Key Terms

Question 1

TOXIN?

Answer 1

Poison released by some pathogens that damage our cells and make us feel symptoms of disease

Question 2

FLEMMING?

Answer 2

Discovered the first antibiotic-penicillin

Question 3

STIMULUS

Answer 3

A change which causes a response in the body

Question 4

RECEPTOR

Answer 4

Something that detects a stimulus

Question 5

SENSORY NEURONE

Answer 5

Sends electrical impulses from receptor to co-ordinator

Question 6

MOTOR NEURONE

Answer 6

Sends electrical impulse from co- ordinator to effector

Question 7

SYNAPSE

Answer 7

The gap between nerve cells

Question 8

AXON

Answer 8

The main body of a nerve cell down which the impulse travels

Question 9

WHAT DID SEMMELWEISS DISCOVER?

Answer 9

First scientist to suggest that diseases could be passed through people

Question 10

MENSTRUAL CYCLE

Answer 10

28day cycle preparing a woman for pregnancy

Question 11

FHS!

Answer 11

Hormone that starts the menstural cycle

-released from pituitary gland causing egg to mature and stimulates the ovaries to release oestrogen

Question 12

OVULATION

Answer 12

The release of an egg from the ovary

Question 13

LH?

Answer 13

The hormone released from the pituitary gland that causes ovulation

Question 14

IVF

Answer 14

technique to help people who struggle to conceive

FSH is given to stimulate more eggs to mature, fertilisation of egg takes place in a test tube

Question 15

AUXIN

Answer 15

Plant hormone

Stimulates growth in a plant shoot and inhibits growth in plant root

Question 16

PHOTOTROPISM

Answer 16

Plants response to light
Shoots show pos phototropism-grow towards light
Root shows neg phototropism-away from light

Question 17

GRAVITTROPISM

Answer 17

Plants response to gravity
Shoots grow neg gravitropism-grow towards away from gravity
Roots grow pos gravitropism-towards Gravity (down)