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March Mock Quick Revision Flashcards

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What is the test for starch?

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Few drops of iodine solution

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What is the test for reducing sugars (glucose)?

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  • add equal volume of Benedict’s solution and mix

- heat in a 95˚C water bath for few minutes

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What is the test for proteins?

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Biuret Test

  • add equal volume of 0.1mol/dm^3 potassium hydroxide solution and mix
  • add few drops of 0.01mol/dm^3 copper sulfate solution and mix
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What is the test for fats/ lipids?

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  • add equal volume of ethanol, and shake thoroughly

- add water

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What is a positive test for starch (iodine solution)?

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Yellow/ orange —> blue/ black

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What is a positive test for reducing sugars (glucose) (Benedict’s test)?

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Blue —> green —> orange —> red (depending on how much sugar present)

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What is a positive test for protein (biuret test)?

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Pale blue —> pale purple

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What is a positive test for fats (lipids) (ethanol emulsion test)?

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Clear —> cloudy

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9
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What is Fick’s Law?

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Rate of diffusion ∝ (surface area x concentration difference) / thickness of membrane

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What is transpiration?

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The movement of water through and out of the plant (xylem)

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What is translocation?

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The movement of sugars and other chemicals/ sap (amino acids, sucrose, water) - (assimilates) made by the plant cells along the phloem (direction depends on time of year)

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Which direction does translocation occur (dependent on time of year)

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Down in summer

Up in spring

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What is the main assimilate in translocation?

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Sucrose - plant makes glucose but turns it into sucrose

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14
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What waterproofs the xylem?

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Lignin

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What is in between the phloem cells?

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Sieve tube elements - porous cell walls so nutrients (cell sap) can flow between them

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16
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What is a source and sink?

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Sugars (in phloem tubes) move from a source to a sink.
Source - where sucrose is released into the phloem (where it is made)
Sink - where sucrose is removed / used up from the phloem (where it is used)

17
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How are companion cells adapted to their function (in phloem)?

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Lots of mitochondria

18
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What can be used to measure transpiration?

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Potometer (rate is the speed the bubble moves across the tube)

19
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How does water get from the soil to the roots?

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Through osmosis (root hair cells —> enlarge SA + cellulose in cell walls help absorb water)

20
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What is significant about the spongy mesophyll layer?

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It has lots of gaps so carbon dioxide can easily diffuse through

21
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Where are the stomata?

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In the lower epidermis layer

22
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Where does most photosynthesis occur?

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Palisade mesophyll - palisade cells contain lots of chloroplasts

23
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What is significant about the upper epidermis?

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The epidermal tissue is almost transparent to let light in for photosynthesis

24
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How does a leaf reduce water loss?

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  • waxy cuticle on top (thin layer of lipids)

- keep stomata open for as little time possible (guard cells)

25
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Describe guard cells

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Lots of water - guard cells become turgid - open gap
Not a lot of water - guard cells become flaccid - close gap

Sensitive to light - close at night (no photosynthesis)

On bottom of leaf - more shade - cooler - less evaporation

26
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Where is meristem tissue found?

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Tips of roots and shoots

27
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What is cardiac output measured in?

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Cm^3 / min

28
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Cardiac output (cm^3/min) =

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Stroke volume (cm^3/beat) x heart rate (beat/min)

29
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What is stroke volume?

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Volume of blood pushed into aorta in each beat

30
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What is cardiac output?

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Volume of blood pumped by ventricle per unit time

31
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Name features of the alveoli that make the exchange of gases as effective as possible?

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  • one cell thick membrane (shorter diffusion distance)
  • large cross-sectional surface area
  • constant flow of air (+ blood) maintains concentration gradient
  • moist walls - allows gases to dissolve
32
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What are the excretory organs?

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Lungs + kidneys

33
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How does blood enter + leave the kidneys?

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In - renal artery

Out - renal vein

34
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Where are the nephrons?

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Medulla

35
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What part of kidney contains blood that’s yet to be filtered?

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Cortex

36
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How do molecules cross the filter (Bowman’s capsule)?

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Diffusion

37
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What is the pipe that takes urine from the kidney to the bladder?

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Ureter

38
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What makes urea and how?

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Proteins —> amino acids —> broken down by liver in deamination —> urea

39
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What is the pipe that urine travels through?

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Urethra

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