keeps the persons heart beating

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What is coronary heart disease?

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Coronary heart disease is when the coronary arteries that supply the blood to the muscle of the heart get blocked by layers of fatty material building up. This causes the artery to become narrow so the blood is restricted and there is a lack of oxygen to the muscle. This can result in a heart-attack.

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What are some advantages and disadvantages of using stents?

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Stents our way of lowering the risk of a heart attack in people with coronary heart disease. There affective for a long time and the recovery time from the surgery is relatively quick

There is a risk that the patient may develop a blood clot near the stent. This is called thrombosis

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What are statins?

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Statins are drugs that can reduce the amount of “bad “cholesterol present in the bloodstream. This slows down the rate of fatty deposits for me

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What is cholesterol?

Why is too much cholesterol bad?

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Cholesterol was essential lipid that your body produces and needs to function properly
However too much of a certain type of cholesterol can cause health problems. It can cause fatty deposits to form inside arteries which can lead to colonary heart disease

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What are the advantages of statins?

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  • Statins can reduce the risk of strokes coronary heart disease and heart attacks
  • some studies suggest that statins may also help prevent other diseases
  • Statins can increase the amount of beneficial types of cholesterol
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What are some disadvantages of statins?

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Statins are a long-term drug that must be taken regularly. There is a risk that someone could forget take them

The effects of statins isn’t instant. It takes time for their affect to kick in

Statins can cause side-effects e.g. headaches. Some of these side-effects can be serious e.g. kidney failure, liver damage and memory loss

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What are artificial heart and when are they used?

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Artificial hearts on mechanical devices that pump blood for a person whose own heart has failed. They are usually only use as temporary fixes to keep the person alive until a donor heart can be found or to help a person recover by allowing the heart to rest and heal.

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What is an advantage to artificial hearts?

What is the disadvantage?

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Artificial hearts are less likely to be rejected by the bodies immune system

However fitting an artificial heart can lead to bleeding and infection. They also don’t work as well as healthy natural ones

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What are the two types of diseases and what are they?

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Communicable diseases are those that can be spread from person to person or between animals and people. These are caused by things such as bacteria viruses parasites and fungi

Noncommunicable diseases are those that cannot spread between people between animals and people. They generally last for long time and get worse slowly such as cancer and asthma etc

69
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What are some factors that can affect your health?

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A good balanced diet
Stress
Your life situation e.g. having access to medicine, being able to buy healthy food, access to condoms

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What are some of the risk factors that can increase your chance of getting a disease?

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Smoking
Obesity
Drinking too much alcohol

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How is cancer caused?

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Cancer is caused by uncontrolled cell growth and division

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What are the two types of tumours?

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Benign- this is where the tumour grows until there is no more room. The tumour stays in one place. This tumour isn’t dangerous normally. The tumour is not cancerous

Malignant - This is where the tumour grows and spreads to neighbouring healthy tissues. Cells can break off and spread to other parts of the body by travelling in the bloodstream. Malignant tumours are dangerous and can be fatal. They are cancers

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What are some of the risk factors that can increase the chance of some cancers?

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Smoking-it is linked to lung cancer and other cancers to such as mouth bowel stomach and cervical cancer

Obesity-obesity has been linked to many different cancers including bowel liver and kidney cancer

However some risk factors can also be associated with genes. Sometimes you can inherit faulty genes that make you more susceptible to cancer

UV exposure-they have an increased chance of developing skin cancer

Viral infection-Infection with hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses can increase the risk of developing liver cancer

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What are examples of plant tissues and what are they?

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Epidermal tissue-this covers the whole plant.

Palisade Mesophyll tissue-this is the part of the leaf when most photosynthesis happens

spongy Mesophyll tissue-this is also in the leaf and contains big air spaces to allow gases to the fuse in and out of cells

xylem and phloem-they transport things like water mineral ions and food. Around the plant

meristem tissue - this is found at the growing tips of shoots and roots and is able to differentiate into lots of different types of plant cell allowing the plant to grow

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What are the different types of tissue going from top to bottom?

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Epidermal tissue

Palisade mesophyll tissue

Spongy mesophyll tissue

Epidermal tissue

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How are some of the structures of the tissue that make up the leaf related to their functions?

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  • The epidermal tissues are covered with a waxy cuticle which helps to reduce water loss by evaporation
  • the upper epidermis is transparent so that light can pass through it to the palisade layer
  • the palisade layer has lots of chloroplasts. This means that they are near the top of the leaf where they can get to most light
  • the tissues of leaves are also adapted for efficient gas exchange. E.g. the lower epidermis is full of stomata. These let CO2 defuses directly into the leaf. Opening and closing of stomata is controlled by guard cells in response to environmental conditions
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What is the function of phloem tubes and describe what they do

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Phloem tubes transport food
They are made of columns of elongated living cells with small paws in the end walls to allow cell sap to flow through. They transport food substances made in the leaves to the rest of the plant for immediate use or for storage

This process is called translocation

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What is the function of xylem tubes and what did they do?

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Xylem tubes take water up
They carry water and mineral ions from the roots to the stem and leaves
They are made up of dead cells joined end to end with no end walls between them and hold down the middle.
There’re strengthened with a material called lignin

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What is transpiration?

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Transpiration is the loss of water from the plant

Transpiration is a side-effect of the way leaves are adapted for photosynthesis. They have a stomata in them so that gases can be exchanged easily. Because there is more water inside to plant them in the air outside, the water escapes from the leaves through the stomata by diffusion

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What for things affect the rate of transpiration and why?

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Light intensity-stomata Begin to close as it gets darker. Photosynthesis can’t happen in the dark, they don’t need to be open to let CO2 in.

Temperature-when it’s warm the water particles Have more energy to evaporate and diffuse out of the stomata

Airflow-if airflow around a leaf is pour the water vapour just surrounds the leaf and doesn’t move away. This means there is a high concentration of water particles outside to leave so the fusion doesn’t happen as quickly

Humidity-if the air is humid there’s a lot of water in it already so there’s not much of a difference between the inside and the outside of the leaf

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How are guard cells adapted?

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They have a kidney shaped which opens and closes the Stomata

When the Plant has lots of water at the Godsell feel with it and go plump and turgid.

This makes the stomata how open so gases can be exchanged for photosynthesis

When the plant is short of water the guard cells lose water and become flaccid making the stomata close. This helps stop the water vapour escaping

For an outer walls and second in the walls make the opening and closing work

They are also sensitive to light and close at night to save water without losing out on photosynthesis

Guard cells are therefore adapted for gas exchange and controlling water loss within a leaf

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