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What’s the eye piece lens?

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The part of the microscope you look down.

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What’s the objective lens ?

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The part of a microscope that’s closest to the specimen

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What’s a stain?

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A dye used to colour parts of a cell so they’re more visible by microscope

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What’s aerobic respiration?

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A type of respiration in which oxygen is used to release energy from substances, such as glucose.

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What’s the cell membrane?

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Controls what goes in and out of a cell.

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What’s the cell sap?

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Liquid found in the permanent vacuole of a plant cell

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What’s the cell wall?

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Used for protection and support
Made of cellulose in plant cells
Bacteria have a flexible cell wall

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What’s chlorophyll?

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Green substance found in chloroplasts. Traps energy transferred by light

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What’s a chloroplast?

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A green disc containing chlorophyll.
Where the plant makes glucose using photosynthesis

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What’s a cytoplasm ?

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Watery jelly inside a cell where all the cells activities take place

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What’s DNA?

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A substance that contains genetic information. Short for deoxyribonucleic acid.

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What’s a eukaryotic cell?

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A cell with a nucleus is eukaryotic. Organisms that have cells like this are also said to be eukaryotic.

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What’s the field of view ?

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The circle of light you see looking down a microscope.

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What’s mitochondria ?

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In the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells , where aerobic respiration occurs

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What’s the nucleus ?

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The control centre of a eukaryotic cell

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What’s a ribosome?

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Tiny sub-cellular structure that makes proteins

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What’s the scale bar?

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A line drawn on a magnified image that shows a certain distance at that magnification.

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What’s a vacuole?

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A storage space in cells. Plant cells have a large, permanent vacuole that helps to keep them rigid.

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What’s an acrosome?

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A small vacuole in the tip of the head of a sperm cell, which contains enzymes.

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What’s a ciliated epithelial cell?

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A cell that lines certain tubes in the body and has cilia on its surface.

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What’s cillia?

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A small hair-like structure on the surface of some cells. Plural is cilia.

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What’s a diploid?

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Describes a cell that has 2 sets of chromosomes

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What’s an egg cell?

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The female gamete ( sex cell)

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What’s an embryo?

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The tiny new life that grows by cell division from a fertilised egg cell (zygote).

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What’s an enzyme ?

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A substance that can speed up some processes in living things (e.g. breaking down molecules).

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What’s an epithelial cell?

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A cell found on surfaces of the body

27
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What’s fertilisation?

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Fusing of a male gamete with a female gamete

28
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What’s a gamete?

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A cell used for sexual reproduction

29
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What’s a haploid ?

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A cell with One set of chromosomes

30
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What’s a microvillus?

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A fold on the surface of a villus cell. These folds increase the surface area so that digested food is absorbed more quickly. Plural is microvilli.

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What’s a sperm cell?

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The male gamete ( sex cell)

32
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What’s chromosomal DNA?

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DNA found in chromosomes but the term is often used to describe the large loop of DNA found in bacteria.

33
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What’s flagellum

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A tail-like structure that rotates, allowing a unicellular organism to move. Plural is flagella.

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What’s a plasmid?

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A small loop of DNA found in the cytoplasm of bacteria

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What’s plasmid dna?

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DNA found in plasmids

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What’s a prokaryotic cell

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A cell with no nucleus is prokaryotic. Organisms such as bacteria, which have cells like this, are also said to be prokaryotic.

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What’s a catalyst?

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A substance that speeds up the rate of a reactiom

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What’s a monomer?

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A small molecule that can join with other molecules like itself to form a polymer.

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What’s a polymer?

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A substance made up of very long molecules containing repeating groups of atoms. (Formed by joining monomer molecules together.)

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What’s a product ?

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A substance formed in a reaction

41
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What’s a substrate?

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A substance that’s changed during a reactiom

42
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What’s synthesis?

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To build a large moleculesfrom smaller subunits

43
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What’s Benedict’s solution?

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A bright blue chemical reagent that turns orange or red when warmed with a solution of reducing sugars

44
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What’s a biuret test?

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A test that uses copper sulfate solution and potassium hydroxide solution to test for proteins. The blue of the copper sulfate solution turns purple in the presence of proteins.

45
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What a calorimeter?

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Equipment used to measure the energy released from a substance by burning it.

46
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What’s a chemical reagent?

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A substance or mixture used in chemical analysis or reactions.

47
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What’s an iodine solution

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A yellow - orange solution that turns black - blue when in contact with starch

48
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What’s a precipitate ?

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Insoluble substance formed when two soluble substances react together

49
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What’s a reducing sugar ?

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A simple sugar, such as glucose or fructose, that reacts with (reduces) Benedict’s solution and changes its colour.

50
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What’s the active site?

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The space in an enzyme where the substrate fits during an enzyme-catalysed reaction.

51
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What does it mean if an enzyme becomes denatured ?

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A denatured enzyme is one where the shape of the active site has changed so much that its substrate no longer fits and the reaction can no longer happen.

52
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What active transport ?

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Movement of particles across a cell membrane from a region of lower concentration to a region of higher concentration

53
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What’s osmosis?

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Movement of solvent molecules in a solution across a partially permeable membrane
Dilute concentration to a more concentrated one

54
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What’s a passive process!

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Doesn’t require energy

55
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What’s a solute?

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A solid that’s dissolved into a liquid to make a solution

56
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What’s a Solvent

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The liquid in which a substance dissolves to make a solution

57
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How do we test for lipids?

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Do the emulsion test

  1. Add ethanol
  2. shake
  3. Pour solution into water
    4 positive = milky
58
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How do we test for starch ?

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The iodine test
1.add iodine to the sample
2. Positive = blue black colour

59
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How do we calculate energy in food ??

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Energy in food = Mass of water (g) X temp change X 4.2

60
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What’s diffusion?

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The movement of particles
From an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration

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