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GCSE CCEA Biology Unit 1 > 👋Coordination and Control🧠 > Flashcards

👋Coordination and Control🧠 Flashcards

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Neurone

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A nerve cell

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Synapse

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Small gaps between neurones

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CNS

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Central Nervous System

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CNS

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  • part of nervous system
  • links receptors and effectors
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What does the CNS contain?

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  • brain 🧠
  • spinal cord
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Reflex arc

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Pathway of neurones in a reflex action

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Neurone function

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Carries information in the form of small electrical charges

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Nerve impulses

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  • Information
  • in the form of small electrical charges
  • carried by neurones
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Stimulus

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Anything we respond to

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What do stimuli affect?

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Receptors in the body

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What happens when a receptor is stimulated?

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Causes an effector e.g muscle to produce response

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What has a coordinating role?

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CNS

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Voluntary response

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  • conscious control involved
  • slower speed of action
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Conscious control

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Brain + thinking time

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Reflex action

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  • no conscious control involved
  • fast speed of action
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Reflex

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Automatic and often protective

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Reflex arc

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Pathway of neurones in a reflex action

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Association neurone

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  • connector
  • joins the sensory and motor neurones
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Sensory neurone

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carries nerve impulses from receptors to spinal cord

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Motor neurone

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carries nerve impulses from spinal cord back to muscle (effector) causing response

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Where do the three neurones link?

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Grey matter (butterfly shaped part) 🦋⚫️⚪️

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Order part of spinal cord

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White matter ⚪️

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Branched ends

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  • Part of neurone
  • make connections with many other nerve cells
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What are neurones surrounded by?

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Insulating myelin sheath🧣

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Axon

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Gives neurone its long length

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Myelin sheath

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  • insulates
  • enables impulses to be conducted faster
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Synapses allow?

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Allow nerve impulses to pass from one neurone to adjacent neurone

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Synaptic transmission step 1

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  • nerve impulse reaches the end of neurone
  • special chemicals – transmitter chemicals – released from vesicles
  • diffuse across short gap between neurones
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Where transmitter chemicals are released from

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Vesticles ⚽️ ⚽️

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Synaptic transmission step 2

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If enough transmitter diffuses across got nerve impulse is triggered in next neurone

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Synaptic transmission

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Chemical

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Nerve impulses – transmission in neurones

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Electrical

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Hormone

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  • Chemical messengers produced by glands
  • travels in the blood to bring about a response in a target organ
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Nervous system, communication

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Electrical impulses along neurones
Fast acting

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Hormone method of communication

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  • Chemicals in blood
  • usually slow acting
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Insulin

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  • Hormone
  • Lowers blood glucose concentrations
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How insulin lowers blood glucose

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  • liver + muscle 💪 cells to absorb more glucose from the blood
  • used for respiration 🫁
  • converted into glycogen in liver- storage 📦
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Where insulin is produced

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Pancreas

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What is the pancreas?

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A gland

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What is the target organ for insulin?

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Liver

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Insulin affect blood glucose concentration

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Lowers/reduces

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Why the body need glucose in the blood

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Glucose transported to body cells to provide energy in respiration

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Why concentration of insulin in the blood is usually at its lowest in the middle of the night

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  • Glucose concentrations will also be low at night
  • glucose from last meal is used up in respiration or converted to glycogen for storage
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Negative feedback

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  • homeostatic mechanism
  • Body detects a change
  • Makes an adjustment to return levels to normal
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What are many negative feedback mechanisms in the body control by?

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Hormones

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What is the concentration of insulin released determined by?

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Concentration of glucose in the blood

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Symptoms of diabetes

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  • High blood glucose concentration
  • Glucose in urine
  • lethargy
  • thirst
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Diabetes

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Condition in which the blood glucose control mechanism fails

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Type one diabetes

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Insulin is not produced by the pancreas

50
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What is type one diabetes not caused by

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Lifestyle

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Type two diabetes

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Insulin is produced but stops working properly or pancreas does not produce enough insulin

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Treatment for type two diabetes

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Controlled by diet initially, but later requires medication and/or insulin injections

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Type one diabetes treatment

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  • Insulin injections for life
  • Controlled diet and exercise for life
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Type two diabetes, preventative measures

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  • Exercise
  • reduce sugar intake
  • avoid obesity
55
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Long-term effects of badly treated diabetes

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  • eye damage 👁️
  • heart disease 🫀
  • strokes🔥
  • kidney damage 👦🦵 🔥
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What is the number of people who suffer from diabetes doing?

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Increasing rapidly

57
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What’s happening to the cost of treatment of diabetes?

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Becoming very high

58
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What is an increase in the number of people with type two diabetes link to?

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  • Poor diet 🍔
  • Lack of exercise 🚫🏃‍♀️
59
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Excretion

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Removal of waste products from the body

60
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Examples of excretion

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  • carbon dioxide during breathing 😮‍💨
  • urea in the kidneys
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Osmoregulation

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Controlling the water balance in the body 💧🕺

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Homeostasis

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Maintaining a constant internal environment in the body for the proper functioning of cells and enzymes in response to internal and external change

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What can happen when homeostasis is achieved?

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The proper functioning of cells and enzymes in response to change

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How do we gain water

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  • Drinking liquids 🥤
  • In food 🥘
  • Water produced in body cells as waste product in respiration 🫁
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Examples of losing water

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  • Evaporation of sweat 😅
  • breathing out water vapour 😮‍💨💦
  • urine 🚽
66
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What can be “fine tuned” to control water balance?

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Amount of water lost in urine 🚽

67
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Function of the kidney

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  • Organ
  • controls water balance
68
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How does the kidney control water balance?

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Controlling amount of water that is reabsorbed back into blood during filtering process

69
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What is the amount of water reabsorbed controlled by?

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Antidiuretic hormone

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What happens if blood is too concentrated

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More antidiuretic hormone is released

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What does more antidiuretic hormone being produced result in?

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  • More water reabsorption
  • less urine produced
72
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Blood too dilute

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Too much water in blood ⬆️💧🩸

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Blood too concentrated

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Too little water in blood ⬇️💧🩸

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Blood too concentrated kidney response

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Kidney reabsorbs more water back into blood ⬆️💧and less urine is produced ⬇️ 🟢

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Too much water in blood kidney response

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Kidney reabsorbs less water back into blood ⬇️💧🩸
- more urine is produced ⬆️🟢

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What can the kidney do to do water balance?

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Control it by reabsorbing more or less water back in the blood (following filtration) depending on concentration of blood

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Two main functions of kidney

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  • Excretion 🚽
  • Osmoregulation ⬆️⬇️💧🩸
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Antidiuretic hormone

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Controls amount of water reabsorbed back in the blood 💧➡️🩸

GCSE CCEA Biology Unit 1 (10 decks)

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